October 2006
Richard Corzo, Moderator
Lisa Leifels, Reporter

We welcome questions from the floor at the start of our General Meetings. In addition, members who are not able to attend the General Meeting may submit questions to askdacs@dacs.org. We will ask the question for you and post the reply in DACS.ORG. Please provide as much information as possible since we can’t probe during the session.

Q. How can I backup my Internet Explorer favorites and my Mozilla Firefox bookmarks?
A. There a several third-party software programs that will assist you with the backup or you can manually do it yourself by following the instructions below if you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer:
1. Open Internet Explorer, click the File menu and Import and Export. Then click Next.
2. Select Export Favorites and click Next. Select the folder you wish to back up; if you wish to back up all favorites, leave the Favorites folder highlighted and click Next.
3. Select the destination folder you wish to save the favorites and click Next.
4. By default Microsoft Internet Explorer will save your bookmarks as bookmark.htm. Click Finish.
Here are the steps to follow if you are using Mozilla Firefox:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox, click Bookmarks, and then click on the Manage Bookmarks link.
2. In the Bookmarks Manager window click File and choose Export.
3. By default your booksmark file will be called bookmarks.html. Choose the location you wish to save the bookmarks file to and click the Save button.

Q. How can I synchronize my Internet Explorer favorites and Firebox bookmarks?
A. Once again there are several software packages that will help you to do this for you, or you can manually follow the Firefox export process above and then do the following steps from within Internet Explorer.
1. Open Internet Explore, and from the File Menu select Import and Export. This will begin the Import/Export Wizard.
2. Select Import Favorites and the select the file you would like to import. Click Next.
3. Select the destination folder and click Finish.
Here are the steps to import your Internet Explorer favorites to Firefox:
1. Open Mozilla Firefox, click Bookmarks and then click on the Manage Bookmarks link.
2. In the Bookmarks Manager window click File and choose Import.
3. Choose the Internet Explorer browser, and click Next to continue and then click on the Finish button to complete the import process.
To synchronize between different PCs, you may also want to explore a service such as Sync2IT (http://www.sync2it.com/). On a Mac Safari’s bookmarks can be synchronized across different Macs using a .Mac account, and then the bookmarks are accessible from any Web browser on any PC or Mac. If you use other browsers on the Mac, the shareware program Bookit (http://www.everyday software.net/bookit/) can keep everything in sync across one or multiple Macs.

Q. I have an IBM computer running Windows XP which the RecordNow software came pre-installed on and is working fine. I have a second computer that originally was using Windows ME, but has been upgraded to run on Windows XP that I would like to use the RecordNow software on. The version of RecordNow on the older computer is only compatible with Windows ME. Is there a way of migrating the software from one computer to another computer?
A. Sonic-RecordNow is CD Writing software that comes pre-installed on IBM Thinkpads.
The following link has an updated version of the RecordNow Software if you have purchased an IBM Thinkpad and have a previous version installed.
This CD-RW application software download is applicable only for Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP customers who have purchased the ThinkAccessory Options, or ThinkPad systems with the options.
Notes: Early OBI optical drives may have shipped with CD-RW software which did not support Windows XP. This update provides that support.- This software is provided on a “use as is” basis. Source: http://www- 7.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do? sitestyle= lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-43887.
If you no longer have the previous version installed, you could purchase the latest Sonic RecordNow! Software from Roxio (http://www.sonic.com/products/Consumer/RecordNow/).

Q. Is there a way of finding out the date a web page was last updated?
A. Firefox seems to be the best browser to get this information, at least compared to Internet Explorer or Safari. From the Firefox menu select Tools then Page Info. You should see the date and time the page was last modified. Note that some Web pages are dynamically generated each time you visit the page so that you will always see the current date and time.

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