Desktop App: EventBox

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EventBox is an application for Mac OS X that seamlessly integrates many social websites, including Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit and RSS.

Features:

  • Displaying of Emoji
  • Twitter favorites
  • Twitter search
  • Twitter profile peek
  • Ability to open links in events using a keyboard shortcut (Cmd-Right Arrow)
  • Ability to send crash reports
  • Ability to expand shortened URLs. Right-click on an Event and select Expand URLs

The Good:

The ability to access several core social media applications in one spot is great. The UI for EventBox is very good. Photo viewing is sublime. For twitter, users can @reply, favorite and retweet. Avatars are visible too.

The Not-so-Good:

EventBox is an excellent application. We wish it was available for PC as well…sigh. It is limited to a single twitter account at a time, and you can’t group or manage tweets in a sophisticated way, but those are minor gripes, and overshadowed by EventBox’s ease of use and integration.

Tweetwave.com rates it: ♦♦♦♦

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One Comment on “Desktop App: EventBox”

  • 28 December, 2008, 13:50

    One of the coolest things about Eventbox is the ability to include persistent keyword searches in the unread stream. It lets me follow all kinds of stuff I’m interested in without having to necessarily follow more people than I can pay attention to.

    Granted you can do this with out clients, but Eventbox takes up way less screen real estate.

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