EventBox: The Social Tool That Does Too Much?
Yes, life in the 21st century is busy. Very busy. I have three toddlers and work at home. I know busy. What I don’t have is a social life.
Well, there’s Twitter. But it’s a fad so I’m not likely to get too caught up in social networks online. Unless, there was a way to, you know, touch bases everywhere from one place. My Mac.
The problem with social networking online has as much to do with time as convenience. I have Facebook. Twitter. Flickr. And I subscribe to a few hundred RSS files (despite RSS falling out of.... (excerpted).
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willis said:
EventBox is OK. I used it for awhile and found it quite useful that I could do so much in one utility. Then I started adding services not supported by EventBox and ended up not using it because others had more features, especially Tweetie and Net News Wire.
Kristen said:
Well gotta say I’m a huge fan of Eventbox. I like getting all my tweets and feeds in one place… now I’ve started actually reading my feeds again! And frankly, the only reason I look at Facebook is for status updates and photos so Eventbox is perfect.
I sound like a bit of an zealot I know… I don’t think eventbox is perfect but it’s pretty damn good and the things that aren’t quite right yet, well, the benefit of getting everything in one place by far outweighs that issues… not that there are many…
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Elena-Beth Kaye said:
I like EventBox for Twitter, and love it for keeping up with Facebook status updates. How could the newsfeed in a browser begin to compare? (Also agree with Kristen about the single app being a benefit.) I set it to not pop up the Heads Up Display automatically, and unhide the app when I want to check everything at once. The logic in the article eludes me: something in the future might become available that EventBox doesn’t have so I shouldn’t use it? Huh? In that case I’d either use whatever app was required, in addition to EventBox, or else EventBox would be updated anyway. Re “ease and comfort”: be sure to set preferences for what you want—there are loads of them!