Windows Live Favorites – Your Centralized, Synchronized favorites database

Anand writes here about Windows Live Favorites

Windows Live Favorites – Your Centralized, Synchronized favorites database.

I have two desktops at work and a laptop. Add another desktop at home. I am having a real hard time to move my favorites around four different computers. Sometimes, I mail the URLs to myself and try to open it later. Bookmarking is supposed to make life easier, but with more and more people working on multiple computers every day – keeping track of Favorites is a real pain. (With blogs however, there are web based RSS Readers to make things easy)

I was looking for a way to synchronize my bookmarks around all my computers. I can use web-based bookmarking apps like the one from Google. But again, this is not easy to access as you have to open Google website to access them – compared to Browser Favorites which is just a click away.

Enter – Windows Live Favorites – things are much easier for me now.

Install “Windows Live Toolbar” in all the machines.
Enable “Live Favorites Synchronization” (You need a passport ID to do this)
Stay Happy and use your time more efficiently
Live toolbar will automatically synchronize your browser Favorites with the Live Favorites and the other way round. So each time you start a Browser window – Live toolbar will make sure your IE Favorites are in ’sync’ with the centralized Live Favorites.

No matter which PC you are on; you can use your Browser favorites which is already synchronized across all the machines via the Live Favorites database.

This certainly saves a lot of time for me and ensures I don’t spend time searching for the same content again using a search engine.