favorites Archives - Rick's Daily Tips

If you’ve been using a computer to browse the Internet for a while you’ve probably accumulated several browser bookmarks (aka favorites) that take you to a favorite web page with a single click.

For example, there are about 30 pages that I visit on a regular basis and I have them all bookmarked in my favorite web browsers.

Not all pages are bookmarked in every browser however because some pages simply look and respond better in one specific browser.

I also tend to change computers fairly often, and if I had to re-bookmark all those pages every time it would be a major hassle and a serious time waster.

But as luck would have it, all the major web browsers make it easy to transfer your bookmarks from one computer to another… [Read more…]

In a previous post I explained how to link to an individual Facebook post.

Since then I’ve seen several of my friends say they are “sharing” a post so they can find it on their Timeline at a later date.

Sharing a good post is great because it lets your friends enjoy the posts that you like or find useful (I LOVE it when folks share my tips and photos with their friends), but it can still be time-consuming going back through your Timeline trying to find a post from days, weeks or months past.

A better way to “save” a post that you’d like to find later is to simply bookmark it the same way you bookmark web pages. That way finding a specific post later is as easy as clicking the link on your “Favorites” list.

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