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Check out Adobe’s favorite links on del.icio.us

by Luanne Seymour and Jen deHaan

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Looking for some great new Adobe® Photoshop® tutorials or maybe some amazing Adobe ActionScript samples? Adobe is now tagging useful sites and tutorials using a del.icio.us account, so that we can share our favorite links with you.

To learn more about del.icio.us, see http://del.icio.us/about/. To learn more about tagging, see http://del.icio.us/help/tags.

Come check out our bookmarks on del.icio.us at http://del.icio.us/adobe/ and explore a wealth of community-created content.

The following sections outline several different things you can do with a del.icio.us account. It only takes a few minutes to register for an account and send us a link!

Set up an account

Create a del.icio.us account and learn how to bookmark sites. It's easy and quick! To register, visit http://del.icio.us/register.

Note: Adobe is not affiliated with del.icio.us or its parent company, Yahoo. Creating a user account with del.icio.us does not create an Adobe ID.

Explore our bookmarks

Go to http://del.icio.us/adobe/ to explore our bookmarks.

Adobe's bookmarks

Figure 1: Adobe's bookmarks on del.icio.us.

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Our latest bookmarks appear in the left column (see Figure 1). Click the links (tag names) in the right column to view bookmarks for a specific tag, which are arranged by category, such as product or topic. You can search tags using the Search text box near the top of the page.

To add one of our bookmarks to your own account, click save this to the right of the bookmark (see Figure 1).

Note: You can view individual tags from http://del.icio.us/adobe/, such as http://del.icio.us/adobe/AfterEffects, or even bookmark or track them in an RSS reader. For more information, see “Subscribe to our feed,” below.

Connect with us

To connect with Adobe:

  1. Log in, and then click Your Network at the top of the page (see Figure 2).
add the Adobe network to your account

Figure 2: Click Your Network to add the Adobe network to your account.

  1. Type Adobe in the text box, and then click Add.
designcenter alias

Figure 3: The designcenter alias adds Adobe to its network.

After subscribing to Adobe, you’ll see our bookmarks on the Your Network page when you log in (see Figure 4).

Adobe's bookmarks

Figure 4: Keep up-to-date with Adobe's bookmarks.

Send us your bookmarks

If you’ve found a great website that you think we should add to our bookmarks, use del.icio.us to tag the page with for:adobe in your list of tags (see Figure 5). When you add this tag, del.icio.us automatically sends the link to Adobe.

send the link to Adobe

Figure 5: Add the for:adobe tag when you save a bookmark to send the link to Adobe. For more information, see http://del.icio.us/help/for.

Subscribe to specific Adobe tags

To subscribe to specific Adobe tags:

  1. Click Inbox at the top of the page, then click Edit Inbox under Your subs (see Figure 6).
Click Edit Inbox

Figure 6: Click Edit Inbox in the inbox section of your account.

  1. Enter any Adobe or common community tag (for example, Photoshop or tutorial) and click Subscribe (see Figure 7) to automatically have the latest links delivered to your account.
Subscribe to a specific Adobe tag

Figure 7: Subscribe to a specific Adobe tag, such as Flash. You can also leave the second text box empty to subscribe to all Flash bookmarks.

Subscribe to our feed

Subscribe to a feed that lists our bookmarks or tags. If you have an RSS or news feed reader installed, you can subscribe to our bookmarks or bookmarks that have specific tags. For example, you can subscribe to the following URLs in your RSS feed reader:

Note: Find out how to configure Adobe Bridge as an RSS News Reader. See http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/rss.html.

RSS readers for Windows and Mac OS

There are numerous free or inexpensive RSS readers available for Windows and Mac OS. These tools, either web applications or software you install, make it easy to read your RSS news feeds. The following list includes only a few of the options available.


That's a quick start on using del.icio.us—there are other features, so check out the Help section on the del.icio.us website at http://del.icio.us/help for more information and tips. We look forward to receiving your bookmarks!