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PSA: Geocities and Delicious
Jun. 18th, 2009 12:22 pmYou've probably heard that Geocities will be closing down its service later this year. While some geocities sites will probably be making the move, a lot will simply be lost, and if you're like me you'll want to save copies of your favorite stories/pages/whatever. If you're like me, this is a major task because you have a lot of bookmarks and can't remember off the top of your head which ones might be geocities. (I have 1249 bookmarks on Delicious.) And while you can sort by tag on delicious, I couldn't find any way to sort by address.
In the top left corner of Delicious, right under your name if you're logged in, are three little icons. They're easy to miss. They consist of one, two, and three stacked horizontal bars. These control how much information you see for each bookmark. The default is the middle icon, with two horizontal bars. If you click on the right one, with three horizontal bars, you will get more information for each bookmark, including the url, and then you can use your browsers search function to find "geocities" on that page. But you still have to go through each page one at a time.
If you have Firefox, the process is easier. Bookmarks--Organize Bookmarks or ctrl-shift-b brings up Organize Bookmarks, and then you type "geocities" into the search box in the top right corner and it brings up all the webistes with geocities that you have bookmarked in Firefox.
Yeah, sure, these are both pretty simple, but for someone not necessarily tech-smart, I was pleased to figure out a way to do it without having to ask.
In the top left corner of Delicious, right under your name if you're logged in, are three little icons. They're easy to miss. They consist of one, two, and three stacked horizontal bars. These control how much information you see for each bookmark. The default is the middle icon, with two horizontal bars. If you click on the right one, with three horizontal bars, you will get more information for each bookmark, including the url, and then you can use your browsers search function to find "geocities" on that page. But you still have to go through each page one at a time.
If you have Firefox, the process is easier. Bookmarks--Organize Bookmarks or ctrl-shift-b brings up Organize Bookmarks, and then you type "geocities" into the search box in the top right corner and it brings up all the webistes with geocities that you have bookmarked in Firefox.
Yeah, sure, these are both pretty simple, but for someone not necessarily tech-smart, I was pleased to figure out a way to do it without having to ask.
