April 2nd, 2010
Several years ago I turned off Growl. I found it to be far too distracting. The little blobs of horribly designed text popping up above my work every few moments reminded me far too much of the Windows’ pop up bubble thing. You know, that incredibly annoying yellow bubble that pops up to tell you that you’re computer is out-of-date? Yeah, that.
Anyway, the Hud Growl Theme by the immensely talented Rogie of Komodo Media has brought me back to Growl. I’ve reinstalled it, tweaked the settings to be far less annoying and installed this theme to make my Growl experience better than ever – and valuable.
I find the Growl ‘Smoke’ theme to be reasonably understated with the correct transparency. Actually, I set my Adium contacts window to a similar theme and transparency because I’m a terrible perfectionist
Growl + Prowl on the iPhone is splendid. My Mac Mini download box pushes notifications to me when it’s successfully downloaded and filed away the latest episode of [insert TV show] ready for me to watch when I get home!
So your Mac mini sends Growl notifications to your iPhone? That’s interesting. I may just have to look into that.