If you are like me, you constantly explore the Internet looking for various subjects of interest. When you find them, you probably bookmark them, hopefully to return to them in the future. How many times do you never go back? Or how many times do you bookmark the same site more than once? And, then, of course, when all your bookmarks start piling up, do you go through and trim down your list and then organize them into folders?
Well, I do organize them pretty well and I do occasionally go in and clean them up. And, of course, using Firefox with Foxmarks allows me to keep all my bookmarks synched on all my computers. But, still, I still have accumulated lots of bookmarks over time and have very little time to go through and see how many of them are still good.
I just found of free program that will automatically check your bookmarks to see how many of them are dead (sites not there anymore) and separately check for duplicate entries. It is called AM-Deadlink, V3.2. The good news is that it works with not only Firefox, but with also Internet Explorer and Opera. It runs as a separate program, not inside a browser. The program works very quickly, although I am sure the speed depends or your Internet connection as the program goes through and checks each link separately.
After it is finished you will see the results displayed on your screen. You can then click a button, and the results are reorganized to show you the dead links at the top...at which point you can start deleting them. If you are not sure about a link, you can click on it and the link opens at the bottom of the screen to show you what your browser would see if you had it open. It is very handy not having to leave the program to check on these links. Deleting the dead links is then quit easy.
After this, you can click on another button and all your duplicate book marks are displayed. Again deletions of duplicates is quite easy. When you are done, you save your work. Nothing could be easier and it is definitely a time saver.
You can download AM-Deadlink at the Download.com web site.
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