Welcome to HomeMarks,
your personalized bookmark startpage!

HomeMarks.com allows you to organize your bookmarks into a simple column and box system. Boxes can be customized with a title of your choosing and colored to match the nature of the bookmarks within them. Our bookmarklet enables in-page bookmarking while you surf.

HomeMarks.app is the native iPhone companion to HomeMarks.com. It gives you, the mobile user, access to your homemarks while on the go with a stunning easy to use interface for all the features found in the desktop web application. Works with iPhone or iPod Touch using OS version 3.1 or later.

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• App sales trickle along. Thanks to recent reviewer for the positive comments. Good things are planned for the future too. More later.

Launching Other Apps (iPhone OS)

One of the underlying coolest and hidden aspects of the iPhone is the ability to open applications with URL schemas. The core schemas on the iPhone include SMS, Mail, and Telephone. However, a host of third party applications register their own schema. This means you can use HomeMarks to interact and/or launch these applications.

So how do you take advantage of this? Here are two examples to the right. You are looking at the edit box screen with two bookmarks. One is a SMS message to a phone number, the other is the URL schema for the popular iPhone app Tweetie. The second link will launch Tweetie and allow you to seed them a tweet. Very useful for those friends that do not tweet often. Here are the URLs I used below.

  sms://17575551212
  tweetie://user?screen_name=metaskills

Remember, if a bookmark can not be opened from HomeMarks, it is usually because of bad formatting or sometimes the application that handles that URL is not on the system any longer. Information is sporadic on schemas by 3rd party applications, consult the author of your favorite apps to find out if and what types of URLs they support.