Yahoo! recently sent out a broadcast mail informing on the happenings with the bookmark service Delicious:AVOS is a new company started by the founders of the original YouTube service (as in the people who brought it to life before the Google acquisition), so this is absolute confirmation that Delicious is sticking around for a while yet. Why use...

On the heels of the upcoming demise of the Delicious bookmarking service comes Trunk.ly. How this service works is ridiculously simple and useful at the same time – a good combination. The way to use Trunk.ly is by doing the following:Get a free account. Authorize either your Twitter, Facebook, Delicious account or all three. There is no step three...

There are only three options to sort bookmarks in Firefox. The first is the default way where you add bookmarks and they are placed in order that you added them. The second way is to manually adjust their order, and the third "Sort by Name". You don’t have any other options besides that. With SortPlaces however, you do:SortPlaces is probably...

A blog post on the Xmarks website recently let everyone know the hammer is being put down and Xmarks will be gone in 90 days. I give credit to the Todd Agulnick (co-founder of Xmarks) for at having the decency and courtesy to let their users be aware of this because he technically doesn’t have to. He could pull the plug right now, but the guy has a heart...

Xmarks, arguably one of the most popular bookmark synchronization services, started life out as Foxmarks as it at one time was a Firefox-only thing. One of the coolest things about Foxmarks back in the day was that it was really easy to synchronize your bookmarks to your own FTP server. Granted, Xmarks never lost this functionality, but per each successive...

The entire reason we didn’t use sidebars for anything in web browsers years ago is simply because we didn’t have the screen real estate for it. We more or less always had the option, but it took too much away from web page viewing to be useful. Since many people today use higher resolutions, we now can use bookmarks in the sidebar while still having...

Out of the box, the Firefox add bookmark interface is very simple/limited (version 3.5 at least). As such, if you have a detailed folder breakdown you have to go through the drop list menu to get the interface where you can organize the new addition. If you do a lot of bookmarking this can be annoying, so to help with this check out the OpenBook add-on. This...

Unless you are organized and disciplined, over time bookmarks can accumulate to the point where there are so many you don’t know what you have. If this sounds familiar, then you should check out the Firefox add-on Bookmark Duplicate Detector. Detects Duplicate Bookmarks when bookmarks are added and specify where is the previous URL. You can also search and...

A while ago, I wrote about how to backup your Firefox bookmarks and that occassionally doing so was prudent in the event of a disaster. Of course, the problem with that method is that it is a manual process you have to remember to do. The best method is to have your bookmarks backed up automatically and the appropriately named add-on, Bookmark Backup, does just...

Most of us have a few sites we like to visit on a daily basis first thing in the morning (i.e. PCMech, your favorite comics, etc.). Rather than having to go through the ‘hassle’ of manually opening each page, check out the Firefox extension Morning Coffee. From the extension’s description: This extension lets you organize websites by day and...

One thing you might not consider when making your backups are your Internet bookmarks. Odds are you probably have quite a bit of time invested in locating and organizing these backups, so having a backup is a good idea. To accomplish this task in the most popular browsers, here is a handy reference. The process is pretty easy and is something which you should...

Foxmarks is a freely available add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Normally what you would do to send/retrieve your bookmarks is use the Foxmarks servers to store this information, however if you host your own web site (or just use free FTP space provided by your ISP) you can store your own bookmarks privately via FTP. See video below for...

Bookmark management in all web browsers is terrible. All of them. You would think that something as simple as searching for a bookmark would be simple and easy to do but it usually isn’t. In Firefox 3 you can at least search your bookmarks easily if you know how to do it. Fortunately this is quite easy. All you have to do is use your address bar. Just type...

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Firefox 3 was recently released by Mozilla and they broke a world record in doing so for the most downloads in a 24 hour period. There is a reason the browser is so popular: it is flexible and well thought out. Out of the many new features available with the new version, one of them is the way it handles bookmarks. So, what’s new and what are my tips for...