Hi Tracey, In growl, found via system preferences and then growl, you can set and further configure a default notification style. One of them is speech. If you set that as the default, then it will automatically be chosen for new programs you use growl with, but you can also configure the growl notification scheme on a per program basis if you want. By the way, any new program that supports growl notifications, will automatically be added to the growl window. This is because growl is always running, and growl sees which program you are launching. If it happens to be one of those that it recognizes as being growl compatible,then growl will automatically add that program name for you in its own window. Which notification scheme, either one out of the many visual ones, or the speech one, is chosen, depends on what you set as the default scheme for new programs. Hth, Paul. On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Traci wrote:
> 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. > 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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