You must have all heard about EventBox, the awesome new social network manager for the Mac. We’ve been working closely with The Cosmic Machine, and the new beta has just upped the twitter client to make it undoubtedly the best twitter client for the Mac. Here’s a few things you can expect to see in the latest beta, which will probably land on Monday morning.
The new version brings with it Favorites, so you can quicky add and remove favorites, or see all of them in a list. EventBox now features searches, very helpful for professional twittering (like for instance, I like to see when someone mentions “Smoking Apples or @smokingapples” in a tweet). They’ve also added shortcuts to looking up a particular user, or pull down all tweets of any user. These are all stacked in your sidebar, which you can delete, rename or just let them be.
The update also features a bunch of other UI enhancements like shorturl expansion, avatars in growl notifications, and a bunch of other fixes and enhancements I personally can’t remember. Most of this has come from the community in the form of feature requests and twitter polls, which I think is an awesome way to develop applications. If you haven’t checked out EventBox, I’d highly suggest you do. A free trial avaits, after which EventBox costs $15, and will be $20 when it gets out of beta. Any EventBox fans out there? Let us know!
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I’ve become a huge fan of EventBox. I find myself using Twitter/Facebook more and more because of it, and the Flickr integration is pretty nifty too. I look forward to more great things from The Cosmic Machine.
i tried out eventbox about a few weeks ago and was quite impressed. i think they have had a couple of updates since… the thing is, i’m a *heavy* NETNEWSWIRE user. i have LOTS of feeds. i just don’t know if eventbox can handle that kind of usage. i will give it another go on this new update, but i haven’t swtitched over completely yet.
Thanks for the info on the beta version. I tried EventBox and I wasn’t sure if I preferred using it over using a web browser, particularly Flock, but the next version sounds like it’s definitely worth another look.
Claire
I’ve been using EventBox on and off for a week. It has replaced Twitterrific as my main client now but I don’t use the other services. I’m not a FaceBook guy and the feeds don’t stand up to quality of application NewsFire is.
Still, I’m a fan and will continue to check out the nightly builds.