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    Growl Notifications?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by codeoverride, Sep 22, 2009.

  1. codeoverride

    codeoverride Notebook Evangelist

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    I've noticed that lately I have been receiving notifications of certain events on the upper right of my screen. I just figured out that it's a thing called "Growl". I have no idea how it got on my system. Is it a third party program or was it installed in one of the OS X updates? Thanks!
     
    codeoverride, Sep 22, 2009
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  2. mr__bean

    mr__bean Notebook Evangelist

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    Did you recently install Adium messenger?
     
    mr__bean, Sep 22, 2009
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  3. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Growl is a third party notification system which is being used by many third party OS X applications. Growl is easily configurable from the System Prefs window, and is very useful to have.
     
    Budding, Sep 22, 2009
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    i believe it installs automatically with Adium Messenger. i use that program and i remember having an option to allow it to install.
     
    brianj320, Sep 22, 2009
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  5. codeoverride

    codeoverride Notebook Evangelist

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    I didn't install Adium. I think maybe it installed with Dropbox. It seems like an okay app to have but kind of annoying that I don't remember giving permission to install that..
     
    codeoverride, Sep 22, 2009
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  6. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    Yes, Dropbox definitely installs Growl by default on initial install unless you opt out right then.
     
    ClearSkies, Sep 22, 2009
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  7. blabus

    blabus Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah that auto install thing is definitely interesting. I installed Growl a while back, and then uninstalled it, but I recently installed Yahoo Messenger, and it still uses what appear to be Growl notifications, despite the Growl System Preferences section being gone.
     
    blabus, Sep 22, 2009
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  8. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    growl doesn't auto install with adium, but adium does recommend you a growl install after you launch.
     
    masterchef341, Sep 23, 2009
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  9. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    Seshan, Sep 23, 2009
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