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Use Evernote With TweetDeck For Better Twitter Memory
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Twitter organizers like TweetDeck can bring the good, actually helpful messages forward, but remembering and utilising them is up to you—whether you email tweets to yourself, add a “star” or bookmark them. One blogger’s solution: Evernote’s email capabilities. More »
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11:00AM Angus Kidman | Transferr adds a visual twist to the familiar concept of a bookmark-centric start page, offering your most-used sites in a grid-based icon display. More »
Transferr Organises Bookmarks In A Chrome-Like Display
11:00AM Angus Kidman | Transferr adds a visual twist to the familiar concept of a bookmark-centric start page, offering your most-used sites in a grid-based icon display. More »
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Worio Enhances Popular Search Engines With Extra Features
7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Worio is a search engine enhancement tool that combines keyword searches through popular search engines with a personalised suggestion engine, bookmarking and social networking. More »
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Thumbtack Stores Text And Web Pages On A Drag-and-Drop Platform
11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Microsoft’s latest release from its Live Labs, Thumbtack, aims at some of the same bookmarking territory covered by Delicious, Google Bookmarks, and other store-and-check-later services. It’s not quite as fleshed out as those services in terms of functionality (or bug testing), but its JavaScript-heavy interface makes for easier, mouse-driven organisation and relatively useful page storage. Select text and hit Thumbtack’s bookmarklet, and everything seems to work fine. Hit the bookmarklet on a fresh web page, however, and any JavaScript or coding on the page seems to confuse the pop-up box, though the page stores in stripped-down text form. The box/”gadget” view of your bookmarks is a nice change from the standard vertical list of links, but dragging and dropping between collections can be a bit problematic. Thumbtacks looks like it will be worth checking out later when it’s had a bit more time in the oven. The service is free to use, requires just a username to get started (so, fair warning, your bookmarks may be public). Thumbtack [Microsoft Live Labs via ReadWriteWeb] More »
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Read It Later Integrates With Google Reader, Non-Firefox Browsers
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Previously featured bookmarking extension Read It Later has added a host of new features in a recent update, including a couple that open up the service to non-Firefox browsers. The most obvious features are a check-to-save tool that adds the add-on’s signature checkmarks to Google Reader items, as well as an option to use the pageview-counting PostRank service to rank your to-read items. Those using non-Firefox browsers can now get an account and bookmarklets from the Read It Later List site, and enable an option in the Firefox add-on to have everything you mark for later reading saved as an offline copy. Wondering what all the fuss is about a seemingly simple bookmark tool? Check out Gina’s screenshot tour of the award-winning add-on. Read It Later is a free download and works wherever Firefox does. Read It Later [Mozilla Add-Ons] More »
Del.icio.us Bookmarks Plug-In Now Available for Internet Explorer
6:30AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Internet Explorer only: Yahoo has released a beta version of their browser plug-in for social bookmarking tool del.icio.us for Internet Explorer. It’ll look pretty familiar to anyone who’s used their del.icio.us Bookmarks Firefox add-on (original post), with toolbar buttons for quick bookmarking and tag browsing, and complete integration and syncing with local bookmarks. It’s still faster and more convenient than heading to del.icio.us or utilising tag-required bookmarklets, however. The del.icio.us add-on runs on Internet Explorer 6, 7, and even the IE8 beta on Windows XP and Vista. More »
Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done
2:00AM Kevin Purdy | Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not another computer task that takes far too long to get done. But that’s exactly what it can feel like if it takes you more time to find your post ideas, tweak your markup, and make everything look right than to actually get your thoughts down. Being somewhat experienced at this blogging thing, your Lifehacker editors have pinpointed a few tools and tricks that make our posts go faster and smoother. After the jump, we round up 10 of them. More »
Make a Wish List from del.icio.us with del.isili.st
7:00AM Kevin Purdy | Having an easily-accessible wish list means not having to be unpleasantly surprised at your friends and relatives’ … creativity when a birthday, holiday, or plain old surprise rolls around. Rather than creating separate, often hard-to-find wish lists on sites like Amazon or Newegg, del.isili.st can pull any sites you’ve tagged on social bookmarking site de.icio.us with the phrase “wishlist” and display them on a clean, white page of links. The main drawback is that you have to keep the del.icio.us links public, so anyone could potentially see your material goods fixations, but most wish lists are public on other sites anyway. Del.isihli.st is a free site and requires no sign-up. del.ishli.st [via etc.] More »
Add Keyword Search to Safari with Keywurl
2:00PM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Freeware Safari plug-in Keywurl brings the time-saving convenience of keyword searches to Safari, allowing users to type something like imdb Semi-Pro into the address bar to search IMDB rather than first going to the home page. Granted, this functionality comes built in to Firefox, and with a few tweaks to Firefox you can really supercharge your address bar with keyword bookmarks and searches, but for anyone who sticks with Safari for its raw speed and Mac-ness, Keywurl is a must-have. Keywurl is freeware, Mac OS X only. Keywurl [via TUAW] More »
