Growl helps. Growl is a free universal notification system for Mac OS X. It’s like the little bubbles over the notification area on a Windows XP task bar, but on steroids.

in Adium: One less reason to run Parallels

Steroids. Chuckle. Make that LSD. Growl is one of the reasons I almost dropped Adium altogether – I seem to remember the coding teams of both apps overlap. Growl was driving me nuts on my former laptop, a first generation TiBook 17″, which I replaced a few weeks ago with a MacBook. Even disabling Growl didn;t work, the bloody thing would get re-enabled seemingly on its own – I suspect either some buggy code or some Windows-like “I won’t take no for an answer” behaviour in their code. Anyway, yeah Windows XP bubbles galore on LSD… Seriously.

So when I installed Adium this time, I made sure Growl wasn’t installed, at all, and I had to tell Adium a coupla times that no, I didn’t want to “enjoy” that marvelous feature – again that “I won’t take no for an answer” behaviour at work I suppose…

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