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iPhonesque makes Growl look like the iPhone
Can't say I ever really vibed with any of the default Growl styles (Music Video is cool for showing off your Mac, but a little too distracting for common use), and I've pretty much just stuck with Smoke, because it's simple and cool looking. But iPhonesque is nice enough to make me switch without a thought -- it's a Growl style designed to look like the iPhone's compact little dialogues. In other words, it's flashy enough to look cool, but minimal enough that it doesn't drive you nuts when messages back up in Growl.Any other Growl styles that you all really like?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
JoolsG4 said 7:07AM on 1-31-2008
I use GrowlHUD, which are styled to look like the black transparent windows in iPhoto and Aperture palettes.
http://www.interaktion.info/2007/growl-display-style-growlhud/
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Matt said 7:33AM on 1-31-2008
Thanks for the link! fits perfect!!!
Jh said 7:34AM on 1-31-2008
Goes nicely with the Adium iPhone message style
http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=4430
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dan said 7:38AM on 1-31-2008
are you using growl with leopard? how is the compatibility status?
thanks, dan
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Simon Arch said 12:59PM on 1-31-2008
Works just fine here.
Mike Schramm said 12:59PM on 1-31-2008
Growl has worked fine for me so far in Leopard.
dan said 1:26PM on 1-31-2008
ok, thanks guys (also Luke further down)
i just thought i heard some incompatibilities in the beginning. will give it a new try.
dan
Jim Whimpey said 7:43AM on 1-31-2008
It's so good to finally have a Growl style that I'm not disgusted with. There's not another Growl style I'd even say looks 'good'.
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christophercjensen said 7:48AM on 1-31-2008
another vote for GrowlHUD, though these were pretty nice too
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Think Adrian said 7:49AM on 1-31-2008
Ooooh groovy!
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luke h. said 7:57AM on 1-31-2008
@dan
Hey, I am using growl with Leopard for months now, since Leopard come out :D -- and I haven't had any compatibility problems
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Solar said 8:04AM on 1-31-2008
I just use Growl's speech option. That way I still get notified even if I am away from my computer. This works very nicely with Leopard's Alex voice which is much easier to understand without the need to concentrate on what is being said.
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Brian said 9:43AM on 1-31-2008
Care to share how you set that, I cannot see any options in the pref pain
Solar said 10:29AM on 1-31-2008
"Speech" is my last option in the Display Options portion of the preferences for Growl. If it isn't standard, I don't remember how it got there. But, it is credited to "Ingmar Stein."
serenity said 8:34AM on 1-31-2008
I like the music video style, with 0% (background) opacity, for music notifications. :) Large album art and all that.
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TC said 9:02AM on 1-31-2008
@dan: Growl works fine with Leopard... until you use Spaces. Then it has a habit of only bringing notifications up in one space. As it runs as a pref pane, you don't seem to be able to assign it to all spaces :(
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manhattnik said 10:11AM on 1-31-2008
Just go to the Spaces preference pane, and add Growl Helper App to All Space. Growl is still a bit wonky on Leopard.
Adam Rice said 10:05AM on 1-31-2008
I haven't had problems with Growl under Leopard—it works as expected, even when I'm in a second/third/fourth space.
I mostly use Smoke because it's unobtrusive. For really minor notifications, like NetNewsWire feed downloads, I use Nano.
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Mystic said 11:06AM on 1-31-2008
This is great except you can't have it come up in the center of the screen like bezel. And according to their forums, it's impossible to add this feature. I'll stay with bezel for now.
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Andy C said 12:21PM on 1-31-2008
Mystic, what you said is mostly true, but it would be possible if some competent objective-C coder, would write this in objective-C then it would be able to pop up in the center, and possibly even do the same pop-out effect as the actual iPhone does. Any takers?