Comments on: Save .Mac Bookmarks! http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: MacSmiley http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328184 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:03:28 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328184 Back again. There are two petitions clamoring for Apple to bring back iCards. Feel free to join the chorus!

http://www.petitiononline.com/ic110608/petition.html

and

http://www.petitiononline.com/06291970/petition.html

]]> By: MacSmiley http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328183 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:01:17 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328183 By the way, I don’t see how iCards don’t fit into MobileMe. They fit fine with .Mac, because membership included the privilege of using your own images.

How about this scenario. That special occasion for that special someone shows up in your calendar on your iPhone. Because the iPhone can handle real websites, and because typing is easier than with triple taps, you go to the iCards page and send off a cute or funny or profoundly beautiful iCard, on the fly. What’s so not-mobile-me about that?

By the way, where web bookmarks are concerned, what was so danged inconvenient about a pop-up window? Meanwhile, who’s using the marketing info of your bookmarks in de.licio.us ?? I liked the privacy of .Mac’s web bookmarks.

]]> By: MacSmiley http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328182 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:32:49 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328182 I am very upset with Apple for nixing the .Mac services… especially iCards. This has certainly made me lose my warm, fuzzy feelings for Apple.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/macsmiley/2652541101/

They were simple, they were elegant, and they didn’t plaster recipients with advertisements, HTML, and flashing GIFS.

I got responses from sending iCards I never got from sending emails… not even emails with pictures. The combination of whimsical images and text in one small, savable JPEG in the iCard message was hard to resist.

Despite some less handsome alternatives, iWant Apple iCards Back!!

]]> By: Lyle http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328181 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:34:41 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328181 I’m with Ted; I’ll export the bookmarks and post them. That’s what I already do on my own site, but doing all this is less convenient that having it all happen oat-o-matically. And the last thing I want to do is sign up for yet another online service with a cute name which could die any day. At least with .Mac, it’s one place, and I’m paying for it, and it’s Apple, so it is less likely to disappear without warning.

I could probably write and AppleScript to do the bookmark export and upload every night.

And I will miss iCards. I think they were born in the midst of Apple’s Bad Times. I’ll have to figure out how to do something similar.

]]> By: Nick Mediati http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328180 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:28:53 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328180 @ #3: I stand corrected about .mac slides. ;)

#4: Not as convenient, but good idea.

]]> By: benseven http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328179 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:14:48 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328179 Like a previous commenter said, use del.icio.us – or if you use Firefox, try Foxmarks (http://foxmarks.com/).

]]> By: Ted http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328178 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:09:15 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328178 If you’re using Safari, you can still do a File>Export Bookmarks, and save it as an HTML file that you can upload to the web area of your iDisk. The same can be done in Firefox too. Although I use bookmark sync extensively, I only used the web access maybe once or twice during the several years I’ve had .Mac.

]]> By: BZ http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328177 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:26:52 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328177 First of all, I use .Mac Slides. It is a great way of letting the grandparents (yes, all have Macs) see the latest photos without having to DO anything.

I also use iCards, all the time. The custom ones, from your own photos are awesome and easy.

Very disapointed in both.

As for bookmarks, I can Google most anything, sync with FF3 to all my different bookmarks and I still have my iPhone.

BZ

]]> By: roacher http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328176 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:43:18 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328176 I too like the idea of using .mac bookmarks, though I have found they are a little clumsy in that separate window that opens to use effectively.

It would be nice if the bookmark sync that that the ‘Mobile Me’ site eludes to updates the internal browser bookmarks automatically.

]]> By: xortez http://gigaom.com/apple/save-mac-bookmarks/#comment-328175 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:14:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3478#comment-328175 Use del.icio.us and be happy. The reason why Apple has ditched .mac bookmarks is because there is much better services like del.icio.us.

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