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Yahoo! Axis Web Browser For iOS Displays Search Results Within Websites, Syncs Desktop Bookmarks

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Safari undoubtedly remains the most popular iOS web browser, despite the presence of some pretty good alternatives in the App Store. There are no official Chrome or Firefox clients for iPhone and iPad, but in a surprising move, Yahoo! has joined the ranks of iOS web browsers! The new Yahoo! Axis app has been released today, and comes with some pretty decent features. Yahoo! Axis is supplemented by web extensions for all major desktop browsers, and the app uses those extensions to sync your desktop bookmarks and read-it-later lists automatically across all your devices. Another innovative feature offered by Axis is its way of displaying search results. The browser makes sure that you don’t have to navigate away from the current webpage in order to view search results, made possible by the availability of a standalone search section within the app. Read on to know more about this sleek web browser for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Read More

The Grim Tab Reaper Automatically Bookmarks & Closes Inactive Tabs In Firefox

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One problem with working with a large number of tabs, is the fact that we often forget to close the inactive ones, despite having exhausted their need a long while back. Sifting through numerous tabs cannot only be a difficult task, but they also increase the memory usage (especially on Firefox). The Grim Tab Reaper is a clever Firefox add-on that will automatically bookmark inactive tabs and close them after a certain time interval has elapsed. By default, the time to automatically close inactive tabs is set to 48 hours, but users can increase/decrease the time from the add-on's options. Note that this tool will never close web app tabs, or the active ones. Tabs that are reaped get a tabreaper tag associated with them, so you can easily find them by clicking the Recent Tags option in the Bookmarks menu. Read More

Zootool: Create Visual Bookmarks With Actual Content Snippets [Chrome]

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Zootool is a web application that lets you collect, organize and share your favorite images, videos, documents and links from all over the web. It offers visual bookmarking that can specially come in handy when you’ve got loads of bookmarks and can’t remember a particular website. Zootool uses images to bookmark content, so you can access it in an easier way. Signing up for the service requires only a few simple steps, after which you can bookmark images, videos, documents or pages from any website. The Chrome extension for the service speeds up the whole process by letting you bookmark content from any website directly from the toolbar. Zootool allows you to save not only URLs, but actual content snippets, so you can quickly locate or find them at a later time. Read More

Dashboard: Add Up To 9 Bookmark Slots To Your Android’s Homescreen

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If you’re an avid web surfer and frequently need to visit specific websites on your Android, but find it tiresome to navigate all the way to your browser app to open each individual website separately, then you must consider using Dashboard. This immensely convenient and customizable app lets you specify bookmark shortcuts to a maximum of nine (9) different most frequently used URLs on its main interface, so that you’re always just a single tap away from navigating to your favorite websites. What’s even better with Dashboard, is that it also supports a nifty skinnable homescreen widget, complete with the shortcuts to all nine bookmarks, so that you can head over to the required URL direct from your Android's homescreen. From the customization perspective, you can also apply various elegant skins/themes to your Dashboard widget to make it look even prettier, and in compliance with your default launcher. Details to follow. Read More

Secure Bookmarks: Add A Password-Protected Bookmarks List To Chrome

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Want to save your bookmarks in a private and secure way, so other people using the same computer cannot access them? It's quite possible to have content in your bookmarks that you would want to keep hidden from prying eyes. Secure Bookmarks is a Chrome extension that adds a password-protected bookmarks list to Chrome, so you can occasionally create bookmarks without having them displayed out in the open. The extension allows you to store such favorites in a separate list that is encrypted and saved on your hard drive. After installing the extension, you can save content with a click, and retrieve it later by entering your password within a tiny pop-up. Read More

Mysites: Get Windows 8 Metro Start Screen-Like New Tab Page On Chrome

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MySites, a Chrome extension, adds a Windows 8 Metro-inspired new start page to your browser that is fully customizable, with the most visited websites, apps and bookmarks speed dials. This slick extension gives you a personalized, stylish and practical start page with large, colorful, attractive tiles, which you can click to instantly access your most frequented websites and bookmarks. Additionally, MySites lets you search the web directly from the start page. The tile sizes are directly related to the number of visits, so the design allows you to quickly get from the new tab page to your desired websites with minimal friction. Read More

Daily Links: Auto-Load A Defined Set Of Tabs On Specific Days [Chrome]

