Submitted by Mike on April 17th, 2006 at 11:25 AM
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I had been using Cocoalicious for a while, too, until a friend of mine put together the snappier Pukka posting client. Give it a try, see what you think.
Submitted by Richard on April 18th, 2006 at 3:02 PM
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Thanks for the pointer, Mike, I gave it a try, and sent in a bookmark (to Pukka, actually) from it. It's cute, and lighter-weight than Cocoalicious. One thing it does better than Cocoalicious is that the bookmarklet works the first time. This might just be a bug to feed back to the Cocoalicious developers, but when I click the bookmarklet in Firefox, it loads the app but doesn't give me an 'add bookmarklet' window. I have to click the bookmarklet a second time for Cocoalicious to add the link.
Things I don't like about Pukka (granted, this is after one use):
the default is for the window not to get out of the way after posting. It's a selling point of the software, and I can change the setting, but the 'sane default', if the developer is going to advertise it as a feature, should be to get out of the way.
it doesn't show me the past bookmarks like Cocoalicious does. If I forget to add a tag, then I have to go into del.icio.us to add the tags. Not so with Cocoalicious. Then again, it's lighter-weight than Cocoalicious by design, so this is probably (and rightly) not a bug.
The window is not optimized for how I bookmark: that is, writing in a descriptive title (the cursor defaults to the "Tags" textbox), then write a(n optional) longer description, then tag. The workflow for Pukka is 1. tag, 2. type a description then 3. go back and change the title. Granted, most people don't change the title of things they bookmark in del.icio.us. But I do.
Growl integration seems pointless. That said, I can disable it.
Cocoalicious is open source. Is Pukka? It doesn't actually matter. I'm never going to learn how to develop Mac software, and Pukka is free enough.
I'm going to use Pukka for the rest of the week and decide whether to make it my full-time app for posting bookmarks to del.icio.us. To, y'know, give it an evaluation past posting just one bookmark with it.
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I had been using Cocoalicious for a while, too, until a friend of mine put together the snappier Pukka posting client. Give it a try, see what you think.
Thanks for the pointer, Mike, I gave it a try, and sent in a bookmark (to Pukka, actually) from it. It's cute, and lighter-weight than Cocoalicious. One thing it does better than Cocoalicious is that the bookmarklet works the first time. This might just be a bug to feed back to the Cocoalicious developers, but when I click the bookmarklet in Firefox, it loads the app but doesn't give me an 'add bookmarklet' window. I have to click the bookmarklet a second time for Cocoalicious to add the link.
Things I don't like about Pukka (granted, this is after one use):
I'm going to use Pukka for the rest of the week and decide whether to make it my full-time app for posting bookmarks to del.icio.us. To, y'know, give it an evaluation past posting just one bookmark with it.