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WebnoteHappy works well with Safari 4 March 19th, 2009

Safari 4 is now in public beta and we have verified that WebnoteHappy works well with Safari 4. Specifically, the bookmarklet “Webnote It”, the shortcut key (by default Command-Shift-D) and Importing from Safari all work flawlessly with the Safari 4 beta.

WebnoteHappy 1.3.3 March 16th, 2009

I just released WebnoteHappy 1.3.3 in response to some difficulties that users have had with Delicious. For those of you who aren’t using Delicious, it is a web-based bookmark sharing service. It was formerly called del.icio.us but I think Yahoo, who operates the service, recognized that the name was a little hard to type. Was …

WebnoteHappy reviewed in MacApper February 6th, 2009

Joe Turner from MacApper reviewed WebnoteHappy. It got a B-. Not too bad, but we can do better. Look for more updates in the future. And if you are the beta testing type, please send an email to feedback@happyapps.com requesting a beta. As I noted in a comment on the review, we got caught in …

Bookmarking advice from How to Cheat at Organizing July 8th, 2008

I’m reading an organizing book called How to Cheat at Organizing by Jeff Bredenberg. He gives some good advice on bookmarking (the emphasis is mine): Bookmark the best sites. If you’re not in the habit of bookmarking your favorite Internet sites, start doing it, says Erika Salloux, the personal and business organizer. There are way …

AppleScript is broken in Firefox 3 June 2nd, 2008

Firefox 3 is in Release Candidate 1 stage. But it shouldn’t go out yet. Yes, there are improvements but I think there’s one big regression: its AppleScript is broken. There’s two pieces of data that’s critical for several apps to get from Firefox: the current URL and the current Title. The title portion is broken …

WebnoteHappy is the pick of the week by Merlin Mann in MacBreak Weekly May 30th, 2008

In MacBreak Weekly 91, titled Monocle Pete’s Magic Yacht Wax, Merlin Mann picked WebnoteHappy as his pick of the week. Thanks Merlin!

WebnoteHappy 1.3.2 released! April 21st, 2008

We released WebnoteHappy 1.3.2 earlier today. Here is what’s new in this release: New: Shortcut support for Camino 1.6 New: Tag browser can now be tabbed to New: Started catching 503 response code from del.icio.us API, which means that user has been throttled Leopard fix: Library folder not edited when tabbing away from Source list …

MacSanta is here again December 7th, 2007

MacSanta is back this year! MacSanta for the uninitiated is like a big sale of Mac software from independent developers (who I like to call Mac Indies.) There’s different featured Mac software deals every day, all for 20% off, good for that one day only! Today (Friday December 7th), we’ve got Hazel from my friend …

If WebnoteHappy shortcuts sometimes don’t work on Leopard… November 29th, 2007

WebnoteHappy’s shortcut keys sometimes don’t seem to work on Leopard. By default, these are Command-Shift-D for Add, F5 for Quick Add, and Command-Shift-Space for Search. There seems to be a simple workaround for this: Choose the menu item WebnoteHappy > Preferences… Click on the Shortcuts toolbar button For each of the Hotkeys (the other word …

How to have Camino use tabs when other apps want to open a URL November 17th, 2007

In the first installment of this series, I covered “How to make WebnoteHappy open bookmarks in Safari tabs.” Now we’ll cover how to do the same for Camino. Remember, that this will actually work for any application that opens URLs and that on Mac OS X, the browser has the ultimate control over whether a …