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If you’re like me and constantly switching between Facebook, Twitter and a bunch of other social media, not to mention Flickr, blog updates and news feeds, then you need EventBox. This great new little Mac-only app links you to all your social networks in one window, much like a mail application and you can set it up to let you know when you get a message, update or tweet without having to switch apps. If you have Growl, EventBox works seamlessly, popping up notifications so you can quickly see which ones are important or worth replying to. Up to know I have been using the Flock Browser – The Social Web Browser to do a similar job of keeping everything in one place but as I have been having some issues with some of Flock’s services disappearing or not loading, EventBox couldn’t have  come along at a better time.

EventBox is free to try and $15 for the beta version.

Some more interesting thoughts on Google’s planned Chrome OS from CNet’s Rafe Needlman. Google says the OS will launch on new Linux netbooks in 2010 which will be fine with me. I use a ton of Google products these days so if Apple doesn’t get around to making something in that space like so many of us would like, then a Google machine might just fill the gap – and at about half the price!

Lots to like in today’s Apple announcements from WWDC: an iPhone with many of the features (video, voice dialling, cut and paste) it should have had a version or two ago, and souped up MacBooks for a start, with Snow Leopard OS due in September. With the release of the new iPhone 3GS (the S is for speed), Apple is dropping the price of the old iPhone 3G to just $99 with a two year contract.

Those $900 Bermuda iPhones now seem even more of a sick joke. Unlocking an overseas device seems even more tempting now – even Kit and Caboodle offers an iPhone unlock service for just $45 these days!