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No Love For Digsby

Digsby

I had an account some time ago and recently I have been going out of my way to close accounts that I no longer need nor use. So I download the Digsby client after reading that there is no way to actually close the account on the web without visiting the forum.

What a mess that was, first off the download comes from Brothersoft which in my opinion is the worst of the worst with all the crap that is hosted there. Once the download finishes I look forward to deceptive practices of installing additional toolbars that I don’t need by making the menu choices near impossible to differentiate between what I want and crap that I don’t need.

I know that many other freeware vendors do this but at least they have a common thing to look for when installing there program that may or may not suck.


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Backup and Restore Firefox Bookmarks

Firefox

Firefox

I did a repair for a friend more recently and I felt really bad that her bookmarks where lost when I returned the computer to her, of course they where already gone when I got the machine. So the moral of that story is don’t let people that don’t know crap work on your computer.

To get back on point here there is a nice little feature in Firefox that backs up the bookmarks daily to a json file or optionally to an html file. Since I took a backup of the system I started poking around this morning and found that there is indeed a backup of all the bookmarks she had before things started going downhill.

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