Filed under: Macintosh, Freeware, Social Software
Facebook brings notifications to your Mac desktop
by Paul O'Brien Sep 10th 2009 at 1:00PM
Like many of us, I have a Facebook account. Like many of us, I often forget to actually go in and check it, read my notifications and keep up with what's happening in my social circle... arguably the whole point of the exercise! One of the biggest reasons for this is that - unlike Twitter - I don't keep Facebook 'in view' during my working day. You could argue that this is a positive benefit because it means less distraction, but it's primarily because despite playing with other desktop based Facebook apps (such as Tweetdeck), I haven't found a way to do so yet that works for me. Enter Facebook's desktop notifications app for Mac.
The new application, developed by Facebook themselves, adds an icon to your Mac's menu bar that provides quick access to your news feed, profile page and status update page (which is also accessible via a keyboard shortcut) as well as listing your outstanding notifications and inbox contents.
It's quick, easy to use and best of all light on resources! It sits there unintrusively in your menu bar, providing Growl (aka toaster) notifications as new events occur. For me it's a keeper... I might just start using Facebook regularly now...!
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bosstoneska said 2:28PM on 9-10-2009
Just a heads-up: on the page for the app, it is noted in the left column that it was not developed by Facebook.
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Money Mike said 2:42PM on 9-10-2009
What are you calling Paul a liar? Didn't you notice in the second paragraph where he stated "The new application, developed by Facebook themselves..."
Paul said 3:00PM on 9-10-2009
If you click on Lee Byron, the developer down the bottom of the page, you can see he works for Facebook.
That's good enough for me!
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bosstoneska said 10:57PM on 9-10-2009
My bad -- I didn't dig into who the developer of the app was.
kingkool68 said 10:27AM on 9-11-2009
This app is a little pointless if you keep GMail running in a Fluid app all day. The same information can be e-mailed to you. I thought it would show updates to the news feed in a little Growl bubble.
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