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Updated: 18-12-2005; 18:08:15.

 Mercoledì, 21 agosto 2002

Update on shared bookmarks (see below):

  • Steven Vore:Unfortionately, on Windows IE doesn't keep favorites in a single file. Instead it uses a special folder full of .url files (and nested folders)
  • Chris Janton: Works well for Mozilla on Mac OS X. Similar procedure with Bookmarks.html found in ~/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/...
  • Adam Curry has taken a step further, sharing also the history file.

Sharing the history file is a good idea, but I'm afraid that doing it the way I did with the bookmarks file would cause Radio to trigger an upstream each time a page is visited with IE. It would probably be relatively easy to write a Radio tool to take care of uploading the history file once every 10 minutes. This same tool could also synch local bookmarks files across different computers and different browsers... hmmm... anyone out there willing to write this tool?

Sharing your browser's bookmarks

One of the problems of moving from one computer to the other (or having more than one computer) is that my bookmarks are always stored on the "other" computer or another browser on the same computer.

Here's what I've just done to solve this (these instructions are for Explorer/MacOS X users, but I'm sure the same can be done on MacOS 9 and Windows and other browsers, if you know how to do this post the instructions on your weblog and I'll link them here):

  1. Quit Explorer if it's running
  2. Move the favorities file (/Users/username/Library/Preferences/Explorer/Favorities.html) to your Radio UserLand/www/ folder, renaming it Favorities.txt
  3. Create an alias of the file you have just moved into the www folder into the original Preferences/Explorer folder, renaming it back Favorities.html.
  4. Open Explorer

Done, now every time you will add a bookmark in Explorer, Radio will upstream to your weblog a page containing all your bookmarks (in a nice page using your theme) that you can access from any computer just going to your blog address adding /Favorities.html to the url.

Consider that doing this will expose your bookmarks to everybody, so if you have any confidential stuff there don't do this (I published my bookmarks on my internal blog which is password protectes).

Today UPS is picking up my PowerBook to take it all the way to Germany. The screen needs to be relaced because there's a line of dead pixels.

So I backed up everything on a FireWire drive, and now I'm posting from my home's iMac. So far everything seems to work properly, but also if my TiBook is still here, I already miss it.

I'm learning a few new tricks from this experience, I'll share them here.

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