Goodbye bookmarks, hello Spurl.net

I haven't bookmarked any websites in weeks. I have Spurled lots of stuff though. Spurl is the solution to my bookmark management problems. I use upwards of 4 or 5 computers a week, and my bookmarks never seem to be on the machine I am using. ("Where's that link? Oh yeah, I bookmarked that on my Linux box.")

Spurl keeps your bookmarks on their servers, so you can access them on any computer you happen to be using. You can organize them, search them, export them to del.icio.us, you name it. You access your links through sidebars. It works well in IE or Mozilla Firefox, and probably others. For Firefox, there is a nice sidebar extension. Truly portable bookmarks.

Google Toolbar

I love the Google Toolbar. If I have to use IE, which I do at work, the Google toolbar makes life bearable. Pop-up blocking, quicker access to searching, convenience buttons (like the Blogger button), and now spell checking! The new spell checking tool is the coolest thing I've ever seen. It works on any site, it is fast, and (so far) seems to be really good at suggesting the word you meant. The funniest thing is that if you use Blogger's spell checker, which is owned by Google, it flags both "Google" and "Blogger" as misspelled words, but the Google Toolbar gets them right.

Firefox Extensions

I work on five different computers regularly, and others occasionally. Between all of those it seems like I am installing, upgrading, or otherwise configuring Firefox on nearly a weekly basis. I'm tired of remembering which extensions I like, so once and for all I am going to record them here for future reference.

• Adblock
• Download Manager Tweak
• Spurl Sidebar
• Gmail Notifier
• Translate
• Image-Show-Hide
• WebmailCompose
• BlogThis
• AutoCopy
• Fetch Text Url
• Duplicate Tab
• QuickTabPrefToggle