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.Mac Bookmarks

Wednesday July 9, 2003 11:23 am PDT by Arnold Kim
Apple's .Mac service has introduced ".Mac Bookmarks":



    Take your bookmarks with you wherever you go. With new .Mac Bookmarks, a handy surfer window with your favorite bookmarks opens on any Internet-connected computer, providing instant access to your favorite places on the web. Use it on your home or work computer, even at an Internet cafe.



Safari 1.0 and iSync 1.1 are required to sync your bookmarks. The service provides a Web Window interface which is accessible by Mac or PC (or presumably, any web-browser).

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MacManDan
112 months ago
Oooh .. I have yet to try this out .. but does this mean I can have my safari bookmarks from my mac on my windows PC at work? Sounds like it! How terribly exciting! :D
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arn
112 months ago

Originally posted by MacManDan
Oooh .. I have yet to try this out .. but does this mean I can have my safari bookmarks from my mac on my windows PC at work? Sounds like it! How terribly exciting! :D


yeah - the links aren't working so it's hard to tell.

The bookmark syncing's been around. But I believe this window thing is new... I guess we wait until the links start working.

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ennerseed
112 months ago
anyone got/can get screen caps of it?
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altivec 2003
112 months ago
I find this relativey disappointing, if this is ALL. I really have no use for bookmarks "on the road" cause I really use a computer when I am on vacation. I would much rather have gained php support and mysql cause I really need that a lot. In fact I might have to not renew my .mac subscription this next year if they don't add it. I was kinda upset when I realized that apple had automatically checked the "renew automatically" box in my account preferences. I thought it was very un-apple and if I didn't realize it I would be paying for another year even if I didn't want to :(
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Mr. Anderson
112 months ago
Well, if you have to have a .mac account its crap as far as I'm concerned. If there was some way to put it on *any* site so that you could use it, that would be better......oh, well....

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arn
112 months ago

Originally posted by ennerseed
anyone got/can get screen caps of it?


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clonenode
112 months ago
I'm very excited about this! No more MANUALLY updating the bookmarks on my ...PC... at work. Just long onto .Mac and all my home bookmarks will be there!
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nichrome
112 months ago
Interestingly, a screenshot of this was up on Apple's web site, on the iSync page, around the time Safari 1.0 was released. It was quickly replaced with this partial, generic Safari shot.

I'm surprised it took Apple so long to actually introduce this service, since they already had it up and running well enough to grab screenshots back when Safari 1.0 was released.

Oh well.
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moosecat
112 months ago
That screenshot caused a bit of commotion in the thread about Pal. I guess this explanation for the screenshot is a further nail in Pal's coffin.
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arn
112 months ago

Originally posted by clonenode
I'm very excited about this! No more MANUALLY updating the bookmarks on my ...PC... at work. Just long onto .Mac and all my home bookmarks will be there!


it doesn't seem clear if this works on a PC.

[Edit: Apparently it does work from PC's. Cool]

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