RE bookmarking:
I really like diigo.com for social bookmarking and Xmarks (a Firefox
add-on) for regular bookmarks. Both sync nicely with multiple devices and
your stuff is always saved in the cloud. Or should it be The Cloud?
-tj
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
Not sure about converting to Linux, but for bookmarks there are two ideas:
1 - First of all, simply look for an export bookmarks feature in the
browser. There are standard ways to export, the most common being an html
format, that has the additional advantage of being a web page of all your
bookmarks. Just to make sure this all works, try importing these into
another browser. I've found safari, chrome, firefox all do a great job of
doing this interoperably. If your current browser supports multiple export
formats, use them all, just in case.
2 - Secondly, after exporting the bookmarks, import them into a web-based
bookmark site so that from now on you can get to the bookmarks via that
site. Delicious was popular, but is declining I think. Pinboard is what I
use. There are others, often called social bookmarking because you can
share the bookmarks with your friends. And they all have browser
plugins/extensions/bookmarklets that let you access the bookmarks easily.
Like Dropbox, I really love using Pinboard and don't know how I got along
without it!
One idea on Linux might be to use a virtual machine (VirtualBox seems
popular) so that you can run both Windows and Linux on the same system.
This way, if you find you need an app only available on Windows, you can
use it. I don't know how easy it is to share files between the two, but
I'd be surprised if it were a problem. Maybe Dropbox would help make it
easier.
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Gillian Densmore
gil.densm...@gmail.comwrote:
Oh Windows 7 how I kinda sorta love you.
(other than the 5-7 unique malwares it gave me)
so like the subject says considering linux but before I drink the
koolaid need to back up my bookmarks.
and despite almost a year with html I don't have the fogiest clue what
a good way to do that is.
On a side note so far top linux winers are:PCLOS.Ubuntu/Kubunto or
OpenSUSE.
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