Frequently Asked Questions
What are Changes?
Can I import my browsers bookmarks?
Does diphur support bookmarklets?
Does diphur support tagging?
Searching bookmarks using search inputs
How is diphur different than an RSS reader?
Does diphur provide RSS feeds for Changes?
Why am I not receiving Change notifications or receiving them
late?
Why do some of my bookmarks have different colors for the border
and background?
Why doesn’t diphur do what I want?
- In its simplest form a Change (ChangeUp) is the difference in viewable content
that occurs about every 30 minutes on the webpage your bookmark is referencing.
We only monitor the content the human eye can see on the webpage. So ads, images
and linked content are ignored and will not be considered when performing a difference
between checks.
- For an example of what Changes look like, click
here
to see all the Changes occuring at
Boy Genius Report right now.
- diphur supports bookmarks importing from the following browsers and also from delicious.com
- Internet Explorer (version 6+)
- Safari (version 2+)
- Chrome (all versions)
- FireFox (versions 3+)
- delicious.com
diphur also allows exporting all your bookmarks. We output the file in the Mozilla
Standard Output bookmark file format. This is the format used by almost all
brwosers and also delicious.com.
- Why yes, yes we do support bookmarklets!
- The bookmarklet named “bookmark on diphur.com” allows you to bookmark a
web page while your browsing without having to visit diphur.com each time.
- The bookmarklet named “view username's bookmarks” allows you to have a one
click access to all your bookmarks.
- Just click and drag the yellow boxes onto your browsers “Bookmark Bar” or anywhere
you can place a hyper-link.
- Please visit your settings page and your bookmarklets are visible at the bottom
of the page.
- Yes diphur.com supports tags. You may specify up-to 5 tags per bookmark.
- Tags are individual words separated with a space you enter in the Tags field
when you add or edit a bookmark.
- Examples of tags are:
financial stocks investments
- Remember, you seperate tags with a space!
- diphur.com also supports something called slashtags which are similar to
tags but are separated with the forward slash ‘/’ character.
- Slashtags are continuous words separated with a slash you enter in the Tags
field when you add or edit a bookmark.
Think of slashtags as placing a hierarchy (or a folder structure if you will) on
the way you want to access bookmarks.
Using the below slashtag examples if I entered /financial stocks I am really
saying find all bookmarks that begin with financial and has the tag stock coming
after it in the slashtag field. If I enter /repairs/home diphur.com would
show you all the bookmarks that are related to home repairs.
- Examples of slashtags:
/financial/investments/stocks
/financial/investments/ira
/repairs/home/kitchen
/repairs/home/garage
/repairs/automotive/starter
- Remember, you seperate slashtags with the forward slash ‘/’ character.
- There are three types of text you can enter into the search box either one type
at a time or all of them combined at once.
- diphur will use your input and search the bookmarks title, description, tags and
host-name referenced in the bookmarks. This allows you to filter bookmarks down
to a group of like bookmarks or all the way down to a single bookmark.
- Tag input
The first type is the tag input, if you use this type, it must be the first item
to appear in the search box and must begin with the forward slash character ‘/’.
diphur will use this type and only include bookmarks that are tagged with your input.
Examples of tag input include:
/news
/mobile
/internet/technology
Remember, if you use the tag input it must be the first input type to appear in
the search box!
- Host-name Input
The second type is the host-name input, use this to locate bookmarks that are referencing
specific websites. You need only supply as much of the name that you remember including
the dot ‘.’ for diphur to recognize it as a valid host-name input. In the below
example ‘crunch.’ would match ‘techcrunch.com’ and ‘mobilecrunch.com’.
Examples of host-name input include:
yahoo.com
crunch.
msn.com
- Keyword input
The third type is the keyword input and as the name suggests, it will find bookmarks
with your keywords located in the bookmarks title and description fields. Specify
as many keywords as you want and separate them with a space.
Examples of keywords include:
finance business
videos photos
home repair diy
- Examples of tag, host-name and keyword search inputs
/news yahoo. hong kong
/internet business businessinsider.com
world news
One final note, when searching be aware of where diphur is at regarding the url
as the search is relative from the current url when no tag input is specified.
Example, if diphur’s url is sitting at diphur.com/business and you enter keywords
to search, diphur will only search bookmarks that have the ‘business’ tag associated
with them.
To be sure the search will begin at the root level, click the home link prior to
searching.
- There is actually a big difference between the two.
- Web sites may or may not elect to provide RSS feeds to their published content.
The content they do provide via RSS is hand chosen by them and may or may not be
the actual content you are looking for.
- With diphur.com we look at all the content on any web page ever published and supply
you with only the changes that are occurring, regardless if they provide RSS feeds
or not.
- diphur.com provides live RSS feeds for both bookmark domain level and all the Recent
Changes currently occurring for all bookmarks on diphur.com. We will be expanding
this in the future to allow user bookmarks and keywords RSS feeds.
- The following picture shows where the Recent Changes RSS feed is located
towards the bottom of the pages. Since this RSS feed is emitting all real time Recent
Changes for all bookmarks on diphur.com, it is updating rapidly.
- When viewing bookmarks on the home page you will notice an RSS icon located to
the left of the bookmark’s category and hostname. In the following picture if you
subscribed to this RSS feed, you would be receiving all Changes of all the bookmarks
monitoring the host of mlive.com.
- In almost all cases it’s because a Keyword or Exact Phrase was entered
when the bookmark was added and the user forgot about entering them and the changing
content never contained either one.
- Remember your Change must contain what you enter into these fields before
diphur.com will notify you of any change occurring. In other cases, the user forgot
they specified Weekly notifications and expected to receive Daily
notifications.
- Sometimes due to the volume of email diphur.com sends each day, some ISP’s especially
Yahoo and AOL may throttle the amount of emails we can send
each hour. When throttling is in place, you will still receive your notification,
it just may be at most 30 min late.
- In other cases it’s been a problem with the user’s ISP (msn.com, hotmail.com,
yahoo.com or gmail.com) accepting our email as non spam, in which case we
cannot prevent this. Inform your ISP that you will be receiving email from diphur.com.
- Also check your local spam filter to see if it is quarantining diphur.com email.
- Sometimes as much as we don’t like to admit it, some web pages just do not change,
diphur.com is evidence based, if no changes were found, then no Changes are
reported.
- Maybe you should revisit the web site and see if they have a “New Products” or
a “News Release” area on it that are better suited for monitoring. Remember diphur.com
only emails changes detected on web sites.
- This makes it easier for you to know what you have already bookmarked when searching
diphur.com.
- The rule for the coloring is as follows:
Not bookmarked has no border.
Bookmarked has Green border
with White background.
Bookmarked Private has Green
border with Gray background.
Favorite has Purple border.
Dead Link has Red border
with White background.
- It’s because you haven’t asked us to implement a feature you want yet!
- We are serious when we say our users drive the current and soon to be implemented
feature sets here at diphur.com.
- Use the feedback link at the bottom of all pages to suggest features you would
like to see here at diphur.com or just email me at rodney [at] diphur.com to request a new feature.
- We read each and every request and if you email Rodney directly, he will reply.
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