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

I was working on a blog post the other day about whether or not the Google Toolbar was a trojan horse for online advertising targeting. I was referencing a post on TechCrunch that talked about it and in their post they had a video of Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer talking about the issue.
The video was labeled as being from the Washington Post. When I tried to paste the embed code into my post in Windows Live Writer, Internet Explorer tried to keep opening new IE windows one right after another.
I have no idea what was happening or why, …read more

After working through a user account rebuild on my main operating machine in the past 24 hours, I’ve come to appreciate the fact that I haven’t relied upon locally stored “Favorites” for quite some time. I had been a very happy user of Yahoo!’s toolbard and bookmarks function until they upgraded their toolbar and broken most of the features I really liked.
So, I decided to ditch the Yahoo! toolbar for that component and hand one more thing over to Google, because I’m also very happy with their toolbar. Google’s presentation of my bookmarks is exactly what I had and miss …read more