Last week I wrote briefly about the GMark Bookmarklet I hacked together based on Adam Pash's GMailThis. Up until discovering Google Bookmarks I had mostly been using del.icio.us and Firefox for managing my archived links. After last week's trouble with Browser Sync though, I decided to move all my bookmarks online.
Del.icio.us is currently my main bookmark archive and Google Bookmarks has become more of a short term bookmark inbox. This process has been a great success so far.
I was so happy with the GMark bookmarklet that I decided to add a new one to help with bookmarking to del.icio.us as well. I figured I'd share it here for anyone who might be interested.
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This bookmarklet is a slightly modified version of Lifehacker's GMailThis bookmarklet. I tweaked the code by renaming some of the variables and re-writing the final output. The code is not my own it has only been tweaked slightly to work with Google Bookmarks rather than Google Mail.
After I mentioned Google Bookmarks yesterday I sat down and started bookmarking a handful of sites to be part of today's "To Do" list. While using the bookmarklet, made available by Google, I started to get annoyed by the need to constantly tab around to enter data. I was already familiar with Lifehackers GMailThis bookmarklet but because I'm not interested in bookmarking to my GMail account it didn't really appeal to me - except for part of it's "supercharged" feature. Ultimately I decided to tweak the GMailThis bookmark to fit my own needs.
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One of the mistakes that I think most new bloggers make involves their reliance on AdSense. I myself have been blinded many times by the legendary AdSense paycheck. Let's be realistic though - if you're like me AdSense isn't a paycheck, on a good day it MIGHT be a bag of chips. In a good month it might be the AdSense sandwich. The point is that new bloggers, and even some long time bloggers with small audiences, probably aren't going to make significant money through Google.
Should you abandon the almighty Google? probably not. There might be a better direction to concentrate your efforts though.
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Over the past week and a half Zen Habits has crept onto my list of favorite sites - and for good reason. The site is chock-full of great tips and ideas on everything from health to finances.
In a recent post about eating healthier Zen Habits offered up four tips for developing a healthy lifestyle. One of the posts major points is to try making a lifestyle change rather than "going on a diet."
Winter always has affects my eating habits in a bad way - when lent roles around I find the drive I need to get myself eating better again. Of the four tips offered up by Zen Habits I'm happy to say I've already adopted three (for lent I gave up meat altogether so I guess I one-upped one of them.)
One tip I'd like to include goes along with Zen Habit's forth one. If you choose to cut back on sweets immediately swap in fruits to get your sugar fix. After a couple days you can swap in sugar free treats and you'll be able to satiate your sweet tooth. Keep the fruit for your snack and the sugar free stuff for desert.
In the past I wrote about using SUPER to convert YouTube videos for the PSP and mentioned that I use SUPER for about 90% of my video conversion needs.
SUPER is great for converting video files of any type (including ripped DVDs) into PSP, iPod, and GP2X friendly files. You can even convert video files into audio files to create MP3s files AND (as I learned last night) even to download streaming audio.
Simply start SUPER in the normal way, right click on the application window, and select "Add streaming link(s)." In the next dialogue enter the url for the file and then select "Save stream to your Harddisk."
That's it!
