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March 02, 2006
New Growl Extras, part 2
So as I said in my first post about the new Growl Extras, we are including applications/plugins previously considered "third party". The first one I talked about was Feed, an RSS/ATOM news reader. There is also Rawr-Jour, which can detect Rendezvous services broadcasting to your local machine, and notify you of that/give you some power with it.
The new Extra I want to talk about today though is called Gmail+Growl. Gmail+Growl isn't really an application itself, but more along the lines of a plugin of sorts for the official Gmail notifier for OS X. As far as I know Gmail+Growl is the only plugin featured on the Google blog for this application, which says a lot about it.
Gmail+Growl fits into the more traditional role of what a Growl Extra does. GrowlTunes/GrowlMail/GrowlSafari, etc all work with existing applications to bring a better experience to the end user that likes their notifications, and I think Gmail+Growl also does this pretty well.
Here is an example of what it looks like in action:
The envelope looking icon with the (1) next to it in blue is the interface for the Gmail notifier that Google ships. The notification is what Gmail+Growl does. It can look addresses up in the system Address Book, and you can do a lot of other really neat things with it. Overall it's a great add on, and a great addition to the Extras.
I'll be doing my next article on Rawr-Jour. Cheers.