Streambook: Facebook notifications on a Mac

1Dade` • 17th May 2009 • Italian

Description :
Streambook is a Mac OSX Facebook desktop application built using PyOBJC, Cocoa, pyfacebook running in the background and notifying the user about facebook home stream updates with both audio and visual notifications. Pyfacebook has been slightly modified to add support for the new beta stream Facebook API.

Screenshot :

Use case :
Facebook users know that continuously checking for facebook updates really steals too much time. To avoid this I use AdiumX to log in the Facebook Chat and Streambook for stream updates. This way I only open the website when I see there’s some interesting update or I want to publish one.

I will add features to Streambook only in order to get better notifications but I will NOT add publishing features. There are other similar applications like “Facebook for adobe AIR” and “Seesmic desktop” with more features. Those are HEAVY applications using a lot of cpu time and no very suitable to sit in the background.

Current Version :
0.1

Current features:
- Notification for EVERY update to the home stream. Note that a post is considered updated when is created, modified, commented, liked, .. (see upcoming features)
- Enable/Disable sound
- Uses almost 0% cpu

Upcoming features :
- Option to make notification sticky
- Choose to be notified about new OR updated posts
- Notification for new “inbox” messages

Download link :
Streambook (173)

Use comments here for suggestions, report bugs, maybe developer help proposal

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