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A little update to talk about a recently released mac-only extension for mozilla’s browser: Quickfire.
Quickfire can launch any application directly from Firefox : simply start typing the first letters in the address bar to get the results from / Applications folder, press Enter and start the application.
I took inspiration from a post on Planet Ubiquity (http://tinyurl.com/9tten8) to discuss a very important issue of our browsers: bookmarks.
Surely you all know what they are, you can call them Favorites, but in the end they are always bookmarks.
As Dicarlo asked ,do we still need bookmarks? Or are they an unnecessary thing of the past, when the Web was still “new“?
Well, I think he‘s right: bookmarks are too Web 1.0.
At least as we have known them until today.
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There is no doubt that much of the beauty of Mac OS X lies in its simplicity: to install an app just drag it into a folder, move it to trash to uninstall it ,keep it in dock to quickly launch it.
Three simple processes that Windows users are still dreaming of.
But what happens when you have several applications on your Mac but do not want to keep all in the dock?
You need a “launcher”, a small app that could be easily and that can afford to run any application in less than 2 seconds.
We therefore talk about QuickSilver.
A small list of Ubiquity commands that I daily use:
tiny: to quickly create a tinyURL
g: to show the results of a search on google
And more after the jump!
“Get Gmail out of the browser tab. And start saving time. “
Today I want to talk about an application that have saved my life over the past two months: Mailplane.
Gmail is surely one of the most used mail services in the world.
Since Google has launched this service 5 years ago , after a first (and typical) period of skepticism, Gmail has been able to reach a large number of users due to its simple, clear and functional interface.
Not to mention the power and versatility of the available options .
Gmail, however,has been a regular “site” up to now: some people keep it in bookmarks, some keep an always open tab , but it’s still a site.
What would happen then if the power of Gmail were integrated into a desktop app?
Here comes Mailplane.
[This is a total update & restyling of 7 months old post. Updated to December 2009]
I recently stumbled upon this post by Aza Raskin where he outlines the pros and cons of a brand new way of using Firefox: a vertical sidebar with multiple items in it. That post made me think a lot about this subject: how can we improve the browsers, what can designers and developers do to make browsers more usable and “modern”? I started searching for other similar resources and I found a couple of interesting mockups from GoSquared, IA and Cocoia. This post will showcase these mockups and provide some ideas about how can browsers evolve and get ready for “the future”.
Enjoy!
Let‘s talk about two interesting browsers for Mac, recently released but very promising: Stainless http://stainlessapp.com/
Cruz http://cruzapp.com/
The former, Stainless, is freely inspired by Google Chrome process management: you can open “single-session” tabs with separate cookies management.
