'''FaceMenuFMenu''' 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 FaceMenu FMenu menu ([[:Image:facebox-ss.png|click for high res version]])]]

FaceMenu FMenu checks for updates every 7 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 35 seconds.

'''Please note:''' this application will work with most of your friends. However, if you are not getting notifications for some friends, it probably means that they have opted out of releasing their info to applications using the Facebook API. Tell your friends to go to http://www.facebook.com/privacy.php?view=everyone and make sure that the box labeled ''My information may be used according to the restricted Terms of Service'' is '''checked'''. Otherwise, FaceMenu FMenu has absolutely no way of retrieving that user's profile.

*[http://webfiles.berkeley.edu/~lensovet/FaceMenu.app.zip FaceMenuFMenu] for users who ''already have Growl installed on their system'' (.zip file, 213k)*[http://webfiles.berkeley.edu/~lensovet/FaceMenu-withGrowl.zip FaceMenu FMenu for everyone else] (.zip file, 1.3M)FaceMenu FMenu 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>FaceMenu.app/Contents/Resources/Source</tt>.

Simply download the appropriate file above, then double-click it. FaceMenuFMenu.app will appear in the same folder as the .zip file you just downloaded. Move FaceMenuFMenu.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 FaceMenu FMenu from the window that appears.

Note that currently, FaceMenu FMenu 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.

*If you put your computer to sleep for an extended period of time, FaceMenu FMenu will obviously give a large number of notifications that happened during the time that your computer was turned off the first time it updates. Make sure that the number of "sticky" notifications is not very high, because otherwise you will spend a lot of time dismissing all of them.