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Cocoalicious: Browser for Del.icio.us bookmarks

Cocoalicious is a really slick -- but, unfortunately, Mac-only -- dedicated browser for your Del.icio.us bookmarks. If you're a bookmarking junkie, and you have way more sites saved to Del.icio.us than you could ever hope to keep track of, this could be an ideal solution for you. It's laid out a bit like Apple Mail, with your tags running down the left side, your bookmarks on top, and a browser pane at the bottom.

You can put bookmarks directly into Cocoalicious -- it syncs with your Del.icio.us account -- or use the bookmarklet to add stuff to Cocoalicious straight from your browser. This way you can take advantage of autocompletion, tagging by dragging, and other features that make Del.icio.us easier. Cocoalicious also supports Spotlight, so you can search for your bookmarks straight from the Finder!


[via Lifehacker]

Filed under: Web services

TagFetch: Folksonomy meta-search engine

TagFetchOne from the department of the inevitable: TagFetch is a search engine that pulls results from a variety of tag-friendly sites based on the tag(s) you enter. It's got a clean, usable interface with a streamlined Google-like front page. You can choose what kinds of results you want to see, i.e. news (Newsvine, Reddit), blogs (Technorati, Feedster), bookmarks (del.icio.us), or media (Flickr, YouTube), and results pages are organized accordingly. Results for each site have a handy "View More" link that loads more results without making you navigate away from the page (yay Ajax), but it's unclear exactly how results are ordered. I'd like to see results drawn from more sites, and I'd also like to see more customization (though registered users might have more options--account creation seems buggy just now). I'm not sure how useful TagFetch will be for serious searching, but it seems like it could be useful for digging up media and discussion about current events, of just for killing time.

[Via Street Tech]

Filed under: Photo, Web services

Pixrat: Social bookmarking for photos

PixratPixrat is basically del.icio.us for photos. I don't say that disparragingly, though--Pixrat works as advertised and will definitely be useful for some people. By clicking on the Pixrat bookmarklet when viewing a page with a photo on it you can give the photo a description and tags, then later you can browse your boomarked photos with handy thumbnails, optionally searching by tag. You can also, of course, browse everyone else's photos or view the most popular recent photos. Pixrat does lack a few of del.icio.us' more powerful features like tag intersections and RSS feeds, but those issues aside, I can see Pixrat as being very useful people who keep track of a lot of stock photos, for example, at a number of different sites.

Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Open Source

SlashLinks makes del.icio.us link mirroring and linkblogs easy

SlashlinksI run a linkblog that mirrors my del.icio.us links via a contrived set of PHP scripts I whipped up one night and which quits working every couple months. SlashLinks looks like a much better solution. It's a tool whose tagline is "Own Your Del.icio.us Links!" that scoops up your del.icio.us bookmarks and republishes them on your own web site with a template of your own design. It rolls your tags into the interface, as well, so you can click on a tag and see all the bookmarks for that tag without leaving your web site, and it'll even show a tag cloud. SlashLinks is built on Ruby on Rails, so make sure your web server is up to speed before attempting.

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Web services

One big list of social (and otherwise) bookmark sites

Tag cloud from BlinkListThink del.icio.us (and its clones) and Yahoo! My Web 2.0 are the only social bookmark sites out there? Not so. This site has a list of several dozen free sites for collecting, managing, and sharing bookmarks. While I'm still pretty happy with del.icio.us, if you're looking for something a little different, this is a good place to start.

Via Digg (which, strangely, isn't on the list).

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source

Browser Tip of the Day: Userscripts.org, a new home for Greasemonkey scripts

Userscripts.org

We're big fans of Greasemonkey here at Download Squad, and for the past few months the best place to find GM user scripts has been the GreaseMonkeyUserScripts wiki. But as much as I love wikis it leaves a bit to be desired, and so I'm hoping that Userscripts.org will grow to replace it. It's a bit rudimentary right now, but they've got the right idea: User scripts can be tagged a la Flickr and you can rate or leave comments about individual scripts as well as see the newest and most popular scripts. I'd like to see an even larger emphasis on new scripts, though (with RSS feeds!) and see the tag cloud on the front page pushed down and perhaps pruned to hide tags only used a couple times. Also, site-specific scripts could be managed better. Fortunately, all of these improvements are already in the works.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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