Flock Developer Release - Pre-Release released (2)

Yay! I just got the invitation to download the new pre-release (0.5) of Flock.




Right now there is nothing to complain about. But I only had the chance to play around with it an hour. Now I am importing my del.icio.us bookmarks into Flock, but that seems to take a few hours.... Hm, maybe none of the developers had that much bookmarked at del.icio.us yet...
Okay, there is something to complain about then.

But enough for now. I will test the browser in the next days. I am already a bit curious if it really is what I am expecting since I heard about Flock for the first time.

Update: It seems, that Flock is not what I expected. As far as I can tell, you can only import all your bookmarks from del.icio.us into it and 'star' new URLs that can get send to your del.icio.us account, too, but I don't see any possibility to use them in the browser.
Is there any chance to search for tags, to get something out of all the imported links? I don't need a 20 page long history of everything I've send to del.icio.us in the last whole year to search for something manually. That is not what I expected.
I will stick with my own search-keywords in Firefox then: I only have to type 'dtag firefox' and will end up on my firefox tags.

I then tried to extend Flock with the greasemonkey plugin, but I had the same problems as in DeerPark: I get the plugin running but when I import any userscripts, those won't work at all. Maybe I just use the wrong userscripts then, but it's kinda frustrating.

The other features, like blogging within Flock or using Flickr haven't been tested, because Flock always crashed, when I tried to do so.

So for me the testing phase is over so far. I will stick with my good old Firefox until one of the newer browsers gets useable for me. I don't want to take a step back again. When I change the browser, I want to have all the features and possibilities I have now and maybe more.

But, don't get me wrong, I now that this is a pre-release and that it can't be stable. I am just saying, that I need a lot more comfort before I can use the browser on a daily basis. I still think that the integration of del.icio.us is a great idea, because I tried to use that in Firefox already, but that it lacks the one big thing, that makes the whole idea a useful one.

Update 2: Oh my God! I just found out, that you are able to search your bookmarks by tags. You have to enter those tags into the search filed. It makes no difference if you chose to search Google, Yahoo or Technorati. When you enter a tag you used on del.icio.us, you get a list with all those links that have that word in there title. So, that is not exactly what I have been looking for yet.

Technorati Tags: browser, del.icio.us, extension, flock, greasemonkey, mac

Flock Developer Release - Pre-Release released

Yay! I just got the invitation to download the new pre-release (0.5) of Flock.



Right now there is nothing to complain about. But I only had the chance to play around with it an hour. Now I am importing my del.icio.us bookmarks into Flock, but that seems to take a few hours.... Hm, maybe none of the developers had that much bookmarked at del.icio.us yet...
Okay, there is something to complain about then.

But enough for now. I will test the browser in the next days. I am already a bit curious if it really is what I am expecting since I heard about Flock for the first time.

Technorati Tags: browser, del.icio.us, flock, mac

Free 4GB iPod nano

Gratis is already offering up the new iPods (30GB Model) for only 5 referrals. So now you can select a 30GB Black or White, a 4GB Nano Black or White, or the iTunes Gift Card.


You only have to sign up and choose from one of those offers. There are lots of interesting ads you may choose to test for free. I just downloaded two free audiobooks and now I am free to quit again, so I don't have to pay anything.


BTW, here is my referral link: http://ipods.freepay.com/?r=23769244

Technorati Tags: apple, free, iPod

FreeBSD - new website

I have to admit, that I have not visited the official FreeBSD website that often in the last months. I update my ports tree once in a while and when I'm done I build a new world and that's it. I still use 4.10, because there has been no need on updating to 5.x or maybe even a 6.x version.
Now I noticed that the FreeBSD website has a new layout that looks a lot better than the old one.

I read that Emily Boyd, who already designed the PostgreSQL site, is responsible for those design changes.

Technorati Tags: freebsd, web

Google Reader

Everybody has written an article about it yet. What nobody seems to need, and I did not find in Google's reader yet, is an "mark feed read"-function.
And I have to say, that I don't care about tags in my RSS reader that much. So this is no feature I missed in Bloglines.

I played around with the G-Reader a few days now, and I have to say, that I really don't like it. Sorry. Not interested. I will stick with Bloglines.

