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Count DeMoney - 06 Feb 2008 01:09 GMT

I guess like most of you, I've accumulated a lot of modeling bookmarks
from tips and tricks, walk arounds / pics, places to buy supplies and
kits, etc. The pile is getting staggering but I don't want to loose
any. Has anyone figured out a better way to "file" these links other
than setting up folders and using the "favorites" area of the
browser. There are some bookmark manager downloads available but
nothing really "sticks out"........ Is there a good "on line" area to
store this information. I am a little afraid of downloading anything
these days because of all the malicious stuff going on.

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Rufus - 06 Feb 2008 01:39 GMT

> I guess like most of you, I've accumulated a lot of modeling bookmarks
> from tips and tricks, walk arounds / pics, places to buy supplies and
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> store this information. I am a little afraid of downloading anything
> these days because of all the malicious stuff going on.

Bookmarks (under the Mozilla based browsers, anyway) are just a set of
links in an HTML file. What I do is to periodically duplicate my
bookmarks file and store the copy elsewhere on my hard drive.

Then I can also use the browser's HTML editor to cut it down to
collections of links that I can e-mail to interested parties if I want.
The document just opens as a page of links in a browser.

Other than that, within my browser I make and keep categorized folders
for them like everyone else...

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Harro de Jong - 12 Feb 2008 10:32 GMT

not@home.com (Rufus) wrote in <td8qj.17466$9j6.6024@attbi_s22>:

>Bookmarks (under the Mozilla based browsers, anyway) are just a set of
>links in an HTML file. What I do is to periodically duplicate my
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>collections of links that I can e-mail to interested parties if I want.
> The document just opens as a page of links in a browser.

In Firefox etc, if you select 'Organize Bookmarks', a window opens that
gives a good overview of your bookmarks. More importantly, it allows you to
search your bookmarks.

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eyeball - 06 Feb 2008 04:12 GMT

My quick and dirty solution is to save them as shortcuts then dump
them in a file with the highly original name "links".A few times a
year I burn them on a cd-rom.

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MySelf - 06 Feb 2008 22:20 GMT

FWIW, both address book backups and bookmark backups (probably favorites
as well) can be opened with a text editor? One can export these as a
file by following their directions, then open and edit as desired - if
your into a lot of editing<G> that is. I don't edit but do back them up
periodically. I've had to restore them a couple times so far and was
glad I had the BU's.
John

> My quick and dirty solution is to save them as shortcuts then dump
> them in a file with the highly original name "links".A few times a
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>> these days because of all the malicious stuff going on.
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