I’ve been using Mozilla Camino for a long time, mostly due to my heavy keyword usage. I don’t even have any bookmarks in the classic sense, only tags on del.icio.us (keyword t TAGS…) and frequently used sites as short keywords. (i.e. http://www.facebook.com/home.php becomes fb)

Until recently, Safari and keywords has not computed. Sure, there are stuff like Saft, but it breaks often and I really do rely on my keywords. Today I got a tip from my friend Dan about Keywurl, a tool which gives the Safari keywords, and do not break (what I’ve heard) on minor updates or patches. It uses SIMBL and is pretty easy to install.

1. Grab a fresh version of SIMBL[1]
2. Now, head over to Keywurls homepage and click the big “Download and install” button
3. Restart Safari if it’s running and go into Safari Preferences. You will have a new preference pane at the rightmost side of the toolbar. That’s where you manage keywords.

Tagging to Del.icio.us

I thought it might be appropriate to introduce a small tool me and Mattias has been using for a while to tag bookmarks.

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Just tag something

Saving this as a keyword, let’s say t, will allow you to tag the web site your visiting by simply typing t tag1 tag2 … in the address field.
javascript:void(delicious=open(’http://utils.hunch.se/post-to-del.icio.us/?description=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+’&tags=@@@’+'&url=’+window.location.href,’delicious’,'toolbar=no,width=200,height=250,top=0,left=0′),window.focus())

Tag with description

This works like the snippet above, except from before being sent, it will put up a input box and ask you for a description.
javascript:void(delicious=open(’http://utils.hunch.se/post-to-del.icio.us/?description=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+’&extended=’+encodeURIComponent(prompt(’Description’,”))+’&tags=@@@&url=’+window.location.href,’delicious’,'toolbar=no,width=200,height=250,top=0,left=0′),window.focus());

Searching your bookmarks

javascript:void(document.location.href=”http://del.icio.us/USERNAME/”+”@@@”.replace(/%20/g,”+”));

You might wonder “Hey, you guys probably save my password, no way.” So here’s the source, so you can see for yourself that we do not log any information using the script and we promise we do not log user nor password using any other means (i.e. httpd access log, curl log, etc)
http://utils.hunch.se/post-to-del.icio.us/?view_source

All The Time in The World is a visualisation of world time at Heathrow airport, created by Troika Design and Artwise Curators.

Yesterday Google premiered IMAP connectivity for their mail platform Google Mail. It turned out pretty good but far from perfect.

Pros

• Synchronizing protocol gives me the same state on all my devices. (workstation, cellphone, web interface, laptop, etc)
• Centralized means backup means reliable and time-saving. (and I feel a bit safer. Once in a while computers crash and burn)
• Labels are treated as folders, the IMAP way. Hierarchy is achieved through / (slash) separator.
• Starring or un-starring a message is as simple as setting or unsetting the “important” flag. Very clever.

Cons

• Very slow connection. This is a real pain in the ass. My private IMAP account and server interfaces in speeds of about 1-50 MB/s while the Gmail IMAP-connections has a burst rate of about 150 KB/s
• Seems like Google caches folder/label indexes and only refreshes this cache when a new IMAP connection is made. IMAP clients does not disconnect very often which has a side-effect – labels created or modified in Gmail does not update in the client. The trick is to reconnect (restart Apple Mail) to do a refresh.
• The IMAP interface is under testing and Gmail is still in beta mode, so there is no insurance whatsoever for Google not to pull the plug on IMAP. I may have to go back to POPing into my own IMAP again, which really is bit of a hack.

Further reading

Google Mail Help Center: How do I enable IMAP?
Wired: Google Adds IMAP Support To GMail