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Cross Platform Browser Bookmark Autosyncing?
Milo_Mindbender asks: "So, geek that I am, I have several computers at home and several at the office, these come in both Windows and Linux flavors. Most have a copy of Firefox but for various reasons some have Mozilla and Internet Explorer too. Naturally, I'm going crazy trying to keep all the bookmarks in sync. Has anyone seen anything that can do this AUTOMATICALLY? I'd really like to just be able to use the 'add bookmark' feature in any browser and have them all sync up every now an then (each launch or at least each day). Various searches return tons of hits on bookmark managers, far too many to try them all out...so has anyone found anything that works?"
One option is a firefox extension called Bookmarksftp which basically uploads your bookmarks to a ftp server and downloads them as and when asked (or automattically). A version compatible with Firefox 0.10 is available here
To get the bookmarks in IE bookmarkstofav will do, but theres no proper version for Firefox 0.10
As a geek with several computers at home you surely have your own web server running somewhere. Do what I do...just create a page of your favorite links. I do that and set it as my home page on all the computers I use.
If you want to get fancy set it up with a database backend for easy update.
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http://www.spurl.com/ Allows you to access your bookmarks anywhere.
I'm going to assume you've either heard of http://del.icio.us and dont like it, or you've been living under a rock for the past few months. Delicious isnt everything youre looking for I'm sure but it is pretty neat. It's been around for almost a year but just in the past month it has gotten insanely popular.
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Now it doesnt sync your bookmarks with your browsers, instead it's an online place to store your bookmarks. What many people think is the best thing about it, including myself, is that you dont organize your bookmarks into folders. Instead you give them tags, and each bookmark can have more than one tag. A tag is basically just a category.
So for example if you're a web develper such as myself and you find something on javascript that just tickles you pink, then you click your little bookmarklet to add a post to delicious (there are many third party tools available as well), then tag it as "web dev javascript" or however you want (that's what I'd do)
At this point I only have about ~50 bookmarks so its not too handy yet but it will be. If I want to see all bookmarks on development, I can just type in "dev". If I want web development, I can type "web dev". If I want to see just javascript thigns, I can type "web dev javascript" or just "javascript". It's really cool because your bookmarks can fall under an unlimited number of categories, rather than the old structure of trying to figure out the one specific place you want to put this bookmark.
The other good thing is obviously you can access it from any computer on the internet, and not just the ones you normally use. I have already found this aspect of it very useful.
It's also a cool way to see what people are interested in that day. delicious/popular shows the top 20 or so links that have been added each day. If you want to see what other people have found that's interesting on javascript for example, you can just go to delicious/tag/javascript and it will show the last ~100 links that have been added to the site and tagged with "javascript". And each link it shows will also show how many other people have that same link bookmarked, so it's easy to find the popular things in any category.
I recommend it if you haven't checked it out already.
Joseph?
I've been using yahoo toolbar for the last few years and it's a life saver. I have used to access the same set of bookmarks on countless office & home computers, even when I moved across the country for the summer. Check it out.
You just bookmark using the toolbar, instead of the native browser. You can import/export/organize/etc.
I think they limit you to 1000 but that hasn't been an issue for me yet.
Netscape used to have something that would do this called Roaming Profile. It would sync with an LDAP server. That functionality is being recreated in Mozilla but it has been a low priority. Take a look at bug 17917 at bugzilla.mozilla.org and vote for it if you want to see it finished anytime soon.