Create custom bookmarks of your favorite web sites using only2clicks

Posted on October 28, 2007 at 11:15 am

Have a ton of IE favorites or bookmarks to access your favorite web sites? Most people use the built-in features of IE or Firefox for keeping track of their favorite web sites. It works well, but as most people know, the list can become quite long and unmanageable. Don’t worry, there is a solution.

It’s usually VERY RARE that I come across a program or web service that really makes a big difference in the way I use my computer or the way I browse the Internet. However, today I landed upon a web site that did just that!

Only2Clicks is an awesome web service that lets you do something that should have been thought of 5 years ago! It’s such a simple idea, yet it’s probably the most useful web application that I’ve seen in months! Only2Clicks basically allows you to access your web favorites in, well, only 2 clicks of the mouse. However, even better than that, it’s like having all of your favorites on speed dial.

Once you’ve created an account, you can start setting up your Only2Clicks home page with your favorite web sites. You can add a link, give it a custom title and then you’ll see it show up on your front page with a snapshot of the home page. The cool thing is that you can set it up as your home page in your browser so that when you open up IE or Firefox, you can simply click on your favorite web site snap shot to access it!

As you can see from my setup, I’m big into blogging, so I setup my home page to have a couple of my favorite blog related sites listed. Now all I have to do is open the browser and click on the icon! You can also setup multiple categories to separate your links out. For example, I setup one for blogging, shopping, and one for Miscellaneous stuff.

You can add links to your categories by clicking on the green PLUS sign at the top left. For some reason, I could not figure this out for 5 minutes, so thought I would just mention it just in case! Also, the web site is designed for use on mobile devices also, so instead of having to type URLs into your iPhone, etc, you can simply add this site as your home page and then go to any web site from there.

You can also configure the site with multiple skins if you don’t like the plain white (which I prefer). Also, you can click on the Profile link at the top to setup how the links will open, either in a new window/tab or in the same window.

Overall, Only2Clicks is a very cool web service and immensely useful! It’s already been set as my homepage! Check it out!

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7 Responses to “Create custom bookmarks of your favorite web sites using only2clicks”

Alek Davis said on : October 29th, 2007 at 1:44 am

It’s interesting that within one week three of my favorite blogs addressed an issue of the bookmark synchronization, each suggesting a different service (see http://cybernetnews.com/2007/1.....bookmarks/ and http://lifehacker.com/software.....315538.php ). I still like my approach, though (del.icio.us + Google Browser Sync): http://alekdavis.blogspot.com/.....rites.html

Nirmal said on : October 29th, 2007 at 4:42 am

I think this is similar to the Speed dial extension for firefox, but it allows only 9 sites I think.

David Bradley said on : October 29th, 2007 at 8:58 am

It’s not exactly like speed dial, because it would presumably work on any machine on which you can get a net connection as opposed to your personal installation of Firefox. There is an alternative that is a little more involved and would require you altering DNS on the machine you happen to be using, but it also adds a lot of other useful features such as anti-phishing, adult filtering, etc etc and that’s OpenDNS. I’ve written about it a couple of times on my blog.

db

Linda Martin-Peoples said on : October 30th, 2007 at 5:48 am

I absolutely LOVE only2clicks! I reviewed it on my Blog (which mainly focuses on the “simple and easy”) a couple weeks ago and made it my home page, as well! While it is a bit “short” on “directions” (the green + sign you mentioned is a good example)and some of the other pages (in bright orange and green) may be a little hard on “old eyes”…(mine anyway!) it is wonderfully useful!
There are far too many positives to this service (like the fact that you can have as many pages/categories as you like!) to let a couple of negatives get in the way! I can’t say enough good about it and highly recommend it!
Linda Martin-Peoples
http://www.coolonlinetools.com

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