It was only a couple weeks ago that Growl version 1.1.3 was released, but as some commenters noted on the 1.1.3 post, there was a bug that caused some the inability to install Growl under Leopard. Well, the Growl team has heard your cries and issued an update to Growl that hopes to solve the problem. Some of the bug fixes include:

• "Install Failed" message on Leopard is now fixed
  
• Fixed the problem of Growl thinking it was 1.1.2 even after installing 1.1.3
• Fixed Growl updater to stop showing updates after you've already installed them
• Growl Safari actually works now
  

You can see all of the improvements before installing by visiting the Growl Version History page. You can also download the new update by visiting Growl's homepage.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

Adium has a sweet new beta version available this morning. If you don't automatically see 1.3b2 when you check for updates, then make sure you've enabled "Update to beta versions when available" under the General tab in the Preference pane.

Several new features have been added, including:

• Enhanced psychic abilities -- it opens a chat window as soon as a contact begins typing a message

• Filtered search in the Contact list

• Apple Address Book integration (access under Advanced tab in Preferences)

• Integration with Facebook chat (enable in the Accounts tab under Preferences)

• The latest Growl and libpurple updates

• Additional information (such as "Last Seen" and Apple Address Book notes) added to the Contact Inspector

Fixed issues include the linkification of enclosed URLs, a memory inefficiency, and a pesky tendency for closed chats to suddenly reappear. All told, there are more than 150 improvements and enhancements to Adium, one of the hardest working chat apps out there.

The best-in-class notification framework for Mac OS X, Growl, just got updated to version 1.1.3. One of the most missed features of Growl was GrowlMail, which allows Growl to issue incoming notifications from Mail.app -- Apple disabled this feature in the Mac OS X 10.5.2 release. However, the Growl team has re-written GrowlMail to work with Mail.app and 10.5.3.

Some of the other updates include:

• GrowlSafari now works with Safari 3.0 and later
  
• GrowlTunes doesn't show ratings from iTunes unless the song has a rating above 0
• GrowlTunes is now localized in German
• Memory leaks fixed in WebKit display
• You are now able to see notifications on every space in Spaces in Leopard

You can see the full list of updates / additions on the Growl version history page. You can also download this update by going to the Growl website and clicking "Download." Growl is, of course, free and open-source.

Thanks, Peter!

Attention all bloggers! The nerd bunnies at Brainjuice have just released Blogo 1.1, the latest take on their Mac OS X blogging tool. Blogo 1.1 now includes support for Drupal and Twitter in addition to WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, typo, and MovableType.

The new Twitter support allows users to post tweets and direct messages from Blogo, and can even send a tweet whenever you post. Brainjuice has fixed some existing issues, as well as adding these new features:

• Support for raw image formats
• Integration with NetNewsWire and Safari
• Use of Growl for all user notifications
• New text formatting options (quotes, lists, aligned, justified)
• Custom cropping of thumbnails independently of the full-size images

To give Blogo 1.1 a try, download a 21-day unlimited trial or purchase the app for $25.

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, Preprocessing Complete, Compilation Succeeded, Clean Complete, and many more.

To use GrowlCode, you will need to download both GrowlCode and Growl (which is available at Growl.info). GrowlCode is compatible with Xcode 3.0 and Mac OS X Lepoard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4). Instructions for installing can be found on the GrowlCode website.

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!

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?

[Via DF]

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 customize the way you see notifications, system-wide.

Tonight, I spoke with Chris Forsythe, one of the developers of Growl. He said that while the site is back up, the SVN and Trac are still down. However, you are now able to download the latest release of Growl on their site. Forsythe also mentioned that the new Growl website design will go live "soon-ish." On his blog, he has a picture of what the new design will look like.

Lots of readers have written in asking about the status of Growl, the very popular global notification program that we have covered in the past. For the last three or four days, the Growl website has been down, as has access to the SVN. Because both MacUpdate and Versiontracker direct their download link directly to the Growl servers, users attempting to download the application have been out of luck. What's going on?

Perusing the Google Groups set-up for the program, the developers report that because their old server was retired and taken down, they are in the process of setting up new hosting and getting the site and the SVN back online. Earlier this morning, lead developer for the project posted a message to the Cocoaforge Growl forum indicating that he should have time to start working on the process tonight. Please note, that does not mean Growl will be back up and running tonight - just that the process may start-up. Setting up new hosting and transferring the SVN over can be a tedious process, so I suggest users just remain patient - I'm sure the developers will be back up and running as soon as possible.

If anyone absolutely has to have Growl now, I believe that Adium 1.2 comes with it as part of the installer (if so enabled). For information on the status of the site, I recommend checking out the Google Group and Cocoaforge forum for updates.

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 discussion Google Group that appears to work with Leopard.

If you've been missing your Growl Mail notifications you can find the new plugin here (download link).

[via Hawk Wings]

The latest version of Growl, the all-in-one notification app, has been released. 1.1.1 is available for download right now over on the site.

New to this version, you'll find speedier notifications, an improved Music Video style (which was one of the main complaints with the last release), improved iTunes notifications, and a few other bugfixes and improvements. Not a huge release by any means, but considering how much Growl pops up on my screen, even the little stuff matters.

Thanks, Peter!

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 keeps notifications from overlaping as well as a close button to notifications (on mouseover), a sound option and various bug fixes.

Growl remains a free download.

[via Daring Fireball]

Update: Growl dev Chris Forsythe has a post explaining just what the global positioning system is, and why it's cool.

If you're looking for the 'next thing' with which to boost your Facebook ninja status, Subsume just might be it. Right now it's an alpha so it's a little rough around the edges, but it primarily displays updates from your Facebook friends with Growl, a TUAW favorite that allows applications to display useful popup alerts when something happens (your song changes in iTunes, new email arrives, a buddy goes offline, etc.). Setting up Subsume is easy, just like with any other app that hooks into Facebook; you're taken to a Facebook login that prompts you for your credentials (if you aren't logged in already), then Facebook asks you to authorize Subsume to display your info. At an interval that Subsume's site doesn't describe yet (remember: it's an alpha folks), the app will check your Facebook account for any status updates from your friends, then display them in Growl's handy, unobtrusive update alerts. For the Facebook obsessed, this could turn out to be a great app that keeps you on top of what's going on without having to keep some kind of a window always open and taking up space.

Subsume is provided as free for now at subsume.info. I should note that the developer, Jacob Jay, developers one of my favorite picture sharing utilities: PictureSync, which we've mentioned on TUAW a few times before.

Shaun Martin drops a note that Cog, an open source audio player that plays pretty much every format you'd want to play (I don't know if I'd ever need to play anything in Monkey's Audio but sure enough, it's there) has hit version .06. The release features a brand new UI (with two pullout drawers-- one that browses the filesystem for music, and another that pops up to show info on the playing file), plugin support, preferences (including builtin global hotkeys, which I really enjoy), and everything else you'd expect in an audio player-- Growl support, Last.fm support, gapless playback, and more.

The only little flaw I can find is that there seems to be two Help menus-- maybe the Cog guys just want to be extra helpful. At any rate, if you're looking for a quick and free little open source audio player as an alternative to Apple's iPhone Activator, Cog will probably turn your gears.

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 like Growl support (when publishing, refreshing or uploading images and files) and Picasa upload support for Blogger.com images, as well as support for blogging to Vox, the community-focused blogging system from Six Aparts, makers of Live Journal and TypePad.

For anyone who needs the power of Mac OS X while blogging, MarsEdit is a great great choice that offers a wealth of other features for a mere $24.95. A demo is of course also available from Red Sweater Software.