Filed under: Macintosh, Social Software, web 2.0
EventBox: all your social networks in one box (on your Mac)
by Jay Hathaway Nov 11th 2008 at 12:00PM
If you're completely addicted to your information stream, and you want to see it all in one place, EventBox might be worth the $20 pricetag. The UI looks fantastic, and the app features the all-important Growl support. Apparently a HUD mode is coming soon (think Twitterrific), which will make the app's footprint on your screen smaller. You might not be interested in what EventBox has to offer if you're not very active on social networks, but if you're looking for this kind of app, EventBox gets it right.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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RazorD said 12:17PM on 11-11-2008
The site is down for me, but you can download it directly at http://s3.amazonaws.com/thecosmicmachine/EventBox.zip
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Chris said 1:21PM on 11-11-2008
The link in the article is wrong. Should be: http://thecosmicmachine.com
(No www).
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Jay Hathaway said 2:07PM on 11-11-2008
Thanks, Chris. It should be fixed now.
han said 1:51AM on 12-10-2008
it likes this http://www.widecircles.com
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