{"id":278,"date":"2003-05-10T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2003-05-10T15:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=278"},"modified":"2003-05-10T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2003-05-10T15:32:25","slug":"missing_links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/10\/missing_links.html","title":{"rendered":"Missing Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Favorites list is out of control. I have hundreds of entries in it. And I only actually visit a tiny, tiny fraction of then.<\/p>\n

Fact is, for the stuff I go to regularly, I use the Links folder in IE. For the stuff I go to infrequently … well, in 95% of the cases, I go to Google and search for it anew, or I go to what I know is the top page and go through the site’s navigation (which changes so often on most commercial sites that keeping a link to anything deeper than that is pretty useless).<\/p>\n

It is a puzzlement.<\/p>\n

So I need to think about trimming down my Favorites folder, too. A spring housecleaning, so to speak. And some of the stuff, if it seems of more global interest, I might simply store in a post here, rather than in the Favorites. <\/p>\n

By the way, if you keep a Favorites list of any size, have you looked at SyncIt<\/a>? This service does a couple of things I find in-frickin-valuable:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. It keeps your IE Favorites (and Netscape Bookmarks) backed up on an Internet site. That has saved my butt more than once.\n
  2. It lets you access that list from any Internet-connected PC (which is the only time you’d want to anyway, right?). So if you’re at a friend’s house and you want to find something in your Favorites, you can.<\/p>\n
  3. You can have multiple PCs synchronized to the same Favorites list. Your home machine and your work machine, for example. Add a link on one, it will show up on the other.<\/ol>\n

    There is a fee — presently it’s a $50-for-life sort of thing (that applies to a given bookmark set, unlimited machines). I was, alas, hooked like a crack fiend when they imposed the fee, but on a prorated “what this means to me daily, weekly, monthly” kind of basis, it is dirt cheap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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