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fbQuick Build 3

Written by Ben on September 26, 2006 | No Comments

We just put up Build 3 of fbQuick– the best Facebook Notifier application– on our website.

It has a new feature that gives you the ability to startup in offline-mode; and to go into offline-mode when we detect two consecutive failures in connecting to Facebook’s web interface. fbQuick will stay in offline-mode until you decide to connect (double-click the tray icon, or right-click menu option) back to Facebook, all very straight forward and simple.

This release also fixes:

  • Bug in comparing old wall counts with new wall counts.
  • Better error messages.
  • Misc internal code cleanup.

New release at fbQuick.com.


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Badly Mirrored fbQuick, Fixed!

Written by Ben on September 25, 2006 | No Comments

Arg! You would think Google would do uploads correctly, but it turns out that we would sometimes get a bad download from the Google Page Creator hosted file. And that’s what happened with the exe downloads from this weekend!

So people that downloaded fbQuick from sometime last weekend until this morning had an installer that would fail. I fixed all that now, so please redownload if it was you. Sorry about that. :( Correct MD5 for the current version i 233fa9acd3aa3c6adbe51e0ea30b2e5d.

(If you want to verify the md5 sum, then try one of these windows utilities:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/ (Command line)
http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/md5sums/ (Command line)
http://www.md5summer.org/ (Windows GUI)

Thank you to the person that reported this issue. :)

I think the logs say that there were 100 downloads this weekend, and I completely appologize to every one that was affected.

-Ben


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Keep Updated with Facebook using fbQuick

Written by Ben on September 17, 2006 | No Comments

Moe came up with the fbQuick idea while I was still in Europe, a Facebook Notifier…

“A what?”, I asked.

“Like the GMail notifier, but for Facebook.”

“I’m still not following.”

“You know Facebook? It’s like MySpace, but for colleges… It’s gonna be a little application that sits in your desktop’s system tray– like AIM, or Skype– and regularly checks Facebook for new messages, wall posts, comments, and stuff! When you get a new message, a little alert is displayed in the bottom corner of your screen.”

“And stuff? You sound excited.”

“Dude, it’s gonna be tight!”

“Ok, let’s do it.”

Sure enough Moe came over the morning after I returned from Europe. A few weeks worth of work with Corey, and we now have its public launch at:

http://www.fbQuick.com/


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