Growl 2.0 and Mountain Lion Notification Center: working together

by Steven Sande (Jun 15th 2012 1:00PM)

Growl (US$1.99) is a favorite tool for many of the bloggers at TUAW. For those of you unfamiliar with Growl, it's currently the notification tool of choice for a lot of Mac users. When someone updates a shared Dropbox folder, for instance, or uses ...

Growl 2.0 works with Mountain Lion notifications

by Dave Caolo (Sep 20th 2012 1:45PM)

Good news for Growl users running Mountain Lion. The notification system has been updated to version 2.0 with support for OS X's built-in Notification Center. Now you can choose to have messages pop up in Growl or get pushed to Notification Cente...

Widget Watch: Twitterlex update brings Growl notifications, more

by David Chartier (Feb 2nd 2007 12:00PM)

Brett Taylor has update Twitterlex, his Dashboard widget that is still my favorite UI for using Twitter, to v1.1 with some handy features and one major addition: Growl notifications. Updates from friends are now passed through Growl, letting you stay...

Interview: Growl's project lead on coming to the Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th 2011 6:00AM)

After the news yesterday that the popular notification service Growl was officially coming to the Mac App Store with the release of OS X Lion, TUAW tracked down Project Lead Christopher Forsythe and had a quick conversation about the reasons beh...

Revisiting CoverSutra, now with Last.fm and Growl integration

by David Chartier (Apr 26th 2007 1:00PM)

It's been a while since we first mentioned Sophia Teutschler's CoverSutra, a new iTunes interaction and manipulation app, and it's come quite a ways since its v1.0 debut. From the start it's offered things like global keyboard shortcuts for control...

MarsEdit 1.2 lands with Growl, Picasa and Vox support

by David Chartier (Jun 5th 2007 11:00AM)

Making good on his word after purchasing MarsEdit from Brent Simmons, Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software has quickly taken up development of the blogging client. Today Daniel released MarsEdit 1.2, a minor update that brings some great features...

GrowlCode brings Growl to Xcode

by Cory Bohon (May 10th 2008 8:00AM)

Do you like Growl? Do you use Xcode? Then chances are you'll like GrowlCode. GrowlCode is a plugin to integrate Growl's on-screen alerts into the Mac OS X developer app, Xcode. GrowlCode integrates the following actions: Build Succeeded, Preprocessin...

GrowlTunes

by C.K. Sample, III (May 24th 2005 1:00PM)

After installing Growl 0.7 yesterday, I decided to install GrowlTunes as well, just to see what it is like. You'll find GrowlTunes inside the Extras folder on the Growl 0.7 disk image. Simply drag GrowlTunes to your Applications folder to install. La...

Growl website back online

by Cory Bohon (Jan 10th 2008 10:15PM)

The Growl website has been offline since last week due to the developers retiring their server for a new one. I am pleased to say that Growl.info is back online as of today. Growl is the indispensable Mac notification system which allows you to custo...

Growl website gets redesign

by Cory Bohon (Apr 7th 2008 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 receiv...

Growl 0.7

by C.K. Sample, III (May 23rd 2005 6:15PM)

The Growl team released version 0.7 today. Growl is a system wide notification system that different Growl-savvy programs can use. It is one of my favorite programs. In addition to fixing the bits that Tiger broke, this new version includes ...

Virgin Install: Growl

by Scott McNulty (Jun 28th 2005 11:57PM)

My last few picks for Virgin Install have been things that lots of Mac users know about, but this one is a hidden gem (which we have covered before). Growl, much like Quicksilver, takes a bit of effort to get your mind around, but once you get it you...

Growl 1.1. released

by Mat Lu (Sep 8th 2007 6:30PM)

Growl is one of my favorite Mac utilities. It adds a system-wide notification system to your System Preferences that other applications can plug into for displaying messages. The version 1.1 update adds a "global positioning system" which apparently ...

Chax updated, adds Growl support

by David Chartier (Feb 25th 2006 9:30PM)

Remember Chax, the free, feature-packed iChat plugin we found a couple weeks ago? It's received a couple of minor updates and tweaks since then, and one I thought worth mentioning was Growl support. Previously, the only way I knew of getting iChat to...

Leopard compatible build of GrowlMail

by Mat Lu (Dec 20th 2007 8:30PM)

One of the unfortunate incompatibilities Leopard brought with it was breaking GrowlMail, the plugin for Mail.app that shows new messages via the Growl notification system. However, Evan Schoenberg has now posted a test build of GrowlMail on the Growl...