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Like everyone else, I have to congratulate UserLand for shipping Radio. It shows all of those little touches that mean that people actually tried to flesh out all of the little corners in the software that might have gotten left behind in a hurry to fill out a list of functionality. Like the little prev/next links on the prefs pages. The little 'help' question marks all over. The way the pages flow together. Yeah, sure, there are little unpolished pieces that show up when the big parts shift around. But there are no gaping holes of functionality. And this certainly is not a product that chases the tailights of some other product. There are other products that do some of the things that Radio does, but not all of them, and not so completely. If you are a developer and enjoy coding your way around everything (if you have a bunch of one-off scripts, if you love interpreted languages, if you are always looking for ways to automate processes), then you could spend the rest of your life inside of Radio. Okay, this could be the euphoria that comes when playing with a new toy. But I put Pike through it's paces, and ran with the ball even farther when Pike turned into Radio. This version of Radio is a much more completely concieved product. It makes it possible to drink from the firehose of information that the internet provides, and actually keep up.
Good work, guys. |
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I like this email-to-weblog thing. 5:21:10 PM  comments () trackback []
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That's our sugar glider Spirit peeking out of her little bag. She's nocturnal, and this was early evening, so she's just waking up. |
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Okay, here's another feature request, or at least a pref request: Keep my ftp settings even if I uncheck the box. 12:52:40 PM comments () trackback []
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Wow. You know, I've been reading many raves about Radio, and I was one of the many people repeatedly hitting the download page anxiously waiting for the links to go live. Now I see what you can do with it.
It feels like a mini-Manila. It's not dynamic,. but it's easy and flexible. As far as I can tell, the easy things can be done without thought, and the hard things are possible. Hell, I know how powerful the engine underneath Radio is. It should be possible to do some amazing things with it. |
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Okay, so now I have a couple of thoughts. Radio is at a tremendous price point -- I won't even think twice about paying for it. In fact, since I commonly switch platforms between Mac and Windows, I'll be buying one for each. Is there any way to keep two copies of Radio in sync? I'd like to be able to blog from whichever instance I'm at. I know that there are ways to make it so that you can blog from anywhere, but certainly having a local copy of Radio is better than blogging remotely or sending email. It's incredibly cool that Radio makes it possible to do anything remotely, but I'd still like to explore keeping two copies in sync.
So I guess it's time to start digging... |
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