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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.

gearing up for chrome

Posted: July 10, 2009 in internet, Mac, Technology

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!

Google is set to take cloud computing to a whole new level. As long rumoured, Google is planning to launch its own operating system, based on its Chrome broswer.

Google made the announcement on its blog on Tuesday night and says it be available for consumers in netbooks in the second half of 2010. The open source project will run on Linux under the hood but the applications will be web-based and run on any standards-based browser in Windows, Mac and Linux. Said Google:

“The operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no Web … we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome–the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to rethink what operating systems should be.”