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Lesson 20 Managing your Favorites & Bookmarks
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Lets have a look at managing bookmarks. If you are like me, you probably your favorite websites bookmarked in the offic and at home. Have you forgotten a site which you saved at the office but needed to access at home? Storing your bookmarks on your local hard drive is nice, especially when you don't have an internet connection, but what if you want to access your bookmarks from school or work, when you're away from your home PC? What happens when you've a massive bookmark collection and want to search for one bookmark amongst the multitudes? And don't forget to backup your bookmarks when you migrate from XP to Vista! Isn't there an easier way? Yes, read further! The solution is to store all of your bookmarks on the web. This method of bookmark storage has numerous advantages. For one, you can access your bookmarks from any computer that has a web connection and browser; you no longer need to email bookmark links to yourself when you want to view them at school or work! Another great plus that's intrinsic with web-based bookmark storage is that you don't need to worry about backing up your bookmarks when you upgrade operating systems, switch browsers, perform a clean install or whatever. All your bookmarks are all safely residing on some web server somewhere, completely separate from your home computer. The oddly named web-based bookmark site, del.icio.us, is a great choice for storing all your bookmarks on the web. Delicious describes itself as a "social bookmarking site"; basically, this means that when you create an account and start building up a bookmark collection, you've the option to make your bookmarks private or public. When you designate a bookmark as "public", the public can see it; users can see your public bookmarks, and you can see theirs. Essentially, this social bookmarking method is a great way to find obscure websites that you probably would not have found by yourself.
To view this video lesson on Del.icio.us; Social Bookmarking, select here: http://www.pcdocpro.com/delicious.php Simply put, once you create a Delicious account, you can start saving bookmarks. Delicious employs an intelligent way of labeling your bookmarks called "tags". When you save a new bookmark, Delicious lets you give it various tags, which can be any number of words separated by spaces. By giving your bookmarks "tags", it makes searching for a specific bookmark easier; this is especially true when you've accumulated a copious amount of them. If you use Firefox or Internet Explorer to browse the web, you'll want to install the Delicious extension that'll make saving your bookmarks a cakewalk. After you've installed said plug-in, you'll see two new icons in Firefox or Internet Explorer toolbar. The first button will zip you on over to your Delicious account's homepage, and the second button, called the Tag Button, will allow you to tag and save the current page you're viewing as a bookmark.
After you've given the bookmark an appropriate title and tags, the extension will automatically push your new bookmark to your Delicious account--all in one fell swoop! Delicious makes searching for a specific bookmark incredibly simple with its tagging system. Because you can append multiple "tags" to a given bookmark, you can easily search for a bookmark if you know what you're generally looking for. Being a programmer, I've a tendency to save a lot of programming pages as bookmarks. When I save a bookmark that pertains to programming, I give it an appropriate tag so I can easily find it again should I need it quickly. For example, if the web page I'm on has to do with Python--a popular programming language--I'll give it a "python" tag, or if the page talks about Perl--another popular coding language--I will designate it so via a "perl" tag. Now when I want to view all my "Python" bookmarks, I can tell Delicious to just display all my Python bookmarks. This is a very powerful way to organize your bookmarks for quick retrieval. Delicious is an excellent way to store your bookmarks on a website. Doing so will give you "global" access to your bookmarks whether you're at work, school or across the world; you're no longer shackled to your home PC to get at your bookmarks! Surf on over to de.icio.us, create your very own account and start amassing your web-based bookmark collection! To view this video lesson on Del.icio.us; Social Bookmarking, select here: http://www.pcdocpro.com/delicious.php UNCLASSIFIED / FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Information contained in this document is designated by the Department of Defense (DoD) as For Official Use Only (FOUO) and may not be released to anyone without the prior permission of NHQ CAP and/or CAP-USAF. LINKS OR REFERENCES TO INDIVIDUALS OR COMPANIES DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN ENDORSEMENT OF ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE YOU MAY RECEIVE FROM SUCH SOURCES. Copyright (c) 1993-2007 TSR Computers Inc. All rights reserved. For information on this website please email webmaster@mer.cap.gov |
