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Anyone who remembers my little rant about “web 2.0″ and “cloud computing” may remember that I railed on del.icio.us for a couple of things. First, its obscenely over-clever domain name (which they seem to be moving away from them, gods bless them), and second, that it was a royal pain in the rear to use del.icio.us with Safari. Oh, sure, you can keep a tab open to del.icio.us at all times, manually navigate through your tags online, and just middle-click a link that you want to open, but that’s hardly the epitome of convenience or user-friendliness; two things that I have a bad habit of desiring from my computing experiences since switching to the Mac.
You may also recall that I pretty much dismissed out of turn the whole collection of third-party apps that brought del.icio.us to the Mac in desktop app format, because they succeeded in making del.icio.us a pretty, easily-navigable thing, but totally failed on the second point: Safari integration. Having to keep a second app running just to use my bookmarks doesn’t really appeal to me.
Well, tonight my desperate search for a utility that actually integrates Safari and del.icio.us is at an end. I stumbled across the rather obviously named “DeliciousSafari” website, which provides a SIMBL plugin for Safari that adds a del.icio.us menu to Safari’s menu bar, listing all of the tags you’ve added and all of the sites you’ve so tagged. It’s not quite as convenient as Firefox’s del.icio.us toolbar add-on, but it’s pretty freaking close. As soon as I get some extra money (like, say, my next paycheck), I fully intend to throw the requisite $10 at the developer as an expression of my extreme gratitude.
And now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some customizing to do.
(On a related note, I need to rework some of the tags on my blog, too… but that’ll have to wait until after I’ve customized and organized del.icio.us and handled a few additional tagging projects on DPWR.)