Tip #3160 - Spurl
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Spurl
Keeping your bookmarks/favorites synchronized across multiple PCs can
be a chore and it seems as though it is never exactly right on. You're
always missing a bookmark that you want to use at home, but you only have
it at work. Sure, there are portable browsers you can use, but you still
have to carry arounWantd a thumb drive everywhere you go in order to use
it.
This is where Spurl
comes in. Spurl is an online service that allows you
to quickly and easily store bookmarks into its database. The database
is accessible by anyone who can connect to the Internet and from there,
it can be used as a centralized bookmark server. This means your bookmarks
go with you everywhere. You have nothing to carry around and nothing to
constantly update every time you surf or leave your PC.
With Spurl, you can
even upload all your current browser's favorites/bookmarks, so it’s
not like you have to start over from scratch if you want to use the service.
Since Spurl works with almost any browser (Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla/Firefox,
Netscape and Safari across Windows, Linux and MacOS), you will have no
problem uploading your bookmark information from different computers.
This way, you know that all the information you want is always just a
click away.
Another feature of
Spurl is that you can organize your favorites/bookmarks in Spurl using
category tags and even snippets of the Web site, which allows them to
be organized and indexed for quick and efficient bookmark searches. Spurl
also allows you to search through their database of stored bookmarks using
keywords. Spurl will look through notes, user created tags and even under
the body of the site page. If you were using Spurl when you were surfing
the Web, you’ll always be able to find the page you were looking
for, no matter where you are. Cool, huh?!
Another cool feature
of Spurl is that you can search out other lists of favorites from other
users who have elected to share their favorites on the Spurl server. There
are even “Hot Lists” that you can look through. These are
favorites/bookmarks that others in the Spurl community strongly recommend.
At first, Spurl
can seem a little strange to deal with, but with tons of help on their
Web site, such as the “Getting
Started Guide," FAQs and the forum, you will be a Spurl guru
in no time. As a matter of fact, I recommend that before you sign up for
the service, you should read through the "Getting Started Guide."
It walks you through the whole process and answers almost any questions
that you may have.
If you find that your
favorites/bookmarks to all your favorite sites are spread out over a couple
of different PCs, you can get bogged down synchronizing everything or
you can just let Spurl do it for you!
You can begin using
Spurl’s wonderful online bookmark service here.
You have to create a username and password in order to log in, than you'll
be good to go. Hope you enjoy!
~ Chad Stelnicki
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