Mozilla Raindrop First Impressions @ arthur.wiebe

Mozilla Raindrop First Impressions

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 Arthur 3 comments

I’ve installed Mozilla Labs Raindrop 0.1 on my local machine running Mac OS X 10.6 (Leopard).

First impression, it’s very easy to install and get going with from a technical point of view. I already had macports installed and so I installed couchdb, mercurial, and most of the python dependencies using macports for easy management and the ability to easily upgrade them.

After that it was just a matter of running the raindrop configure script which downloaded the extras like twitter, skype, and paisley python modules and away we go!

So that’s it for now, at the side you’ll see a screenshot of the browser window I get right now. It’s not configured yet or anything like that, but more is coming!

Technical mozilla, raindrop
3 responses to “Mozilla Raindrop First Impressions”
1. Srikanth Madduri October 23rd, 2009 at 12:56
  
  Hi,
  
  I am trying to configure raindrop. I followed the instructions on the Mozilla wiki but I did not understand what the ~/.raindrop meant. where do I find it? I have to configure my gmail and twitter. This is the first time I am doing something like this. Ignore my ignorance
  
  Thanks in advance,
  Sri
2. Arthur October 23rd, 2009 at 13:09
  
  Hi Srikanth, the ~/.raindrop simply means a file by the name of .raindrop in your user home directory. So on Mac OS X this would be /Users/yourusername/.raindrop and on Linux it would be /home/yourusername/.raindrop
  
  For example if from a shell prompt you entered this command:
  nano ~/.raindropIt would create a file of that name under your user home because ~/ simply is an alias for your home folder.
3. Srikanth Madduri October 23rd, 2009 at 13:15
  
  Great! thank you
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