Broadcaster

Broadcaster now has a way to let you be notified of comments that need to approved or deleted.  It works within Mozilla Firefox on the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms.  Installation of this comment notification feature takes about 10 minutes and then it auto upgrades it’s self form there.

Mac OS X

If you are running Mac OS X, you need to install Growl.  Numerous other applications use Growl and very well may have it install already.  If you don’t, head over to  growl.info and install it, it’s free and open source.

Installing the Firefox Extension

The first step in installation is to install the Firefox addon Jetpack.  It can be installed from addons.mozilla.org.  The current release is for Firefox 3.5.  If you don’t have firefox 3.5, you can upgrade at this time, or select one of the older versions of Jetpack that is for you version of firefox.

Install Jetpack from addons.mozilla.org

Now we jetpack installed, you will need to restart your firefox and the hardest part is over.

Moderate Comments

With jetpack installed, go to the broadcaster admin area and click on comments.  On the very top of your firefox window, a little bar will appear, right under your tabs.  It should look like this.

Installing a jetpack feature

Go ahead and click install in the upper right.

Scary Screen

Now you are going to get a scray looking screen.  It should tell you that you are installing a jetpack feature from an untrusted source.  See below.

Don't worry it's okay

Go ahead and click on auto update this feature and click I know what I am doing, install it.  You should get a jetpack screen saying that it’s installed.

All Done

That was not so bad, right?  Now on the bottom of your firefox window, you should see the following.

Installed Jetpack

It’s the broadcaster logo with a number in the corner.  That number is the number of comments that need to be deleted or approved.  It will update about once a minute.