Mac Gems: Moment puts Facebook in your menubar

There are oodles of apps for keeping tabs on Twitter from your Mac, but few options for monitoring Facebook. Moment ; Mac App Store link), a $4 app from Tapmates, is here to help.

Moment lives in your menubar. It lights up—and sounds an alert—whenever you receive a new Facebook notification. Click the menu icon, and you see your notifications, old and new alike. (Older ones are dimmed to make it easier to spot the new ones.) It’s the same list you could expect to see if you viewed your notifications list on the Facebook website.

Click a notification, and the Moment menu vanishes, opening the appropriate Facebook page in your Web browser of choice. It’s a shame Moment doesn’t simply display the page directly within the app, though such a feature is clearly beyond the scope of what Moment had in mind. Leaving its cozy confines for the wilds of Facebook proper, however, is always a disappointment.

Where Moment really shines, however, is in facilitating posting to Facebook. To post a photo to your timeline in a flash, just drag the photo onto Moment’s menubar icon, optionally add a text status to go with it, and click the Post button. Alternatively, you can just click the menu icon, type your status update, and (optionally) drag in an image. Want to post a video, or a link to a webpage? You can drag those, too—Moment knows precisely how to handle them.

A nice touch is that you can add friends to a post or photo by simply typing their name(s) in the Who Were You With? area. Moment automatically finishes the name(s) based on your friends list on Facebook.

Moment is tidy, elegant, and makes quick work of updating your Facebook status and keeping tabs on your notifications. If those features appeal to you, the app’s sure to please.

Zachary Quinto Hopes Supreme Court's Same-Sex Marriage Rulings are 'a Galvanizing Moment'

Ahead of the Supreme Court's planned rulings on two same-sex marriage cases, Star Trek's Zachary Quinto is cautiously optimistic.

"We'll see what happens," Quinto tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I'm certainly not going to hazard against it to say what happens, but I hope it's a galvanizing moment, and I'm hopeful that [same-sex marriage] will be supported and we'll continue to move forward."

Quinto added that he believes a change is coming, regardless of Wednesday's Supreme Court decisions.

"I think no matter what happens, it's an unstoppable wave at this point, and I've said that before because I really believe it," he said.

"[Acceptance] might take longer, and it might not happen tomorrow, but it will happen. Whether that means individually, state by state, or by a sweeping decision, that remains to be seen, but I'll still do everything I can to fight for and support it and advocate it, and that's all I can do."

Quinto came out as a gay man ahead of the release of his financial drama Margin Call.

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He revealed his sexual orientation after completing an eight-month run in Angels in America and after already speaking out on gay-rights issues.

"As a gay man, [that role] made me feel like there’s still so much work to be done, and there’s still so many things that need to be looked at and addressed," Quinto said in New York magazine.

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He later said that violence against gay teenagers compelled him to be honest about his own sexual orientation.

"It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality," Quinto wrote in a blog post on his website. "Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country. Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying. … We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society, and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action."