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 Firefox bookmarks, I run Internet Explorer because I have a number of clients that have their as their corporate default browser so I have IE favorites as well. Then there’s the Google toolbar bookmarks and my del.icio.us links going too. Although not quite a favorite or bookmark, I’ve also got all my RSS feeds stored in Bloglines. How do you keep everything organized?

There’s a challenge with me of trying to figure out how to effectively use everything as needed without duplicating effort or usefulness. I think the best way to move forward is to really look at each tool and determine how you want to use each one for yourself. As you’re using it, then remember how and when you’ve decided to use each one for it’s own specific task.

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What’s Your Favorite Bookmarking Tool

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, but my question is how do you recover from an impending crash that you know is about to happen? I tried to open Task Manager and start ending the tasks manually but they were starting new ones faster than I could kill the applications. It was the same case for trying to kill the processes as well. I knew it was coming. How do you stop it? I couldn’t even get to my other open programs to try and save items before it happened.

Anyone with an idea of what occurred let me know so I can try and avoid it in the future. Was it a problem with IE? Was it a problem with Windows Live Writer? Was it a problem with the embedded code itself trying to do something?

If you don’t know the answers to that but know how to escape from an impending crash quickly please let me know.

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Impending Total IE Crash: How Do You Recover From This

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 from the newest version of the Yahoo Toolbar. In part of that migration, it appeared to be necessary to export everything from Yahoo! to IE’s favorites and then import IE’s favorites into the Google Bookmarks functionality. Everything worked like a charm, but it kind of surprised me that IE still relies on an HTML file to import the bookmarks. I’m really surprised it wasn’t an XML format at this point with IE7.

Another new use of IE7 that I haven’t really taken advantage of in the past is letting IE7 remember and store my logins and passwords for sites. How many other people let IE7 handle that aspect for them? I used to be concerned about my logins/passwords being stored anywhere other than the neurons in my brain remembering them. I’m just not sure if it’s really an issue anymore. What do you think?

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Modifications to My Browsing Preferences