DeliciousSafari

Bookmarks, an iPhone app that lets you access you Delicious bookmarks, is now available on the iTunes App Store. Please try it out and send me your feedback.

Thank you to the beta testers who helped me work out some of the issues holding up this release.

Bookmarks has not been released yet due to some problems that I need to resolve. In order to help speed up this process, I’m requesting beta testers. If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch and would like to beta test Bookmarks 1.0, please let me know. Please include your devices Identifier in your message. You can get the device Identifier by following these instructions:

1. Connect your device to your computer
2. Open iTunes
3. Click on your  device in iTunes
4. Open the Summary tab
5. Click on the Serial Number text and it will change to Identifier
6. Copy the text of the identifier (even though it doesn’t look like you can copy it, you can - just go to the Edit menu and select copy)
7. Paste the identifier in the message you send to me.

Bookmarks, an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that lets you access your del.icio.us bookmarks, was submitted to the iTunes App store today. It is a free download and will hopefully be approved soon. Keep an eye out for it in the coming weeks and send me your feedback.

If you’d like to help beta test the next release of DeliciousSafari (version 1.7) please contact me so I can add you to the list. A lot of the code has been reworked since 1.6 as the result of your feedback and I need testers to help ensure this release fixes many of the problems in 1.6 without introducing new ones. I want to begin beta testing 1.7 by June 8.

You’ll also get to preview some of the new features added in 1.7, such as favicon support, faster Safari startup, fast bookmark posting, and a toolbar button for posting to del.icio.us.

Several people have let me know that the DeliciousSafari menu doesn’t show up in Safari after installation. If you are experiencing this problem, please sign up for beta testing. This is an issue I’m trying to resolve in 1.7.

Again, if you’re interested in helping please contact me.

DeliciousSafari now has some documentation.

Version 1.6 of DeliciousSafari is available. It includes tag suggestions, a Safari to del.icio.us importer, and an enhanced favorite tags menu.

Changes

• Tag suggestions when adding bookmarks
• Safari to del.icio.us bookmark importer
• Combine tags to narrow results in favorite tags menu
• Changed keyboard shortcut to Control+D
• Fixed bug that prevented some URLs from being saved

Notes

You can change the keyboard shortcut for adding bookmarks (i.e. Control+D) via System Preferences. To do so:

1. Open up System Preferences
2. Select Keyboard & Mouse
3. Select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab
4. Press the + button
5. Select Safari as the Application
6. Enter Add del.icio.us Bookmark… as the Menu Title.
7. Enter the keyboard shortcut of your choice. NOTE: some key combinations may conflict with other key combinations in the system, so you may need to experiment to find one you can use.

If for some reason you want to revert to 1.5 after installing 1.6 then you must use the Uninstall DeliciousSafari tool before trying to install 1.5. Otherwise the bookmarks will be stored in a format that only 1.6 can understand.

Version 1.5 of DeliciousSafari is available. When saving a bookmark that you have already saved, DeliciousSafari now populates the fields with your exising values. This provides basic bookmark editing. Simply click on the bookmark and then re-add it. When you do, it will be filled with the values of your last post.

Changes

• Displays current bookmark values when posting a bookmark you already have
• Added WebKit compatibility

Notes

• Due to a limitation with the del.icio.us API, the value of the do not share field is not remembered when re-posting a bookmark.
• If you are upgrading, you should log out of DeliciousSafari and then log back in again to refresh all bookmarks after you have installed 1.5. You only need to do this once. This will ensure the notes field is displayed when editing a bookmark.

DeliciousSafari is taking part in this year’s MacSanta promotion. That means today you can get 20% off of DeliciousSafari by entering in MACSANTA07 for the coupon code. If you miss today’s discount, you can still get 10% off for the rest of December by entering in MACSANTA07TEN.

Merry Christmas!

Version 1.4 of DeliciousSafari is now available. This version fixes a major problem introduced in Version 1.3 that caused tags to not be saved when running on Tiger.

I apologize to everyone who lost data as a result of Version 1.3. It was completely my fault and I could have easily caught the problem with proper testing. I will try not to repeat this mistake.

Again, you only need this update if you are running Tiger. If you are running Leopard, everything should be working fine.

Changes

• Tags are now correctly set on del.icio.us when running on Tiger.
• The notes field now correctly wraps text.

Version 1.3 of DeliciousSafari is now available. Tag completion, the most requested feature, is in there. Also, a major performance bug when dealing with large sets of bookmarks is fixed.

Changes

• Tag completion when saving bookmarks (this is the most requested feature following the initial release).
• Big performance gain creating the del.icio.us menu. This was causing Safari to load slowly and a spinning beach ball when posting new bookmarks. Everything should be lightning fast now. On my machine, the menu creation routine went from a 2.3 second operation to a 0.02 second operation. I repeat - DeliciousSafari should have NO noticeable impact on Safari performance.
• Bookmarks are now sorted by name within each tag.
• Expanded compatibility for auto generated bookmark titles that contain HTML character entities. This means math symbols, greek letters, and other characters will show up as expected, rather than as some weird HTML code like ù.