My favourite feature of windows 7 is something I have been banging on about for years since wide screen monitors made an appearance. “Wouldn’t it be great if you could divide the screen etc” I would say. But wait its here! Behold  Aero Snap. The reason that I like it is because for the first time in a long while I can actually see myself working on a single monitor and being very productive. Being a web developer I am constantly working between multiple windows usually photoshop, editplus, browsers and a media player. I am currently in the process of choosing a new monitor and I am currently considering a 23” 1080p offering the problem is i cant afford 2 off those. Aero snap actually makes it possible for me to consider working with one single monitor.

Thank you Microsoft…

I am a heavy Firefox user and my experience is made much more pleasurable by using foxmarks its actually in the process of changing its name to Xmarks. I presume they are doing this because they are no going to be supporting Internet Explorer and Safari aswell as Firefox. This is a good call in my opinion because if you work across multiple operating systems and are forced into using multiple browser types having this is just awesome. I have noticed some oddities in some of my bookmarks / favourites in Internet Explorer with some entries that look like this… “—“ etc I presume these are dividers which have been pulled over from Firefox.

However what I am going to do is have a massive cull of bookmarks and see if I can keep my bookmarks in order across a multitude of computers browsers and operating systems.

One issue that’s bugging me though is that I will have to install clients for each browser on each machine. I already use Live MESH to sync Internet Explorer favourites but mesh doesn’t extend to Linux (unless you use some cunning virtualization).

Is the best solution here to start a clean slate delete all your default bookmarks / favourites? Then get syncing!

Official Old Site: http://www.foxmarks.com/

Official New Site: http://www.xmarks.com/