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Most people have either a habit or the requirement of visiting a set number of webpages on a daily basis, be it news websites, social networks, or work related items. One option that you have is to use sessions in Chrome, while the other would be to manually reopen all those links every time you launch the browser. Daily Links is yet another solution. It is a Chrome extension that lets set a group of customizable links to open automatically on particular days, so that each morning, you're ready to do your routine reading without going through the same ritual on, say, weekends. The extension can be fully customized, and you may simply click the button in the toolbar to load your desired tabs every day. With it, you can keep track of news, blogs, or any website that you visit regularly. Moreover, the extension seamlessly integrates with your bookmarks folder, so you can import links directly from your bookmark collection. It also allows you to load tabs in a random order, or in an order that you’ve previously set, thus allowing you to surf the internet more effectively. Read More

Get Tree-View For All Bookmarks On Chrome’s New Tab Page

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If you're managing enormous amounts of bookmarks in Chrome, finding the right one from the folders or the Bookmark Manager can sometimes be difficult, not to mention the extra step involved in navigating to the bookmarks bar or the manager itself. New Tab + Bookmark Tree is an extension for Chrome that customizes the new tab page and loads all your bookmarks whenever you open a new tab, so you can quickly open your favorite or most visited websites. It gives users quick access to all the saved bookmarked items, without having to open the bookmarks manager. The extension lets you customize the look and feel of the new tab page according to your choice, for instance, you can change the font color, size, background color, number of columns and other options. Read More

Skrittle: Discover Websites & Videos Based On Your Browsing Patterns [Web]

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With time, the internet is getting bigger and better, with more digital content being shared. As the content on the internet is growing exponentially, we need to find different ways to discover new websites, rather then browsing the same old ones. Part of the problem is that we, as users, don't know where to look to find better content than what we already have. This is where Skrittle, a web service, helps us out by letting us explore new websites, based on the current website they are on and what other similar users like. All you have to do is install the bookmarklet and when you're on any website, click it to discover new ones. Read More

Burn After Reading: A Read It Later Client For Windows Phone 7

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Read It Later has become quite a popular service in recent times; after all, who wouldn’t like to have access to huge quantities of videos and other web data even when offline? The service enjoys so much success owing to the fact that it has got its clients for almost all major platforms. One smartphone OS, however, has, until now, been overlooked, i.e., Windows Phone 7. The Mango platform still hasn’t got an official Read It Later client, but there is a pretty good third-party app available in the Marketplace, by the name of Burn After Reading. Using this app, you can access your Read It Later account, and it also lets you manage all the content you have got stored for offline viewing. Head past the break to know more. Read More

LiveClick: Enhance Firefox Live Bookmarks With Unread Count, Icons & More

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If you subscribe to your favorite RSS feeds using Firefox’s Live Bookmarks feature and want to improve the way it works, then LiveClick, a Firefox add-on, can be quite useful for you. This neat tool adds various enhancements to the Live Bookmarks, such as feed reading, notifications, alerts and more. With it, you can easily see which bookmarks have new or unread items, and control how often Live Bookmarks checks for new ones. You can also mark live bookmark items as read, and hover over a live bookmark item to preview its contents. Moreover, you can click a Live Bookmarks folder to quickly access its homepage and use website icons instead of the default RSS icon. Read More

LockMyFavs: Add Password Protected Cloud-Based Bookmarks In Chrome

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Often, while we browse the web, we come across pages that we would like to bookmark, but at the same time, we don’t want them to show up in the bookmark bar or folders due to privacy concerns. LockMyFavs is a Chrome extension that lets you easily add and manage bookmarks that nobody needs to see or know about, with the best part being the fact that the bookmarks don't get stored in your computer, but in the cloud. This means you can access these private bookmarks on any machine. It brings together fast one-click bookmarking through the right-click context menu, and lets you organize your favorites so you can view them later when you have time. All you have to do is right-click a webpage and add it to the pop-up list, or manually add the page by entering a URL and Alias. Once you’ve saved the webpages, click the cross at the bottom of the pop-up to log out. Read More

SearchMark: Search For Items Within Bookmarked Pages [Chrome]

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If you have a massive collection of bookmarks stored in your Chrome browser, or a bunch of folders containing loads of bookmarks, manually sorting through your bookmark library to find a page you once bookmarked, can be a very difficult task. This is where SearchMark comes in handy. The Chrome extension does not only allow you to search your bookmarked pages by title or web address, but bookmarks can also be searched by page content. SearchMark makes bookmarking management a breeze, so you no longer need to waste time by manually searching multiple folders and your bookmarks bar. Read More

Bookmarks Suggester: Search Bookmarks Using Keyboard Shortcut [Chrome]

