Filed under: Macintosh, Commercial, Social Software
Clean up MySpace with Spyder
by Ted Wallingford Sep 25th 2007 at 8:00AM
One application for Mac OS X solves all these problems and more. Spyder, a $35 shareware piece, does almost everything you can do on MySpace--browsing profile information, sending and receiving mail messages, adding comments, handling and sending friend requests, and downloading other users' friend lists. It does all of this in a nice, neat desktop environment that looks suspiciously like iTunes. Last time we looked at Spyder, it had some stability issues, but these have been ironed out handily.
Spyder will even do a couple of things MySpace alone won't--like show you the display name of a user who has left a comment or message but who has since deleted their account. Nifty stuff. And like more expensive tools such as EekAdder, Spyder supports bulk comments and messages. The program will even warn you if you're approaching the MySpace-imposed daily limit of 400 comments and allow you to handle Captcha codes in the Spyder interface. If you use MySpace frequently, we can't think of a better add-on for you to check out. The time saved on logging in alone is worth the thirty-five bucks.
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Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Rob said 3:59PM on 9-25-2007
Biggest pet peeve about MySpace?
Spam
Spam
Spam
Spam
Spam
Spam
... oh,.. and more spam.
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Brett said 3:47PM on 9-29-2007
Cool... but I wouldn't pay $35 to use MySpace.
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E.T.Cook said 11:12AM on 10-02-2007
Up to $75 for a 3 user license...and $35 for a single license...for a MYSPACE CLIENT?!?!?!?!
ARE THESE GUYS INSANE?
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