The current (sorta sad) state of Safarilicious

✎ Published: 2008-03-12 10:30:30

In late 2005, I released 'Safarilicious' for exporting Safari Bookmarks to del.icio.us. Development stalled due to low donations and personal time constraints. Currently, the app only works on macOS 10.4 and is ineffective due to changes in del.icio.us. I’m restarting development to optimize the UI and restore functionality, with a potential GPL release planned.

The current (sorta sad) state of Safarilicious

In the end of December 2005, almost 2.5 years ago, I released a small Mac application dubbed 'Safarilicious'. It tried to serve the simple purpose of exporting your Safari Bookmarks to del.icio.us. In the following weeks I made some enhancements (mostly driven by user-feedback) but after that, development stalled. This was due to 2.5 reasons: The first one was, that I had released the software as freeware with the option to donate. There were almost no donations (i think there were 2 adding up to almost $10, thanks to the guy who donated $7, I still remember you :)), this low income in some way slowed my motivation down. The second reason was that I had found a working solution to a problem at hand: The app worked and my problem was solved. The remaining half reason was that in the aftertime, I was really really busy with my job and thus couldn't afford to invest time in non-essential things. This last reason is responsible for the sorry state of this blog just as well. I still don't have too much more time, but during the last years, I learned to manage my time in better ways. The current Safarilicious application only works on 10.4 Tiger, as far as I know, is no Universal Binary (although I've been running universal since june 2006) and actually doesn't work at all anymore as del.icio.us seemingly changed their login-procedure. So it's basically totally useless. Some days ago I started development on the app again. I cleaned the source, optimized the (really really awfull) UI and my next step is to bring the del.icio.us integration up to par. So I'll post a new version of Safarilicious on here within the following weeks. It might be Leopard-Only, because Leopard has a really tight PyObjc Integration. Apart from that, I'm thinking about releasing it GPL'ed on Sourceforge, so development can't stall anymore. But I'm not sure about that yet. I don't know when I'll have it finished, just keep an eye on the RSS-Feed :) I'll try to write more updates in the future anyway.

Greetings, Benedikt.