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Best way to Move from Delicious To Google Bookmarks

Posted: 23 Jan 2011 05:45 PM PST

When news came our that Yahoo was planning to close Delicious, many people like me must have panicked. Then came the news that Yahoo will not shut down Delicious but sell it. I even wrote an open letter to Google suggesting they should buy Delicious. Google Bookmarks is not really setting the world on fire, but if Delicious did close down, then I would be tempted to move all my bookmarks to Google Bookmarks.

Delicious-export is a nifty tool that allows you to move your bookmarks from Delicious to Google.

Initially I looked up the export facility with Delciious and then the file to Google. I found this a little complicated. Delicious –export is a web app that makes life a lot easier.

Delicious Export App Features

The login facility is available for both Yahoo users and also old Delicious account users.
The bookmarks are moved quite fast. I also had the option of selecting or deselecting certain bookmarks while moving the bookmarks to Google.
A really good feature was that all the tags from delicious bookmarks were converted to Labels for Google Bookmarks. This is really handy.

So just in case you suffer from a lack of confidence on Yahoo and it's designs for Delicious bookmarking service, this web app is a great way to backup all these bookmarks to Google.

Link: Delicious Export

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The journey of the Computer Mouse [TDIS]

Posted: 22 Jan 2011 08:30 PM PST

The Mouse is considered to be an integral part of a Computer with most of the functions requiring the Mouse to be executed. A Laptop computer comes with a Touchpad however many people still find the Traditional mouse more comfortable. Today's mouse is result of the continuous development and evolution which happened since 1963 when the prototype of the first Mouse was developed by Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute with his colleague Bill English.

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It was not later than 1972 when Bill English (the co-inventor of the First mouse) build the Mechanical Ball mouse while working at XEROX PARC. This mouse had a Roller ball to move easily over a smooth surface.

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Eventually with further Technological advancements, Roller ball mouse was replaced with Optical mouse which uses a light-emitting diode and photodiodes to detect any movement. This is easy to use than the ball mouse as there is no requirement of any kind of fixed surface. Due to no physical contact with the surface, this kind of mouse has a much longer life when compared with its ancestor kind. Hence it is one of the widely used mouse today.

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What else was left has already come to the market, and is replacing the Optical and roller ball mouse pretty quickly. It is the wireless Optical mouse which uses Infrared / radio waves (even Bluetooth) to transmit signals to the computer when it detects movement. The receiver is usually a small device connected to the computer using the Serial port or USB. This kind of mouse requires additional battery (even rechargeable) for operation.