What's it all about, Alfie?

This morning I'm still getting used to the OS X 10.8.2 changes - specifically, Notification Center. This is clearly a take on Growl, and as a long-time user of Growl, I know there are apps that are only recently Growl 2 compliant, so I really doubt they are wired into Notification Center. Thankfully, there's a mode in Growl to ship all notifications to Notification Center. But there's a catch…

All notifications that are redirected from Growl come into Notification Center as Growl notifications. That's no good. You loose at least half the really useful information in this. You need to be able to tell what app sent it, and then what the message is. Thankfully, someone thought of this and created Bark.

It's a Growl 2 plug-in, and it requires OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and it redirects all Growl notifications to Notification Center - leaving the application intact. You simply download it, install it, and then set the 'Default Action' to be 'Bark', and the 'Default Style' to 'No Default Display', and you're done!

I'm hoping this is going to do what it says it does, but I haven't seen any notifications come through, but I've got my fingers crossed, and I'm hoping this works exactly as advertised.

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