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Two neat styles for Growl

I'm a big fan of Growl. If you have never heard of Growl it is a system wide notification framework that allows you to set up a number of different notifications for a variety of things. It is one of those things that sounds lame but is very cool indeed (much like myself).

The default styles for the notifications are nice, but somewhat lacking. Daniel Bergey agreed so he whipped up two new styles. One that is very much in the style of OS X and the other that hearkens back to simpler times: OS 9's notification system. Daniel does warn that the styles get a little flakey with long URL's, but TUAW readers are a forgiving lot.


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macxprt

I cringe every time I see the OS9 style notification dialog. OS9 was so buggy with their notifications that when you would click the close box to dismiss the dialog, the system would hang. This would happen 70% of the time on just about every OS9 system I used. It did not matter if it was my system (which I kept very well maintained) or someone elses system. It got to the point that I would just double-click the lefthand "title" bar or click the minimize control in the lower left hand corner of the dialog to avoid crashes.

August 23 2006 at 12:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
George

These are very cool, but I like the default styles (Smoke in particular) because they don't blend in with the rest of the OS X window look. Helps me to garb my attention.

August 23 2006 at 10:56 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kevin

i hate when people say "ftw"
first, being relatively new, you have to decipher it everytime you see it
second, it's just lame-sounding. very nerdy. you can imagine martin from the simpsons saying it and nelson beating him up for it.

August 23 2006 at 10:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TC

On the subject of Growl styles, does anybody know if the ones hosted at ResExcellence are mirrored anywhere? ResExcellence seems to have died, and there's no real indication of whether everything that was posted there is going to be put back up again...

August 23 2006 at 4:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Austin McChord

Oh man... I miss the OS 9 box style.. it was soo cool at the time

August 22 2006 at 10:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
meatmcguffin

Music video ftw!

August 22 2006 at 9:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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