I’ve never really jumped the delicious bandwagon. My last attempt at social bookmarking didn’t last very long. I was a little hasty in my judgement with Delicious Safari. It’s full featured, but the user interface is too kludgy and something you would expect on Linux, so I stopped using it. My interests have been rekindled with the release of Pukka 1.8, which seems to be a promising delicious client.
There’s two pieces to the Pukka pie. One is link submission, and the other is the spotlight-like search of all your bookmarks. Pukka brings up a simple box which allows you to enter the url, title, tags (which are auto-completed), and description. Uploads are confirmed by a growl notification. The more significant way of sending up stuff is using the Pukka bookmarklet in Safari. Clicking it while browsing a page will automatically send the URL to Pukka along with the Title, and any selected text into the description field. Pukka also supports multiple accounts so you can just select one from the drop down.
While submitting links is one thing, to be able to access them at a later time is even more important. The Pukka search stays in the menubar, with all the articles cached in. Your search terms can include the URL, title, tags or even the description. It’s lightning fast (although I didn’t have many bookmarks to put it to test). Your Pukka bookmarks also show up alongside your regular Spotlight search results. Clicking them takes you straight to Safari.
Pukka seems to be a perfectly delicious client and I have nothing to complain about. Perhaps a live search on the entire delicious database, but I’m not sure if that would really be useful. At $17 for a license, it’s a good way to get back in the social bookmarking game. Let’s see how it goes this time.
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I LOVE Pukka. I too got into Delicious only recently, having had an account lie dormant for years, and Pukka is a big part of the reason why it’s stuck this time; a perfectly smooth experience for creating and now for finding bookmarks, consistent across browsers. The other part of the equation for me is Tags on the iPhone, whose animated tag cloud is the perfect interface for the device.
There seem to be encouraging signs of Pinboard-Pukka compatibility at some point as well, which would be fantastic.
$17 for this level of functionality? Your kidding right? They wouldn’t happen to be a sponsor would they?
I think my criticism of the reviewers endorsement of the price is entirely relevant to the review.
When I used Firefox, I used a free Delicious Firefox extension that had more functionality. Now that I’m using Camino, I just use a bookmarklet.
I have paid and will pay for independently developed software, but those were full featured applications. How many iPhone apps with much more functionality are selling for $1.99?
@Tom: I don’t see the the review as an endorsement of the price so much as a passing mention of it, but I’ll give you that your comment is relevant in that context. Fair enough.
I love Pukka! I previously balked at the price, but it picked it up when MuPromo was offering it at $10. Pukka was the missing piece for me in my Firefox to Safari transition.
I don’t miss the Delicious extension, I find Pukka’s ease of use to be on par with said extension, but search is where it really shines. I’ve got thousands of bookmarks and Pukka helps keep them at my fingertips.
I find it bizarre and baffling that you would write an entire blog entry about one application and not provide a link to it.
I’ve been satisfactorily using Delicious Safari without any issues. I wonder why you felt the UI was “kludgy”. However, Pukka is a step forward for Delicious fans. It offers search functions that are clearly missing in Delicious Safari. I loved the candy-like icon chosen for Pukka. Cheers to the visualizer.
Not sure if it’s an inside joke or what but the word “pukka” means “fart” in the Russian language. Therefore, are we talking about a delicious fart here?
@Tom Goetz: It’s very difficult to draw a conclusion when it comes to the price. So unless it’s something a heavenly deal or insanely expensive, I refuse to comment as such. I do a little research however and note that most customers are satisfied with paying for it. Here’s a couple of things Pukka has got going for it:
- It’s the only Delicious client for your entire Mac
- It’s not a simple client as it’s got search, integrated with Spotlight.
- It’s just a few dollars above the minimum one would pay for a Mac app.
Your argument about iPhone apps being $1.99 is totally flawed. The app store marketplace is totally different from Mac apps so you can’t have that same pricing strategy across both platforms. My prime example is Frenzic for iPhone vs Frenzic for Mac. iPhone version is more fun to play yet cheaper than the Mac version.
*We aren’t paid for any reviews, not even those of our sponsors.*
@Jon Henshaw: Yes it’s a bizarre thing indeed, but sometimes these little things kind of slip. We’ll try and get a system so that this doesn’t happen in future. Sorry!
@Timothy: Pukka means “settled, strong, original” in India (Hindi). Hence the title. No idea it meant that in Russian.
Anyway, as all things go, the choice is yours. If you find utility in this app, $17 is going to be the cost. If you don’t, just ignore the app.
Been a long time since I used Delicious. Maybe I’ll take a look at this and it again.
I’ve been using Delicious bookmarks for the last few years. It seems much better to be able to tag and add descriptions to web sites, and then search for them by tag or description when you forget the name, than just searching for the names of the sites.
But in that time I haden’t found a Delicious app on the Mac that I liked and found useful (apart from a Spotlight plug-in), until now.
Pukka’s new Spotlight like search has really changed that. It’s a great feature that’s really been needed for in a Delicious bookmark app for a long time. The ‘proper’ window for bookmarking is nice, but it’s the new search feature that’s turned it into a killer app for me.
@Timothy: Pukka’s name originally came from my wife’s suggestion, who at the time was a fan of the TV chef Jamie Oliver. He was fond of using the British slang “pukka” to describe food, and I took it as a meaning for “delicious”. Hence, the name.
I’ve also heard that’s an unappealing term in, I believe, Urdu. Can’t win them all, I guess.