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Facebook on your Mac desktop? It's Facile
by Jay Hathaway Jul 8th 2008 at 10:00AM
Facile is a Facebook desktop app for Mac, modestly described by the developer as "like Twitterrific for Facebook, but uglier." We don't think it's particularly ugly, actually, and it's a neat way to track friends' status updates. It even supports Growl notifications. With Facebook Chat being integrated into more desktop apps, there seems to be a demand for access to Facebook features without the website (and the ads). Facile makes Facebook status updates more meaningful and useful, because you can get them as they happen. If apps like this are widely adopted, we'll definitely think of keeping our Facebook status more current. Heck, with Twitter's current API limitations, maybe we'll just feed our tweets into Facebook and let Facile do the work.
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John C said 11:50AM on 7-08-2008
Yeah, so I'm using this now, and I can't find any method of turning growl notifications on.... It doesn't even indicate Growl support on the developers website, so I'm left wondering where that information is coming from in this story. Any help?
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Jay Hathaway said 11:53AM on 7-08-2008
I started getting Growl notifications as soon as I logged into Facebook through Facile. Facile also shows up in the applications tab of my Growl prefpane. I'm not sure what to tell you, as this didn't require any setup aside from opening up the app and logging in.