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For some of my feeds, the image is not showing.
Anyone has the same problem?

And I thought the trouble was just with Growl notifications. :-(

When running Eventbox, I have dealt with numerous application and system freezes.  Pretty awful user experience, yet I can see the possible usefulness of the app. 

Ideally, Eventbox would be fully functional (no demo) and the upgrade "might" entail a small fee for MacHeisters.  And all subsequent upgrades are free.

Thoughts?

Does the full version open a link within the Eventbox window, itself?

I spent weeks talking up MacHeist to friends who weren't into it.  Finally, one checked out the bundle and downloaded Eventbox. 

They installed Eventbox and you guessed it, their Eventbox experience was screwy and lackluster.  First and last experience with it all for them. 

Totally sucks, because Eventbox was the perfect app to introduce new people to MacHeist.

i was thinking to get it... so i don't have to keep that many browser tabs top check all then social services... sure this is a good possibility to test the program extensively

again... THANKS directorate!!

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Good, we got one.

I was looking for something for Twitter and RSS feeds. Works perfectly for me, so far.

Thank you very much for introducing such great apps.

Greetings again to all agents!

Growl doesn't work for me too...
And when I want to allow EventBox to access my Flickr-Account, there is a crash...
Very sad...

Nevertheless: Facebook, GoogleReader and Twitter in one app => EPIC!!!

Unimpressed. Totally.

I was quite excited to see this app when it was released but never got round to downloading it. I only use Twitter and for some reason, user pictures don't visualise properly in EventBox. Some are correct size, others are way too big - can't read the tweet that is now forced into the picture. Might have something to do with the resolution of picture people are using for their accounts (I'm looking at you, Warbrain), but then again it might not.

*time delay* so now I tried resizing windows and that seemed to help with the text issue (still looking at you, Warbrain) but another resize and the whole thing has frozen to all f*ck. Messy and lacking polish. Guess what happens next...

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Oh, and considering I'm not really one to complain, let's get one thing straight: if it's a beta, say so. If it's not, where are registration details?

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'I heard Tom Wolfe is speaking at Lincoln Center.
Well, of course we're going to throw poo at him.'

It's a great program in theory, but there are a bunch of issues that hold it down.

1 - It's a beta. That's not cool, whoever's responsible, and it's kind of annoying to get a beta and not know it until I read the forums.
2 - The Facebook only updates statuses (the photos do not update for me).
3 - Occasionally, Facebook/Twitter updates revert to unread and I have to mark them as read.
4 - The "scroll past to mark as read" function is AWFUL. It marks things read in folders I'm not reading, it spazzes, and it's useless.
5 - It doesn't sync properly with Google Reader. EventBox says I have ~300 stories to read, Google Reader itself says I have almost 1000.
6 - During the checking for updates process, the app freezes up. Any stories read within that period are marked unread.

I'd say that it would be a great program if these bugs were fixed, but with a locked beta, they won't ever get fixed. I hate to whine (given the other fantastic programs in the bundle) but seriously guys. At least put this in Loot if it's a locked beta.

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didn't like it either, always got a message with an error about refreshing twitter.
i use nambu now. it's beta too, but free. and i can trim my links in the program itself, via tr.im.

so if anyone wants to try it:

http://www.nambu.com/

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I haven't experienced any of the problems described here, and I've been using EventBox for a while (I paid actual proper money for it and everything) including the bleeding edge builds, which I expect to have problems with.

Twitter mentioned a problem with image sizes yesterday, so this could explain your issue, ozhab.

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Mine just sits in the dock with no visible window... Is this a spaces related issue?

It's not easy being green.

Same for me.

Already uninstalled.  It continually freezes and the FLICKR part never worked.  It just kept me asking to repeat the authorization pocess over and over again
despite "succeeding every time"

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Same here. Freeze too. Too bad that app would have been very useful to me.

This is a great idea, but only a good app at the moment. Give it a few 1.x's and it will be very good. I think that this app will be amazing and almost a Mac community standard by the time 2.0 is released.

I will definitely buy this app when a new version with a new service is released so that I can stay up-to-date with this app's progress as I think it has so much potential.

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I got it before MH, and it's been working great for two weeks or so. I use Twitter, FB, Google Reader, and Twitter. There is an issue with a limit on the number of items per feed in Reader, which is a bit annoying. But other than that, I find it works quite well. And I prefer it to all those other sucky Twitter clients.

Hmm, I was looking for a standalone Twitter client and got excited when I saw this, but given the abundance of issues and bugs people seem to be having with this app, I think I'll hold off of installing this. Shame.

- Brian

Its an app with a lot of potential, but wholly under delivers. Filled with bugs, its not an app you want to highlight on the macheist bundle page...

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” - Oscar Wilde

As far as the twitter part is concerned Nambu and Lounge are both far better than EventBox, although they are far from finished/polished/perfect.

I've had no problems with my copy of EventBox. It ideally suits my needs at home where I actually have time to read news feeds. At work I still use TweetDeck.

What I found best about EventBox, was not even considering an app that would do what it does. Therefore it was a bit of a bonus to actually try it out and find it fulfilled a need I didn't even know I had yet. I've got four monitors, so plenty of space to monitor stuff. Eventually I probably would have wanted one window for everything

Thanks for your referral clicks whoever you were.

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To update both you can always like your Facebook account to your Twitter account. That's how I have it set up. When I update Twitter it updates my Facebook status.

