Tech tips

web bookmark saver

One of the challenges of working on two (or more) computers is keeping things synced. Take Internet surfing, for example.

Say you’re doing research on a computer in your school’s media center and find a Web site you’d like to bookmark for browsing when you get home. Because you don’t have access to the school’s machines after hours, saving the link to that machine won’t help you. You could copy the link and paste it in an e-mail to yourself, but the more sites you want to save the more unwieldy this system becomes.

It would be easier if you could just save your bookmarks to one spot. Delicious (http://www.delicious.com) is a Web service that lets you do just that.

With its assortment of organizing and sharing tools, Delicious is a bookmark repository kicked up a notch. Setting up your free account is easy, and the service can import the bookmarks saved on your computer’s browser so you don’t have to start from scratch.

Rather than folders, Delicious sorts your links by tags. Tags are keywords you assign to your bookmarks that describe the content of the site. The more detailed your tags, the easier it is to find your information.

duke nukem is dead

The most ridiculous saga in the history of video games has to be the development of “Duke Nukem Forever,” the first-person shooter that was first announced in 1997. As the years rolled by, and developer 3D Realms kept promising to release it “when it’s done,” the game became synonymous with “vaporware,” software that was promised but never delivered.

Our long national nightmare is over. 3D Realms has closed up shop, citing lack of funding. The Web site says “Goodbye” and “Thanks for being fans and all your support.”

Hopefully someday 3D Realms will explain how such a high-profile project went so terribly wrong.