Facebook Notifications Brings Facebook To Your Mac
Mac OS X only: Free menu bar application Facebook Notifications brings notifications and status updates from the popular social networking site to your desktop.
After you install and enter in your Facebook credentials, just click on the Facebook Notifications icon for a quick look at your most recent notifications and messages along with quick links to take you straight to your news feed, profile page, or a new message composition window. You can even update your Facebook status at any time via a simple keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Alt+Ctrl+Space by default).
Facebook Notifications also integrates with Growl, so any time you get a new update on the site, you’ll also get a new Growl notification—particularly handy if you’ve set up Growl with Prowl to get push notifications to your iPhone for any Growl notification (something that Facebook on the iPhone doesn’t yet support).
We could debate the merits of Facebook as a productivity tool, but considering how many people use Facebook as their main hub of communications these days, I think it’s a foregone conclusion at this point. An application like Facebook Notifications is a great tool for staying on top of what’s going on with your Facebook friends.
Facebook Notifications is freeware, Mac only, and despite the Facebook URL, it is not developed by Facebook.
Desktop Notifications [Facebook via TechCrunch]
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Awesome! Got to try this out now! Thanks LH.
Kevin Haag
@njdevil: The blue box is Dropbox.
raptorrapture
anything like this for windows 7 that integrates into the superbar like that gmail notifier thing?
takemetoyourtoaster
can anyone tell me some of the other icons up there? I recognize adium and GMail
njdevil
@njdevil: In order: Skitch, Adium, Mailplane, Dropbox, TextExpander, Flux, a Scanner utility, and the network monitor and calendar icon come from iStat menus.
@njdevil: i think the heart is skitch
this is actually pretty cool, and normally i would download this, but honestly, i'm at the point where i'm over facebook. i've lost complete interest.
My Facebook feed:
fosphen just installed Facebook Notifications
Facebook: What are you thinking?
Me:"Doing some homework"
Mike likes your status
Jen commented on your status: "Me too! Lulz!"
Steve want's you to take the "How much do you hate homework?" quiz
Josh commented on your status: "Sucks man, call me later"
Mark commented on your status: "Dude check out this clip [youtube]
Wes commented on your status: "I un-like this"
fosphen just uninstalled Facebook Notifications
@njdevil: the furthest left is Skitch, the Balloon (circle with TE) is Text Expander, no clue what the other ones are.
GFontenot
Pretty cool, I wonder if it will be available for other platforms.
motang
the scanner util is the Canon Network Scanner Utility
Pablo Toledo
@Adam Pash: Thanks! I might have to try some of those- Dropbox definitely looks interesting.
njdevil
Adam, would you mind marking all those e-mails as read then reposting the picture? It's kind of bothering me. Thanks.