Technorati Tags: bloglines, google, rss-reader, rss

NHL is back

Yesterday the first round of games of the National Hockey League took place. While the Maple Leafs lost against Ottawas Senators and Mats Sundin broke his facial bone my favorite team, the Detroit Red Wings, kicked St. Louis Blues ass (5:1).

St. Louis has to run against Detroit tonight again. Keep your fingers crossed that Detroit will win again.

Wayne Gretzky hopes to score against the Kinks. His new Team, Phoenix Coyotes, lost against the Canucks yesterday.

So, lets hope this season will be great. No I won't talk about more hockey scores here regularly.

Technorati Tags: NHL

Universal To Put Its Movies Online

I just read it at IMDB that Universal plans putting their movies online. They are looking for a way to prevent the films from being copied, but they give no idea on the charges.

"Universal expects to be able to offer movies online by the end of the year or early next year, company chairman and CEO Bob Wright said Tuesday. Speaking at a conference on piracy in London, Wright described the studio's entry into online movie services as "something we have to do." However, he cautioned, the studio's entry into the Internet sphere must be accompanied by fail-safe methods to prevent the films from being copied and redistributed. "These movies are so expensive, we have to be careful," he said."

Technorati Tags: movies, universal

Twelve Must-Have Bookmarklets

Gina Trapani wrote a nice article at Lifehacker about ten must-have bookmarklets. Even when you may not agree in every single one on that list is a must-have, but most are very useful. What I found very interesting was the Google Translate bookmarklet and would like to add the GMailThis bookmarklet, I use very often.


The GMailThis bookmarklet makes it easy to send a link to somebody by GMail. You may select some text on the website, click the bookmarklet and the text appears in the body of your email with the URL below. The Subject will contain the title of the webpage.


Another bookmarklet I use very often is a del.icio.us read_later bookmarklet, that makes it a one-click action to bookmark a page you want to read later. (You have to change the username to yours in the bookmarklet's URL.)

Technorati Tags: bookmarklet, browser, del.icio.us, gmail, web

Welcome back, Sara Gilbert

Last friday the third episode of the new sitcom "Twins" with Sara Gilbert and Molly Stanton has been aired on WB. Sara plays the role of Mitchee Arnold, manager of a lingerie company. Her father, an underwear manufacturer and retired boss of that company, married the former underwear model (played by Melanie Griffith) and this leads into mismatched twins who take over his company in the pilot.


As Robert Bianco wrote in an USA Today article the show is not very good at creating believable situations or characters, but Sara Gilbert saves the show.


Interesting fact is that Sara Gilbert again plays a young attractive woman, who has been a tomboy in her childhood. When closing one and a half eyes it seems that Darlene Conner Healy might has been adopted by Alan Arnold (Mark Linn-Baker) in the late 90s.


More interesting info about the new sitcom and/or Sara Gilbert is available here, here, here and here.


"Twins" never will become as famous as "Roseanne", but it still is a good show and while most of the cast has a bit too much comedian characters Sara is the one and only who makes that show interesting to stay at home friday night and watch it.


As a longtime Sara Gilbert fan I am glad to see that she is back on the screen again. Even if I have been too busy to update my fanpage since five years, it's a fact that we grew up together and I always will care about what Sara does. (Before anybody sends me emails to pass them Sara's address: I don't know her. What I meant by "we grew up together" was that I watched "Roseanne" from the first to the last episode when it came on TV and it felt like to grow up in the Connor family.)


I am really looking forward to see Sara in more productions again, because even though she again plays a tomboy character, she proves that she really is a great actress and it is fun watching her.

Technorati Tags: Roseanne, Sara Gilbert, sitcom, television, Twins

So, what the heck is Web 2.0 ??

I heard the term "Web 2.0" a lot in the last weeks and even though I was able to imagine what might have been meant by it, I did not know for sure. I also did not know that the concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International.

Now Tim O'Reilly wrote a big article about what is meant with the term "Web 2.0".
While the word suggests that is only referred to website development, it more has to bee seen in the whole world wide web environment.

For a more detailed explanation on what the differences are between Web 1.0 and 2.0 are, read Tim's detailed article.

Technorati Tags: o'reilly, improvement, web, web 2.0