Growl is the undiscussed king of notifications for OS X apps. We have covered a handful of beautiful themes for Growl in the past, and the success of this plugin also inspired several iOS developers to create mobile apps capable of plugging into the desktop system to fetch or send remote notifications. Growl is supported by hundreds of different applications for the Mac, including big names like Twitter and Dropbox. For those not familiar with Growl, the notification system became popular among Mac users because of its highly customizable nature that enabled almost anyone with basic coding and design knowledge to create “themes” for it that changed the appearance and animations of the notification tickets displayed on screen. Make sure that Growl is set to start automatically at startup.The developers of Growl, a popular notification system for OS X that’s been around for years and it’s completely free to use, have announced that the plugin is going to become a Mac App Store application through a complete rewrite with OS X Lion in mind, dropping support for older frameworks and “hacks” like GrowlMail and GrowlSafari that wouldn’t probably make it past Apple’s approval. Open the Growl Settings window by clicking on the additional System Tray icons triangle, then right click on the Growl paw icon, then click on the “Open Growl” menu. When starting the download, click the “Run” button to automatically start the installer.įollow the steps outlined in the installer to finish the installation.
On Windows, you can download Growl directly from the Growl for Windows website. You can find more information on Growl for Mac at the official Growl for Mac website. Then in the “General” tab of the Settings window, make sure that Growl is started at login.įinally, you should restart StockMarketEye if it is already running so that it can register to send alert notifications through Growl. Once installed, open the Growl Settings window by double clicking on the “Growl” Application. On Mac OS X, you can install Growl from the Mac App Store. The following is an example of a growl notification on Mac OS X: Installing Growl for Mac OS X ¶
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