Aboogy blog - official Aboogy.com blog http://blog.aboogy.com/en One site to rule them all Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:53:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Merry Christmas and happy New Year http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2009/12/24/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/ http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2009/12/24/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:53:28 +0000 Jure http://blog.aboogy.com/en/?p=45 Dear all.

Aboogy team wishes you a very merry Christmas and happy New Year!

Peace!!!!

]]> http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2009/12/24/merry-christmas-and-happy-new-year/feed/ 11 Help! What should I do with my bookmarks? http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2009/11/16/help-what-should-i-do-with-my-bookmarks/ http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2009/11/16/help-what-should-i-do-with-my-bookmarks/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:30:14 +0000 Leon http://blog.aboogy.com/en/?p=30 aboogyAndDeliciousLogoAboogy is like a beer.  When you are just a kid, you don’t get what the hell people see in that stinky bubbly liquid, but when you grow up it becomes irreplaceable.

Two, three beers are awesome, but add that two or three times up, and the whole system will collapse. With moderate number of links, Aboogy is perfect homepage on your browser. But if you manage to get five meter long columns of links, Aboogy will be of use to you as a piece of an used toilet paper.

The best way of using Aboogy is to put just those links you are visiting on a daily basis. For links you are using once in six months there is better solution. It’s called www.delicios.com. It’s like bottomless hole for bookmarks. Before you throw your link into that pitt be sure to tag it properly (put a key words about it) so you can easily find it when you need it

Let me give you an example.  Let’s say that you want to save this link: www.sexy-underware.com .  Don’t click on it! It’s just an example! Please, concentrate….

Delicious enables you to tag this link with some keywords. For example :

“sexy, underwear, shorts, g-string , present, anniversary, …”

There are no rules. More quality tags you enter, the easier it’ll be for you to find this link when needed. All you’ll have to do is type some of those words, and off you go.

Therefor:

www.aboogy.com is your perfect homepage

www.delicious.com is your perfect bookmark depo.

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We are pleased to announce that now you can set Aboogy as your home page on your mobile phone at address:

m.aboogy.com or mobile.aboogy.com

Sign in with your existing username and find your favorite links on your mobile phone.

What you will see there is a light version of your Aboogy. The main differences of standard and mobile Aboogy are:

- Weight of the site is less than the original Aboogy page to speed up loading on slow internet connections.
- Standard five column is just too complex for a lower screen resolution so we have put all your categories in one column and arranged them alphabetically for quicker reference.
- Image links are converted into a separate category of “Images”
- Large selection of search engines is cut down just to Google mobile.

What is not possible on Aboogy mobile site, but will be in near future is:
- Registration of new users. New users have to register trough classic Aboogy page.
- Adding, deleting and updating categories and links. You can edit your links on standard Aboogy site.

As you can see, this first release supports basic functions of Aboogy service. Despite the current limitations of the extended Aboogy arm you should have better surfing experience while using your mobile phones.

At the very end there is another important thing. We invite all of you who surf the internet using your mobile phones to tell us how Aboogy looks on your mobile devices, is it bothers you and what features you would like to see.

Sign in with your existing username and enjoy mobile.
m.aboogy.com

Yours Aboogy team

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We have added three new search engines you can add to your Aboogy. You can turn them on by clicking at three dots located left of search box at your Aboogy.  Two of them (Baidu and Yandex) we added because our Chinese and Russian users requested.  Enjoy.  Third one, WolframAlpha, was added because it’s a new search engine lots of people consider to be one of major Google competitor. It’s a very specific search engine with goal to sum “all of internet knowledge” and present it to internet users. It’s very hard to describe this search engine so we recommend to try it yourself.
Try to search this phrases:

* new york weather
* 100 km/h in mph
* the matrix, matrix 2, matrix 3
* europe population
* some date

Examples:
http://www23.wolframalpha.com/examples/

Video:
http://www23.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

]]> http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2009/05/30/three-new-search-engines-for-your-aboogy/feed/ 8 New Aboogy features, despite the crisis http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2009/03/24/new-aboogy-features-despite-the-crisis/ http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2009/03/24/new-aboogy-features-despite-the-crisis/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:19:10 +0000 Jure http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2009/03/24/new-aboogy-features-despite-the-crisis/ Over the past six months, you may have noticed that we haven’t exactly been busting our buns in developing new possibilities for Aboogy. There are two basic reasons for our current state of production. The first reason is that Aboogy runs like clockwork and requires only minimal effort from our side and my father always said – if ain’t broke, don’t fix it. A bigger reason is that we are really pressed for time and Aboogy is still hesitant about managing our standard of living so our day job has top priority. Despite the crisis, we have decided to feature a small improvement in the expanded search parameters of your home page.

The amount of user emails that are categorized under “Search engine” has reached a critical point so we decided to kill off several main demands:
Click on the three dots and choose the search engine you use most often and the icons will appear on your home page. By clicking on the icon of our choice you are choosing your search engine. You can now search using localized search engines such as Google, Wiki and Yahoo simply by choosing a top level domain. Damn it I feel smart when I use them fancy, important words like .com, .hr, .it… Your choice will be registered by Aboogy so that you don’t have to keep clicking the same thing each time you return. Basically, we tried to set things up so that it is super quick, practical, efficient and of course useful for you, the user. And for me as well because now I can go to IMDB and glance at reviews before I download Torre… Umm… go to the movies.

The system has been set up in such a way that the process of adding another search engine was a cinch so should you have any requests that actually make sense, let us know and we’ll add the ones that are most in demand. Search engines. That you want from us. Yes, you can ask us. Yes, you can.

And let us know if this is actually helpful or if you are still just clicking like mad on Google.

