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If you know TUAW, then you know that there's one thing we cannot live without ... it's Growl. Growl is a great way to view important messages from multiple Mac apps as little pop-ups in the corner of your screen. Want to drag a file to another folder and copy it instead of moving it? Press the Option key when you drag that file and it'll be duplicated rather than moved entirely.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Eckofish said 11:15AM on 4-07-2008
So much for a redesign if the site is down.
Perhaps that concept allows for the perfect website. One that is so perfectly designed that it cannot be combobulated by mortal minds.
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matthew said 11:43AM on 4-07-2008
Yeah, this is great. They redesigned the site to get rid of the crappy old design, but kept the crappy old server that's down all the time. Sweet.
catachip said 11:23AM on 4-07-2008
#1 thing NOT to do when you issue a press release to an Apple blog about a site redesign: have your site go down.
#2 don't issue press releases about site redesigns, at least have a new version of your product to go along with it
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Evan said 11:29AM on 4-07-2008
I could care less about a site redesign, I want them to update their product.
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David Chartier said 11:33AM on 4-07-2008
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I mean yea, an easier-to-navigate site is certainly a bonus. While I'm sure the guys who work on the site are different from the ones who develop the app (or at least the teams don't share too many members), I wish they'd done this to coincide with some kind of major release.
Mikael said 11:54AM on 4-07-2008
Would be better if they got a new version out into the wild :D
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Hawkman said 11:44AM on 4-07-2008
I know it's "just a redesign", but if the styles are in a decent gallery on the main site now, that's big news for me...
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Peter Zich said 11:52AM on 4-07-2008
I guess there are too many people trying to see it, hah. :D
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AlanY said 11:59AM on 4-07-2008
Kudos to the Growl guys for getting as far as they have, but Apple needs to either take over the Growl project or develop a competing notification system for the next version of OS X. This is just too useful and important to not have slightly more timely development behind it.
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Chris G. said 12:05PM on 4-07-2008
I can't live without Growl notifications. Firefox 3 finishing a download, Transmit finishing an upload/download, iScrobbler telling me about track changes, etc. It works great.
I did have to turn off Growl for Twitterific. Way too annoying and unnecessary.
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Brooklynguy said 12:21PM on 4-07-2008
I can definitely live withOUT a product whose company's website is not even up. Can't get the product, can't get info, can't get support. Three strikes, you're out!
Too bad--I was actually ready to download growl (for the first time), start using it, and even pay for it if I liked it. Everyone has raved about it. (Or course, everyone raved about Quicksilver, and I found that the most arcane app I ever saw, way too complex to use, letter alone learn or configure, and gave up on it after a week.)
For recent Mac site oddities, the Growl site being down is worse than the iGTD developer going "missing," although I have some sympathy for him because apparently he's either sick or having severe personal problems.
Chris G. said 12:26PM on 4-07-2008
Well to be fair, there could be multiple reasons behind this. Their web host maybe having issues unrelated to a mass of people hitting their site. A bug in the new web site, etc.
You could give them a second chance you know. I know every time I have gone to their web site in the past, it has worked 100% fine. Just this one time it is down and you flip out? That isn't fair to them.
Sven Gebhardt said 12:16PM on 4-07-2008
Slow news day really.
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Lars said 1:40PM on 4-07-2008
@11: There's no 'company'. These guys (and girls?) donate their time and talent, ask nothing in return, and deliver programs that make life on the Mac easier and far more attractive than without their efforts. Your loss if you don't want to check it out or learn the basics.
That said: the website redesign isn't that a big of a deal to me, but the broken GrowlMail notifications in Leopard are a major drag.
The program is freeware, but I'd donate for them to get decent hosting...
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andreas said 2:09PM on 4-07-2008
Anyone know the contact email? I can arrange some hosting for them at a fear price.
Lars said 3:44PM on 4-07-2008
I think they'll decline if it's a fear price ;) On the Growl site there's a contact page.
Chris said 3:31PM on 4-07-2008
So many of you are looking at the site, that it's going down. I've tried to work on it, but there's just no fixing it at this point until less of you are looking at it.
I didn't give a "press release" to Cory, I just told him we updated the site and that he might appreciate it. I didn't expect him to post it to tuaw.
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Steve said 6:56PM on 4-07-2008
I haven't been able to get Hardware Growler to work with Leopard. That was the best part of growl for me...
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Jason said 7:54PM on 4-07-2008
Works fine here. Try re-downloading the growl package and re-installing. Hardware growler is one of the top reasons I have Growl installed, too.
Brooklynguy said 6:38AM on 4-08-2008
Downloaded Growl last night when the site was back up. The apps pane was empty when I went to configure it. I'm amazed that I've never heard of most of the apps they support. I guess I have a lot to learn.
On a side note, it's interesting that at tuaw, when a comment (like mine above) is rated lousy at only one star, it turns grey. It's like frontier justice meted out almost immediately. I admit it was a very negative comment, so I guess I deserve to be censored (slightly).
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