Archive for July, 2007
A bit ago I mentioned my recent usage of del.icio.us and how it helps bridge what I surf and read on my iPhone, to what I could potentially write about on my laptop. What I’ve also been doing is, if I come across any articles while on my iPhone or laptop and want access to them wherever I go, I tag it to del.icio.us., then I can hit up my del.icio.us page and clicky the linky.
I mentioned a couple reasons why I don’t want to bookmark them in Safari (whether on my laptop or using my iPhone). Here are two more…
- I don’t use Safari as my default browser on my Laptop.
- I tend to bookmark things in my iPhone so that when I tap on the bookmark icon, the first screen has my bookmarks. When I sync my safari browsers on both the iPhone and the Laptop, my bookmarks are moved to the “Bookmark Menu”, which requires me to execute an extra tap. I haven’t taken the time to delve into changing this default setting so I’m not sure if I can control this behavior.
So how do I integrate the web service del.icio.us, my iPhone and my laptop?
Laptop
On my laptop, I use Firefox and have the del.icio.us extension installed.
iPhone
On my iPhone, I use Leaflets as my “jumping off” point. It has a start page icon for del.icio.us so I just tap on that and get a list of my bookmarks.
When I want to tag an article, I either use a “Tag this to del.icio.us” link on the article, or I, currently, use the Lazy Sheep bookmarklet. I’m still in the process of finalizing which bookmarklet to use. The next one I’m going to try out would probably be the one listed on Quick Online Tips.
So far this setup works pretty well and while I could just bookmark my del.icio.us page in my iPhone Safari browser, I like the list of my bookmarks that Leaflets generate because it’s fast all the time (optimized for the EDGE network).
Testing Flickr2blog
Just testing the Flickr2blog feature because I can’t sleep. Oh yeah, this was sent from my iPhone.
YAiP (Yet Another iPhone Post). Get used to it. 
A post over at Hackszine mentions that it might be possible to create offline applications for the iPhone because Safari on the iPhone supports data URLs. While this might be really cool, I’d be afraid of the exploitability that this would present.
I’m not all that knowledgeable in this so I could just be paranoid. But still…
I have always wondered why bother using bookmark sites like del.icio.us when you could just bookmark a web site in your browser. However, now that I have an iPhone, I’ve started to use del.icio.us. It’s not because iPhone and del.icio.us works awesomely together, but it’s rather because I’m using the iPhone to browse and read web sites a lot more than I have with my other cellphone/smartphone devices in the past. So having my bookmarks floating in the web makes it super easy to get access to them whether I’m on my iPhone or MacBook.
Why not just sync them? I could do that, but with the clutter of my web apps for my iPhone, I’d lose my “reading” bookmarks easily.
Haven’t you heard of folders? Yes, I have and am using the default ones that were created in my Safari browser. It’s just nice having my bookmarks accessible from anywhere at virtually at any time. If they were only residing on my iPhone or MacBook, then there might be some instances where I can’t share my bookmarks or access them.
Now, I’m not dumping all of my bookmarks from my MacBook to del.icio.us, but what I am doing is saving bookmarks on things I’d like to write about here. And this works especially well with my iPhone and when I’m just lounging about web surfing with it. And right now, it’s actually pretty darn cool.
So, as the hype sort of dies down about the JesusPhone… I mean, the iPhone, people who’ve kept their hot piece of tech probably have chosen their favorite web apps. While I can’t remember the blogs and sites that have listed all the wonderful iPhone-centric programs, here’s a list of the applications that I like to use.
- Movies.app - What’s playing tomorrow? Oh cool, let’s get tickets for the nearest theater!
- Jive Talk for the iPhone - While it’d be nice to get sound pings when a message comes in, this program still does all the clients I use and makes them look shiny.
- PocketTweets - This has actually made me use Twitter more than I had been using it in the past.
- Listingly - Until a taskpad program becomes native to the iPhone, this site does wonders in helping me task out my day.
- Leaflets - They don’t lie when they say their app loads pretty fast on EDGE. It does and is pretty nice. But getting to all the apps listed can be a bit annoying.
- AppMarks - Unlike Leaflets, currently, you can customize the “start screen” with apps you want quick access to. Takes a bit to load though on EDGE. However, you could keep the “start screen” up in Safari and cached.
