What do you do when..........?
By sumanadep
@sumanadep (1228)
India
August 24, 2010 2:57am CST
Well all use internet everyday... and search on the net for something or other.. Every time we search for a something we come across a good or useful site...
recently I was searching for the books and found a good site which searches all the .pdf files on the net for your search keyword... I find it useful.. so the first thing I did was to bookmark it for future reference... But then I realize that I had many such websites in my bookmark before my computer crashed.. so I noted this site in a diary... what do you do in such case.. do you bookmark it, add to favorite, put it down to paper or some other options that you have...
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12 responses
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
25 Aug 10
Hi Saphrina and Meowcow.
I do that to.. the websites that I like and those I think others will also I like I send the link to those who would like it...
thanks for responding... This is first time I have my discussion on day's top list.. thanks to every one who responded..
@Neo333X (171)
• Romania
27 Aug 10
Well... I don't have to worry either by put it down to paper or file or mail it to me.I just use Firefox with Xmarks add-on.You have to make an account and after that all you bookmarks, password, even history will be sync.If you add a site to you bookmarks it will be saved.so if you PC crash, format or any other thing, No problem at all :D.And if you have more computers you it will sync between them.
I use Xmark but for friends I also keep a .html file and .json file with my bookmarks, both saved by a browser(Firefox in my case)
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
30 Aug 10
Hi Neo... that is a great idea.. I never knew that.. I have checked this site now.. But not sure if I would use it.. the problem is that it requires me to download software... which I think is not safe.. I use my computer for accessing my bank account.. for how long have you been using it?..
@amar_sandy1987 (1876)
• India
15 Sep 10
their are manny options to note down the website and i do it by save that web site to a notepad file and add to bookmarks and save the notepad file to my pendrive so it can be safe to my pendrive
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
30 Sep 10
saving the websites to the notepad doe not solves the problem .. what if the hard disk is corrupted and you are no longer able to access any files on you hard drive.. storing it on the pen drive is like you are blocking the space of the pen-drive.
@semispoiledgurl (176)
• Philippines
25 Aug 10
Since I'm using Firefox, I usually leave the site open and then make sure I'm going to read it later. But, if I don't have time, I'd bookmark it and then read it any day I want.
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
30 Aug 10
Bookmarking helps but you may lose those if ever you have to format your hard disk or it is corrupted.. so if these are important sites for you try keeping a backup of the bookmark sites...
@shalome (178)
• India
25 Aug 10
sumanadep,
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very much helpful as on day-today internet users as well as this will shows your
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i just taken a look all your previous valuable contributed workmanship in computer --world, i wish you all success and keep on contributed newly flowers in future.
@c_grovino_d (74)
• Philippines
20 Oct 10
Yes, i agree on that because as what I've also observe some website are useful for us. We users of internet make some experiment in some website and thats what I've observe to others. I think other are so boring in some of their website so they make some experiment. :)
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
20 Oct 10
So what do you do with the websites that you find are useful to you or that you want to refer in future... Do you make a note of such sites?
@greenline (14838)
• Canada
24 Aug 10
I certainly use the internet every day. Internet is the information highway for all kinds of information. I spend many hours each day on the internet doing market research work related to my business. Of course, when I find the sites which can be references for the long term, I would add them to my favorite list. There is a long list of sites on my favorite list now.
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
25 Aug 10
yes.. even I spend a good amount of time on the internet searching for something or other. when I stumble upon a site that is interesting I bookmark it.. I had a long list in my bookmark too..
@harpreet89 (723)
• India
24 Aug 10
Hi suman, i use to bookmark the sites which i found useful and want to visit it again after sometime for reference.
And after i bookmark the sites, i made a quick backup of the bookmark file into my hard drive and store it in backup.
FIrefox provides facility of making back-up of stored bookmarks so that they can be used again when you install fresh copy of windows or you re-install Firefox.
I just made backup of that file.It contains all my bookmarked site.Very useful trick.
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
25 Aug 10
Hi Harpreet
Well I did that too... but in my case unfortunately my hard disk was corrupted or had some technical issues so I could not even get the data on the disk... I had taken the backup of the bookmarks on firefox.. still I lost the data.. so I think it is not the best idea... until you burn it to some other disk...
If your bookmarks are important I would suggest you to try the idea in the first comment of this discussion...
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
24 Aug 10
it's amazing how many different websites of interest i can comr cross each day. Just when i think i have bben to every website that captures my interest, another one comes along. Some websites are good for information while others are just entertaining. You never know surfing will bring your way.@sumanadep (1228)
• India
25 Aug 10
I happens to me as well... when I see the number of sites that I had in my bookmark I taught that this is all I would need.. but then I would come across some other site sometimes with better content.. and more interesting.. so I keep looking for such sites...
@chayapathys (2111)
• India
24 Aug 10
Congrats. you are lucky that you tumbled on good sites. Though the internet contains so many sites only lucky people like you get good thins out of internet. Many do not.As you rightly said sites vanish even if make book marks due to various reasons.We cannot store all the information in the mind. The best thing is to note it down immediately in book for future reference.That is what I also do.
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
25 Aug 10
Thanks Chayapathys... I do a little search every time I am on the net.. It has been my habit of bookmarking the sites .. but after the recent event I have started to note it down in my diary.. this certainly is a good idea .. the other idea given in the first comment is also very useful.. you should check that...
@Sanitary (3968)
• Singapore
24 Aug 10
I will either bookmark it, read it when I have got more time or be scanning through it to decide if it's worth bookmarking. I will be sure to clear the amount of bookmarks I have on a daily basis. If possible, I will keep the number of bookmarks under 10. I don't like to write anything down on notebook or anywhere because I know I will be lazy to find them when I need it.
So it's better for me to read and clear out what I don't need, as to prevent storage of too much things. The same goes for movie links and blog links regarding online earnings. Only the best survives with me while the rest goes to the bin.
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
25 Aug 10
I don't like writing on the book as well but recent event lead me to do that.. I had many sites bookmarked .. and I have gone through it many times... but I never feel the need to remove it from the bookmark... I think I have never removed any site from the bookmark once it is added.. But I do organize my bookmark sites in different folders...
@lostgirl201 (102)
•
25 Aug 10
well in my case i used to bookmark it or sometimes put in on my "add-on"...sometimes if i have too many bookmarks and i dont know what to delete and keep, i make sure that everything is in my history bar so that i can just look for it again..
@sumanadep (1228)
• India
25 Aug 10
I do not prefer to keep my history on the browser... I think it slows the browser... and also this may have a threat of letting other know of your action on the net. so I delete the history from my browser...
