Chapter 7. Using .Mac Bookmarks

If you use Safari as your Web browser, you can take advantage of one of .Mac's nifty information-synchronization features: the ability to keep a common set of browser bookmarks among several different Macs, and have those bookmarks available online from just about any Web browser.

This synchronization of bookmarks is a real time-and frustration-saver if you have more than one Mac, as anyone who's ever tried to keep bookmarks organized between two or more machines knows.

It's also a real boon for those who travel without the benefit of being able to take their main computers with them. With .Mac bookmark synchronization, your bookmarks are never any farther away than a Web browser and an Internet connection.

The only drawback with .Mac Bookmarks is that you have to use Safari in order to take advantage of them too bad for the Firefox, Camino, Opera, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, and OmniWeb users among us.

In this chapter, I'll show you how to access your Safari bookmarks using a Web browser, add a bookmark, and remove bookmarks and folders. I'll also show you how to set your preferences so that your bookmarks behave the way you want them to.