Comments on: EventBox beta – a review

By: Rachel Murphy

Rachel Murphy — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:45:13 +0000

@Peter: EventBox usually downloads all the tweets without a problem. There’s been some sort of bug for the last day or two but they’ve released an update this afternoon. Mine is working fine again now. I’m really looking forward to the next update that add conversations.

I agree, it’s very basic for Google Reader. I read almost everything later in Instapaper though so it doesn’t matter too much to me.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:16:21 +0000

I know you’ve bought MacHeist (twitter), but did you know that EventBox is free to anyone who visits the MacHeist site?

Just visit http://www.macheist.com and scroll down for the download link.

I’ve been using EventBox for a couple of days, and I’m still undecided about it. It doesn’t seem to catch up on tweets I’ve missed when my Mac’s been asleep (Nambu manages to pick up the last 200), and today it started listing the time of new tweets as “One year ago.” I don’t find it as intuitive as Google Reader for news reading either, and the Facebook integration is pretty minimal.

But the convenience of getting everything in the same place is hard to beat, so I’ll be sticking with it for now.

Thanks for the review, I’m off the look at the keyboard shortcuts in the help!

By: Rachel Murphy

Rachel Murphy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:48:32 +0000

@Goobi: I continued using Twitterrific for a long time because I liked the HUD style and that it didn’t take up much space on my screen. But it is a ages now since there were any updates (to both the Mac and iPhone versions) and it really is lagging behind in features. I just love Tweetie – if EventBox can have the same features I’ll be really happy.

By: Goobi

Goobi — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:22:40 +0000

Great that you like EventBox. The cosmic team sure has pushed forward and bring in new features with every update. Twitterrific has stopped innovating since the time they released the app. Although Chockenberry did mention that they are working on something new, but then again, that’s for the iPhone. I think EventBox got it right the first time, and are just making things better and better.

And instapaper is a great idea! Do pass that on to the team using the feedback system. They are like a sponge when it comes to feedback.