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How many of you liked a site and made it a “favorite” by bookmarking it? I’m guessing most of you. You bookmark a site because you want to come back to it some other time. But what if you like hundreds of websites? Saving them in your computer will create a seemingly endless list which becomes difficult to organize. Not only that, you won’t be able to access your bookmarks if you use a different machine. Inconvenient, isn’t it?

Enter Del.icio.us.

Del.icio.us is a website where you can save all your favorite links. It allows you categorize your bookmarks so you can easily find it, as your list of faves grows. Think of it as an online cabinet, and since it is on the internet, you can access it from a computer with internet connection. It is free. All you have to do is register (which is very easy) and use it.

To learn more about it, here’s a 3 and a half minute tutorial about Del.icio.us. After watching the clip, make sure to read the rest of this entry for my comments:

Make sure to read my video comment below…

Meanwhile, visit my online bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/jcregister to see the pages I’ve saved. Maybe you’ll find something interesting.

If you decide to create a del.icio.us account, make sure to bookmark jcregister.com.

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Street View of Journal Square. Map not clickable

I’ve been wanting this “Street View” feature in Google Maps ever since I started this blog 5 months ago. I keep checking it, hoping our town to have a “blue outline” on our streets (to the point of making a post about it).

And then unexpectedly, when I checked an address just a while ago, I was surprised to see the street view feature already enabled in Jersey City and neighboring areas like Union City, Hoboken, and Bayonne.

Try it: Journal Square, Jersey City

I’m 100% sure that Google enabled JC street view just this week, because I didn’t see it when I wrote this post 3 days ago.

Do you like the Street View feature of JC in Google Maps?

Reason I asked is because I got intrigued when researchers at Cornell University want us to check if we receive two chain letters that circulated in 1997. We’re talking about 11 years here. More than a decade ago. I will not elaborate the emails they’re looking for but here’s the link in case you’re interested.

Curiously, I logged in to my oldest (or first) email account, which was created sometime in 1997. However, the oldest message that I was able to keep was in 1998, the last year of my college education. My account was under rocketmail, which eventually was bought by Yahoo. During that time, my internet connection was dialup, and my ultimate wish was to get a 56kbps modem. Take a look at the screen capture of my inbox:

Larger image here.

So this means I didn’t have the email message that Cornell University is looking for.

Anyway, I was wondering what Jersey City was like, in terms of technology, a decade ago. How was the internet circa 1995? Did you have AOL as your ISP?

Comcast.net was reportedly hacked last night. The homepage was defaced showing a “cryptic message”.

From the AP:

…The front page of Comcast.net went down shortly before 11 p.m. EDT Wednesday and was replaced with a note saying the hackers had “RoXed” Comcast…”

Here’s a screen cap of the message…

Am I surprised? Not at all. When I was still using Comcast, I challenged a close friend of mine to hack my email account. He did. He’s NOT even a professional hacker.

Those who are using Comcast email here in Jersey City, are you [still] having problems accessing your accounts?

Like I promised, I’m going to post sites/blogs that link to JCRegister.com. Three informative sites will be featured in today’s post, all of them relate to Jersey City.

Jersey City Construction

Jersey City Construction
- A blog that talks about constructions in Jersey City. The author (brooklynfoo) updates his site regularly with interesting pictures. Based on the posts, JC Construction has been around since 2007. Head over there, your place probably has been mentioned before.
Site : http://jcconstruction.blogspot.com/
Author’s Email : jerseycityconstruction@yahoo.com

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New York’s Sixth

New York’s Sixth
- From the site: “New York’s Sixth is a blog for the forgotten, de facto borough across the river featuring original content, commentary, and information relevant to living in Downtown Jersey City / Hoboken“. Ian MacAllen, the site’s author, has been writing articles in his site since 2005.
Site : http://www.newyorkssixth.com/
Author’s Email : Ian MacAllen (ianmac47@hotmail.com)

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Jersey City Reader

Jersey City Reader
- Like JCRegister, I consider this site as “new”. JC Reader is a site that aggregates latest news and stories about Jersey City. The author (my hunch is the same Ian MacAllen from NYS) picks up information from various news sites/blogs and post summaries in his site, adding links for corresponding credits.
Site : http://www.jerseycityreader.com/ OR http://www.jcreader.com/
Author’s Email : (Ian MacAllen???) Feel free to comment if my guess is incorrect

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Most of JCRegister’s traffic are from Search Engines, which is the way I intended it to be. But I am also getting visitors from the 3 sites I mentioned. If you are the owner of any of the sites above, thank you very much for linking me. I will make a special section here to permanently and prominently link out to you.

If you are a reader who came from JCConstruction, NewYorksSixth, or JCReader, thank you very much for reading JCRegister.com. I hope you are enjoying the information that I put here. Feel free to subscribe in a reader or enter your email address above (top right of the site) to receive FREE updates and not miss a thing!