#FF00AA

I know I’m late to the party for Facebook addicts (the thing is, I didn’t think there’d be any French people on there), but here goes nothing: if you want to know everything that’s happening to your account, download FMenu for OS X. Simple, light-weight, displays a notifier in the menubar that’s configurable in every way (except for the keyboard shortcuts, which don’t seem to work at all). Much more convenient than having to go to my Gmail inbox to delete the overload of notifications.

Particularly interesting when you consider that Facebook is the second best web chat I know after GayAttitude (that’s the one I developed myself), and its only drawback is that it doesn’t notify you of new messages unless you reload the page (or receive spammy — or bacny, rather — notifications in your mailbox).

How often is too often? The default interval is 6 seconds — maybe that is what I should be using to keep my MacBook’s connection alive.

P.S. There are 23 checkboxes on the notifications page, and no “deselect all” option. Heh.