Kay with a look at managing bookmarks. If you are like me, you
probably your favorite websites bookmarked in the offic and at
home. Have you forgotten a site which you saved at the office
but needed to access at home?

Storing your bookmarks on your local hard drive is nice,
especially when you don't have an internet connection, but what
if you want to access your bookmarks from school or work, when
you're away from your home PC? What happens when you've a
massive bookmark collection and want to search for one bookmark
amongst the multitudes? And don't forget to backup your
bookmarks when you migrate from XP to Vista! Isn't there an
easier way? Yes, read further!
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To view this video lesson on Del.icio.us; Social Bookmarking,
select here
http://www.pcdocpro.com/delicious.php
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Enter Del.icio.us!

The solution is to store all of your bookmarks on the web. This
method of bookmark storage has numerous advantages. For one,
you can access your bookmarks from any computer that has a web
connection and browser; you no longer need to email bookmark
links to yourself when you want to view them at school or work!

Another great plus that's intrinsic with web-based bookmark
storage is that you don't need to worry about backing up your
bookmarks when you upgrade operating systems, switch browsers,
perform a clean install or whatever. All your bookmarks are
all safely residing on some web server somewhere, completely
separate from your home computer.

del.icio.us: Social Bookmarking

The oddly named web-based bookmark site, del.icio.us, is a great
choice for storing all your bookmarks on the web. Delicious
describes itself as a "social bookmarking site"; basically,
this means that when you create an account and start building
up a bookmark collection, you've the option to make your
bookmarks private or public. When you designate a bookmark as
"public", the public can see it; users can see your public
bookmarks, and you can see theirs. Essentially, this social
bookmarking method is a great way to find obscure websites that
you probably would not have found by yourself.

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To view this video lesson on Del.icio.us; Social Bookmarking,
select here
http://www.pcdocpro.com/delicious.php
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Delicious: The Nitty Gritty of It

Simply put, once you create a Delicious account, you can start
saving bookmarks. Delicious employs an intelligent way of
labeling your bookmarks called "tags". When you save a new
bookmark, Delicious lets you give it various tags, which can be
any number of words separated by spaces. By giving your
bookmarks "tags", it makes searching for a specific bookmark
easier; this is especially true when you've accumulated a
copious amount of them.

If you use Firefox or Internet Explorer to browse the web,
you'll want to install the Delicious extension that'll make
saving your bookmarks a cakewalk. After you've installed said
plug-in, you'll see two new icons in Firefox or Internet
Explorer toolbar. The first button will zip you on over to your
Delicious account's homepage, and the second button, called the
Tag Button, will allow you to tag and save the current page
you're viewing as a bookmark.

After you've given the bookmark an appropriate title and tags,
the extension will automatically push your new bookmark to your
Delicious account--all in one fell swoop!

Where's that pesky Bookmark!?

Delicious makes searching for a specific bookmark incredibly
simple with its tagging system. Because you can append
multiple "tags" to a given bookmark, you can easily search for
a bookmark if you know what you're generally looking for.
Being a programmer, I've a tendency to save a lot of
programming pages as bookmarks. When I save a bookmark that
pertains to programming, I give it an appropriate tag so I can
easily find it again should I need it quickly.

For example, if the web page I'm on has to do with Python--a
popular programming language--I'll give it a "python" tag, or if
the page talks about Perl--another popular coding language--I
will designate it so via a "perl" tag. Now when I want to view
all my "Python" bookmarks, I can tell Delicious to just display
all my Python bookmarks. This is a very powerful way to
organize your bookmarks for quick retrieval.

Delicious is an excellent way to store your bookmarks on a
website. Doing so will give you "global" access to your
bookmarks whether you're at work, school or across the world;
you're no longer shackled to your home PC to get at your
bookmarks! Surf on over to de.icio.us, create your very own
account and start amassing your web-based bookmark collection!
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To view this video lesson on Del.icio.us; Social Bookmarking,
select here
http://www.pcdocpro.com/delicious.php

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