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What is GROWL, is it useful and how do you make use of it?
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You don't have to really use it. It's a background app that presents notifications for certain events. Events such as: a finished download, song change(presents info on song), new rss articles and many more.
That said I really haven't found it useful but lots of people seemingly do so check it out.
That said I really haven't found it useful but lots of people seemingly do so check it out.
I find Growl useful to use with Skype. It notifies you when someone has come online or a file is finished transferring etc.
I find growl to be useful with Adium. On my 12" iBook I can have a received message shown ontop of my browser. So I don't have to switch to Adium to see what someone said. I use it for iTunes as well, it's smoother than Synergy.
Growl basically throws notifications up on the screen. I use it for Mail (GrowlMail plugin) to notify me when new mail arrives, for Adium (when someone messages me for the first time, and for notifications for sign-ons from people I talk to a lot), and for iTunes (through Menuet, to inform me of track changes). There's more it can do, but that's about all I use it for.
Growl is ace, use it for adium and itunes (with GrowlTunes) personally i find the growl+gmail plugin essential. (Ties in with the google gmail notifier to let you know thru growl when you get email)
http://wafflesoftware.net/gmailgrowl/
http://wafflesoftware.net/gmailgrowl/
Cless said:
The best part of this is that it also tells you who sent the mail, the subject, and a line or two. That can be useful if you're expecting something particular and don't want to stop what you're doing to check random mail or if people send you very short messages (Here in the office, we email people about calls that they missed, and if they are on another line they can see exactly who was calling to figure out if they need to get off their current call).
Its worth getting I use it with adium, entourage, itunes, my irc client(can't remember the name not at that comp), sykpe, what else...I think thats all. There may be a couple more.
Yah I love Growl. It's pretty much transparent, but it lets me know about all of my Adium contacts and when a song changes in iTunes, it says the name / album art. I'm gonna have to get the gmail one!!!