Bookmarking URLS Favicon Style
July 28th, 2010
TECHNOTES #1 Favicons Break Out!
Since the advent of internet browsers,
the term bookmark has taken on new
meaning with a few nuances associated
with it’s use.
The wikipidia definition of ‘bookmarking’ is: (hold onto your brains)
In genetics and epigenetics, bookmarking is a biological phenomenon believed to function as an epigenetic mechanism for transmitting
cellular memory of the pattern of gene expression in a cell, throughout mitosis, to its daughter cells.
Whew, and I thought it was the act of pushing the bookmark button
on the menu bar of my browser or sliding a piece of paper
between the pages of a book. All genetic bookmarks aside
let’s look at the ones below for all intents and purposes.
First, there’s URL bookmarking that we’ve all
come to know as the ‘bookmark’ button on our browser menu
bar, or CTRL D on the keyboard, or the right-click drop down
menu selection ‘bookmark this page’.
Secondly, as a subset of basic bookmarking there’s also the common
practice known as social bookmarking whereby we share our favorite
URL bookmarks with the world at large through social bookmarking sites
like Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, and many others.
Sharing, promoting, and saving URL bookmarks has become something that I do routinely, and so much so that my browser’s bookmark menu has become ‘too big to manage’. Has your bookmark menu outgrown it’s habitat to?
I knew there was something to make bookmarking easier.
Why can’t I do a simple drag n’ drop style bookmarking?
I decided to make the browser window smaller so that I could see
my desktop at the same time as the browser window and then the trick
came to me. I found it by staring just a little longer than usual at my
browser’s address window and that little square called a favicon
that seemed to change all the time. I grabbed hold of it with
a left click and dragged it right off it’s usual spot and onto my desktop.
Voila, a simple one click drag n’ drop bookmark!
I then made a LINKS folder on my desktop and proceeded to drag n’ drop
links directly into it. Soon I began to see the dominant or distinct categories
of links and then made a folder for each within the LINKS folder.
This favicon bookmarking style gives you a granular sense of the sites
you like or that you like enough to share with others – and all without
having to clog up your browser’s bookmark menu.
The technique saves me loads of time because I can manage,
organize, and access all my bookmarks without going online.
It also saves time because I don’t have to wait for or wade through
my browser’s long bookmark menu every time I want to bookmark
a specific type of website.
I still use my browser’s bookmark menu feature to access the sites I visit
on a regular basis but not for all the other types of sites that I want
to save or share.
Finally, you may need the text url in order to share it in emails or elsewhere. Simply right-click on the shortcut link itself and select properties and within the properties window is the text url. Right-click, copy and paste into any document you wish.
Enjoy all the time and many websites
you’ll save and share as a favicon bookie.



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