Sunday, July 29, 2007

Useful (or Useless)Tech Tip#3: Keep Your Bookmarks Organized


Two ways I have found to keep my bookmarks organized. I am using del.icio.us more and more and that is great way of organizing them. The cool thing about del.icio.us is that by "tagging" them you can just type in the search bar in del.icio.us the tag name and it will pull up all the links you have saved. Another cool thing about this is that if you ever have to format your hard drive or if you buy another computer and if you did not export and save your bookmarks on a thumb drive or on your computer you just log into your del.icio.us account(and of course it's free) and your bookmarks are there for you. You can share your bookmarks with your friends who have del.icio.us accounts as well (Firefox has an extension you can use where you will have the del.icio.us and tag button on your browser).

Another way to organized your bookmarks is by making folders and categorizing your favorite links in each folder. I find this method really helpful because this way say if you are looking for the link you saved for Apple products, instead of having to scroll down a long list of bookmarks you have saved (if you are using IE it is called "Favorites") you just go to that folder and it will have the list of your favorites for Apple products.

One more thing...remember to save your bookmarks. You can do this by exporting and saving your bookmarks in your My Documents folder or you can use this method I just learned yesterday when I called in to the show The Tech Guy.

Be Blessed and Happy Geekin'

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