Showing posts with label Foxmarks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foxmarks. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Xmarks Sync to be Discontinued

I've been using Xmarks Sync (formerly Foxmarks) for several months and I admit that I was disappointed to hear that they will be shutting down their services on Jan 10, 2011.

Fortunately, there are some good alternatives out there:

BrowserSync AlternativeXmarks Data Types SupportedPrice
 FirefoxFirefox Sync
(Mozilla)
Bookmarks, passwords, history, tabsFree
ChromeChrome Sync
(Google)
BookmarksFree
Internet ExplorerWindows Live Essentials
(Microsoft)
BookmarksFree
I think it may be time to switch mainly to Chrome. If you're using an Android smartphone, you can use "Chrome to Phone" to share information between your desktop browser and your mobile browser.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Xmarks - a great free utility


Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) is a great free utility if you use more than one computer and you want to keep all your bookmarks/favorites in sync. I use several different computers at work and at home. As a result, this utility comes in very handy. I'm able to synchronize all my bookmarks/favorities automatically and it's so convenient to have the ability to switch browsers and still have all my bookmarks in sync. I mainly use Firefox and Internet Explorer and Xmarks works on both of those (for the PC). Xmarks works on Safari only on the Mac OS X right now. I'm sure that will eventually change, but for now, I'm fine with Firefox and Internet Explorer.