Feb

25

A better way to bookmark your favourite pages

Filed Under Addons, Bookmarks, Browsers 

I’ve never been happy with traditional bookmarking features offered up in either Firefox or Explorer. They’re clumsy, hard to find what I’m looking for and a pain in the ass to sort. I’ve tested lots of bookmark addons and until now, haven’t been very satisfied. Last week I found one that seems to tick all the features I’m looking for:

    Can be backed up
    Exportable to straight HTML so I can import it to a different browser if needed (you never know when your favourite application will no longer be supported.)
    Easy to use
    Visual
    Tabs for sorting
    Auto
    Quick add and remove features

Speed Dial addon is a great way to keep your bookmarks organised but more importantly, makes them useable. How many of us have 100′s of websites we never look at because it’s such a hassle wading through them. Speed Dial offers a quick visual list of your favourites. You can create multiple tabs for each category, expand or contract the number of listings per tab and use thumbnails for visual identification of each page. Here’s an example of what my first page looks like:

(just click on the image to see a larger image)

You can switch around how many pages you want to display:

Add, change, remove, drag and drop positions, whatever. You can add as many dials as you want to each page because the columns and rows are adjustable

Exporting your bookmarks is easy so you don’t have to worry about losing all your hard work. If you are using Internet Explorer, there is an addon available, but I found it pretty buggy. I tried to install it a couple of times and ended up just trashing it. Never got it to work. Chrome and Opera both have a version of Speed Dial if you prefer to use them.

How do you install it? Easy. The addon can be found here. Click on the Add to Firefox button and it will install itself. Adding pages is easy, Click on any empty spot, click edit and type in the address of any website you follow. Click Ok and done. There are other features you can play with so explore away.

The only thing I can recommend, is make sure you back up the dials. Although it has an auto backup feature, this won’t help if your computer goes down and you need to format. Back up to an external source.

Happy Speed Dialing.

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