DeliciousSafari

It’s been a long time coming, but I finally released version 1.1 of Bookmarks on the iTunes App Store. Some new features are:

• The ability to save bookmarks from Safari
• A favorites tag list
• A recently saved list
• The ability to delete bookmarks
• An activity indicator so you know when bookmarks are being synced with Delicious

Special thanks to Infinite Nexus for some help getting 1.1 out the door.

Version 1.7 of DeliciousSafari is available. Many bug fixes, performance enhancements, and new features are included in this release. Special thanks to the 60 beta testers who tracked down and reported bugs to make this a solid release.

Changes

• URL icons (favicon) are displayed next to bookmarks
• Added a toolbar button for saving bookmarks
• Added spell checking to the Name and Notes fields
• Fixed tag suggestions on Tiger that stopped working with Delicious.com 2.0
• Increased maximum length of Notes field to 1000 to take advantage of new maximum allowed by Delicious.com 2.0
• Bookmark saving is faster (now processed in the background so you don’t have to wait for the save to complete)
• Safari startup is faster (tag menu is now generated on the fly, rather than when Safari starts)
• Improved reliability of Import Bookmarks from Safari
• Fixed several issues that prevented DeliciousSafari from loading on some computers
• No longer a SIMBL plug-in
• Added Invalid Credential notification when your Delicious password has changed and needs to be updated in DeliciousSafari
• Checks for Delicious updates every 15 minutes in case you add Delicious bookmarks through something other than DeliciousSafari
• Logout really works now (it used to leave your username and password in the keychain)
• Menu item text is now truncated in the middle if the text is longer than 60 characters
• DeliciousSafari now opens a Safari window if there isn’t one, rather than doing nothing

As SIMBL is no longer needed you can delete it from /Library/InputManagers/SIMBL, but only do so if you know you have no other SIMBL plug-ins, otherwise those plug-ins will stop working.

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, 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.

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.

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.

Version 1.2 of DeliciousSafari was released November 26, 2007. After about two months of living on, I decided it was ready for the real world.This release has the following new features:

• A list of all your del.icio.us tags.
• Select your favorite del.icio.us tags for quick and easy access
• Auto-populates URL and web-site title for new posts.
• Recently bookmarked items
  
• Search popular del.icio.us tags related to your tags
• Links to the del.icio.us website

CORRECTION: I had previously posted this release as 1.3. I’ve since corrected it. This release was 1.2.