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A bit of a hodge-podge today…

Was recently going through my BlinkList stuff searching for something I just knew I had “Quick Blinked” recently. While there, I stumbled over some nifty stuff I’d tossed in there the past few months. More on one of those next paragraph. I also realized that I have one annoyance with BlinkList: Hopefully I’m just missing a setting somewhere, but as near as I can tell anything I “Quick Blink” is automatically marked as Private. Sure, I can go to my blinklist site and click on the “Make everything Public” link, but it’d be nice if I could configure it to have stuff start as Public.

Really though, I’m still a fan and still using it. I do confess I have to get better about periodically logging in and tagging/organizing my links though.
[Previous BlinkList mentions]

So anywho… whilst dinking around in BlinkList, I found my link for wp-wetfloor, a WordPress plugin that I first saw about a month ago.

WP Wetfloor allows you to add reflections (a.k.a. the wetfloor effect) to images on your Wordpress blog.

Oh, fun stuff. I had to install it and mangle a few pictures from previous posts just to play with it a bit. Apologies to those reading me via RSS — now you know why some old posts showed up again. And I learned that the images Wetfloor produces are just a bit off in IE7beta3. Drat. They look great in FF and Opera though.

My IE7 fanboi days may be coming to an end soon. I received a long-awaited beta invite to AllPeers, a product I’ve been kinda keeping an eye on for quite some time now (I think I mentioned them in my previous (mostly deleted) blog last year at some point). In fact, I think the associated blog may have been one of my first RSS subscriptions. The hype:

Unleash your online experience and discover unlimited private sharing.

Share private photos worry-free. No passwords to remember, no public access.

Share your videos without uploading - save on hosting costs while saving time.

No cumbersome interface. No sharing restriction. Private and secure.
No spyware, no adware, no annoying advertisements.

… and only via a Firefox extension. And here’s another quote that sums up AllPeers I reckon:

AllPeers is a free software which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to create a media sharing powerhouse.

That and a handful of minor nits with IE7 (that I’ll try and write down someday) have me thinking of switching back to Firefox as “main” browser for a bit. I’ve used a lot of Opera 9 and IE7 beta for quite a few months so time to see if I can get back into the Firefox swing of things. But it won’t be FF beta 2.0. It just doesn’t like my machine(s) much. I’ll try a future beta, but for now I can come up with more interesting ways to crash a browser.

One Response to “BlinkList, Wetfloor, AllPeers and Browsers”

1. Rich G. on July 29th, 2006 8:57 pm
   

   Strangely enough I lost my ability to get comments when I updated, even changing themes isn’t helping me… and you, who told me about the update, don’t seem to be suffering the same problem… which makes me think I must have chose two broken themes in a row? Highly curious.

   BTW: I’ve downgraded from FF2b due to stability issues. I’m happy with 1.5 and loving it. When FF2 is released and out a month or so maybe I’ll update.

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