Growl for Mac keeps you notified (DownloadExaminer.com)

Growl for Mac keeps you notified

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When you’re working on your Mac, sometimes things happen in the background you’d like to keep track of while working on other things, like when a friend comes online in your chat client, you receive a new e-mail or Skype call, or your CD burning job is finished.

Several apps are already Growl enabled

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Fortunately there’s a free notification system called Growl that has become a Mac favorite for its flexibility and elegant interface. You can configure Growl to notify you when a download is complete, when a DVD is done ripping, when your FTP client is done uploading or downloading, or have it send you an email at work when your at-home Mac is finished backing itself up. Growl was designed to allow other software programmers to easily tie into it, allowing them to build custom Growl notifications into their programs, so the instant you enable Growl, every Growl-enabled app on your Mac will instantly offer a whole new realm of features. The list of “Growl-enabled” applications contains well over 100 well-known programs, with the list growing all the time.

Choose from several different Growl notification styles

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Along with the added control of knowing when things are happening behind the scenes, you have complete control over what Growl shows you via comprehensive display preferences customized for the programs that work with Growl. This way you’ll never receive notifications you don’t want. Simply use the Growl preference pane to turn off any or all notifications. Growl offers a huge list of different styles so your notifications can fit your overall desktop theme or display certain styles depending on the program. It’s your call, and Growl is easy to configure.

Growl works with several popular Mac apps already (listed here by category) with more on the way all the time. If you’ve been looking for a way to get notification when specific things happen behind the scenes on your Mac, Growl is the perfect app for the job.

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