Chrome has its own bookmark sync now (separate from Google Bookmarks, IIRC) that does what you want. Open up Options, then go to the Personal Stuff tab.
If you need to sync across multiple browsers, Xmarks will sync Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari.
They're not quite the same, though. Delicious has always been at least in part about personal use: Sure, it would be cool if someone else saw this neat site I bookmarked and also liked it, but really I'm posting it so that I can find it myself later, since I might not be on the same computer.
Reddit, Digg, and StumbleUpon, however, are very much about promotion^H^H^H^H^Hsharing, and if you post things just for your own use, they'll get treated as junk or spam.
I use XMarks to synchronize across different computers and browsers. They were actually going to shut down next month, but an outpouring of support from users convinced LastPass it would be worth buying the company and setting up a freemium model (basic service is free, you can pay for extras). Free accounts get automatic bookmark sync and online access to the bookmarks from other browsers. Premium accounts add Android & iPhone apps, tab sync, and a couple of other things.
Most web browsers have some sort of biult-in sync service these days, though of course it only works if you use the same browser on every computer.
Firefox 4 adds a built-in sync service. Chrome and Opera both have built-in sync services. Safari has some sort of sync service, but I think it might be part of mobile.me or whatever Apple is calling their online offering these days. Not sure about IE, but I'd bet there's a Windows Live bookmarking service by now.
Another good one is Greg Keyes' Age of Unreason series (written as J. Gregory Keyes, but newer editions use the shorter version of his name). It starts out with Newton succeeding in making alchemy work, which leads to a very different kind of industrial revolution in the late 17th/early 18th century. A young Benjamin Franklin is one of the main characters in the four-book series.
Try clearing your cookies in between (or just use a different browser), or test it with someone else's email address. It only shows your name and photo if you were previously logged on with the same account.
I'm not sure how wise that is, but it's certainly an improvement over any random person being able to extract the information (assuming, of course, that your name and photo aren't already publicly associated with that email address via other channels).
Maybe it relies on a cookie or something, and it only shows that to you because you've been logged in before.
That does seem to be the case. I just tested it on two browsers, one of which I don't use with Facebook.
On the browser that I don't use with Facebook, the "Please enter your password" screen did not include a name or picture.
On the browser that I do use with Facebook, and had just logged out seconds before, my name and photo did appear. However, if I entered someone else's address, the name and photo did not appear. Just for kicks, I tried two email addresses, one of which I know does have an account and one of which I know doesn't. Facebook *did* tell me which one was not associated with an account.
A spammer isn't going to have your cookies, so they won't get your name and photo. But they can confirm whether you have a Facebook account or not.
When I was in college in the mid-1990s, I had a clipped-out newspaper cartoon on my bulletin board, showing a group of people correcting signs, muttering things like "I before E!" and "It's Brussels Sprouts, not Brussel Sprouts!". I can't remember what comic strip it was, but the panel was captioned, "Roving Gangs of Rogue Proofreaders."
I think you could get a subsidy if you wanted to slum around on T-Mobile, actually.
Yes, you could get an upgrade price on T-Mobile...but only if you had an individual plan. If you had a family plan, and wanted to upgrade one of your phones to a Nexus One, you had to pay full price for the unlocked phone.
aren't services like Google Wave written without Flash, just loads of Javascript?
Google Wave also relies on a lot of HTML5 features which aren't available in IE7 or IE8 (never mind IE6). The only reason that Wave appears to run in IE is that Google came up with a way to embed Chrome in the IE window. That means getting the end-user to install another add-in.
I'd been wondering why Mozilla rushed out an update so quickly after releasing 3.6.4, because they'd been testing that crash protection for months. I think I installed the first release candidate at the beginning of May, and they released several more candidates between that time and the final release.
Now we know: The type of user who is willing to beta-test a web browser is a lot less likely to play Farmville, or else has a super-fast computer that Farmville doesn't hang. Otherwise, this would have been caught a month ago.
