26Jul/079
fichey is out
Check out fichey.com, my newest project.
Fichey saves pages from some of the top websites and shows them to you in a static "microfiche"-like format.
Therefore, your computer doesn't spend time rendering a page, requesting lots of separate images, running javascript, etc etc. You just get to see the content and move on (since most of the pages we see, we're not interested in.).
Then, when you see that magical page that you want to interact with, you can just double-click into the page from fichey and it's just like a normal page at that point.
Anyway, check it out, play with it, and of course, bugs/suggestions are always welcome


July 27th, 2007 - 11:16
all my thumbs up – looks brillant ! great work
July 27th, 2007 - 18:34
Flichey is the greatest thing for me since I discovered Netvibes. Just recently, Robert Scoble was sharing (http://www.viddler.com/explore/masterlock77/videos/1/) how he scans complete articles rather than just the headlines because the visual information is easier to process quickly. Flichey is a great tool to support that approach.
If you extend Flichey to let me use arbitrary RSS feeds and import my current feeds as an OPML file, I’d pay a fiver per month to use it. Also, if you need beta testers for new functionality or if you’d just like to toss some ideas around, feel free to contact me.
July 27th, 2007 - 18:51
A big problem for me though is that when I enter the original page by double-clicking. the URL doesn’t reflect that, i.e. the URL is always fichy.com/xyz. This prevents me from bookmarking the page. That’s somewhat of a downer.
July 28th, 2007 - 09:18
Wow, fichey is great! This might begin a new way of browsing multiple websites.
The only thing I’ve found so far is that on my Mac Powerbook 10.4 when I drag a page the “mouse event” does not “release” and continues to drag the page after I take my hand off the mouse. Maybe in the future you could add a Flash scrollbar? But this is not that big of an issue.
May I ask what language you coded used to “grab” the web pages and store them? ” PHP? or Python perhaps?
Thanks for good work! Hope you add more sites to your list like Slashdot.
July 28th, 2007 - 10:03
thanks for the comments and glad you are liking fichey
As for RSS, I agree that it could be a good idea to have fichey personalized …there would just need to be some issues worked out.
As far as bookmarking, just Right-Click on the “Original Link” and click bookmark.
There are a couple mac bugs — I’m going to be looking into them.
July 28th, 2007 - 14:35
Excellent, excellent, excellent ….
I finally can browse thorough the digg destination pages without wasting hours …..
Thanks !!
July 31st, 2007 - 10:33
This is great. I’ve been using it for a few days now, and I’ve noticed a few bugs and I have some suggestions.
1) When you double click a page (“more”) that is merely an image, it breaks you out of fichey, so you can’t go back.
2) When I do go back to fichey, it starts me at the beginning of the list. It would be cool to have a “jump to number N of N”
Slick interface though. It makes my morning web consumption much faster
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September 27th, 2007 - 20:58
What a brilliant concept! Saves me hours – or costs me hours rather as I wouldn’t bother viewing these pages without Fichey!
One problem however is the ‘original link’ doesn’t work in Firefox. Right clicking on the link and going to bookmark only shows Fichey.
It would be great if you could fix this. thanks!
October 20th, 2007 - 22:02
Is it possible for individual users to run their own RSS feeds through this app? This would be SO much cooler on a blog than just a simple feed of del.icio.us tags!