Here’s what I want: A program which will keep track of both my twitter feed and my facebook feed, with pop-up notifications to let me know when one of my friends posts something new. And that pop-up should have useful information, along the lines of “Kip just tweeted: Blah blah blah blabbity blah blah…”<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be such a program out there. At least, not one I’ve found.<\/p>\n
Twhirl<\/a>: Perfect, except it doesn’t cover Feedbook. But since my sister, aunt, brother-in-law, high school buddy, and several others I know use Feedbook and not Twitter, I really want Feedbook included.<\/p>\n bDule<\/a>: The pop-ups notifications are worthless. It says “1 New Message For Barry Deutsch,” but doesn’t tell me who the message is from, let alone what the message contains. I don’t want to have to stop drawing in Photoshop and open up a different program to see what the message is. If I was willing to do that, I could just use my browser and visit twitter and facebook directly. The whole point, for me, is to keep track of what my friends are up to without<\/em> interrupting my work.<\/p>\n Tweetdeck <\/a>has the same problem as bDule. Which is a shame, because if they only had good pop-up info, they’d be the best two programs I’ve tried.<\/p>\n Add Seesmic <\/a>to the list of good programs with useless notifications. (Apparently having a notification that says something useful is more difficult to do than I’d imagined.)<\/p>\n AlertThingy <\/a>has the best name, and comes the closest to being what I want. But it’s programming feels a bit clunkly compared to others; for example, there’s no obvious way to get it to show me tweets directed to me from people I’m not watching. The biggest problem is the flickering. AlertThingy’s pop-ups flicker, and — worse — when AlertThingy is running, Photoshop’s<\/em> menus and “crawling ants” flicker. If I kept this program, I’d eventually be forced to gouge out my eyes in self-defense.<\/p>\n Guess I’ll try Digsby <\/a>next, although it does a lot more than I’m looking for, which means it might be a memory hog. Feedalizr <\/a>is another possibility, as is Peoplebrowsr<\/a>. And Skimmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n If anyone has a suggested program for me, please post it in the comments.<\/p>\n UPDATE: Tried Feedalizr<\/a>. Although it claims to be connected to the Facebook account, I don’t see any Facebook updates. Nor does there seem to be any way to see replies sent to me by people I don’t follow. So I guess I’ll try another program.<\/p>\n UPDATE THE SECOND<\/strong>: We have a winner! Digsby <\/a>turns out to have pretty much everything I want. And because it doesn’t use Adobe Air (or whatever that’s called), it uses less memory than almost all the other programs do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s what I want: A program which will keep track of both my twitter feed and my facebook feed, with pop-up notifications to let me know when one of my friends posts something new. And that pop-up should have useful … Continue reading