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Bob Russell · 07-21-2004, 11:17 AM

In case anyone is interested, I tried a few of these tools and while they are useful in the right circumstances, they didn't really give me what I wanted. Here's a quick rundown of what I can remember:

*) Spurl.net -- This is a cool tool for keeping your bookmarks on the web, but isn't really integrated with browsers. Additionally, I had concerns about privacy because some urls contain private info and even password or email info. So before I tried it, I had to separate all my "private" bookmarks from ones that I didn't care if were seen. That was a big task in itself because I have over 1000 bookmarks.

Obviously I use bookmarks like a filing cabinet with locations I may or may not go back to later. It's a nice way to keep a nice site available without having to spend any time on it until I choose to.

*) Favigo for Palm -- This app is really intended to be used on one computer and lets you go mobile with the bookmarks. I think you may even be able to beam them, but you can at least look them up or modify them on the go. It's a neat app, and I was even able to use it to sync across computers. But for that purpose, you have to sync twice at each computer, and with 1000+ bookmarks, that was a bit impractical. I like the app, and the author even got back to me really quick with info about it when I had a questions. Just not quite what I need.

*) Yahoo toolbar -- I use Firefox now for a lot of my browsing at home, and it isn't available there. I also don't like loosing that additional real estate for the toolbar in my browser. And you have to either log in repeatedly or leave it logged in (not good if you're not at home). But more importantly, they have a limit of how many bookmarks can be uploaded, so it didn't really do what I needed.

I did glance at furl and some other alternatives, but didn't really see anything worth spending time on. In the back of my mind I'm thinking about writing some code to do something like this, but there are so many approaches and I don't know what is going to be easy/hard to code yet. (If I ever get around to it at all!)

Besides, most of my "free" time for computers goes to my http://superwaba.blogspot.com/ which documents my attempt at programming on my Palm.

Later.

07-21-2004, 11:17 AM	#5
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	In case anyone is interested, I tried a few of these tools and while they are useful in the right circumstances, they didn't really give me what I wanted. Here's a quick rundown of what I can remember: ) Spurl.net -- This is a cool tool for keeping your bookmarks on the web, but isn't really integrated with browsers. Additionally, I had concerns about privacy because some urls contain private info and even password or email info. So before I tried it, I had to separate all my "private" bookmarks from ones that I didn't care if were seen. That was a big task in itself because I have over 1000 bookmarks. Obviously I use bookmarks like a filing cabinet with locations I may or may not go back to later. It's a nice way to keep a nice site available without having to spend any time on it until I choose to. ) Favigo for Palm -- This app is really intended to be used on one computer and lets you go mobile with the bookmarks. I think you may even be able to beam them, but you can at least look them up or modify them on the go. It's a neat app, and I was even able to use it to sync across computers. But for that purpose, you have to sync twice at each computer, and with 1000+ bookmarks, that was a bit impractical. I like the app, and the author even got back to me really quick with info about it when I had a questions. Just not quite what I need. *) Yahoo toolbar -- I use Firefox now for a lot of my browsing at home, and it isn't available there. I also don't like loosing that additional real estate for the toolbar in my browser. And you have to either log in repeatedly or leave it logged in (not good if you're not at home). But more importantly, they have a limit of how many bookmarks can be uploaded, so it didn't really do what I needed. I did glance at furl and some other alternatives, but didn't really see anything worth spending time on. In the back of my mind I'm thinking about writing some code to do something like this, but there are so many approaches and I don't know what is going to be easy/hard to code yet. (If I ever get around to it at all!) Besides, most of my "free" time for computers goes to my http://superwaba.blogspot.com/ which documents my attempt at programming on my Palm. Later.