Posts Tagged With: delicious
· August 8, 2007 at 7:04 am · Online Tools
If I ever lost my bookmarks I would be totally lost.
From projects to cool sites to those darn dancing badgers - I need my bookmarks to survive. With that in mind, I have been backing up my bookmarks early and often using these steps and I thought I would share them with you. When it is all said and done you too will be able to use del.icio.us to backup your bookmarks.
There are only two steps you have to take to backup your bookmarks from your browser to Del.icio.us:
Step One: Export from Browser - The first thing you need to do is export your bookmarks from your browser. I use Firefox, so we will stick with that for now. In the Firefox menu bar click on “Bookmarks” and then “Manage Bookmarks” to pull up your bookmark manager.
Once inside of there, go to “File” then “Export…” and save the “bookmarks.html” to your desktop.
Step Two: Upload to the Web - Login to the del.icio.us web site and then click on the “Settings” link at the top. Under the “Bookmarks” section click on the link for “import/upload”. The rest of the steps from here are easy to follow. Read the instructions and upload your “bookmark.html” file you backed up earlier.
As a tag, I usually use “bookmarkbackup” but you are free to use whatever you wish. Just make sure it is unique so you don’t get them mixed up with your other saved items if you use del.icio.us for multiple reasons.
There you have it. Now your bookmarks should be saved and you don’t need to worry - just in case the worst might happen to your browser, computer and/or house. Del.icio.us to the rescue again!
· May 2, 2007 at 8:00 am · Online Tools
For some unknown reason, Google Browser Sync decided to go wacky on me yesterday. Kept getting disconnected and 502 error codes. The browser sync had never done me wrong before - but I can’t afford not to be connected between my machines. So I set out for a long search to try to find an alternative and a replacement.
Meet the contenders…
Foxmarks - There is no tool out there that does everything GBS does, but the main thing I need is bookmark syncing. Foxmarks did do the work - only problem was it was confusing to setup. I wasn’t sure if I was uploading or downloading, syncing or unsyncing. I’m sure if I spent time with it - it might have made sense, but if I can’t figure it out in five minutes - I’m probably not going to use it.
Online Bookmark Manager - This is another Firefox extension solution with a free hosted space. I would say if folks like the idea behind Foxmarks but want a different route to go, OBM is worth a shot. Still didn’t do what I needed it to do though.
Bookmarks Synchronizer - This is a Firefox extension that let you connect to an FTP/WebDAV server and synchronize your bookmarks that are stored in an XML file. Nice, but still did not cut the cake for me. This is yet another solution like Foxmarks and OBM - but no free hosting for the backups.
If not these, who did you go with for bookmark syncing?
All of these were good solutions, but I decided to give the del.icio.us Bookmarks extension a shot. I moved all my PC bookmarks over to del.icio.us and I have to say I like it thus far.
All the “secret” bookmarks I have set to hide from the public - and it was easy enough to setup on both my desktop PC and my notebook computer. This extension totally replaces your standard bookmarking and replaces it with del.icio.us.
The whole thing is very fast as well - they much cache some of the results, because I can hardly even notice this is “integrated with the Web” at all.
· January 11, 2007 at 8:23 am · Hot Web Topics
I have been a big fan of Steve Rubel’s writing for a long time - so I was more than happy to see that he found his way to my Google Reader article that I wrote a few days ago. After he did link to me and del.icio.us put me on the front page, I noticed a boost in traffic.
As you can see the little bars went up - and that is a good thing. So in an effort to find something to call this wonderful surge of popularity, the best thing I could come up with was “Rubelized”.
Has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? Of course my 15 minutes of popularity are probably almost over - but I promise all you regular readers you will continue to get the best my fingers have to offer every single day.
