Holy cow Paul, that was an excellent tutorial. Thank you very much. Under Growl display options, should I select speech instead of any visual choice? Does this mean speech will give me notifications?
This is fun to try to figure out. Traci On Sep 4, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > Tracey, > Let's explain that step by step so you don't get lost. > > First off. A disk image is a normal file on your hard drive. If you click it, > os10 will mount it as if it were a normal volume. In other words, just like > when you insert a cd, it gets mounted as an icon on your desktop that you can > open, browse etc, a dmg, once clicked, will mount a new imaginary disk on to > your desktop. > > First thing to do is Click the dmg. It doesn't matter where you have the dmg. > inside downloads is the easiest. if you're new to images then close > everything that pops up till you are in your desktop, and then look around > there. You will find the growl volume on the desktop. Just as you dive into > macintosh hd, into the contents of a cd or an external usb drive, you open > the growl volume the same way. From the desktop, press command down arrow on > the growl volume icon. A new window will open, showing the contents of the > image file that growl sits in. > > Once you have the newly mounted volume open, look at the files it contains. > You will hear that the current screen look and feel is set to image browser, > and not to list view or column view. To switch this back to a normal list > view that you can read as normal, just press command and the number 2 and you > will hear, as list view, checked. > > Now, explore the contents of the image file. It now looks like any other > folder on the mac. Find the item named growl dot pkg. A pkg file is an > installer bundle. If you click a pkg file, the installer inside it will run. > You can do that now. > > Next, follow the instructions in the installer screens. Don't be distracted > by all the unnecessary repetitive information on these screens. I find these > installers terrible, but they are doable. Follow their instructions until you > get a finish or a close button, and the installer ends. > > Now, you are back n the mounted disk image and growl installation is done. > Now you need to perform a few final steps. > > As said, you are now back inside the mounted image volume where you found the > growl dot pkg installer. You came here by pressing command plus down from the > desktop, and you close it again by pressing command w. You will land back in > your desktop. > > Now, unmount the volume where you installed growl from. Find the growl icon > on the desktop and press command e for eject. If you type command e on a cd > icon on your desktop, the cd disk would pop out of your drive. In the case of > unmounting a dmg volume, nothing pops out but the growl desktop icon, > containing the installer for it, will disappear to clean your desktop. > > Now, you have growl installed. But, there will be no menu item to go to, not > in the finder menu bar, not in the apple menu, not even in the vo m m, status > menus. The place to turn on growl, and to tweak its options, is system > preferences. The place where you go for your system stuff, vo m, and then > down to system preferences. One of the last items within system preferences > will be the item for growl. Open it and configure growl. Close the growl > panel with command w as normal. If you want, you can now get rid of the growl > dmg disk image file, because growl is installed and running. > > Now that this is clear and done, you should go to the growl website, and read > all of its documentation. It's not very much, and it will help you > understand and work with growl. > > Hth, > Paul. > On Sep 4, 2011, at 7:18 PM, Traci wrote: > >> Thank you, I like the sound of this growl. >> >> Ok, I am still very new to downloading and installing. I did some googling >> and learned the following: >> To Install the application, open the disk image, and double click in the >> Growl.prefPane >> >> Can someone break that down for me? I have my set up to download my disk >> images to my desktop, is this a case where I should keep it in my downloads >> folder? IE, I should not delete this disk image? >> >> Once I open the disk image, then go over to the preference pain, I'm done? >> Should I close that window and go over to system preferences to begin >> setting up Growl? >> >> I'm looking forward to figuring this out further. Thanks! >> >> Traci >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Paul Erkens >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 7:01 AM >> Subject: Re: more system sound feedback? >> >> Hi Tracey, >> Well, each case where you want to have sound on the mac is indeed possible, >> but you will have to know what to do. For example, Eric Caron already wrote >> about the progress bar that you can follow while a file is downloading. But >> growl is another option. To answer your questions: growl comes with an >> additional separate extension that you can install. So, first install growl, >> familiarize yourself with it, and then install the safari extension. This >> will let growl tell you when a download is complete. Regarding ejecting a >> usb disk: there is a growl extension that is called hardware growler. It >> also comes in the dmg bundle that growl comes in, if you download it. The >> hardware growler can keep an eye on the battery status, and also notify of >> hardware changes such as mounting and unmounting external partitions etc. >> Worth taking a look at. >> >> Hth, >> Paul. >> On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Traci wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Is there a way to have more sound feedback on Mac? I'm still quite new, >>> and I'm switching from windows, it is something that has surprised me. >>> >>> For example, when downloading a program from Safari, how do I know it's >>> progress or when it is completed? >>> >>> Also when I connected or ejected an external hard drive, I don't remember >>> hearing a sound. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Traci >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email >>> tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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