On Twitter, the reader is the moderator. If someone you don't follow posts a useless comment, you'll never see it unless someone you do follow decides to be sadistic about it.
If your reason for not liking Twitter is "I don't really care what you had for breakfast," the problem isn't Twitter - it's that you need to find some more interesting friends.
Just like a telephone, its usefulness depends on who you have on the other end of the line.
How have they missed the fact that "Shit My Dad Says" is the title of the source material? Complaining that CBS chose to "insert" the word into the title makes them look like the people who were horrified that New Line Cinema decided to use an obvious 9/11 reference in the sequel to "Fellowship of the Ring"..."The Two Towers."
(All that said, I could have sworn I read somewhere that CBS had retitled the TV show as "Stuff My Dad Says," but I guess I misremembered.)
It's always seemed like a bad idea to name anything after a figure whose claim to fame was that he ignored warnings against exceeding the tolerances of his vehicle, causing it to break up and kill him.
...I mean, the word "News" really is in scare quotes on their "More 'News' Here..." button. And that's considering that there's just one source, and British newspapers make things up.
Sometimes, lawsuits take a *long* time to get through the courts to the point where they're dismissed or resolved. Six years from incident to dismissal doesn't surprise me as much as I wish it did.
There's a book called "The True Stella Awards" by Randy Cassingham, which is full of documented court cases that waste time & money, set bad precedents, try to punish the wrong people, etc, and it's disheartening to see how long the process can take.
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To make things worse, I use three browsers (Firefox, Chrome, and Safari) so a browser specific bookmarking tool won't do it. Any other suggestions?
At the risk of repeating myself: Xmarks. It'll sync Firefox, Chrome, Safari and IE.
Chrome has its own bookmark sync now (separate from Google Bookmarks, IIRC) that does what you want. Open up Options, then go to the Personal Stuff tab.
If you need to sync across multiple browsers, Xmarks will sync Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari.
They're not quite the same, though. Delicious has always been at least in part about personal use: Sure, it would be cool if someone else saw this neat site I bookmarked and also liked it, but really I'm posting it so that I can find it myself later, since I might not be on the same computer.
Reddit, Digg, and StumbleUpon, however, are very much about promotion^H^H^H^H^Hsharing, and if you post things just for your own use, they'll get treated as junk or spam.
I use XMarks to synchronize across different computers and browsers. They were actually going to shut down next month, but an outpouring of support from users convinced LastPass it would be worth buying the company and setting up a freemium model (basic service is free, you can pay for extras). Free accounts get automatic bookmark sync and online access to the bookmarks from other browsers. Premium accounts add Android & iPhone apps, tab sync, and a couple of other things.
Most web browsers have some sort of biult-in sync service these days, though of course it only works if you use the same browser on every computer.
Firefox 4 adds a built-in sync service.
Chrome and Opera both have built-in sync services.
Safari has some sort of sync service, but I think it might be part of mobile.me or whatever Apple is calling their online offering these days.
Not sure about IE, but I'd bet there's a Windows Live bookmarking service by now.
Another good one is Greg Keyes' Age of Unreason series (written as J. Gregory Keyes, but newer editions use the shorter version of his name). It starts out with Newton succeeding in making alchemy work, which leads to a very different kind of industrial revolution in the late 17th/early 18th century. A young Benjamin Franklin is one of the main characters in the four-book series.
Or they went with "libre" because it's unambiguously free-as-in-speech, and not commonly confused with free-as-in-beer.
I found a scan of the comic strip on my computer. It was Bent Offerings, by Don Addis.
Probably Farside.
It's certainly the right kind of humor, but I think it was something else. Maybe "Close to Home?"
Try clearing your cookies in between (or just use a different browser), or test it with someone else's email address. It only shows your name and photo if you were previously logged on with the same account.
I'm not sure how wise that is, but it's certainly an improvement over any random person being able to extract the information (assuming, of course, that your name and photo aren't already publicly associated with that email address via other channels).
