Storyboard
Sep 25, 06:51 pm
A new Safari enhancing app called (h)iStoryboard has been released. Leaving aside the clumsy name (were there copyright reasons for putting the ’(h)’ in front?) its a great little app.
It allows you to navigate through your Safari history visually, by providing a series of thumbnails of visited sites. This isn’t the first way of browsing history visually, but unlike History Hounds list of page titles and single preview pane, the thumbnail approach makes for quicker scanning. It can display a maximum of 549 sites, but its restricted to 10 for the demo (a full licence costs a mere 2€ though!). UI wise, the main window is fine, but the controller window could do with losing that horrible background colour.
My only other nitpick is that I’d like to be able to shorten the height of the thumbnails. You can tell most sites from top 200px, so loosing a little height would be great. By the way, each thumbnail as its own miniature scrollbars – not sure how useful this is, as they aren’t exactly easy to grab.
This is great, but ideally, I’d prefer an in-Safari solution. Maybe one for Hetima or Hao to think about? In the meantime, I generally have a rule that external apps don’t get in, but I’m thinking about making this one of the exceptions.
Posted by Jon Hicks
No, it’s so that it reads HISTORYboard.