There has been a couple of things that’s been bugging me since i got my iPhone about a month ago and one of them is this: itunes only allows you to sync your favourites from either Internet Explorer or Safari.
Sure I could just start using Safari (there’s no excuse for using Internet Explorer. No excuse.) but I like many others love using Firefox and probably won’t consider switching web browsers. This is where Xmarks comes in handy.
Xmarks started out as a Firefox extension that would enable your bookmarks to be backed up online and downloaded to any computer you use running Firefox. A couple of good examples where this would be useful are, being able to acess your bookmarks at work or on a system running multiple operating systems.
Recently Foxmarks has been renamed Xmarks and along with this name change came new versions of the software that would support web browsers other than Firefox.
Unlike the Firefox version Xmarks for Internet Explorer isn’t actually a plugin , it’s a little application that sits in the system tray and copies your Firefox bookmarks from your Xmarks account into the Internet Explorer favourite list without actually ever having to launch IE. (which is always a bonus)
All you need to do now is make sure that you have got syncronise Internet Explorer favourites selected in iTunes and next time you sync your iPhone all your bookmarks will be copied into the iPhones Safari favourites list.
Well that’s about it for this post. I don’t think there’s anything more to really say except this:
