{"id":191,"date":"2009-05-06T11:56:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/?p=191"},"modified":"2012-03-16T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T20:49:12","slug":"xmarks-bookmark-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blinkassociates.com\/blog\/xmarks-bookmark-sync\/","title":{"rendered":"XMarks Bookmark Sync"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"xmarks\"<\/a>Like many of us, I’m using several computers – my work laptop, my home office machine, – and sometimes logging on to someone else’s at another location. Plus, my iPhone bookmarks are synced to my home office computer (now a Mac). I’m also switching between Internet Explorer and Firefox, with occasional forays on Safari.<\/p>\n

I’d been exporting my Internet Explorer bookmarks (‘favorites’ on that application) and periodically replacing everything on my home office machine with those so I could make sure I had the bookmarks I wanted on my iPhone. Sounds like a minor pain, and it was.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be great if all my bookmarks were the same on all browsers and all operating systems? Well, I stumbled on to an easy solution that did just that.\u00a0 I searched in Firefox’s wonderful extensions and found Foxmarks. About a day later it was renamed to Xmarks<\/a>. Xmarks works on Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari. A change made anywhere is automatically synced everywhere. My two main computers and my iPhone are in perfect harmony. I’ve been using it several weeks without a hitch. As an added bonus, all the bookmarks area available at the Xmarks website if I’m somewhere else and need to access them – a nice bonus.<\/p>\n

Now all I need to do if find something that will do the same for all my files. And my keys.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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