08.12.05

OnFolio

Posted in General at 2:02 am by jw

Onfolio is another cute utility program I’ve found useful enough to go out and buy.  It’s a great tool for searching the web and keeping information that you know you’re going to use later – especially those annoying sites that tend to come and go seemingly without rhyme or reason.

My favorite uses for this tool so far have been:

  • Storing web info – whether it be an EQ2 walkthrough, a nice article on a political action I find curious or someone else’s posting on a message board I may want to keep for incriminating evidence later, the web capture utility does a great job of managing full pages for later offline viewing.
  • One of the best RSS readers around.  This tool will aggregate a bunch of different RSS feeds into a newspaper format for quick browsing.  You can even flag stuff you want to read later and it dumps it into a special folder for you to pick through when you have time.

Onfolio

I’ve used a few different offline web storage engines before and none have had the polish and ease of use that Onfolio has given.  No – I’m not being paid to say this.  I just like to give props to a good product when I see it.

2 Comments »

  1. Giuseppe Said:

    August 20, 2007 at 2:36 am

    John,
    I have seen your post in the ONFOLIO forum with your plugin to let it work in Firefox 2.0. It does work ! except for feeds. Onfolio cant load them nor the Feeds menu works. Sometime it crashed with this error:

    18 August 2007 17:47:56

    Onfolio Version: 2.0
    Onfolio Build: 7169

    OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600.0
    Runtime version: 1.1.4322.573
    Shutdown started: False
    Program: “C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”

    Memory Load: 77%
    Total Physical: 514 MB
    Available Physical: 118 MB
    Total Page File: 1256 MB
    Available Page File: 898 MB
    Total Virtual: 2097 MB
    Available Virtual: 1722 MB
    Available Extented Virtual: 0 MB

    Unexpected Error Occurred
    An unexpected error has occurred within the application.

    System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
    at Project31.MindShare.View.Commands.Handlers.CollectionPreferencesHandler.ShowCollectionPreferences(Control owner, CollectionEntity collection, CollectionPreferencesPanel selectedPanel)
    at Project31.MindShare.View.Commands.Handlers.CollectionPreferencesHandler.ShowCollectionPreferences(Control owner, CollectionEntity collection)
    at Onfolio.Feeds.CollectionView.CollectionViewControl.commandFeedsPrefs_Execute(Object sender, EventArgs e)
    at Project31.ApplicationFramework.Command.RaiseEvent(Object eventKey, EventArgs e)
    at Project31.ApplicationFramework.Command.OnExecute(EventArgs e)

    Thnaks for any further help.

    cheers,

    g.

  2. jw Said:

    August 20, 2007 at 9:26 am

    Ugh.

    I actually stopped using OnFolio with Firefox about 6 months ago and switched all my libraries to the Scrapbook extension. It was disappointing to have to do it, but without any more support on the product it seemed like the only viable route to take going forward.

    With the hack I made to the plugin to get it to work on Firefox 2.0, it was only unpacking the .xpi file (it’s really just a .zip file) and changing the compatible versions inside the metadata to include Firefox 2.x.

    Sorry I’m not much more help than that.

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