TweetDeck has far more power. I'd love to see Eventbox steal some of its features so it can be Cocoa native.

I like Nambu too, far better then Eventbox and Tweetdeck that is the main apps that I tried out. Some minor apps too but not good enough to even be mentioned.

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I my search for a more capable and stable app than what EventBox seems to provide, I came across Syrinx. It's free to use, and the author accepts donations. I like the interface, as it has a native feel and even has a few nice features, like bookmarking pausing. You can find it here: http://mrrsoftware.com/MRRSoftware/Syrinx.html

- Brian

I moved from Syrinx to Nambu a few weeks ago, and having looked at Syrinx 2 won't be going back any time soon. I'd pay for Nambu (not necessary) in preference to a free Syrinx or Eventbox.

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Doesn't support any of the services that I use (xing etc.). Also, it's pretty much crap for any of the services that I don't use, but tried so I could form an opinion on EventBox (facebook...) But who am I to complain, it was free and I don't have to use it.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. (Elbert Hubbard)

I was really looking forward to this app. After about 2 days, EventBox didn't update Twitter anymore. Now: No support for me, no updates.

Well, guys of the Cosmic Machine – this is not the way to get the kind of buzz that you would have hoped.

Twitter doesn't seem to work anymore for EventBox.

it keeps saying

"Twitter has hit the rate limit
EventBox is limited in how often it can ask for twitters,
this limit has been accidentally exceeded."

i've tried reinstalling it and it hasn't worked for a couple days now

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This is a Twitter thing, not an EB thing. Twitter only allows you to refresh a limited number of times per hour (probably to avoid strain on their servers). If you are refreshing too often or too much you are reaching your limit and thus pissing Twitter off. If you right click on Twitter in the main window you can see an option for your refreshes left in the current hour.

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Well I think the problem is with EB 'cause I still have 65 requests and my twitter is not updating for the past 6 hours... reinstalled and no change...

Sadly, too late. When I have a wealth of Twitter clients to choose from and now have Little Snapper with Flickr export built in, an app has to work the way I want it first time for it to be of any value to me.

My understanding was that EventBox was out of beta but after having visited their site, I see this is not the case. One of my issues still lies below...

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To me, and someone please correct me if I'm wrong, implies I will receive a license of some description just by downloading the application.

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'I heard Tom Wolfe is speaking at Lincoln Center.
Well, of course we're going to throw poo at him.'

Eventbox just update and we can can no more use it freely !
I have a nag screen for registration with trial expiration in 11 days...

i just twitted them and got back that MacHeist user will get the update free, but havent found out how yet...

"our right to survive, that's not a given, that's a choice."

okay an update they will be sending macheist an update of eventbox that fixes the problem with twitter. The directorate should be able to post somewhere on the site...so we will have to wait until someone wakes up and posts it.

"our right to survive, that's not a given, that's a choice."

*Update* Out of curiosity I downloaded EventBox from the front page again and got a completely different version. It is a MacHeist-specific build (says so on the .zip) with not a registration window to be seen. Guess I have to retract my original gripe about beta builds (no deleting though - they can remain for posterity).

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'I heard Tom Wolfe is speaking at Lincoln Center.
Well, of course we're going to throw poo at him.'

Is the update downloadable yet ?

Hey guys, until the directorate gets the new link up, you can download the new MH version here: http://milen.tumblr.com/post/92206471/e … -aftermath

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I already owned EventBox before the MacHeist promo edition and they just pushed out "Conversations" and RT ability for Twitter to the bleeding edge group. It's quite the nice feature for those thinking about upgrading.

i got my bundle referrals. thanks.

Also, for those that do not know, there is a promo code for EventBox that appears to still work. It gets you $3 off and drops the price to $12 US. It's "IUSETHIS08" (all caps).

i got my bundle referrals. thanks.

thanks, ck2875. EventBox is proving pretty useful so far. Enough for me to check out what the full-fledged version is (will be) like

There you go, lad, keep as cool as you can

A quick question regarding Facebook... I like the idea of being able to follow the stuff that is going on with my friends. But I have not found a way to comment on friends messages or something similar.

How is this done and if not possible - why use Eventbox for Facebook in the first place?

I have not added my Twitter account yet, but I am curious if this works different as well?

I am not an agent in real life, only on weekends!

It still doesn't update Twitter for me...

From what I understand it is a limitation with the Facebook API, which does not allow apps like EventBox access to have that capability at this time.

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Nice app, can't wait for more networks to be added but it's a very solid.

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This link is directorate approved, so grab your update from there if you need it asap. We should have the new update swapped in on our side in a couple hors.

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Thanks phillryu
makes it easier to use it for promotion "Just take a look and get an app!

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Update from MacHeist, not from within EventBox. The update that gets pushed is not the MacHeist Edition. FYI.

I updated it and it asks me to enter serial....what is it ?

Check the first post in this thread for an updated download link to the latest version. (The MacHeist freebie build is a custom unlocked build, and not longterm licensing.)

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Well, it kinda sucks to call this Part of the package. The Heist is not even over and it doesn't work anymore. It's okay to not give us updates, but if there is an updatemanager build in I think I can update without having the shareware version installed afterwards. Even the demo runs for a longer period of time...

For those of you curious about what is next or coming for EventBox, check out this Development Roadmap.

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