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When someone delivers this many blows in only 70 seconds to a people whose only recognizable brand in the world is their pride, then this same someone needs to be prepared for the worst kind of consequences.

The board members of our organization have reached a unanimous decision in which residents of Turkey have been banned from registration on the Aboogy site for the remaining duration of Euro 2008!

We are fully aware of the impact of such a radical move and the deep and painful mark it will leave on Turkish Internet operations and the economy as a whole and will generally cause a considerable step backward on a global scale – developmentally speaking. However, it must also be understood that as a result of the actions passed, they leave this Internet superpower known as Aboogy with no choice or alternative options. We sincerely hope that the Turks along with everyone else will think twice before deciding on similar moves in the future.

Following the announcement of our decision we received an email from an unknown sender threatening to crash our service if we do not enable registration on Aboogy for Turks.

Here is the email screenshot.

emailAfter a brief assembly we have come to the conclusion that changing our minds with regards to our decision on this particular matter is not an option and is completely out of the question. Aboogy is prepared for any and all types of attacks.

No Aboogy for Turks until the end of Euro 2008!

www.aboogy.com

]]> http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2008/06/22/no-aboogy-for-turks-until-the-end-of-euro-2008/feed/ 0 Import and shrink – according to your link http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2008/04/09/import-and-shrink-according-to-your-link/ http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2008/04/09/import-and-shrink-according-to-your-link/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:51:04 +0000 Jure http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2008/04/09/import-and-shrink-according-to-your-link/ A silly title such as this one is created when you try and sum up in a single sentence the two innovations we are proud to present to you today. Now you have an option on your control panel that says “Visually cut links”.
If taken out of context you would think that it is enough to carefully monitor your links and wait for them to shrink – whatever that means.  Unfortunately, no such luck.
If you choose to activate this option, all of the lengthy link titles within your categories that extend into two or three rows, due to the number of words, will be visually shortened and only take up a single row within a category – the emphasis being on Visual because when you deactivate this option the links are returned to their original state. We feel that your homepage or starting page will be a lot more organized and better laid out.

The second innovation we would like to present is Import and Export for your bookmarks.
Many of you have gotten a few gray hairs waiting for this option and we tried to stall as long as possible, however the pressure was too much for us and we simply had to give in to everyone’s wishes before anyone got hurt. If you’re wondering why we didn’t activate this option earlier I will tell you what I have already said many times before at the risk of sounding boring and repetitive.
Aboogy is your home page and not a storage place for links. A home page should be neat, well laid out, fast and functional. Creating the ideal homepage or starting page is a process and not a rush job where you shake the dirt off your hands, wipe your forehead, sit down and relax. When important links are added one at a time over a period of time, a logical order is created and in the event that you are woken up in the middle of the night you are able to locate a specific link without even looking at the monitor. If you should import all 300 of your bookmarks into Aboogy at once, you will create chaos that can easily be organized by dragging and dropping, however, the fact remains that it will be a lot harder to get used to the order. It seems pointless if it takes you half a minute to locate a link when your favorite website is only a click away!

On the other hand, if you ask me, Export is a more useful option. Now you can save your Aboogy bookmarks as a regular html document and as such they can be used for backups or for transferring to another service which may be better than Aboogy (even though we all know there is no such thing). Bookmarks can be exported all at once, as a separate category or as a group of selected categories.

The import and export options are located within the Aboogy editor. Because this is all relatively new, if you should notice any irregularities please feel free to write your comments here or send us an email.

 

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Open your Firefox browser and go to Bookmarks - Organize bookmarks

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In Bookmarks Manager application, go to File - Export

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Choose location on your hard disk for your bookmaks file – “bookmarks.html” and click “Save”

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All you have to do now is to go to your Aboogy and import this file.

Arange your categories and links and start to surf with just one click.

Enjoy!

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Wizard will pop up and it will lead you all the way. Click button – Next.

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Choose Export Favorites and click Next button.

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Click Next (be sure that Favorites are marked)
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Select where you would like to save your exported favorites and click Next

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That’s it. Click OK button.

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All you have to do now is to go to your Aboogy and import this file.

Arange your categories and links and start to surf with just one click.

Enjoy!

]]> http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2008/04/05/how-to-export-favorites-internet-expolorer/feed/ 1 How does it feel being Aboogy addict? http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2007/10/28/how-does-it-feel-being-aboogy-addict/ http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2007/10/28/how-does-it-feel-being-aboogy-addict/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2007 15:48:20 +0000 Leon http://blog.aboogy.com/en/2007/10/28/how-does-it-feel-being-aboogy-addict/ Not safe. That’s what one good friend of mine has told me.
“My whole web surfing portfolio is placed on your Aboogy and I’m totally hooked on it. It could easily happen that you wake up one morning and decide to reroute your creativeness towards agriculture or something similar, and as a result, me and few thousands of other people around the world would loose our bookmarks. And the worst part is, I wouldn’t know where to start surfing? When I find myself behind someones else’s computer, first thing I do is to log in at my Aboogy even if I know the address I need to visit. Just so you know, if I wake up one morning and Aboogy is not there with my cup of coffee, I’m gathering other members and coming after you with torches and pitchforks!”

I was shaken a bit by her words although she probably didn’t mean it. Anyhow, that was enough for us at Aboogy to start thinking about a blog as communication channel with our members. We want you to feel that someone is actually alive behind this five columns of links that you click on daily. We also want to hear your opinion. How satisfied are you with our service? Our customer support?

In the following posts we will fill you in a story behind Aboogy, about us, about all you want to know. Further more, we beg you not to be too hard on us concerning grammar and spelling on this blog since English is not our first language, and with our formal education long gone, all we have left are Hollywood blockbusters to learn from :)

We would also like to point out that there is a sister blog at http://blog.aboogy.com/hr for Croatian speaking members.

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