The low-down

Simplified, TabIt is Twitter meets del.icio.us. We know that you can post links to Twitter, but what if there was an application that allowed you to easily review all of those thinks that you had posted to Twitter. Well that's what TabIt is!

How it works

TabIt is extremely similar to Dan Cederholm's foamee application. You simply send a reply using the @username code followed by the URI of the page you want to save. You can even follow it with a message! Featuring a small, simple interface with full iPhone compatibility, TabIt will, hopefully, be a simplified version of the ever-popular del.icio.us.

The social aspect

TabIt will feature a homepage that, if logged in, will allow you to view your friend's bookmarks, an archives of both you and (Optionally) your friends' bookmarks. Another feature will be a list of the top 20 most popular bookmarks along with some random bookmarks.

When does it come

I hope to launch TabIt some time this weekend.

Like I said in my earlier article I've begun using Textile after reading an article by Stuart[1]. The main thing that I like about Textile is the ease of making footnotes, which I make a lot of².

¹ If you're never heard of that site don't worry, it hasn't been out that long. Also, the article was quite good, which would explain why I'm using Textile now.

² And a mean a lot of footnotes. See? I've already made another footnote describing how many footnotes I've made³.

³ Talk about redundancy.

This is mainly to the Tea beta testers, I am currently working on a revamped user interface. It should be done within a week or two. As I said on The Tea Blog, it will feature many elements from the OS X interface, some reference points that I am using are the wonderfully designed applications at MacHeist that inspire me to create something truly useful. I'm considering writing my own caching system so that I can make the Tea v1.2 have extensive pre-loading capabilities. Meaning that, while it will use JavaScript, I hope to have the JavaScript load most of its data before hand, and only requests that require a high degree of processing power¹ will be loaded when the user requests them. I can only think of one or two instances in which this would apply, and they may not ever be incorporated into Tea.

Just a quick note about the new, fancy footnotes. They're there because I've started using Textile.²

¹ Either in the database or in the PHP.

² I might write a blog post about how Stuart managed to convince me to use Textile through a single blog post.

Just like carrots, reminders are very good for your eyes. With that fact in mind, I'm now reminding my body of 12 RSS readers (I feel special now that it's increased from 5.) that a few spots are still open in the Tea beta program. I'm looking for sites that get around 10,000 to 15,000 visitors per month and 5,000 uniques. An example would be Pasquale D'Silva's site, which meets this criteria perfectly. Although if your site is like mine, with virtually no traffic, but you feel that you'd be worth the losses (The money I'd lose by giving you a free Tea license.), then let me know.

Also remember to subscribe to the Tea Blog, because if you don't you'd miss out on important announcements like this one. (It's about the releasing of Tea v1.1.6.)

Pretty simple, instead of filling up my fresh, pristine blog with Tea-oriented stuff; I'll be letting Tumblr take all that load, check out the Tea Blog over there.