Show HN: Send a viewed link (from work, phone, etc) to your main/home machine

#1

Post by trichey » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 4:58 PM UTC

Show HN: Send a viewed link (from work, phone, etc) to your main/home machine
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Re: Show HN: Send a viewed link (from work, phone, etc) to your main/home machine

#2

Post by luser001 » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 5:06 PM UTC

So I need to keep my computer at home turned on all the time?

That sounds expensive. I just submitted an article related to the topic of data center power consumption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744488

Would be nice to have links pushed to the "cloud" and have the home computer pull the info when it starts up.

Even better, you should find a way to somehow use Firefox Sync via javascript so that you don't have to maintain the server. [Ditto the same thing for Chrome Sync]

Re: Show HN: Send a viewed link (from work, phone, etc) to your main/home machine

#3

Post by trichey » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 6:17 PM UTC

luser001 wrote: post #2

So I need to keep my computer at home turned on all the time? That sounds expensive. I just submitted an article related to the topic of data center power consumption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744488 Would be nice to have links pushed to the "cloud" and have the home computer pull the info when it starts up. Even better, you should find a way to somehow use Firefox Sync via javascript so that you don't h…

It doesn't have to run constantly, it will open everything queued on launch, so you could just open it periodically/once a day.

I specifically wanted to keep it browser non-specific, that's why there are no hooks like that in it.

Re: Show HN: Send a viewed link (from work, phone, etc) to your main/home machine

#4

Post by luser001 » Mon, Nov 05, 2012, 7:07 PM UTC

trichey wrote: post #3

luser001 wrote: post #2

So I need to keep my computer at home turned on all the time? That sounds expensive. I just submitted an article related to the topic of data center power consumption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744488 Would be nice to have links pushed to the "cloud" and have the home computer pull the info when it starts up. Even better, you should find a way to somehow use Firefox Sync via javascript so that you don't h…

It doesn't have to run constantly, it will open everything queued on launch, so you could just open it periodically/once a day. I specifically wanted to keep it browser non-specific, that's why there are no hooks like that in it.

Ok, got it. This aspect isn't clear in your screenshots though. Good luck!