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target=&quot;_new&quot;&gt;Mikel Maron&lt;/a&gt; has introduced me to Yahoo Bookmarks, a neat bookmarks management module (he most likely authored) for myYahoo users (check the attached screenshot)." type="link" url="http://www.activerenderer.com/images/tutor/myYahoo1.gif"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Step 2: Find out where your bookmarks are stored.">			<outline text="If you're a myYahoo user, you know where your bookmarks are stored: in your online account, problem solved :-)"/>			<outline text="But if you are looking for your local browser bookmarks, things vary according to browser model and system."/>			<outline text="Internet Explorer for Windows stores its bookmarks in a &lt;i&gt;Favorites&lt;/i&gt; folder.">				<outline text="C:\\Windows\\Favorites on Windows 98 for instance."/>				<outline text="Or C:\\Winnt\\Profiles\\marc\\Favorites on Windows NT, assuming you logged on as user 'marc'."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Internet Explorer for MacOS X creates a &lt;i&gt;Favorites.html&lt;/i&gt; file in the Explorer subfolder of your account's Preferences folder.">				<outline text="Macintosh HD:Users:marc:Library:Preferences:Explorer:Favorites.html, if you logged on as user 'marc'."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Mozilla creates a &lt;i&gt;bookmarks.html&lt;/i&gt; file and hides it in a subfolder of your system folder (MacOS X) or user profile folder (Windows)">				<outline text="C:\\Windows\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Profiles\\default\\egee7tjx.slt\\bookmarks.html on Windows 98."/>				<outline text="Macintosh HD:Users:marc:Library:Mozilla:Profiles:default:ut7elluu.slt:bookmarks.html on MacOS X, if you logged on as user 'marc'."/>				</outline>			<outline text="I'll try to post more samples from different browsers as people forward them."/>			</outline>		<outline text="Step 3: Make sure you have version 1.1 or higher.">			<outline text="activeRenderer's version number is displayed in the Status Center section of the right sidebar in Radio's &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:5335/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;desktop home&lt;/a&gt; page, and in the activeRenderer section of the &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/tools&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;tools&lt;/a&gt; page."/>			<outline text="You can also display it by selecting the Tools / activeRenderer / About menu in the Radio application."/>			<outline text="As a matter of fact, if you are running a version prior to 2.0, quit Radio and replace the current Tools\\activerenderer.root file with a newer version downloaded following these &lt;a href=&quot;http://download.activerenderer.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;instructions&lt;/a&gt;."/>			</outline>		<outline text="Step 4: Set up the activeBoomarks feature.">			<outline text="Access activeRenderer's &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:5335/activeRenderer/bookmarks/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;bookmarks settings&lt;/a&gt; page in your browser.">				<outline text="You may also find it from the Bookmarks option in the menu at the top of aR's &lt;a href=&quot;http://127.0.0.1:5335/activeRenderer/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;outline browser&lt;/a&gt;."/>				</outline>			<outline text="When the bookmarks page is opened for the first time, the path to the source bookmarks field is left blank, and activeRenderer tries to guess where your bookmarks are hiding, according to what it considers your default browser identification.">				<outline text="If activeRenderer fails to locate any bookmarks file or folder, or if it displays an incorrect one, click on the Browse button to locate the bookmarks file or folder manually (you went through step 2, didn't you :-) " type="link" url="http://www.activerenderer.com/images/tutor/bookmarks1.gif"/>				<outline text="You may also type in the pathname directly of course."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Alternatively, you may check the 'Retrieve bookmarks from Yahoo instead' box.">				<outline text="You then need to provide your myYahoo user id and password."/>				</outline>			<outline text="By default, activeRenderer outlines your bookmarks in a &lt;i&gt;bookmarks.opml&lt;/i&gt; file, located in the &lt;i&gt;gems&lt;/i&gt; subfolder of Radio's main &lt;i&gt;www&lt;/i&gt; folder.">				<outline text="You may change this location by clicking the Browse button, or entering another pathname manually."/>				</outline>			<outline text="If you want to keep your outlined version synchronized with your browser's version, I recommend checking the 'Update in the background when Radio start' box."/>			<outline text="It's now time to click the Save button, so that activeRenderer memorizes the new settings."/>			<outline text="Optionally, you can create a bookmarks outline at once, by clicking the Update Now button.">				<outline text="Creating a bookmarks outline may take quite a while. Your browser will display a 'Synchronizing bookmarks, please wait...' message in the page, then a 'Synchronization complete.' message if you're still displaying the same page when the process is over."/>				<outline text="The synchronization process is run by Radio in the background."/>				</outline>			</outline>		<outline text="Step 5: Publish your outlined version.">			<outline text="If your &lt;i&gt;bookmarks.opml&lt;/i&gt; file is stored in the &lt;i&gt;outlines&lt;/i&gt; folder of Radio's &lt;i&gt;www&lt;/i&gt; main folder (or one of its own subfolders), then it will be automatically rendered in HTML on the public site every time it is updated (that is every time Radio starts if you've checked the proper box at step 4)." type="link" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/outlines/bookmarks/bookmarks.html"/>			<outline text="If your &lt;i&gt;bookmarks.opml&lt;/i&gt; file is stored in the &lt;i&gt;gems&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;opml&lt;/i&gt; folder of Radio's &lt;i&gt;www&lt;/i&gt; main folder (or one of their subfolders), then the &lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/gems/bookmarks.opml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;OPML version&lt;/a&gt; is upstreamed to the public site, without any rendering." type="link" url="http://radio.weblogs.com/0104487/gems/bookmarks.opml"/>			<outline text="Whatever folder you choose, you may then include your bookmarks in an activeRoll for one of your site's templates.">				<outline text="To learn more about activeRolls, refer to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.activerenderer.com/outlines/tutor/aRTutorial4.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;tutorial 4&lt;/a&gt;." type="link" url="http://www.activerenderer.com/opml/tutor/aRTutorial4.opml"/>				</outline>			<outline text="Attached is a screenshot of the activeRoll macro I have placed in my weblog's &lt;i&gt;#homeTemplate.txt&lt;/i&gt; file." type="link" url="http://www.activerenderer.com/images/tutor/bookmarks2.gif"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Making use of your browser or Yahoo bookmarks to publish a blogroll is a fast way to enhance your weblog's content. You can further improve your weblog's readability by activating activeRenderer's 'outline weblog styles', as you will learn in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.activerenderer.com/outlines/tutor/aRTutorial6.html&quot;&gt;part 6&lt;/a&gt;."/>		</body>	</opml>