October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Import Existing Bookmarks into Yahoo! Bookmarks
To consolidate or build a Bookmark library quickly, you can import existing bookmarks from applications such as Firefox, Internet Explorer, or web applications that support OPML.
Yahoo! lets you store up to 1,000 bookmarks on their server, making them easily accessible from any computer. But transferring or creating 1,000 bookmarks by hand could take you a few months of concentrated effort and some vacation time from work. Even with one-click adding [Hack #28] , you’re looking at a few hours of solid clicking to even approach the limit.
Luckily, you can take advantage of the bookmarks you already have by importing them. Yahoo! provides some tools to make the process of importing bookmarks take a few minutes rather than a few months. Also, if you use other bookmark-like applications on the Web (such as Blogrolling, Bloglines, or Kinja) you can probably find a way to import them into Yahoo! Bookmarks by using exporting features those applications provide.
Each of these hacks relies on the Import Bookmarks feature that you’ll find at your Yahoo! Bookmarks (at http://bookmarks.yahoo.com, toward the top of the page).
Internet Explorer Bookmarks
Importing your Internet Explorer bookmarks is a fairly painless process, thanks to an ActiveX Control Yahoo! has put together that’s appropriately called Yahoo! Favorites Importer. To get to the import page, click Import Bookmarks from the Yahoo! Bookmarks page and choose the Internet Explorer for ...
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.