A poster on macOSXHints provides an applescipt which will backup the data files from iCal, Address Book and Delicious Library as well as bookmarks from Camino and del.icio.us.

It’s useful as it is, especially if you use those apps, but the poster also hopes that readers will “glean parts that are relevant to your system/apps or adapt the whole thing or even add to it”.

If you are a beginner at AppleScript (like me) you will be interested to see the section for the del.icio.us bookmarks, which shows how AppleScript can tab through the fields of a web page.

The poster wrote this script after “a few frustrating losses of data”. A warning to us all.ical, address book, camino, applescript, backup, de.lico.us, bookmarks

WebnoteHappy has been updated. This clever app with an unfortunate name is a bookmark manager that allows you to tag and annotate your links.

The new version (1.2) brings support for syncing your bookmarks with your del.icio.us account, adds hot key support for Firefox and Shiira, clickable hyperlinks in the notes field and more.

All the fields in a WebnoteHappy webnote are now editable, including the URL itself.

The app sells itself partly as a native Mac OS X interface for del.icio.us and it does look nice:

You can read the full list of changes in the release notes .

WebnoteHappy is shareware (USD 24.95) and is available from the developer’s web site.bookmarks, delicious, URLs, tagging, Web 2.0, firefox, internet, not apple mail

Pukka is a posting client for del.icio.us that can be activated quickly by a bookmarklet on your browser toolbar.

It automatically loads the URL and title of the active web page into its interface. All you have to do is tag it, type a description if you want and post it. Highlighted text on the page is added to the description field. Very quick. Very smart.

And it has just got smarter. Version 1.3 released over the weekend adds support for private bookmarking through a new option in the app’s preferences pane:

Holding down the option key when posting now prevents the app from resetting.

The new version also adds full AppleScript support.

See it in action in a screencast. Pukka is shareware (USD 5) and available from codesorcery’s web site .delicious, URL, bookmarks, posting, bookmarklet, applescript, private posting, web 2.0, social

Cloud.lic.io.us is a widget that helps you quickly access your delic.io.us tags and bookmarks.

A new version was released today, which adds a “fancy slider” to the widget and a fix for changes in the delic.io.us API.

The widget offers a number of options to control the display of your tags.

You can choose — as you can in delic.io.us itself — to view only tags with one, two or five matches and more:

Clicking one of the tags opens a slider drawer which displays the matching URLs. You can click on them to open them directly or jump to the display of the URLs in delic.io.us itself by clicking the arrow on the bottom of the drawer:

Cloud.lic.io.us looks like it is freeware and the latest patched version is available from the developer’s web site .delicious, widget, productivity, tags, bookmarks, not apple mail

Don’t let the name put you off. WebNoteHappy is a nice app for collecting, organising, tagging and sharing your bookmarks.

Smart folders, tags, integration with del.icio.us, global hotkeys and bookmarklets give the app substantial grunt.

It is also browser-independent, which is a boon for people who like or have to switch between browsers.

For Mail.app fans the initial version presented a problem. Its global hotkey (Command-Shift-D) conflicted with Mail’s inbuilt Send Message shortcut.

That has now been fixed; the hotkey is now only enabled for Camino, Firefox, NetNewsWire, OmniWeb, and Safari.

Other improvements, including private saving of bookmarks to del.icio.us, and fixes are detailed in the release notes .

WebNoteHappy is shareware (USD 24.95) and a 30 day demo is available from the developer’s web site .bookmarks, tagging, organizing, delicious, multi broswer, mail.app, apple mail, productivity

In a post on the recently announced update to Yojimbo, I suggested that Fraser Speirs’ AppleScript offered a faster way to get things into Yojimbo than the new browser bookmarklets.

Since then I have learned that Quicksilver now has a Yojimbo plugin, that adds five new actions to the vast range of Quicksilver options.

Using the main interface, it is easy to add bookmarks, import text or create a web archive:

But there is an even easier way. You can set a hotkey trigger in Quicksilver for the bookmarklets themselves, choosing “Run Javascript” as the action. Assign the keystroke you want to them, and—hey presto!—you have single keystroke bookmarking and archiving:

[Thanks to Anthony and Jade who made me think more about this.]yojimbo, quicksilver, bookmarks, web archives, keyboard shortcuts, productivity, not apple mail

toread is a web service that allows you to “bookmark” or email yourself web pages with the single click of browser bookmarklet.

Of course, Safari users can do this manually by pressing Command-I, which sends the contents of a web page to a new Mail.app message, filling in their own email address and then sending the email.

This is much quicker and cleaner.

After registration, you are offered a bookmarklet to drag and drop into the Bookmarks Bar of your browser (I use Safari):

One click on this bookmarklet and the page you are looking at is emailed to your inbox:

There’s nothing else to do.

This may appeal especially to people who use Mail.app as an Information mananger, allowing for the quick and painless archiving of web pages.

The privacy policy of the service, which is run by the Japanese RSS management company Sidefeed looks OK to me:

About disclosing your personal information

We will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to any other third party.
We will disclose your personal information to outside third parties only when one or any of the following conditions are met.

When we have your consent to share the information.
To process and fulfill your order or notify you of order status.
When it’s necessary for us to observe the law.
When it’s necessary to protect and defend your rights or property.
When it’s based on the statistical purposes without any information that could be used to link that information to you.
We reserve the right to disclose any and all pertinent customer information to law enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate.

It is a clearly a Web 2.0 service, as it is in beta.email, bookmarks, bookmarklets, browser, archiving, web pages