April 22, 2013
I don’t know about you, but I still use browser bookmarks on a daily basis. There are people out there who claim that browser bookmarks have become obsolete with the advent of online bookmarking, social bookmarking, speed dials, and features like that. Well, that might be true and maybe I’m stuck in the past, but I still love my Firefox bookmarks. If you’re like me, you don’t really need much more than the basic feature set of the native Firefox bookmarks.
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April 3, 2013
Google Chrome has built a huge user base that other competing browsers could only dream about. And although there are still some good alternatives, Chrome still has won many of us over. If you've coming here from part one of this series, welcome! If this is the first article you're reading, you don't have to read part one first as this one can stand alone by itself. That said, you still should read it as using keyboard shortcuts is a huge asset to Chrome.
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April 2, 2013
Pearltrees is a more natural way to process all we save and share on the web. At its simplest, it is a free web curation tool but with a completely visual interface (like a mindmap) that gives you a birds-eye view of all your interests. It is also a collaborative community that allows you to discover new stuff related to your interests.
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March 6, 2013
Between the two of them, Pocket and IFTTT are excellent services that do their part in making their users more productive. Pocket gives users a one-stop shop to access all of the content - articles, videos and more - that they want to save for later viewing. Combine that with IFTTT, the ultimate automating service, and you have the ultimate way to automatically save content to your Pocket account, and more.
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February 28, 2013
Have you ever gone back searching the Internet for something you read and just couldn’t find it? I think we all have – it’s quite frustrating. The problem comes when we don’t take the time to save what we want to go back and look at. Although, that’s not the only problem – it also can be if you just don’t know what to use. there are some excellent tools that are free as well and work practically flawlessly.
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February 26, 2013
Bookmarks aren’t dead yet. Give me the convenience of setting one up with a single click any day over logging into an online bookmarking service. But yes, the same convenience leads to a lifetime of bad habits. Those little URLs have a nasty habit of piling up. You know that one day, you have to roll up your sleeves and manage your stockpile of bookmarks.
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February 5, 2013
Who doesn't love bookmarks? The promise to remember an interesting website and visit it later when you will have more time to enjoy it. The endeavor would be easier if you hadn't bookmarked several hundred cool sites over the past dozen years. Fortunately, someone invented the Bookmarks Bar, that space for all the awesome sites you do visit regularly, like MakeUseOf. Sadly, there will always be more favorite sites than space on the Bookmarks Bar.
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February 1, 2013
Chrome has a number of features to help you sync, easily access, manage, sort, and tidy your bookmarks. Some people manage just fine without bookmarks, but not most of us. If you use the Chrome browser -- and bookmarks -- we'll help you make maximum use of bookmarks in Chrome. Bookmarks are deceptively simple, but there's a lot you can do with them.
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January 19, 2013
Existing bookmarking services probably work fine for most of us, but if you're a Mac and web power user you may be using more than one bookmarking service and application. This is where a new app called ReadKit comes in. It syncs and downloads all your bookmarks from Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability. Or it can be used as a stand alone alternative to these applications.
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January 9, 2013
While the Speed Dial is a visual bookmark of recently visited websites, and a permanent home to your favorite pinned ones, it can be made into something more. That comes with the help of Firefox add-ons as usual. Super Start is a simple add-on that can supercharge your home tab on Firefox, and give your day around the web the launch pad it needs.
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January 2, 2013
Have you got a new smartphone or tablet for Christmas, but frustrated that your bookmarks and tabs are all on your desktop when you absolutely must surf the information superhighway from your sofa? You could access them with some kind of remote control to your desktop perhaps, but that’s just silly. Instead, learn how to sync your tabs and bookmarks to and from your mobile devices with handy guide.
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December 31, 2012
One of the classic reading apps for the iPad and iPhone is Instapaper, which still shines above all others for its unique tilt scrolling and page flipping features. This well-designed app is supported by dozens of other iOS magazine and RSS feed reader apps like Zite, Flipboard, and NewsRack, which enable you to save selected articles to your Instapaper account for later reading.
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December 19, 2012
Bookmarks seem to accumulate over time, growing into collections of hundreds or thousands over the years. If you only have a handful of bookmarks, this article isn’t for you – this is for the people with large collections of bookmarks. The tips here will help you tidy up your bookmarks, back them up, and make the best use of them.
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November 30, 2012
For the past couple of years now, I have more or less been exclusively using Google Chrome as my day-to-day work browser. It is simply one of the best products that Google has ever produced. But saying that, there are some irritating things about Chrome that really bother me. One of them was not being able to bookmark any site I wanted to on my New Tab page. But now I have found the solution and I want to share it with all of you.
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November 28, 2012
With Evernote Clearly you can save noteworthy articles to read later in Evernote. It makes for a great distraction free reading experience. But there are times when you are actually distracted, and doing something else. If your wish was for someone to read out an article to you while you are dressing up for office or packing your Christmas gifts, you wish has been granted. Evernote has updated Clearly with text to speech.
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