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Best Kept Secrets: Hardware Growler

Written on November 06, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 13 people have commented

My enthusiastic use and promotion of Growl should come as no surprise to regular readers of The Apple Blog. While some dismiss it as an annoyance reminiscent of the Windows notification popups, others — like myself - view it as a way be informed without stopping what I am currently doing (and that is definitely [...]

OS X : Unplugged(.prefpane)

Written on June 27, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 12 people have commented

I came across a comment about a small but useful utility I had not heard of before called Unplugged. This utility (in the form of a System Preferences panel) from Briksoftware watches for events related to your power cord being plugged or unplugged and notifies you via Growl (if Growl is not installed, the application [...]

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