Just add GrowlTunes into your Login Items tab of your System Preferences>Accounts and it will load on login.
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What do you think about Growl?
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Just add GrowlTunes into your Login Items tab of your System Preferences>Accounts and it will load on login.
All this talk of Quicksilver makes me think how great it is that OSX has QS and Spotlight...for me, and other keyboard-shortcut-users, it is great as an app launcher, file finder, and iTunes controller...on the other hand, my ten year old sister who types with two fingers (read: very slowly) can use Spotlight for all her finding needs...
QuickSilver Rules!!!
Believe me, once you learn how to use it it makes your life easier.
I'll give you a quick/basic example:
(define a shortcut to open the QuickSilver Bezel, I use opt + tab)
Press the shortcut, the bezel appears, drag a file from the desktop/folder/etc into the bezel box, press tab, type the person that you want to send this file to (4 letters should be enough) , press tab again, type "e-mail" and press Enter.
Result: It opens the Mail.app with the "To" field already filled with the adress book reference to the person you typed and the attachment already added to the message
It's amazing, and it works with almost everything in OSX. Highly recommended.
BTW - I've never seen a Growl pop-up related to QuickSilver, maybe I haven't activated the module yet
Amen, when I first got my Mac I looked up "essential" programs.. and found it.. didn't find it that useful (or many I just didn't understand what it was) and deleted it.
Tried it again when I had programs, and it feels weird going on other comps without it now.
Basically, Growl is a way for different applications to all use the same system of notifications. The trick is that you can use Growl to customize how the notifications look and feel, and then it impacts all the apps. You know how OS X puts up "bezels" the pop-ups that it uses when you change the volume or brightness, eject a disk, make or lose a bluetooth connection, etc?
You can allow Adium and other applications to make similar notifications using Growl, e.g.:
There are a number of other options, but the idea is that they're much more elegant than bouncing the dock icon or popping a window in front of other apps or flashing the screen.
I've been aware of it for a long time, but I've never installed it... perhaps I'll finally try.
Er um I have tried Growl twice and both times it lasted about half a day before it wended its way over the desktop from Applications to the trash.
to me it took up some memory and resources and put up some not very pretty notifications when it felt like it.
Unless you have the brains of a chimp I think most people know when they get pinged on adium, when a mail message arrives and when iTunes changes track. Other things handle notifications far better like Google Notifier
Quicksilver on the other hand is a must have in the Mac environment
to me it took up some memory and resources and put up some not very pretty notifications when it felt like it.
Unless you have the brains of a chimp I think most people know when they get pinged on adium, when a mail message arrives and when iTunes changes track. Other things handle notifications far better like Google Notifier
Quicksilver on the other hand is a must have in the Mac environment
Why does this happen on growl
when i play a song in iTunes that doesnt have album art - eg a voice memo i recorded onto the ipod - it shows a picture that i have not downloaded or have on my computer (to my knowledge). I wouldnt mind, but its not a pleasant image......
when i play a song in iTunes that doesnt have album art - eg a voice memo i recorded onto the ipod - it shows a picture that i have not downloaded or have on my computer (to my knowledge). I wouldnt mind, but its not a pleasant image......
I like Growl. The notifications it uses don't seem Windows-y at all to me, but more in the iChat style, which, I believe, is what the developers intended. I don't use "extensions" like GrowlTunes to get iTunes to work with Growl - I just use it with programs like Adium and Colloquy, which support it.
Basically, Growl is a way for different applications to all use the same system of notifications. The trick is that you can use Growl to customize how the notifications look and feel, and then it impacts all the apps. You know how OS X puts up "bezels" the pop-ups that it uses when you change the volume or brightness, eject a disk, make or lose a bluetooth connection, etc?
You can allow Adium and other applications to make similar notifications using Growl, e.g.:
There are a number of other options, but the idea is that they're much more elegant than bouncing the dock icon or popping a window in front of other apps or flashing the screen.
I've been aware of it for a long time, but I've never installed it... perhaps I'll finally try.
Oh. I haven't noticed any of those type of popups since installing growl. Nor do I really care to see them. I guess it might be getting uninstalled this weekend.
Growl is really just a notification system. Once you install Growl, it allows Growl-compliant apps to use the notifications. But you'll only get them if you are running those apps and you have the notifications turned on. But if it wasn't clear that this is what Growl was for, I guess you can go ahead and get rid of it.