Jeremy Johnstone

This evening I decided to play with a really kewl new app called Fluid. What this app does is allow you to create Site Specific Browsers. One of the first usages which popped into mind was a product I helped develop, Yahoo! Web Messenger. An annoyance of mine with it is that it had to live in a browser tab, something prone to getting closed accidentally, and also didn’t have any decent notifications of new messages when not in focus. Being the perfect candidate for Fluid, IMHO, I set out to give it a shot. In less than an hours time I built a pretty kewl demo and here’s how you can use it too. (more…)

Today I went in search of a basic plugin which switched the search provider for Safari 3 to use Yahoo! Search. I found a number of different SIMBL plugins, but all of them did a lot more than I wanted and/or were unstable. AcidSearch is unstable currently and also adds two menu items into the right click menu. This is annoying as I routinely right click on links to “open in new tab” and with it adding two options at the top it would always cause me to click on it instinctively instead of the option I really wanted. I also tried out Inquisitor 3 and while it was stable, it had a boatload more functionality than I needed or wanted (why go to Niagra falls when all you need is a single drop of water?). Not finding anything really to serve my rather specific desires, I decided to set out and learn SIMBL myself and write a plugin. (more…)