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burndive started following the idea "Sync Searches" in Xmarks.

burndive started following the question "When will TwitPic implement OAuth?" in TwitPic.

burndive replied on April 13, 2009 20:16 to the idea "RSS as image thumbnail" in TwitPic:

Here's what I came up with.

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/twitpic-...

This feed shows a thumbnail in Blogger's "Blog List" gadget with a thumbnail of the most recent picture.

If someone else wants me to host a similar feed for their TwitPic account, just let me know in a comment, along with your account ID (i.e., Twitter name). I can't guarantee reliability, but it's in my own interest to keep the script working and the server online, so you don't have too much to worry about.

burndive replied on April 13, 2009 16:00 to the idea "RSS as image thumbnail" in TwitPic:

I think all that would be required would be for them to add an image element to the feed item.

Currently the only reference to the thumbnail's URL is hidden within CDATA.

I don't know why they don't already do this.

I'm looking at writing a script that would add this to the feed and hosting it myself.

burndive started following the idea "RSS as image thumbnail" in TwitPic.

burndive replied to "Search and RSS Feeds?", but it was removed. see the change log

burndive started following the question "Search and RSS Feeds?" in TwitPic.

burndive replied on March 09, 2009 23:44 to the idea "Be able to exclude nominated folders from being synchronised" in Xmarks:

It's not just other extensions that make excluding certain folders beneficial. There are privacy concerns and concerns of pure convenience: profiles are not the best way to handle location-specific bookmarks, such as links to router configuration pages, or machine-specific, such as those that deal with a local service.

burndive started following the idea "Be able to exclude nominated folders from being synchronised" in Xmarks.

burndive replied on October 08, 2008 20:55 to the idea "Excluding Fast Dial folder" in Xmarks:

So, do I need to start a new topic for my feature request, or will this thread suffice?

burndive replied to "Excluding Fast Dial folder", but it was removed. see the change log

burndive replied on October 08, 2008 16:57 to the idea "Excluding Fast Dial folder" in Xmarks:

I'm not sure what a Fast Dial folder is, but in order for me to use Foxmarks at work (and comply with corporate policy), I would need the Foxmarks extension to mark certain folders and Toolbar bookmarks as "ignored" or "not synced".

In this case, profiles simply won't do.

This is because the company does not want their internal URLs to be stored on external servers.

burndive started following the idea "Excluding Fast Dial folder" in Xmarks.

burndive replied on October 08, 2008 16:50 to the discussion "Syncing just one folder?" in Xmarks:

The way to do what you want is to create two profiles that have only one folder in common.

Example (+ means synced, - means not synced)

Profile 1:
A+
B+
C+
D-
E-

Profile 2:
A+
B-
C-
D+
E+

So in this example, Profile 1 has A, B and C; and Profile 2 has A, D, and E.

burndive replied on October 08, 2008 16:43 to the idea "Share and sync a folder between Foxmarks users" in Xmarks:

No, obviously, if a group is sharing AND SYNCING a folder, then they all have read/write access to it.

burndive started following the idea "Share and sync a folder between Foxmarks users" in Xmarks.

burndive replied on September 26, 2008 19:51 to the idea "Sub folder selection and multiple profile management" in Xmarks:

UI Problem solved.

Here is a sequence of actions taken by the user (shown in red), and the consequent automatic actions that result from user actions (shown in blue).

I don't see how this is complicated at all.

We start with everything checked:


The user disables the "Keyword Quick Searches" folder, and all of its children get automatically un-checked.


The user re-enables the imdb bookmark, and all of its parents are automatically checked.


For ease of use, each folder should have a recursive "enable all children" feature.

If, after syncing, the user re-created the "Shipping" folder with his browser and re-synced, there would now be two "Shipping" folders.

So, will someone please explain to me (1) why this is so hard to implement in the UI, and (2) what is so hard about merging such profiles together?

I love this extension, and I value the effort going in to maintaining it and running this site, but I don't appreciate being told "No, it's too complicated but we're not saying why now go away."

burndive replied on September 26, 2008 16:03 to the idea "Sub folder selection and multiple profile management" in Xmarks:

In that case, the solution is pretty simple: zip up your entire Firefox profile folder and make it available to yourself online somewhere. You can have this done on Linux with a cron job, or on Windows with a scheduled task.

The simplest way would be to e-mail it to yourself using a webmail account, but that's a "manual process", and apparently you don't like those.

When you set up a new computer, download the file, and unzip it into the Profiles folder. This should give you everything you had on the old installation, and it should work across platforms. The only caveat is that you need to make sure Firefox isn't running before zipping up the folder, because not everything is synced to disk immediately.

A comment on the idea "Sub folder selection and multiple profile management" in Xmarks:

JD, would the re-included bookmarks be in the parent folder, or would including them automatically re-include the folder, but with all other contents disabled by default? I say the latter.

With regards to syncing extensions, what I do is I have an extensions folder that gets synced. When I'm setting up Firefox, here's what I do:

1. Install Foxmarks
2. Restart Firefox
3. Sync bookmarks
4. Use the "Open all in tabs" feature to open the install page of all my extensions in tabs.
5. Install all the extensions, one after another.
6. Restart Firefox. – burndive, on September 26, 2008 15:17

burndive reported a problem in Xmarks on September 24, 2008 17:25:

Expired certificate

The Foxmarks.com certificate just expired.