sandwichesandapples

…really don’t need a website to begin with.

My favorite new piece of software is the Plainview browser developed by The Barbarian Group for their use in presentations. The browser takes over your entire screen and lacks a toolbar. You navigate with shortcuts (which I use anyway) or by right-clicking.

But it’s the full-screen takeover that really charms me. I love the clean, yummy look and I love seeing webpages without the chrome around them. On Windows, I’m an F11 Firefox user (if you don’t know what that does, give it a click), so Plainview really appeals to me.

So glad (probably) to read this news via Boing Boing since it follows up on some concerns I had a while ago.

I was hired recently (does it count as being hired if you’re never paid?) to troubleshoot a bug with videos not appearing in Firefox. The situation was this: a client was using the hack described by Justin Tadlock here to add YouTube videos to the sidebar of his WordPress blog. The hack uses WordPress’s “custom field” to create a video category and display the video in the sidebar with a smaller than standard width. (continue reading…)

I’ve been using Flock for a couple of months now and I generally enjoy it. Flock is a social web browser “for people who like to be connected.” Though I sign up for all sorts of social networks, I’m not the most sociable internet user.

Still, I like opening Flock in the morning and signing in to Flickr, Facebook and Google and letting its little toolbar inform me when there’s activity in one of my accounts. The little envelop lights up for new mail; the little head lights up for new “people” activity (Facebook, Flickr). It’s pretty cool. I also like the My World page which is sort of like an iGoogle homepage for all my accounts, feeds, etc.

Flock will never be my main working browser since I need my Firefox Add-Ons. But I enjoy using it more than FF. And presumably, the Flock add-ons are multiplying all the time.

Oh yeh, I watched the Onion movie over the weekend. Terrible. Horrible. It’s just a series of bad sketches strung together loosely-based on Onion headlines. Sort of like Amazon Women on the Moon but without the gratuitous nudity or the chuckles.

Avoid.

Whenever I show people Songbird or they see me using it, they’re all like, “Wow, what is that?” So I guess not too many people know about it.

Songbird is basically a browser built for finding and downloading music. I’ve been using the developer releases for about 2 years but they’ve finally released a public alpha version. Songbird lets you search for, listen to, download and playback music on the web. It’s rad.