Create a tag cloud from your Opera bookmarks
Saturday, 28. June 2008, 16:37:29
I've been thinking about tag clouds recently & I thought it would be really nice if you could tag all of your bookmarks in Opera then view the results as a tag cloud.
I found that the tagging could be done easily enough using the description field for each bookmark.
As for creating the tag cloud I wrote a simple app that creates an HTML file directly from Opera's bookmark file (Opera6.adr):
http://www.twjc.co.uk/goodies/Tags.exe (329kb Windows only)
I'm sure this program could be implemented better as an online service very easily. Source code (Delphi 5) is available on request.
The instructions are (also included on the app):
1. First use Opera to go through all your bookmarks, right click (or press alt+enter) to open up the properties dialog, tag each bookmark with whatever tags you like seperating each tag with a comma (or some other character).
2. Open up the Tags.exe program
3. Specify whatever you used as a delimiter when tagging your bookmarks in step 1.
4. Next select your bookmarks file (you can go to opera:about and copy and paste the full path to the file from there into the box provided).
5. Enter a minimum and maximum font size in pixels (experiment with these until you get a nice cloud).
6. Then click Go to create your tag cloud (this will create a single HTML file in the root of c:).
I think this tag cloud would make an excellent alternative to the current Speed Dial set up.
I found that the tagging could be done easily enough using the description field for each bookmark.
As for creating the tag cloud I wrote a simple app that creates an HTML file directly from Opera's bookmark file (Opera6.adr):
http://www.twjc.co.uk/goodies/Tags.exe (329kb Windows only)
I'm sure this program could be implemented better as an online service very easily. Source code (Delphi 5) is available on request.
The instructions are (also included on the app):
1. First use Opera to go through all your bookmarks, right click (or press alt+enter) to open up the properties dialog, tag each bookmark with whatever tags you like seperating each tag with a comma (or some other character).
2. Open up the Tags.exe program
3. Specify whatever you used as a delimiter when tagging your bookmarks in step 1.
4. Next select your bookmarks file (you can go to opera:about and copy and paste the full path to the file from there into the box provided).
5. Enter a minimum and maximum font size in pixels (experiment with these until you get a nice cloud).
6. Then click Go to create your tag cloud (this will create a single HTML file in the root of c:).
I think this tag cloud would make an excellent alternative to the current Speed Dial set up.
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