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Notify sits in your Mac menu bar and watches for Facebook notifications and new messages.
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NOTE: Facebook's API is currently broken. Notify is crippled. It's been several months, with no meaningful response from Facebook other than an acknowledgement of the problem. There is nothing I can do but wait until it's fixed. You should not buy Notify at this time.
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Do you find yourself checking Facebook over and over, in case someone posted a reply or a comment to you, or if you have a new message? Have you ever wished you could have a little icon in your Mac menu bar that would tell you if you have any notifications or messages?
I did, so I made one.
Notify puts a little icon on the right side of the Mac menu bar (the technical term is “Status Item”) that lights up red if you have new Facebook notifications, and green if you have new messages. Or both, if you have both. Click the icon, and your notifications pop up right there, no browser required. Click a notification to open your browser and view it on Facebook.
• Unobtrusive icon in the menu bar.
• Alerts you in red for new notifications, and green for new messages.
• Show the text of your notifications.
• Click through to the Facebook site for your messages.
• Is not a “wrapper” for the Facebook Mobile website.
★ Support notes
Facebook is currently rolling out their “new” Unified Messaging feature; not everyone has it yet. If you don't have it yet, the “see all messages” link in Notify's menu won't work. If that link just brings up the main Facebook newsfeed page for you, open Notify's Preferences (the gear icon at the bottom of the menu) and change the setting.
If you want Notify to launch automatically when you log into your computer, there's a setting for that in Preferences, too. It's disabled by default so as not to annoy anyone who doesn't want that to happen.
Occasionally Facebook posts a notification that it simply doesn't ever send to API clients. There is no rhyme or reason to it, and nothing I can do other than wait for them to fix it. It seems pretty rare.
★ Privacy Policy
My privacy policy is simple.
Notify does not collect, store, or send me any personal information about you at all. It doesn't “phone home.” It doesn't store your Facebook login and password, just an authentication token that is useless outside the app. It talks directly to Facebook, retrieves the information it needs to perform its advertised function, and gets rid of it when you exit the app. If you buy this app, all I will know is that someone bought it, and what country you're from. What more, after all, do I need?
I don't give you something for free and then “monetize” your personal information – I think we've all had about enough of that.
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- Last changed:
- Jun 18, 2011
- Category:
- Social Networking
- Developer:
- Jeremy Nixon
- Version:
- 1.0
- Average Rating:
- 4.00 (1)
- Size:
- 0.4 MB
