IEPort

And just a few days after I finally let my domain name and web space finally lapse I decided to hack up some scripts and programs and voila! I needed web space!

Here's what I have so far:

IE Favorites Converter

I had a problem. Dear wife Amy needed her Favorites migrated over Linux from Windows. A deep and thoughtful session with Google turned nothing up which may easily convert IE Favorites to Galeon/Mozilla/HTML/Whatever so I scripted one up.

How to use:

1. Download and drop the script into your Favorites directory.
2. chmod +x ieport.sh
3. ./ieport.sh
4. It will dump a bookmarks.html file into your home directory
5. Launch your favorite browser (Galeon or Mozilla), import bookmarks.
important In Galeon, make sure you select 'Mozilla' as the book mark format instead of XBEL or it will error.
6. Wipe hands on pants.

That really should be it. It's defaulted to output Mozilla as the bookmark format. If you feel the need to change it, edit the file and change the 'output=' line near the beginning of the script. Save, and re-run it.

download a copy of ieport.sh here. Consider it a 'hey, it works for me' Alpha release. there's a few more things I've slated for a TODO, including:

1. Command line options. This includes output type and location of Favorites directory
2. More output formats. Ideas on which ones may be good to support?
Note I'd say a good 80% of the time I spent on this script was wasted trying to get Galeon's XBEL XML format down right. For now, XBEL is out of the picture until I forget how much of a bitch it is to work with.
3. GUI? Thought about a nice clickable front end to the application, only because a buddy wrote a Java front end to something on SF and I thought it may be cool to have him write one for me and see how the front and back ends mesh together.

Input humbly accepted. Email me at tgiles at kc dot rr dot com if you have input. Thanks!

Tom