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Delicious, Quicksilver, And You

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Yeap, I’m still using Quicksilver. And yeap, I’m still in love with it.

And mixed with Delicious … it gets even better.

Note: There’s a note on the Delicious plugin page;

Plugin not compatible with Intel based Macs yet (does this mean “does not work with Intel Macs”, or that it’s not “universal”?)

It’s worked before on an Intel Leopard machine, as well working currently on the Snow Leopard one, so don’t worry about that.

The Goods

Bookmark your pages, just like you would, but just remember to rename the titles for those pages. Little did I know, the plugin only uses the title of the page, not the tags.

Delicious

You’ll notice that there are three “WebFaction Control Panels”, even though they all go to a different page. So I went ahead and named those something more useful for each page.

Also, I decided to lead the human-readable titles with something shorter to type. For example, I have it so that wfa goes to WebFaction’s Apps page.

Changes to Delicious Bookmarks

One caveat: After you’ve done all your messing around in Delicious, don’t forget to go into your Quicksilver preferences and refresh the Delicious catalog.

Refresh The Catalog For Delicious

Bonus: Bookmarking Via Quicksilver

Quicksilver uses the bookmarks you have locally, in bookmarks folder and your bookmarks tab.

If you already have the Delicious bookmarklet “installed”, then you already can invoke the Quicksilver action for creating a bookmark by typing out “Bookmark”.

Bookmarklet in Quicksilver

But who has time to type out “bookmark”? Time to go make it yours.

By The Way

My delicious page is at http://delicious.com/joshkim.

Couple More Things About Google Reader

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A few more things about Google Reader.

Shortcut Keys: Space and Shift+Space

I think the best way to use Google reader is to use space and shift+space to go through stories.

I thought that the space button went through one post each at the time, but I found out that it either does one post at a time OR if the post is longer than a screen’s height, then the behavior of the space key changes to a “page down”. It’s ingenious. I can go through all my feeds with one hand… kinda… which leads me to my next point.

Need a Shortcut Key for: Opening up Links

Currently, I’m having to command+click a title of a story to open up in a tab. There needs to be another key that opens up the story I’ve selected in a target=”_new” window.

I tried the enter key but all that the enter key does is open up the story in “list view”, and it does nothing in “expanded view”. Blah.

Another Feature Request: Sort Options

I like to read my posts backwards than how Google has set it up. I like to read the posts that were posted earlier than those posted later. I’d much rather go directly to the post: I don’t want to hear some garbage summary on the original post. (I love posts that add thoughtful and meaningful content to the original post… but that rarely happens in this digg world.)

So going back to the first point: I have to use shift+space rather than space to scroll through my stories… Kinda clunky, but it works.

Overall: Satisfied

It’s quick. It’s painless, to a certain extent. It’s not as clunky as Vienna…

Plus, it’s a web application. Half-minus, it’s Google. (Google is neither on my list of companies I love nor on my list of companies I hate…)

Wow… WoW?

I swear. Sometimes, writing on this blog turns out to be something like leveling in World of Warcraft: I can’t stop it. I gotta level up just once more or turn in one more quest.

Time to Change the RSS Reader: Google Reader

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I’ve decided to ditch Vienna for my RSS feeds. It’s been getting on my nerves with a lot of little bugs (double downloading, “recent post” count problems), and I decided it’s time I should make the web app jump for this type of application.

I’ve written before on how a problem encourages me to move and try something new. Here’s what’s relevant from that post.

Feeds

  • I dislike most online feed readers. I love Vienna, because it’s free and open source and fast and responsive and does EXACTLY what I need.
  • I can go through feeds in very quickly, by being able to delete articles that are completely worthless (about 90% of which are Digg crap stories that link to the blogs I’m already subscribed to…)
  • I still want to be able to set it up so that OPML file is still saved somewhere…

Looks like I’m going to be going against my own words. I still don’t like online apps for certain things, but for feeds, google reader is quickly becoming something that… just works.

Short-cut keys for Google Reader

Only a subset of the advertised short-cut keys work for me, since I turned on “start searching when I type” feature in Firefox (BonEcho for the mac users). But these seem to work:

  • s: Star an item
  • n: Navigate to next item without opening it
  • p: Navigate to previous item without opening it
  • j: Open next item
  • k: Open previous item
    • Oh sweet vi keys…
  • o: Open / Close item (In list view, doesn’t do anything in expanded view)
  • r: Refresh
  • t: Tag it

I think there might be more, but this is more than enough, I think.

What would be really nice is if I had the ability to scroll down an article using a shortcut key also. For example, if the post I’m reading is longer in height than the window it’s in, I want to be able to scroll down on just that story. I’d much rather have j and k be the “scroll key” and have l and ; be the “next/previous post”… thereby solidifying Google’s love for vi. I’m probably asking too much.