SpeedyMarks - for the iPhone and iPad

Visual Bookmarks. SpeedyMarks makes it easy to open and to bookmark your favourite web sites on the iPhone and the iPad. The SpeedyMarks are either stored as a cookie in the browser on your local computer or on our server so that you can access them from everywhere.

New iPhone Project: Speedy Mail

Create email templates and send them quickly. Makes it fast to send your standard messages around.

speedymail.speedymarks.com

Add to Firefox Sidebar     Add to Opera Panels

Welcome Chrome

It's good to see that there is a new contender in the desktop browser game: Google Chrome. Especially its speed and the support for standalone web applications looks very promising. All of my web applications seem to work fine and fast so don't miss the chance to give them a try:

CountDownr - Countdown counters, generic and from Google Calendar

SpeedyMarks - Visual bookmarks

WorldClockr - Animated world clocks with sunrise and sunset times

WorldWatchr - Webcams, radar, traffic, ...

Don't miss the chance to add application shortcuts to your Windows desktop, start menu or quick launch. Just open the menu and select Create application shortcuts.

SpeedyMarks on the side

After optimizing all my iPhone applications for the browser sidebars it's now time to put the SpeedyMarks itself into the sidebar too.

It's great to have all your visual bookmarks only one click away without creating or switching tabs. Just put

http://www.speedymarks.com/sidebar.html

in your sidebar and there you are or simply click one of these links:

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You will see that the sidebar version shares the same SpeedyMarks as the desktop version (from either cookie based or server based storage) but comes with its own settings for background color, SpeedyMarks size and link target.

Please note: Alternatively you could use the iPhone version of SpeedyMarks, which works great in the sidebar too but it manages its collection of SpeedyMarks indepently.

iPhone apps in browser sidebar

As you probably know it makes complete sense to run iPhone optimized web applications (e.g. the mobile Google Reader) in the browser sidebar. iPhone applications are usually optimized for a 320 pixel wide browser window which is the perfect size for Firefox's sidebar and Operas panels especially on todays wide screen monitors where a full screen web page would be too wide anyway.

Of course you an run all my iPhone applications in the sidebar already. Just open the application in Firefox or Opera, add a bookmark and check Load this bookmark in the sidebar on Firefox or Show in panel on Opera.

But if you want to run more than one of my iPhone applications in the sidebar you need to create a lot of bookmarks and constantly click your booksmarks to switch. There is no need to. Just put

http://start.speedymarks.com/sidebar.html

in your sidebar and you can easily switch between all my iPhone applications on your sidebar. It even comes with a convient button to add the bookmark automatically:

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Login to your SpeedyMarks

As a SpeedyMarks user you might have noticed the new Login link on the upper right hand corner:



An often requested feature of several users has been the server storage of the visual bookmarks. Yes, I heard you and I'm excited to let you know it's done now. Just login using your (existing or to be created) Google Account and all your SpeedyMarks are stored on the server (on the Google server farm to be precise). This makes it possible to access your SpeedyMarks from everywhere even with multiple browsers. And the best, it does work for the iPhone SpeedyMarks as well, which are separate from the desktop bookmarks:



Don't worry, SpeedyMarks doesn't ever see your Google Account password, rest assured. If you logout you are back to the local cookie based SpeedyMarks specific to each desktop and browser (and you have the option to clean your server storage before you leave).

Now you have the choice to either use the server and share your SpeedyMarks or keep them completely local and private.

New iPhone App: Start Me Up

Quick access to all my iPhone applications just from one page modeled after the iPhone home screen.

start.speedymarks.com

New Project: SpeedyMarks

On SpeedyMarks you can create visual bookmarks for your favourite websites. It is insprired by Operas Speed Dial feature and uses thumbnails from WebSnapr. This makes it the perfect startpage for your browser. The background color of the page and the size of the speedymarks can be changed.



You can add a button to your website to make the addition to SpeedyMarks very easy.

Example:  (SpeedyMark for this blog)

Please check the iPhone version iPhoneMarks as well.

New iPhone Project: iPhoneMarks

I started a new iPhone website: iPhoneMarks

iPhoneMarks makes it easy to open web sites on the iPhone, because you don't have to type the full URL. For your favourite web sites you can create visual bookmarks which are stored locally on your phone (not on a server).