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Growl website gets redesign

by Cory Bohon Apr 7th 2008 at 11:00AM

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.

This weekend, Growl's website received a very nice redesign. It's never been this easy to navigate the styles and various extras on the site.

Thanks, Chris!

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Max

I think the redesign is ok, but it could be much better. Otherwise, it is easy to navegate.
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April 09 2008 at 2:33 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
G-WiZ

Site design: Nice
Updates to actual plugins: BETTER.

GrowlMail still not updated for 10.5.2

April 08 2008 at 7:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ivan Reid

HELP! Can someone tell me how to install the .sit style files that are downloaded from the Growl styles site? Thanks!

April 08 2008 at 6:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Brooklynguy

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).

April 08 2008 at 6:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Steve

I haven't been able to get Hardware Growler to work with Leopard. That was the best part of growl for me...

April 07 2008 at 6:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Jason

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.

April 07 2008 at 7:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

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.

April 07 2008 at 3:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lars

@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...

April 07 2008 at 1:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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andreas

Anyone know the contact email? I can arrange some hosting for them at a fear price.

April 07 2008 at 2:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Lars

I think they'll decline if it's a fear price ;) On the Growl site there's a contact page.

April 07 2008 at 3:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sven Gebhardt

Slow news day really.

April 07 2008 at 12:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris G.

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.

April 07 2008 at 12:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Brooklynguy

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.

April 07 2008 at 12:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris G.

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.

April 07 2008 at 12:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alan

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.

April 07 2008 at 11:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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