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This is improved version of the Facebook Notifications gadget created by Frank Liauw. His work was based on the original Facebook gadget by Turhan Aydin. The gadget is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, but some specific functions are from Google examples (under Apache License).
Improved features of the gadget:
- Menu option to allow "offline" use of Facebook, to avoid need for repeated logins.
- Animated status feed of your friends, based on FQL queries, to avoid need to enter friend feed address manually.
- Image of your friend shown next to his or her status
- Clicking on either the image or the status entry of your friend, will launch browser to the person's page in facebook.
- Settings dialog to configure various options.
- Localised for English and Finnish.
The Gadget will, after (automatic) login, try to fetch friend feed information. Note that if you set parameter for how often feed is fetched to too small value, you might not see all entries in the list before new list is fetched and the showing of the entries is restarted from the most recent entry.
I ended up doing this enhanced version after having used somewhat similar widget in the Microsoft Vista sidebar. However, having fed up that my commercial software did not work with 64-bit Vista Ultimate, I upgraded to 32-bit Windows XP. I missed the sidebar in the XP, so moved on to using the Google desktop which provides all the gadgets I need, now.
Let me know what you think of it, and please let me know if you would like to add to this package localization to your favaourite language.
Testing Status:
- Only tested on Windows XP.
Click here to download Latest version. The latest version is 1.0.0.5 (more or less corrected window resizing, and added tooltip for the status feed to show full status in the tooltip in case the status does not fit into the area available).
In case you don't know how Google Desktop works, you may want to familiarise with the getting started guide.
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