Tag: EXPORT

Firefox is a great browser 'n all, but if you've been looking for a way to create a manual backup of your bookmarks or - *gasp* - try a different browser on for size, exporting your 'marks might not be the most obvious of processes (by the way: BonEcho in our screenshot is simply an Intel-optimized branch of Firefox). Sure, you can go up to the File menu to import bookmarks, but Export is ...

Google loves a good April Fool's joke, and you may remember that last week Google promised a new service called Gmail Paper. The concept was that you could request a hard copy of all of your emails, and Google would ship a box with printouts to your door. Sounds silly, right? But the idea of being able to back up your email is anything but. Sure, you can configure Outlook or Thunderbird to work ...

We've talked about data lock-in before, that sorry state when a web service won't give you your data in a useful, standard format. del.icio.us, I am happy to observe, is no such web service, and by way of proof I direct you to 11 ways to backup your del.icio.us bookmarks. In addition to the obvious—export HTML or XML—you can backup to Gmail or straight to a MySQL database, safe them to ...