Tag: FAVORITES

If you're like most people, you probably have 5 or 10 websites, beside DownloadSquad, that you visit every day. But you've probably got dozens, if not hundreds of bookmarks cluttering up the bookmarks/favorites menu of your web browser. That makes sense, because you want to bookmark pages you visit regularly, but not every day. And of course you bookmark pages you think you might come back to ...

When favicons first started to become popular, I have to admit that I didn't really "get" them. I couldn't see what the value was to having a dinky little icon in the address bar. Maybe I'm slow, but it also took me awhile to figure out that my browser could remember the favicon for my bookmarks or favorites that I'd visited, making it easier to pick them out from a long listing of links. Of ...

Sometimes finding a download turns out to be a homecoming of sorts. AM-DeadLink is like a long-lost friend. I used it regularly on a machine I had at least 5 years ago, then lost track of it for some reason in an intervening system upgrade. Luckily, it's still around, and appears to be being actively developed. AM-DeadLink does everything you would expect a bookmark validator to do - it tells you ...

Synapse is an online life manager. As of yet, there is no information as to whether this is a free web based application or not. Synapse is working up to their October 2006 release date, and it looks like it has some nice potential. The Synapse website lists off the main features that it will help users to manage their lives with. These include: People - personal contact manager Calendar - ...

Ahh, Technorati, what would we do without you. You are the reason we obsessively tag all our posts, and you dutifully respond to our pings in mere minutes (under 5 according to Technorati Principal Engineer Kevin Marks) to crawl our data. On today, your third birthday, you provide us with even more excitement, in the form of a spiffy re-design and some interesting new features. The new design is ...

It's a categorized, very complete and researched, magnificent list of hacks, links, and tools for del.icio.us. So, naturally there's a little something for everyone in there. How about mashups, skins, and even more lists? Out of the bunch I've picked through so far, my favorite has to be DiggLicious. With the perfect blend of digg's latest, a handy pause button, and the ability to add to my ...