Let Faves Analyser scan your Internet Favorites and see which ones are still valid or not.
Features:
Requirements:
You're going to need .NET Framework 2.0, it's part of Windows Updates so you may already have it installed.
Features:
- Scans your Internet Explorer favorites.
- Indicates which links are still valid.
Requirements:
You're going to need .NET Framework 2.0, it's part of Windows Updates so you may already have it installed.
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Same for firefox, with a little extra functionality.
Better C++ or Delphi
Compare doing this in C# vs, say, the raw C winsock libraries...I don't see the reason to do small utilities such as these in C/C++.
I'm saying this as someone who's been earning a living as a C++ developer for the past dozen years or so and only recently has made the switch to C#. YMMV.
- Right click and delete
- Use the 'Delete' key to ...
- select all dead links and delete
- edit them to just the domain instead of index.html, etc.
http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm
By being embedded right into the browser, such an app would then be able to actively collect stats over time, so it would know, for example, that some site you've been trying to connect to for the past 3 weeks has been down every single time (as opposed to just being offline temporarily or for some weekend maintenance).
It could also collect stats such as how often you visit a site, so sites you haven't actively visited in months (even though the program verifies on a regular basis that they're still up and running) could be put into some special folder for manual review or purged.
Regarding this usage data being collected--I'm not talking about any advertising/marketing crapware that'll forward your stats to some central server either--just something that'll run locally without any external "help".
There's plenty of bookmark checkers such as this one out there--but we need a bookmark manager on steroids like the one I've described...
Taking this to the next level, I also wish sites would use something like metatags that could be defined as part of a categorization standard (maybe something like the Dewey Decimal System used in libraries?), so browsers could intelligently build a bookmark hierarchy (user-overridable, of course). I have thousands of sites bookmarked, and just keeping them organized is difficult enough...maybe Google needs to get onboard with this, and do the categorization themselves (or based on community contributions). Then again, the instant you start getting third parties involved, you know the data's gonna get skewed...
I dunno...just throwing ideas...I wish I had the time for such a pet project.
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