What Sites do you Bookmark?

[Tom Gilleland]

I thought it would be interesting to see what sites you guys bookmark. Over time I have a main set, and then I add and delete a few at the end. Here's my list:

Google - search everything, and useful as a spell-checker.
BookFinder - I collect cave books, so I use this to compare Ebay prices.
Ebay - mostly cave books
UPS - product shipping
CNN - news
NPR - progam stream
ProPay - low volume credit card processing
BeachWare - my company site
Alexia - web traffic research
Inside Mac Games - mac
Big Fish Games - pc
Indiegamer - huge time sink ;)
Top10 - James Smith's great top-ten list
All your base - "All your base are belong to us!" - hilarious

And the few changing ones all the time.

Tom

[Bmc]

i usually bookmark any page that i find interesting.

[Savant]

"What kind of food do you like?"

"Any food that tastes good."

:)

Any links to share?

[Leper]

Well, I like to bookmark forums that I visit often. I bookmarked GameDev and this place and ....
ahh here goes a shameless plug..

http://www.shmup-dev.com ;)


That is because I am a shmup developer :rolleyes:

[Anlino]

I only bookmark pages i don't visit often, the oners that have interesting content that i will need now and then. I haven't bookmarked, for instant, indiegamer.com (but that could have something to do with the fact that it is my homepage ;)) or gamedev.net.

[Jesse Aldridge]

Copied and pasted (and slightly filtered) from my bookmarks manager...

Toolbar:
http://geocities.com/jessald/
http://www.freetranslation.com/
http://forums.indiegamer.com/
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=48211
http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi/

Other Bookmarks:
http://www.penny-arcade.com
http://www.gamedev.net/
http://gamasutra.com/
http://www.nevblog.com/
http://slashdot.org/
http://www.thefacebook.com/login.php
http://www.pandora.com
http://www.songfacts.com/
https://www.cooltastic.com
http://www.austingamedevelopers.com/
http://www.aarg.net/~minam/dungeon_design.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/
http://www.indieinformer.com/
http://www.dofactory.com/Patterns/Patterns.aspx#list
http://yukonmakoto.com/
http://austin.craigslist.org/
http://www.cooltastic.com/

Sub-Folder entitled "Usefull stuff I probably won't need":
http://www.igda.org/ai/report-2005/world_interfacing.html
http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/index.html
http://www.exciton.cs.rice.edu/JavaResources/DesignPatterns/default.htm
http://www.indiegameworld.com/Main_Page

[Fry Crayola]

I have my bookmarks in two main groups. One group contains everything to do with football: BBC Sport, a few club websites, a great website containing info on national teams... all for the game I'm writing (and my own personal amusement). The other is a list of forums - Rllmuk, here, BlitzMax and so forth.

And Wikipedia. Always gotta have Wikipedia.

[Robert Cummings]

I have zero bookmarks. I use google or type in the url.

This is more productive, less time visiting sites when distracted.

[Bmc]

"What kind of food do you like?"

"Any food that tastes good."

:)

Any links to share?

well

http://www.boxerworld.com : forum for boxer(dog) owners
http://www.askmen.com : men's health site
http://www.xgenstudios.com/play/stickarena/ : fun multiplayer game

then there are a bunch of random bookmarks to articles on OO concepts, photoshop tutorial sites etc

[soniCron]

This is more productive, less time visiting sites when distracted. Unless you forget how to Google a certain page or navigate your way back...Where's the distraction? I'd figure 6.8 million results would be the "distracting" element here... ;)

[Uhfgood]

I bookmark anything and everything. And usually have so many bookmarks I end up booking the same place several times. Usually I just type in the url if it's easy and I know it. I also bookmark most of the forums I visit (and the library). That's where I use the bookmarks the most heh.

[James C. Smith]

I find it easier to type things like Ebay, UPS, and CNN then it is to find them in a long list of bookmarks. IndieGamer is one of the few sites I bookmark along with the other forums I moderate. Some of my frequently types domain include yp.yahoo.com, amazon.com, google.com, reflexive.com, and occasionally usps.com, weather.yahoo.com.

[Anthony Flack]

My wife bookmarks just about every site she ever visited, it seems. So I never look there. I just remember the urls.

[Pluvious]

I have tons of things bookmarked. I organize it every so often and keep all the things I visit reguarly visible without scrolling. These include various forums (IndieGamer, GameDev.Net, IGDA Forums, and basketball stuff). Then I've got Amazon and Hotmail and my bank and stuff...

Then I have the rest of the stuff sorted into sections like programming (info I might need to reference, forum, etc), games (different games I like to look at to get ideas from), business stuff (software I may get, art, sound, etc), and some various other things.

I have a lot to learn since this is my first game and I like to keep everything on file somewhere when I may need it.

[mahlzeit]

I made a local html page that I use as the browser's startup page. It has links to the sites I most often visit. It also has search boxes for google, a bunch of dictionaries, wikipedia, imdb, and so on. Much easier than bookmarks in my opinion.

[Gary Preston]

I have a folder for forums and a folder for blogs which is displayed on the main toolbar just below the forward/back/home navigation buttons. These are places I visit several times a day so its nice to have them accessable.

Rest of my bookmarks are just added to a few folders in the standard bookmarks place. With a little categorisation but not much.

[Pogacha]

As a spanish talking dev I have:
Stratos (http://www.stratos-ad.com) Spanish from spain.
Adva (http://www.adva.com.ar) From Argentina.
VJuegos (http://www.vjuegos.org) Whole Latin america.

ImageShack (http://www.imageshack.us) For posting images on forums ...

Obviusly IndieGamer Forums too.

My web-stats since it was a pilot for my own micro-portal.

Edit: I think that the thread really means "What urls do you visit often" not if you exclusive bookmark or add to your favorites or list them in a .txt

[AnthemAudio]

Well I check out about 7 forums a day...freelance audio promotin'...all that.

http://music4games.net/forums/index.php?sid=94f1e4b68e989ec84e5010488950585f
http://forum.cakewalk.com/
http://forums.indiegamer.com/
http://www.xfire.com/xf/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=44&sid=3bd6f303411036cc99e70932dc2ebbe3
http://www.machinima.com/PHPBB/viewforum.php?f=19&sid=05c2344ed5c0e1a02685a444d0893b6d
http://forum.moddb.com/
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/

And what I do is plop them in their own bookmark folder called Forums. And in Firefox you can open them all at once in window but tabbed. So I glance at one...close it, glance at another...close it...so on.

I have some other's too but I try to clean them out once I'm done with them. Most of the time I'm just used to typing in my "regulars".

[soniCron]

I made a local html page that I use as the browser's startup page. It has links to the sites I most often visit. It also has search boxes for google, a bunch of dictionaries, wikipedia, imdb, and so on. Much easier than bookmarks in my opinion. You know, if you use Firefox, you can have those search boxes on screen at all times (through the search bar, next to the address window). In addition, you can use your bookmarks as your homepage by setting the homepage URL to C:\Documents and Settings\[name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[gibberish].default\bookmarks.html Much easier than what you're doing, in my opinion. ;)

[ninjasamurai]

VJuegos (http://www.vjuegos.org) Whole Latin america.Interesting, aparently the other member in my team posted there a couple of years ago, he is always looking for spanish sites, I think english info is always more complete.