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Facebox FaceMenu checks for updates every 9 seconds, but checks for each kind of notification (friend details & requests, wall, photo comments, messages, pokes) separately. Consequently each particular type of notification is refreshed once every 45 seconds.
facebox->facemenu in some places
'''FaceboxFaceMenu''' a program for [[w:Mac OS X|Mac OS X]] and [[w:Facebook|Facebook]]. It sits in your menu bar near your clock and provides you with notifications about various events. In addition, it provides a menu to easily access common Facebook pages and keeps a count of your messages, pokes, events, friend requests, wall posts, and photo comments. Notifications are issued using [[w:Growl|Growl]] and can be customized to the user's liking. They are:[[Image:facebox-ss.png|thumb|400px|Screenshot of the Facebox FaceMenu menu ([[:Image:facebox-ss.png|click for high res version]])]]
*A friend updated his profile
*A friend changed his status
*You have new friend requests
*You have new photo comments
==Download==
The latest version is 1.1. It is a [[w:Universal Binary|Universal Binary]] and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or better.
*[http://webfiles.berkeley.edu/~lensovet/Facebox.app.zip FaceboxFaceMenu] for users who ''already have Growl installed on their system'' (.zip file, 213k)*[http://webfiles.berkeley.edu/~lensovet/Facebox-withGrowl.zip Facebox FaceMenu for everyone else] (.zip file, 1.3M)Facebox FaceMenu is released under the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GNU General Public License]. Source code can be found inside the application package by going to <tt>Facebox.app/Contents/Resources/Source</tt>.
==Installation==
Simply download the appropriate file above, then double-click it. Facebox.app will appear in the same folder as the .zip file you just downloaded. Move Facebox.app to your Applications and double-click it to open. You might also want to add it to your startup items by going to System Preferences→Accounts, selecting your account on the left, then clicking on the '''Login items''' tab. Click the '''+''' button and choose Facebox FaceMenu from the window that appears.
Note that currently, Facebox FaceMenu requires a login every time it is opened. This is a limitation imposed by Facebook's API and is completely beyond [[user:lensovet|my]] control. If you're not happy with that, [mailto:developers-help@facebook.com please contact them] and ask them to change this.
==Acknowledgments==
This application completely relies on [http://pointlesscrap.net/mkabefook/ MKAbeFook framework] written by Mike Kinney to communicate with the [http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php Facebook API]. In addition, the first version of the app was written by Logan Rockmore of [http://www.burgundylogan.com Logan Design].