Ok Nomads, I’m back for another entry.
Once again, finding that useful piece of software that keeps your browsing experience small, simple, and enjoyable.
Today I’m not just reviewing an old favorite of mine, I’ll tell you a little bit about why it’s important.
I’ll be honest here, in this more modern version of the web, FTP seems to be forgotten for fancy uploaders with pretty graphics built in to most websites and it’s hardly used now by the general public.
A true computer Nomad lives by two rules,
How do you do that when it comes to messaging?
Enter SamePlace
Sure, you could just load Meebo and watch as the host machine’s ram slowly dies painfully due to Gecko’s memory leaks, but after a while that just gets tiresome. You could also try a portable version of many of the popular instant messaging clients, but why load two programs when you just wanna get something done quickly?
SamePlace currently supports, Firefox, and Flock (including their portable offspring) natively.
Features:
That’s great and all, but how well does it actually work?
Immediately after launching SamePlace you’re given a friendly wizard to help you setup your accounts.
Setting up each account is quick and easy, the only hitch is that if you enter the password incorrectly, you’ll have to run the wizard for that account again from the beginning.
Afterwards, Sameplace occupies a sidebar on the left of the browser and a new menu item.
It seems to work pretty well and is definately worth the download for those of you wanting to take your messaging, and your browser, with you.
Verdict: It’s earned it’s place in my PocketFlock profile
Tags: flock, firefox, extensions, pocketflock, portable firefox, sameplace, jabber, xmpp, aim, msn, yahoo, google talk, gtalk, im
Site’s back up… don’t know how many people were getting http500 errors, but it seems that a small tweak I made to .htaccess to allow me to view my stats page killed Wordpress.
Ouch.
Oh well.
I uploaded versions of PocketFlock for Windows and OSX updated to include Flock 1.1 Final.
Older Versions will be automatically upgraded, so you don’t need to download these files if you have 1.0 or 1.1b.
I realized that I neglected to bundle the source of PocketFlock Win and since it’s based on GPL code… big no no. I’ve corrected this mistake and uploaded a separate .zip file containing the NSIS code written by John Haller that PocketFlock Win is based on ( I really need to replace this soon since it doesn’t play nice with Vista). I will be uploading the Mac source after I stabilize some features of it. (currently it’s a nasty cludge of bash scripts and ruby code held together with Platypus)
Tags: nsis, flock, pocketflock, portable apps, gpl
Par for the course I’m sure…
I’ll sum up last week for you though.
Saturday-Sunday:
Went to Richmond to visit one of Stef’s friends
Toured city
Got Autographs from Flogging Molly
Toured city some more
Ate a chocolate covered Mealworm
Monday:
Went to work
Went to Flogging Molly concert
Drank Guinness at Flogging Molly concert (oh yes)
Was driven home in a very happy state
Tuesday:
Hungover
Wednesday:
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Thursday:
Giggled with maniacal glee as I slowly downloaded the iPhone SDK from Apple’s weak and weary servers.
Friday:
Work as normal.
Watched SciFi channel with Stef while drinking various home-made alcoholic beverages.
Saturday:
Posted this to let you know how hard at work I haven’t been.
Blogged with the Flock Browser
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