mid october round-up
A round up of recent snippets that has caught my eye:
Firefox related developments continue, but Firefox spin off is gearing up for a fully fledged stand-alone release. Flock is a Mozilla based browser that is loosely based on the Firefox browser. Key features include full integration with del.icio.us and Flickr as well as quick links within the browser to publish blog content. This is being dubbed as a ‘social browser’ - the idea being that sharing of resources such as photos, bookmarks and others should be made easier by being made a part of the browser; the developers assure us that further similar services will be made available for full integration. Flock is being released as a developer's pre-release state - this may be some time off. One to watch for the future (or download now if you're feeling brave!)
One feature of Safari that has always been lacking – is the lack of ability to customise the quick search window. Although this is something that may have been overlapped if you get to use the quick search tool within Quicksilver – it led to a search of search enhancements that can be plugged into Safari. The Inquisitor tool is a (mainly) Safari plug-in that achieves this – by allowing the assignation of quick searching shortcuts and additionally applying a Spotlight type indexed search as you type your queries. Use of this plugin doesn’t seem to affect the app running or speed and suggested matched searches seem to be sensibly accurate.
Firefox related developments continue, but Firefox spin off is gearing up for a fully fledged stand-alone release. Flock is a Mozilla based browser that is loosely based on the Firefox browser. Key features include full integration with del.icio.us and Flickr as well as quick links within the browser to publish blog content. This is being dubbed as a ‘social browser’ - the idea being that sharing of resources such as photos, bookmarks and others should be made easier by being made a part of the browser; the developers assure us that further similar services will be made available for full integration. Flock is being released as a developer's pre-release state - this may be some time off. One to watch for the future (or download now if you're feeling brave!)
One feature of Safari that has always been lacking – is the lack of ability to customise the quick search window. Although this is something that may have been overlapped if you get to use the quick search tool within Quicksilver – it led to a search of search enhancements that can be plugged into Safari. The Inquisitor tool is a (mainly) Safari plug-in that achieves this – by allowing the assignation of quick searching shortcuts and additionally applying a Spotlight type indexed search as you type your queries. Use of this plugin doesn’t seem to affect the app running or speed and suggested matched searches seem to be sensibly accurate.
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on Monday, October 24, 2005 at 3:22 pm.
