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Sunday, March 27, 2011

How to Export Delicious Bookmarks and Import into Google Booksmarks?


Delicious is a popular social-bookmarking service launched by Yahoo. It is a favorite bookmarking service for many bloggers. Now Delicious is shutting down. Like me many bloggers have heavy number of bookmarks. Yahoo did not pay proper attention and finally ditched the service. 



Export From Delicious

However, there is glad news that Delicious is exiting and Xmarks staying alive. Now you can export your bookmarks as shown below:

Step One: Open your Delicious Account and Login

Step Two:

Settings -> Bookmarks ->: Export

Click and find out the Dlicious bookmark exporter page

Step Three: Click on the export button. Else you may also chose selective tags. Now your bookmarks are getting exported as HTML file.


Import in Internet Explorer



How to import in Google Bookmarks? Follow the steps shown below:



Step One: Select options:

File -> Import and Export -> Import

Step Two: Click on Next and select ‘Favorites’ on the next screen.

Step Three: Just click Next and choose the downloaded HTML file (exported from Delicious). Also choose the folder into which the HTML file needs to be imported and saved.

Step Four: Open your Google Bookmarks and you will find your favorite Delicious Bookmarks



Google eBookstore launched with 3 Million Google eBooks


Like Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Nobles Google also entered into eBooks market and inaugurated eBookstore opened on Dec. 6, 2010. Many more online eBook sellers have joined hand with Google eBookstore. It is a giant step in ebooks retailing.


The Google brand has more than three million eBooks for sale and about 2.8 million royalty free eBooks are available on public domain for free distribution. It can be used at your laptops or notebooks or tablets or smart phones or e-readers.

Now the facility is available for US citizens. Soon it will be extended in Europe and Japan. Later the other international users will have access. In the meantime you can search and get lot many eBook titles free of cost from Google eBookstore.

Google Account Payments: Do you have Google Account Payment? If not create one now. Use Google check out feature.

How to access the Google eBookstore? Click Google eBookstore http://books.google.co.in/ebooks : You will find Google eBookstore home page.

Homepage: The homepage of the eBookstore will display titles under the heading 'Best of the Free.' You will also find categories like 'Fantacy', 'Thrillers' 'Romance' and so on.



Online Reading: Google eBooks can be read on any one of these readers  'Android', ' iPhone, iPad, iPad Touch' ' the Web' and 'Nook &Sony' readers. Click on an eBook to find information on the book, reviews from the web and users, view a sample from the book and make a purchase.


US Users Traveling Abroad: The US users planning to travel abroad can download and install the eBooks for reading during travel.

Distributed through Vendor. Google has also arranged to market eBooks through vendor outlets such as ‘ePub format’. The books and purchased and stored in a password protected private (Google) accounts.