Maybe it relies on a cookie or something, and it only shows that to you because you've been logged in before.
That does seem to be the case. I just tested it on two browsers, one of which I don't use with Facebook.
On the browser that I don't use with Facebook, the "Please enter your password" screen did not include a name or picture.
On the browser that I do use with Facebook, and had just logged out seconds before, my name and photo did appear. However, if I entered someone else's address, the name and photo did not appear. Just for kicks, I tried two email addresses, one of which I know does have an account and one of which I know doesn't. Facebook *did* tell me which one was not associated with an account.
A spammer isn't going to have your cookies, so they won't get your name and photo. But they can confirm whether you have a Facebook account or not.
When I was in college in the mid-1990s, I had a clipped-out newspaper cartoon on my bulletin board, showing a group of people correcting signs, muttering things like "I before E!" and "It's Brussels Sprouts, not Brussel Sprouts!". I can't remember what comic strip it was, but the panel was captioned, "Roving Gangs of Rogue Proofreaders."
I think you could get a subsidy if you wanted to slum around on T-Mobile, actually.
Yes, you could get an upgrade price on T-Mobile...but only if you had an individual plan. If you had a family plan, and wanted to upgrade one of your phones to a Nexus One, you had to pay full price for the unlocked phone.
aren't services like Google Wave written without Flash, just loads of Javascript?
Google Wave also relies on a lot of HTML5 features which aren't available in IE7 or IE8 (never mind IE6). The only reason that Wave appears to run in IE is that Google came up with a way to embed Chrome in the IE window. That means getting the end-user to install another add-in.
I'd been wondering why Mozilla rushed out an update so quickly after releasing 3.6.4, because they'd been testing that crash protection for months. I think I installed the first release candidate at the beginning of May, and they released several more candidates between that time and the final release.
Now we know: The type of user who is willing to beta-test a web browser is a lot less likely to play Farmville, or else has a super-fast computer that Farmville doesn't hang. Otherwise, this would have been caught a month ago.
On Twitter, the reader is the moderator. If someone you don't follow posts a useless comment, you'll never see it unless someone you do follow decides to be sadistic about it.
On a more serious note, what percentage of people are "interesting" enough to have worthwhile tweets?
For that matter, what percentage of pages on the web are "interesting?"
If your reason for not liking Twitter is "I don't really care what you had for breakfast," the problem isn't Twitter - it's that you need to find some more interesting friends.
Just like a telephone, its usefulness depends on who you have on the other end of the line.
Wow...the contrast between the NASA article and the Telegraph article is amazing. Is anyone else reminded of SMBC's cartoon on science reporting?
Are they seriously trying to convince me that someone would want to pirate Uwe Boll's movies?
How have they missed the fact that "Shit My Dad Says" is the title of the source material? Complaining that CBS chose to "insert" the word into the title makes them look like the people who were horrified that New Line Cinema decided to use an obvious 9/11 reference in the sequel to "Fellowship of the Ring"..."The Two Towers."
(All that said, I could have sworn I read somewhere that CBS had retitled the TV show as "Stuff My Dad Says," but I guess I misremembered.)
I see that they're aiming for October 28. You'd think someone would have tried to aim the "Perfect 10" for a 10/10/10 release date.
It's always seemed like a bad idea to name anything after a figure whose claim to fame was that he ignored warnings against exceeding the tolerances of his vehicle, causing it to break up and kill him.
How can you kill that which has no life?
Remove the head or destroy the brain?
...I mean, the word "News" really is in scare quotes on their "More 'News' Here..." button. And that's considering that there's just one source, and British newspapers make things up.
Sometimes, lawsuits take a *long* time to get through the courts to the point where they're dismissed or resolved. Six years from incident to dismissal doesn't surprise me as much as I wish it did.
There's a book called "The True Stella Awards" by Randy Cassingham, which is full of documented court cases that waste time & money, set bad precedents, try to punish the wrong people, etc, and it's disheartening to see how long the process can take.