Over the past month or so, we have rolled out some significant enhancements to the Diigo extension on Chrome browser. With the new extension, you can now:
Capture and markup screenshots
More easily add highlights, especially multi-color highlights
Access cached versions of web pages you bookmarked
Easily add pages to read later (and optionally close the page automatically)
Save images from webpages as part of a bookmark or as a separate item
Support keyboard shortcuts
Search your library from the extension (coming soon)
The new extension is now named “Diigo Web Collector” to reflect the fact it enables a variety of ways for you to collect web content of interest to you, so you can:
Just bookmark the link
Save the page itself
Capture screenshot
Add highlights and sticky notes
Save images on the page
Diigo’s mission is to provide you with the best experience for collecting and annotating your online content. Let us know how we are doing and how we can do better!
Our data center will finalize their electrical system upgrade this weekend: the planned maintenance window is Friday March 8th at 9:00PM to 12:00AM US Pacific Time (GMT: 5:00AM to 8:00AM GMT Sat March 9th). Please note this is the maintenance window. We expect the actual downtime to be approximately 15-30 minutes.
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We’ve just arrived in Sunny San Diego and look forward to lots of engaging conversations and learning in the next few days. If you’re a Diigo fan, also love to meet up in person as well.
Digital age research skills in action! Learn how students collaborate, find, and organize current research and connect with experts using Twitter, YouTube, and Diigo.Tuesday, 6/26/2012, 3:45pm–4:45pm, SDCC 31AB
by Vicki Davis, Cool Cat Teacher with Ben Curran, Susan Nestico and Maggie Tsai
Flat Classroom cofounder, Vicki Davis; Diigo founder, Maggie Tsai; and Flat Classroom Teacher, Suzie Nestico share how class bookmarking groups facilitate research and information exchange.
Roseanne Sessa, Abington Friends School with John Rison
Digital age research skills in action! Learn how students collaborate, find, and organize current research and connect with experts using Twitter, YouTube, and Diigo.
The success of the Apple iPad since its launch has been nothing short of phenomenal. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the ipad, the widely and wildly anticipated tablet-style computer that he called “a truely magical and revolutionary product”:
“What this device does is extraordinary,” Jobs said. “It is the best browsing experience you’ve ever had. … It’s unbelievably great … way better than a laptop. Way better than a smartphone.”
For those iPad users who take reading seriously, you should check out “Readict (Pro)” ~ a new iPad RSS reader. It is an iPad reading app that integrates highlighter and “read later” functionalities to provide efficient and effective reading experience.
Here are some key features:
Customize RSS Feeds ~ from popular sources, Google Reader, Twitter favorites, etc
Annotate Article ~ add highlighter and sticky note for more effective reading
Download to Read Later ~ download links for fast reading later, without interrupting your flow
Please note that we will doing a system upgrade on June 20 around 00:00 PST (Sunday midnight) for few hours. Diigo will not be accessible during this period.
Thanks for your patience while we make this upgrade to make Diigo better and better, and thanks for your continued support!
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Looking for a great alternative to Safari on iPad? Miss Chrome on iPad? Introducing “iChromy” ~ Chrome-style web browser on iPad that brings cool functionalities like Tabs on top, Ominibox, Offline Reading List, etc to the platform:
Tabs on top
It’s very easy to open, switch and close tabs
Extra space for content
The address bar will be hidden automatically when you scroll down the page, so you will get extra screen space for content. To show the address bar, just tap the tab again.
Omnibox
Type search keywords or URL in one box.
Open link in new tab
Long press a link and choose different open link options.
Offline reading list
One-click to save a page to the Offline Reading List, one-click to remove. Long-press a link to add to Offline Reading List without opening the link. Offline Reading List is a great way to have pages later, whether offline or online.
Share to different places
Share a page to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Diigo, Instapaper etc.
Context search
Search from context menu directly.
Speed
In addition to features, we have made a great deal of effort to make iChromy fast! Multiple tab browsers on iPad are often slow and prone to crash due to the memory issue. iChromy reloads tabs dynamically and smartly, so it feels fast even with multiple tabs.
With restrictions on JavaScript engines on iOS, Chrome for the iPad by Google is not likely to be a reality anytime soon. iChromy provides a great browser alternative for iPad users. Chrome lovers should feel right at home when they use iChromy. Lots more enhancements and cool features are forthcoming, so stay tuned!
iChromy V1.0 is now available in the App Store for free download >> Please go check it out, tweet / blog about it and share with your friends! Thanks!
