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I've been using Pukka—a Mac client for Delicious—for a bit, and it's pretty great. (More on that later, it's already the subject of a half-finished Technophobe review). I like it enough that I recommended it to a friend today:

bobthecow: @storiesofmac Pukka is pretty okay (Delicious + Mac)

about 2 hours ago

Sun Jul 19 02:05:23 +0000 2009

And what do you know, Justin Miller (the creator of Pukka) noticed:

incanus77: @bobthecow Any way I can make Pukka 'really ok'? :-)

about an hour ago

Sun Jul 19 02:52:12 +0000 2009

So here, other Justin, are a couple of ways to make Pukka great:

• Pre-populate the page title when dragging a URL into Pukka for bookmarking: I was actually surprised that it didn’t already work like this.

• Popular tags support: I still use the official Yahoo plugin in Firefox to do the majority of my bookmarking because of this one feature. I will drag a page from Safari to Firefox and bookmark it there just so I don’t have to think up all the tags to use.

• Global keyboard shortcuts for bookmarking: I'm not sure how this one would work, but I’d like to be able to bookmark via hotkey in any browser. It might need to be an input manager or a set of browser plugins. Think 1Password for bookmarks.

• Bonus: if you can work it into the plugin/input manager goodness, I love being able to select a paragraph from the site to use for my Delicious description text.

• Real Spotlight integration: For this it might make sense to stash the local bookmark cache as a folder full of webclips, and make sure they’re named, tagged, and commented in a Spotlight friendly way.

You're well on your way, and I'd love to see Pukka get even better.

in case you're wondering, i'm a huge nerd. there's a good chance you've already noticed, but if not, you should check out this amazing tag cloud. it's a visualization of my online bookmarking and browsing habits—courtesy of wordle:

also, if you're not already using del.icio.us, you should be.

One of the reasons I like OS X is the consistent user interface. Apple has well established guidelines that lay out how an application should look and feel, and for the most part developers adhere to this. And those who don't are usually mocked....

So you can imagine how excited I was when the Firefox team announced that they would be releasing operating system targeted themes for Firefox 3. Under Windows XP, it would have XP-like styling, Firefox for Vista takes cues from native Vista apps, and on a Mac, Firefox 3 looks like it belongs:

Screen grabs, Del.icio.us Bookmarks hotness, and custom Mac OS X styles after the jump.