I discovered another use for the Firefox Scrapbook plugin.
Back when the discussion about moving from Blogger to WordPress was a hot topic, I got to thinking about saving my blog in a readable format. Not for any reason except that after awhile a blog starts to look like a book and someday, someone might find that interesting. …[continued]
I just watched Thomas’ webinar (available for free viewing at Legacy webinars until April 4th) about backup of your computer (specifically genealogy) data and if I wasn’t already doing it I still wouldn’t be. …[continued]
Are any Firefox users having a problem getting to JLiki? It’s crashing my browser. I can’t even get onto the main TiddlyWiki site.
It looks like a war on Tiddlies, but it could be just my computer. Can you please give it a try if you haven’t yet, and report back your insights?
It’s just been a week for embarrassments. Did you hear over at Legacy News they have 250,000 subscribers? I’m so humiliated. That would be an understatement. I was happy to hear though that 4 and a half years ago Geoff Rasmussen didn’t even know what a blog was. Glad I’m not the only one.
OK, so admittedly this is not rocket science but, honest, I’ve just never taken a serious interest in bookmarks. I only twigged onto this 2 days ago.
I said sometime back that I use EverNote for gathering websites because my bookmarks get into too much of a mess. Well, that’s only partly true. First of all, it suggests that my EverNote database is less of a mess and that just isn’t true. And second, I still bookmark pages sometimes for reasons unknown although I then forget about most of them because a week into it I can’t find anything.
I don’t know how I missed this one. Don’t get around enough I guess.
I said I wouldn’t harp on about Firefox anymore but I just hafta. As if there aren’t already enough reasons for switching browsers, here’s one more and this is the King of them all. You can’t possibly, as a self-respecting genealogist, not want to use this. It’s impossible.
I don’t actually live on a ranch, but I am back. Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in Canada lives on a ranch or in an igloo. We have towns and cities and ATM machines and milk that comes in cartons and all that regular stuff. Not that I can work an ATM machine without becoming confused but we have them. I am back from my travels and short as they were it always feels like a trip to the Moon. I hate traveling. I hate stuffing the trunk of a steel cage with my belongings and hurtling through space at 60 miles an hour. I hate it even more than I hate Internet Explorer.
Ever wish you could save and annotate web pages? I mean, conveniently. Firefox has an add-on called Scrapbook that will help you do exactly that. If you’re not using Scrapbook you’re missing out. It’s built for genealogists without even knowing it. It will allow you to save entire websites, single pages or parts of pages. Before or after saving, you can highlight sections and add your own notes. You can combine pages in any order you like and you can back up your work. If you don’t have Firefox, you will have to install it first.
Hey there!
First let me say that I love your blog. I’m a software junkie myself, although here in the last year or so, I haven’t been as active in trying out new programs, so I’m very grateful when someone like you who has similar interests like me ( e.g., genealogy and software) talks about the programs that clutter his computer. 
This is another one of those very simple things that I only noticed when I was desperate. If you’re needing to search web pages or, say, verify a long list of names against one of those online family charts that scrolls on forever, this is a very handy thing to use.
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