As Mozilla is gearing up to public release of Firefox 4, Diigo is proud to announce the release of three new Firefox 4 extensions, all ported from Diigo’s popular Chrome Apps. Joel Liu, product manager at Diigo Inc, commented: “Firefox 4 provides a significantly improved development platform, and much better user experience. We are thrilled to bring our popular apps onto this platform, getting ready for its public launch soon.“
All these three apps/extensions are designed to focus on a single-function to deliver the best-of-breed functionality, as well as fool-proof usability. Though still in beta, and not yet fully integrated with Diigo.com, they have already received rave reviews from both the press and users.
The Chrome versions of these apps were released three months ago and have already become some of the most popular and highest rated apps in Chrome Web Store, specifically,
If you like them, please show your support by giving them a big five-star rating , and tell your friends! Remember, you do not need to be Diigo users to enjoy these single-function apps!
This is the best app. I’ve been looking for a note app like it for quite some time. Nothing quite cut the cake – except this.
Really useful! Especially when I’m doing research for a project.
I love this app so much. I move notes from Windows to Linux to Android and to my CR-48. So simple and it just works.
Awesome app, extremely useful, it the hub of all my notes, quickly accessible and saved to cloud
Great simple quick note tool that can sync across mobile devices and web! highly recommended for organizing your life!
Great way to take quick notes without having to open a word processor or some other program. My browser is always open and with 2 clicks I have a new tab and a note pad to type on! Wonderful for taking notes in meetings, capturing those spur of the moment ideas, etc.
It’s great. I’m saving trees by using a whole of a lot less post-its.
Awesome truly HTML 5 app. You guys are the benchmark for web apps. Great work folks!
PC World: ““Falling under the “devastatingly useful but simple” category, Read Later Fast does exactly what its name suggests.”
This is one of the best apps on Chrome. But not only can you save ANY page to read later, you can also view them offline! This is great when you need to view things and your internet is down. I have a Wikipedia page that I kept a few weeks ago and I can still view the whole article with all of the pictures!
Great app and extremely useful. Helped me cut down on the 30 plus tabs I usually have open.
One of the most useful apps for me. I used to keep tens of references to interesting web pages in tabs for months, so my tabs were cluttered. Not anymore.
These diigo apps are amazing. Finally I can start reading on my work mac, pick it up at home on my pc and finish on my iPad.
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Version 1.6.2.4 update
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* [new] Upload cache page: save a copy of the web page to My Library via Bookmark >> Cache
Note: Caching service is unlimited for Premium & Basic plans. Other free accounts have limited allocation per month. See Feature Matrix for more details >>
* Several new options are now available. Right-click on the Diigo icon to access the Options menu:
* [new option] Load bookmarking status automatically. When enabled, the browser action icon will turn red to indicate whether current page is bookmarked.
* [new option] Show highlights automatically. When enabled, annotations on a page will be displayed automatically. This way, you don’t have to click the highlight button in order to see the existing highlights on the page.
* Diigo+Google search in context menu: Select some text, right click and search your library! (can be disabled in options)
Since the “Save Favorite Tweets” feature roll-out, we have received great response. Many have commented how cool this is
With different Diigo tiered account plans, we have made the following update to make this feature even more readily available for all users to enjoy and try it out:
* Premium account: when you set it up, all your existing favorite tweets will be fetched and saved to Diigo. Afterward, our system will then process automatic saving on a daily basis. Best of all, any tweets with links, their webpages will also be cached, so you can always access the archived pages. To learn more about Diigo caching service, please check out the cache help tip >>
* Basic, Education & Free accounts: this feature is now available to all users, except only the first page of your favorite tweets will be saved on a daily basis. (note: for most Twitter users, this should be sufficient since only very few people would mark more than 20 Twitter favorites and go beyond the 1st page per day.) Furthermore, for Basic accounts, links in the saved tweets will be cached, but caching isn’t available for Free / Education Basic accounts.
BTW, for those who are not too familiar with Twitter’s “Favorites” feature yet, it’s an easy way for you to mark a tweet as a favorite within your Twitter account by simply clicking the yellow star. Now with the Diigo’s “Save Favorite Tweets” to auto-save them in your Diigo library, they are a super combo together!
Diigo team continues to innovate to make Diigo better and better. If you have suggestion or feature that you’d love us to consider, make sure to share your feedback with us in our UserVoice forums or email us.
Hope to see you around.
