Information Technology Reference
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. RawSugar (rawsugar.com) is a tagging resource like del.icio.us, but is
rather newer. In addition to the tagging option, RawSugar users can
see the latest links added to the site and do regular Web searching via
Google in addition to the tag searching of RawSugar's archives. (If
you search for something that isn't found at RawSugar, it automati-
cally reruns the search using Google.)
he sites I just mentioned here are basic bookmark/tagging sites. But we can
get a little more extensive than that, by looking at Web-based resources that
are designed to act more like a research partner for you. If you tend to move
around between several diferent computers and you don't have much in the
line of security concerns, online organizing resources can be very useful as
they're accessible all the time and from anywhere. hey come in several dif-
ferent lavors, from page keepers to free-form databases to wikis. We'll look
at several diferent examples.
extensive Web-based organizing sites
Maybe you want something that's more extensive than just bookmarks, but
you want to be able to access it from any computer. In that case you might
want to consider a Web-based organizing site. hese sites ofer the ability to
extensively organize information yet access it from any computer. Most of
them have a bit of a learning curve, though, so be prepared to invest some
time in getting used to them.
eSnips
eSnips (esnips.com) is a service of Net Snippets, which we covered earlier
in this chapter. he diferences are that the service is online, and you get
1GB of space to hold the snips of information from the Web or from your
computer that you want to save.
Registration is free. Once you've conirmed your registration, you're invited
to download an eSnips toolbar (which works in Internet Explorer, Firefox,
and Netscape). You can also get an extension for Firefox. he eSnips toolbar
“loats” on your desktop, giving you a quick way to save snippets you ind to
your online eSnips account. If you want to save lots of “bits” of information
and are less interested in whole pages and sites, eSnips is quite useful.
 
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