Yu-chan no Megane

It’s not often I decide to do a review (short or otherwise) for anything technical, but ScribeFire for Mozilla Firefox has certainly impressed me sufficiently to get these lazy fingers going.

ScribeFire is essentially a blogging extension for the brilliant browser, Firefox. I’m using Firefox 3 at the moment and it certainly works brilliantly. The moment you click the orange notepad and pen icon that resides on the status bar after you’ve installed the extension, it pops right up over the bottom half of your browser screen. This means that you can read whatever it is you’re blogging about at the same time. More importantly, you can move through multiple tabs without ever leaving ScribeFire.

Since I’m using the Wordpress blogging platform, logging into my blog via ScribeFire means that I’ve got added functionality on the right, including a list of recent entries, categories (and tags) and other blog post options, such as trackback pings. I’m not entirely sure what else the extension has to offer for other platforms, but I’m fairly certain it works well.

Additional fun functionality include inserting images and YouTube videos into the post and sharing webpages in other social sites such as Facebook (a plus for me!) and Digg.

From the ScribeFire website:

ScribeFire currently supports the following services:

• WordPress.com (http://www.wordpress.com)
• LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com)
• Xanga (http://www.xanga.com/)
• Windows Live Spaces (http://spaces.msn.com)
• Performancing (http://www.performancing.com)
• Jeeran (http://www.jeeran.com)
• Tumblr (http://www.tumblr.com/)
• MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/)
• b2Evolution (http://b2evolution.net)
• Splinder (http://www.splinder.com/)

The currently supported blogging platforms are:

• WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org/)
• Movable Type (http://www.movabletype.org/)
• Drupal (http://www.drupal.org)
• Textpattern (http://www.textpattern.com/)
• Roller (http://www.rollerweblogger.org)
• Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)
• MetaWeblog API (Any blogging software that implements this API)

If you’re a seasoned blogger or just love sharing sites, this Firefox extension is for you. And if you’re not using Firefox… shame on you! (>_-)

Well, it comes as no surprise for those of you familiar with the school system here in Singapore. It’s the last day of the holidays and while I feel some lingering need to prolong it, I’d much rather get my much-needed rest.

So much for blogging more during the holidays. Heh.

The brief break from the kids was decent enough and I must say I’m looking forward to seeing them again. Though I’m not really pleased about the mountain of work that I know we must complete together. I’ve resolved not to complain, however, and to speak blessings upon literally everything around me so… slap me if I degenerate into a pile of grumbling animal defecation. ;)

In other news, while I wasn’t part of the initial tide of downloaders for the latest release of the anticipated Firefox 3 (that might’ve garnered a World Record for the most downloads in 24 hours, apparently), I did eventually get wind of its availability. So here I am typing this in the latest release of my favourite browser (after Safari, of course) and the experience has been stellar so far. There’s also a smorgasbord of add-ons available for it.

And as usual, I’ve been catching up with anime. That’s old news.

In a final note, I shall leave you with an adorable screenshot of two high school girls from my favourite anime, Ouran High School Host Club, going gaga over the Hitachiin twins.

Kyaaaaaa! Life’s just so exciting when you’re filthy rich and literally do nothing but be entertained by bishounen all day! Especially excessively loving twins!

Be blessed, those of you who chance upon this blog! May you receive fruitfulness in every conceivable area of your life.