Daniel Wickes wrote:
Hi Walter,
Growl is definitely not spyware. It's a free[ware] notification
system (http://www.growl.info).
I believe it was an off-shoot of the popular Instant Messaging client
Adium (http://www.adiumx.com), and it's raison d'être is to do nothing
but notify the user of events, changes etc. Nearly every program you
download offers some form of notification; new mail, download
complete, new song in iTunes etc. And they do so using a variety of
interfaces; bezel window, etc. Growl exists to provide a common
interface for these sorts of notification without reinvention of the
wheel. Can you tell I am a fan of what it stands for?
Anyways, you don't need to have Growl installed if you're not
interested in any form of notification for your virtual aquarium, but
having it installed will do no harm at all. As for making things work
with it, applications usually register themselves with Growl (assuming
they support it) and you can edit the notifications you receive via
the preference pane you mention in System Preferences -> Other ->
Growl. Sometimes the program in question has its own UI for editing
the notifications, though.
I hope what I wrote makes some sort of sense! In short; don't worry! :-)
Dan
On 23 Apr 2006, at 00:40, wsheluk wrote:
Dear fellow LS's:
Today I downloaded/launched Fish 1.3 (
http://oriol.mine.nu/software/Fish/) an aquarium simulator. Whereby
it asked me to install Growl if not present. I allowed the
installation however I "stopped" the launch feature.
I reviewed the web site for Growl
file:///Users/tiger/Desktop/growl.info:about.php.webloc
<cid:part1.04090702.07040208@shaw.ca>
albeit was none the wiser.
Is Growl some new form of "spy ware" that will monitor my Internet
activity and use of the applications that support use of Growl.
Is it safe and how do I use LS with Growl?
Thanks,
Walter
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