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Favorites incorporated to a start page. What do you think?
Posted by fitwell on November 13th, 2003


I stumbled upon this and it looks okay to me. I scanned it with my av
software and all but risked the ActivX warnings, as it says to. But
will feel better if other interested people can try it out.

I like the concept. One can set this "start.html" doct to be one's
home page whenever one needs to access a bookmark. I imagine new
bookmarks can be added just be re-generating the start.html file.

I found it here:
The Favorite Start Page
http://gudbrand.no/start/

Let me know what you think. Is it safe?

Posted by Harvey Van Sickle on November 13th, 2003


On 13 Nov 2003, fitwell wrote

I used the widely-recommended "Favorites Home Page" for a while (before
I changed browser shells and handled it a different way) --
http://favoriteshomepage.com/ -- but the one you've found looks more
a lot more sophisticated.

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Cheers,
Harvey

For e-mail, change harvey to whhvs.

Posted by fitwell on November 13th, 2003


On 13 Nov 2003 17:52:04 GMT, My Name <no@e/-\mail.com> wrote:

Why? When this is automated. The last thing any of us needs is
_more_ work.


Posted by Wald on November 13th, 2003


fitwell <NoSpam@NoJunkMail.com> wrote:
If you use Mozilla, it keeps its bookmarks by default in a bookmarks.html
file which you can use as a start page.

Otherwise, I'd just write a simple script to generate some HTML out of my
non-HTML bookmarks format, so you can automate it or let it run at boot
time.

Regards,
Wald

Posted by fitwell on November 13th, 2003


On 13 Nov 2003 19:12:05 GMT, My Name <no@e/-\mail.com> wrote:

Hey, that's cool. Those are two good reasons. For you. I'll stick
with this one for now. It's completely automatic and I don't need it
to work anywhere else.

Well, I wasn't looking for this at all, I just stumbled upon it. So I
can't help with that. I use MSIE and this thread was started for
other MSIE users. It would be nice if there was one that supported
all, but don't know how likely that will be. Anyway, everyone must
choose what works best for them.

Anyhoo, cheers! D


Posted by fitwell on November 13th, 2003


On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:02:08 +0000 (UTC), Wald
<arnout.standaert@n-o_s-p-a-m.cit.kuleuven.ac.be> wrote:

I use MSIE, so moot point.

Thanks. This one does the job so it's okay for me. This thread,
obviously was really geared towards other MSIE users, esp. others that
don't know how to generate code as you say and want to save time, too.
This'll do the job.

Now if someone knows if it's completely safe and okay to use - that
_would_ affect whether or not I keep using it.

Thanks. Cheers!


Posted by Harvey Van Sickle on November 13th, 2003


On 13 Nov 2003, My Name wrote

Don't know about Mozilla, but the screenshot I looked at on the home
page states that the example was generated from Opera.

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Cheers,
Harvey

For e-mail, change harvey to whhvs.

Posted by Suzanne on November 14th, 2003


On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:45:04 GMT, fitwell <NoSpam@NoJunkMail.com>
wrote:

The Import and Export wizard in IE includes a feature to export the
Favorites folder to an HTML file.
_________
Suzanne

Posted by fitwell on November 14th, 2003


On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:00:20 -0600, Suzanne <suzanne63@yah00.c0m>
wrote:

Suzanne, thank you! For heaven's sake. Why in all the discussions
ever in this ng, I never came across that fact. Sure enough, there it
is under FILE > IMPORT AND EXPORT ... I just had to choose the right
folder in Favorites that actually holds my MSIE shortcuts and saved to
the desktop. Easy as pie.

Cheers!


Posted by Bebop & Rocksteady on November 14th, 2003


oh another app to clogg your system that doesn't really do much,

IE
Click File > Import/Export
Choose Export Faviortes save to my Documents
Open Exported file with IE
Set to home page...

simple

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Posted by John Morse on November 14th, 2003


"fitwell" <NoSpam@NoJunkMail.com> wrote in message
news:djg7rvskn2fc6qm7flq2oct40f4ovf80o5@4ax.com...
Yeah its safe,
btw, have you tried FavToHTML
http://www.tapedit.itaweb.it/FavToHtml/favtohtml.html



Posted by dszady on November 14th, 2003


Trying to get a word in edge-wise "My Name" wrote in
<Xns943290D5786B9MyIdToken@walks.like.a.duck>:

In FireBird you can generate an html file with FireBird favorites and
imported IE favorites in Bookmarks >Manage Bookmarks >Export Bookmarks.

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Posted by fitwell on November 14th, 2003


On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:53:46 -0600, "John Morse"
<pagemakerNOSPAM@semo.net> wrote:

Thanks, I don't believe I have. But to tell you the truth, now that I
know about MSIE's export feature, I think I can do away with all these
alternatives. My hdd is ready to burst so if I can do away with just
one program, it'd be a good thing.

Cheers! D


Posted by dadiOH on November 14th, 2003


fitwell wrote:
Yep, it's a lot of work...type in "C:\WINDOWS\Favorites" as your home page.
Much easier to start IE and click on "Favorites"

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dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://www.gbronline.com/xico/
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Posted by dadiOH on November 14th, 2003


fitwell wrote:
Maybe because it is so obvious? Assuming one bothers to click program
buttons to see what they can do.

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_____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://www.gbronline.com/xico/
_________________________________




Posted by dadiOH on November 14th, 2003


Bebop & Rocksteady wrote:
The app or her system?

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dadiOH
_____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://www.gbronline.com/xico/
_________________________________




Posted by dadiOH on November 14th, 2003


fitwell wrote:

Too bad you missed Dell's recent deal...a 200 gig, 7200 rpm, 8 meg cache WD
drive for $25.76. Brand new, retail box. Gonna install mine this weekend.
That will give me a total of 480 gigs.

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dadiOH
_____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.0...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://www.gbronline.com/xico/
_________________________________




Posted by mike ring on November 14th, 2003


fitwell <NoSpam@NoJunkMail.com> wrote in
news:lfn7rvs2qc87q2ebj023766f64813m544t@4ax.com:

I don't think it's as good as fhp - at least it doesn't work well for me
using IE6.

It's all there but the subfolders are not listed under subfolders and
it's a mess.

Fhp was much better, but needed to be rerun every time you got a new
favourite, not onerous, but not really worth it.

The export wizard - I'd nefer spotted, but seems to work well excepyt
that the page is too big.

I think I'll stick to;

open on about blank;
have a link to google and to a couple of other frequntly used URLs;
use IE's favourites facilities.

Regards

mike r

Posted by dszady on November 15th, 2003


Trying to get a word in edge-wise "tOm" wrote in
<hhrcrvom3k300o7k8lpq7c8dt687mi9bf4@4ax.com>:
Also:
Bookmark Wizard ver. 2.0.1
Platform: Windows 95/98/NT4
Cost: FREEWARE (206 KB)
Developer: Moon Software, Estonia
http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp

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