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Safari 4

Apple have made a public beta of the latest version of their Safari web browser available for download. It is a pretty thing indeed. There are a number of bells and whistles that we have seen before (it looks and feels a lot like Chrome). There are a number of new features like the ability to save a web page as an application a la Google Gears or Fluid (edit: although I have yet to find this function). There is also a start page not unlike Chrome or Opera that takes your history and shows you which sites you are going to the most. Pretty useful, not especially innovative but it it executed really well. I’m going to keep working with it for a while where I can. Note that I say where I can. (more…)

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So today I returned to WordPress for my own site. How fickle am I? Well I figured that Drupal was not really a blogging tool and that I should use horses for courses. I still (at the moment) use Drupal for thecontrast.net. This is my first post. I’m still using Ecto to post and I am glad that I did in the past too. I was able to easily migrate all my old posts to the new site because I had lovely local copies of them.

Today is also exciting because the new iPhone should be announced today. With any luck this new 3G appliance will be available in the Netherlands.

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I guess that I can be kind of lazy sometimes. So when I come across a tool that it supposed to make life easy how can I not give it a try? I am something of a geek when it comes to gadgets so when learned that the old Firefox blogging aid Performancing had been renamed and relaunched as ScribeFire I had to give the fella a try.

So far so good, it seems to play a lot nicer than the old plugin. Formatting the page is made so much easier. Particularly if, like me, you use a CMS like Drupal that can sometimes be a little painful to use. I rejoice at having smart tags and the ability to add images and Technocrati tags and Del.Icio.us bookmarks and trackbacks and so on. That said I haven’t tried to add images just yet. As I am such a fickle beast I may change my mind rapidly.

Today, as yesterday, I have been off work with a shitty horrible cold. It seems to be clearing up now but the extra time at home has given me the opportunity to play with this thing a while.

What other developments? Well, I have been populating my usually barren site with news from around the Internet by turning feeds from other sites into posts on mine. Cheating! No! The idea is to have content on my site that I want to read as well as my stupid and sometimes inane ramblings. The idea was to get me inspired to write something again after quite a long gap. Anyway, I use the Leech module for Drupal. This is how I can get such luminaries as Neil Gaiman to write for Bigger on the Inside. It is indeed comforting to know that wonderful writers such as Mr G also write ludicrously short blog posts.

So now I have no excuse to have good content on my site…right?

Related Links
ScribeFire: Fire up your blogging » Getting Started
ScribeFire plugin for Firefox
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