So I recently went hunting for a way to get gmail notifications through Growl. For those of you that don’t know what Growl is, it’s an awesome OSX only way to get notifications that aren’t obtrusive. Many of my OSX applications use the Growl Notification system which is really handy. Anyway, I came across Gmail Notifier for OSX which is really nice and has a small memory footprint. My only complaint is that it doesn’t interface with Growl, and the notifications it does have are really annoying and ugly. So I did some hunting and found someone that made Google Notifier work with Growl! I had to turn off the default notifications, but after that I was happy! Except for one thing, Google Notifier only checks every 15 minutes. With more searching on Google I found someone that has figured out a way to change the frequency in which Google Notifier checks. I changed it to 1 and now it checks every minute! Here is how you change Google Notifier check frequency:

Click on the Google Notifier mail icon, then hold down Command and Option keys while clicking on Preferences
You will be prompted with a box that has a key and value prompt. Type “AutocheckInterval” under key (this seems to be case-sensitive)
For value type in the interval of number in minutes that you want it to check your email (for example, enter 5 for every 5 minutes)
Quit out of the notifier (again found by clicking the Google Notifier mail icon)
Restart the Google Notifier for your changes to take affect.