Author: Razvan Girmacea

First time on fav20?

First time on fav20
First time on fav20

If you are for the first time on fav20, I added a tooltip on top that lets you open a window to learn how to use it.

I think this will come in handy because most of the first time visits don’t know what is and how to use fav20.

First time on fav20 info window
First time on fav20 info window

You can always open the info window from the icon on fav20.

Review bookmark services

I asked a lot of people what bookmark services are they using. Most of them are:

All of them have pluses and minuses.

FireFox SpeedDial Plugin
+highly customizable, -browser dependable, -requires instalation

Opera
–limited(9 sites), -browser dependable, -requires instalation

iGoogle
+categories,+rss,-registration

Fav20
+no install and no registration required

Everybody can use any of the bookmark services above, most tech people will use FireFox plugin, but avarage user can find fav20 very simple to use and may love it, specialy now that he can move all his local saved pages to his account to access from any computer.

What bookmark service do you use and why ? 
 

Browser: How to change homepage

If you want to change your browser, it usualy depends if you are using Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera or other, but usualy it can be found on: Tools -> Options (Internet options) -> Main (General Tab).

You can set there any homepage you like. New browsers (FF2,3 + IE7) support more than one homepage (that will open in new tabs).

A hint is for you to try http://www.fav20.com as your homepage.

Fav20 users ready!

You can not now register on fav20 and save your websites anywhere.

To login fast just enter the following url:
http://www.fav20.com/[your_user]

If you already used fav20, you can click the on the top right to copy all saved websites from cookies to your account. More features will be added soon. Report any bugs please.

Don’t forget you can test the users with http://www.fav20.com/demodemo , password: demo

Fav20 user accounts!

I know a lot of you are waiting for the account feature, where you can have your favorite websites anywhere.

I have made a test account:
Link: http://www.fav20.com/demodemo
Password: demo

Note that anyone can add/delete anything they want there to test. Feedback here (comment) is appreciated.
I will work this days on the code, so if problems while you test come back in few minutes and test again.

Bonus features that accounts will have in the near future:

  • Copy local saved websites to the account (websites will be saved on server);
  • Unlimited number of websites (currently cookies are limited to 4k size ~ 40 websites).
  • Clear interface (remove unnecessary explaining text and icons)

Other futures that will come:

  • Categories/tabs (organize your websites in tabs)
  • Open all marked websites (mark some websites that you want to open in one click)
  • Some kind of socializing/interaction between users (still thinking of it)