I’ve been spending a little bit of time recently going through the thousands of bookmarks I’ve got saved in my local Firefox browser. I’ve been a happy user of the Google Toolbar for quite some time now and have relied on it for keeping most of my bookmarks.

I stayed away from del.icio.us for quite awhile, but have recently started using that as well to organize my websites. My thoughts behind using del.icio.us was to export all my existing bookmarks to it, but then also use it as a storage place for all the interesting websites I came across regularly.
I’ve got …read more

Today I spent a little bit of time trying to figure out something that should be much more obvious than it is for the end-user. All I wanted to do was to export my Google Bookmarks so I could share a section with someone very easily in a list format.
If you click on “Manage all…” as shown in the image above, you get the general bookmark management screen, but nowhere on that screen is there any type of wording that would suggest how to quickly export your bookmarks to a file.
Here’s where it become a challenge for me. I didn’t …read more

It seems I’ve been immersed in “Favorite” frustration today. I was recently strong-armed into upgrading my Yahoo! Toolbar and the wonderfully efficient arrangement of favorite websites I had been using for quite awhile.
Now I’ve begun looking at other options for managing my internet favorites. I’m nowhere close to relying on the bookmarks being stored locally on my machine. In trying to organize and import what I’ve got out of one location and into IE so I can then export to another location, quickly alphabetizing is helpful. Sure you can click “Sort by Name”, but sometimes you just want to wipe …read more

I’ve come across another wish item for IE7 or browsers in general.
If I’ve added a website to my “Favorites”, why isn’t it automatically trusted? Maybe not even automatically, but when I add it maybe I’m prompted to also “Trust” this site. Why should i have to add sites to two separate places if I use them daily. Wouldn’t you think if I used something daily I’d trust it?

I may have just found my favorite feature of all for IE7. The “Add Tab Group…” and “Open Tab Group..” feature. I regularly open the same group of websites everyday when I start up my computer:

Yahoo! Mail
Gmail
Bloglines
iWon
Fox Fantasy Sports

I also regularly open all of the my Admin panels to WordPress at the same time, or all of my stats pages at the same time. This little tool alone is going to save me a large number of clicks and mouse movements every day. I LOVE IT!