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One of the great things about Chrome is its minimal design. It altogether does away with a separate search and URL bar and compounds them in to one even though other browsers still have the option to separate them. While Chrome’s Omnibar amasses both the address and search bar, it doesn’t let you search your bookmarks and for that you have to open the bookmarks manager. Bookmarks Suggester is an extension for Chrome that adds a search bar to any webpage when the Ctrl+L shortcut is used. This simple search bar then allows you to quickly search through all your bookmarks. The shortcut moves the focus to a new text field that suggests all matching bookmarks when you type in a query. You can then navigate through these results by moving up or down the list. Hitting Enter will open selected bookmarks in the current tab, while hitting the “+” button will open the selected search result in a new tab. In case there are no matching results for the term in your bookmarks, you will be redirected to Google. Read More

Booknote Importer: Save Bookmarks To An Evernote Notebook [Mac]

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Many people use more than one browser and save bookmarks separately to each. When you need to access a bookmark saved to another browser, you will simply have to switch to another app, but that’s about as all it takes to fetch a bookmark from another browser. If you use Chrome, you can sync your bookmarks between systems. You can also use Xmarks, a popular browser extension available for both Firefox and Chrome, that allows you to sync bookmarks between browsers and systems. This is in the event that you’re always on your own system. If you use a public system or are using one temporarily, you might want an easier setup that can be removed quickly. If you use Evernote, the answer is pretty simple. Booknote Importer is a free Mac app that lets you save your bookmarks as notes to an Evernote notebook. All your folders and their respective bookmarks are sorted the way they were in your browser, and you can access them by signing into Evernote’s web interface. Read More

Tagmark: Save Webpages As Tags & Add Notes For Them [Chrome]

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Tagmark, a Chrome extension, is a simple solution to bookmarking and tagging content on the web.  It brings together fast one-click bookmarking using tags to organize your favorites. With Tagmarks, the URL and the title of the page is automatically added to the pop-up, and users can enter notes and a tag for the website. The extension then adds the tags to the Tagmark webpage, which can be accessed by clicking the Tagmark logo in the pop-up. Tagmark requires a simple sign up, after which all your tags are saved to the cloud. Tagmark works by letting you bookmark webpages both for personal or professional purposes without cluttering the bookmark bar. Read More

FDock: Group Similar Tabs & Quickly Launch Bookmarks [Firefox]

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FDock is a Firefox add-on that adds a tab dock to your browser window. The dock houses bookmarks and the tabs you have open. Instead of going through the Tab bar which gets cluttered when you have too many tabs open, you can use the dock to preview your tabs and switch to them. It groups tabs from the same website into a single icon and if there are multiple items in a group, clicking the button in the toolbar opens a menu, listing the open tabs. The dock can be positioned to any side of the browser window and also has an autohide feature. Groups of tabs come with three basic colors, yellow for a tab that is currently selected, green for a tab that has been opened in the background but has not been visited and blue for a tab that has changed title. Read More

Find Related Bookmarks For The Current Website With Ease [Chrome]

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If you’ve bookmarked an article from a website and can't find it, or if you simply want to look up all the bookmarks related to your current website, then Find My Bookmarks, a handy Chrome extension, can be quite useful. This easy-to-use extension locates all your related bookmarks for the current domain. and the icon appears in the address bar whenever it finds bookmarks for a particular website. Just click this icon and get a list of all related bookmarks in a pop-up. Moreover, users can enable or disable the Show URL on Hover, Ignore Subdomains and Ignore Current Page options from the Settings. Read More

Get Instant Access To Apps & Bookmarks From Chrome’s New Tab Page

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Bookmark Buttons Startpage, a slick Chrome extension, customizes the new tab page, giving you instant access to installed apps and bookmarks. It also gives you quick access to History, Downloads, Bookmarks, Extensions, Webstore and Options. Moreover, you can navigate through folders if you have your bookmarks organized in that fashion. The extension lets you customize the look and feel of the new tab page according to your choice. The Options comes with a set of predefined themes, but you can choose to manually adjust almost everything. At the bottom of the page, you will find Other Bookmarks category, where you can click a folder and browse subfolders or bookmarks easily. Also, if you use bookmark syncing, the new tab page will look exactly the same on both devices once you’ve synced them. Read More

Skim: PDF Reader With Bookmarks Manager, Notes & Snapshot Tool [Mac]

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You can natively open PDF files on a Mac or in your browser. Finding a way to open a PDF is no big deal, but what you want to do with a PDF once it’s open is entirely different. You’ll read it, of course, but you might want to highlight parts of it, take shots of the pages, add notes or encircle parts of it. For all that and more, there is Skim, a free Mac app that is a PDF reader at the core, and is equipped with enough features to make it a full fledged research tool. The app gives you multiple tools for annotating and making notes, maintain bookmarks and view any PDF as a presentation. Read More