gHacks technology news » facebook status http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:29:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Facebook Status Update Notifier http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/18/facebook-status-update-notifier/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/18/facebook-status-update-notifier/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:29:46 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=17409 Facebook users who want to check their Facebook account for new messages, pokes, friend requests or invites usually have to go to the Facebook website and login there to see the Facebook status updates. This does mean that they sometimes visit Facebook to find out that nothing has been updated. A Facebook status update notifier like Apjunction Notifications will make those visits a thing of the past. It can also be helpful if the user is experiencing Facebook login problems.

The software program for the Windows operating system will display Facebook status updates right on the Windows desktop. It uses a semi-transparent window to display the unread messages, pokes, friend requests and invites.

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The main application window contains additional options. It is from here for instance possible to update the Facebook status, look at personal information or see a summary of Facebook status notifications (which distinguishes between event and group invites which the transparent window does not).

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The Facebook status notifier uses roughly 1.5 Megabytes with the transparent window open and the main application window minimized in the system tray. The software program requires the Microsoft .net Framework (not mentioned which version). It can be downloaded from the Google Code project website. (via To The PC).

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/18/facebook-status-update-notifier/feed/ 4 Social Network Status Generator http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/17/social-network-status-generator/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/17/social-network-status-generator/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:00:00 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8328 Have we come this far already? Desperate times require desperate measures it seems. To impress, one has to be witty. This is especially hard on social networks with millions of other users who want to impress as well.

According to the developers of Generatus their product is ideal for the imaginatively challenged. Generatus is a social network status generator which turns the overly repeated and boring statuses like “Martin is working”, “Drinking Coffee” or “Jim is visiting his grandparents” into something witty and original.

Simplicity was probably the main design idea behind Generatus. Males can simply hit the Generate button while females will have to click on the female to generate female statuses (not sure if there is really that much difference to justify that, it is probably used to make use of the right grammatical person in the sentences). It is also possible to use tags to get a status that relates to the selected tags.

The program generates statuses like “Fred missed winning the lottery by only SIX numbers”, “Fred was schizophrenic once, but we’re better now!” or “Susi is pushing up daises”.

Judging from those “witty” statuses it is probably fair to assume that Generatus aims at the school – college kid fraction of the population.

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