HardwareGrowler is the best way to find out when hardware status changes on the Mac. If you need to know what's going on with your Mac, then you need HardwareGrowler.
When your power cable unplugs, HardwareGrowler will spring into action and lets you know about it. Plug in a device like a keyboard, thumb drive, or even a usb headset and get notified about the hardware changes.
HardwareGrowler will also let you know about changes to networking on your Mac. When a wireless connection changes to a different access point or an IP address changes, you'll be notified about
What's New
Version 1.3.2:
Added French and Spanish localizations.
Resolved an issue with the Swedish localization displaying in Romanian.
"When your power cable unplugs, HardwareGrowler will spring into action and lets you know about it. " I don't know about anybody else, but when my power cable unplugs I know it because my computer stops working.
I like the premise and the function, but MAN is this thing a memory hog! Typically used 185 Meg or so and at times gets up over 500 Megs! Usually a quit and restart of it will bring it back down to 125 Megs where is slowly climbs over days to 500 Megs or so.
even if hardwaregrowler doesn't let you edit every icon (package contents), at least in the old version, you get a nice airport and network utility icons (utilities folder) for network notifications.
Sure, but you can't hear that when you aren't near your mac. If you're using Growl+Prowl+HardwareGrowler you can get notifications of it on your phone even, which is extremely handy. And that's just one example. :)
Whenever Growl switched to just a Mac App Store download, I knew there would be some problems. Now I see that one of the problems will be the free-to-pay conversion of some of the things that works with Growl. The nickle-and-diming is in full swing apparently. Even if Hardware Growler was a free download from the MAS, it would still be problematic for group installs.
I can't believe that HardwareGrowler now costs 1.99 USD! I was always happy to donate something and I also accepted that they started charging for Growl but the Addons..
i know! paying less than $2 for an app to use on your $1000+ computer is clearly ridiculous. C'mon! no one is forcing you to buy it. the source code is freely available, just compile it yourself! easy, right?
"HardwareGrowler 1.2.2 has known issues on OS X 10.7.x. HardwareGrowler 1.3 will address these issues. Specifically, when your mac is put to sleep, when it wakes up then HardwareGrowler may crash."
Maybe because my mini running Lion doesn't sleep very often I haven't had that problem or noticed any others with 1.2.2.
The thing that makes me angry is that I got the impression from their wording months ago that they were distributing the add-ons through the App Store and they'd be included as they had in the past with the free version. I bought the new version of Growl for 10.7, but was mostly buying it for Hardware Growler. I trusted them, now they're trying to screw me.
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HardwareGrowler is the best way to find out when hardware status changes on the Mac. If you need to know what's going on with your Mac, then you need HardwareGrowler.
When your power cable unplugs, HardwareGrowler will spring into action and lets you know about it. Plug in a device like a keyboard, thumb drive, or even a usb headset and get notified about the hardware changes.
HardwareGrowler will also let you know about changes to networking on your Mac. When a wireless connection changes to a different access point or an IP address changes, you'll be notified about the change.
HardwareGrowler is what you need if you need to know about your hardware. HardwareGrowler uses Growl to provide notifications or can do it all by itself. Simple to use, easy to configure, HardwareGrowler is the application for those who need to know.
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The fact that my MacPro will suddenly grind to a halt if this happens might alert me to the fact
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http://www.apcupsd.org
A power outage is obvious when I'm awake and ignorable if I'm asleep or not around so a repeatedly beeping UPS is only senselessly annoying.
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http://growl.info/extras.php#HardwareGrowler says:
"HardwareGrowler 1.2.2 has known issues on OS X 10.7.x. HardwareGrowler 1.3 will address these issues. Specifically, when your mac is put to sleep, when it wakes up then HardwareGrowler may crash."
Maybe because my mini running Lion doesn't sleep very often I haven't had that problem or noticed any others with 1.2.2.
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My MacBook Pro sleeps all the time, so having the 1.2.2 version crash every time i wake up the computer didn't work for me.
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Alphonse rated on 08 Nov 2011