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Facebox a program for Mac OS X and Facebook. It sits in your menu bar near your clock and provides you with notifications about various events. In addition, it provides a menu to easily access common Facebook pages and keeps a count of your messages, pokes, events, friend requests, wall posts, and photo comments. Notifications are issued using Growl and can be customized to the user's liking. They are:
- A friend updated his profile
- A friend changed his status
- A friend wrote a new note
- Someone wrote on your wall
- You have new messages
- You have new pokes
- You have new friend requests
- You have new photo comments
Facebox checks for updates every 9 seconds, but checks for each kind of notification (friend details & requests, wall, photo comments, messages, pokes) separately. Consequently each particular type of notification is refreshed once every 45 seconds.
Download
The latest version is 1.1. It is a Universal Binary and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or better.
- Facebox for users who already have Growl installed on their system (.zip file, 213k)
- Facebox for everyone else (.zip file, 1.3M)
Facebox is released under the GNU General Public License. Source code can be found inside the application package by going to Facebox.app/Contents/Resources/Source.
Installation
Simply download the appropriate file above, then double-click it. Facebox.app will appear in the same folder as the .zip file you just downloaded. Move Facebox.app to your Applications and double-click it to open. You might also want to add it to your startup items by going to System Preferences→Accounts, selecting your account on the left, then clicking on the Login items tab. Click the + button and choose Facebox from the window that appears.
Note that currently, Facebox requires a login every time it is opened. This is a limitation imposed by Facebook's API and is completely beyond my control. If you're not happy with that, please contact them and ask them to change this.
Acknowledgments
This application completely relies on MKAbeFook framework written by Mike Kinney to communicate with the Facebook API. In addition, the first version of the app was written by Logan Rockmore of Logan Design.
