With the new feature of Blot to use OS X bookmarks to quickly post interesting sites to your own blog I already wrote how to use it on a platform other that a Mac.

But wouldn’t it also be nice to be able to share a bookmark to your blog when you only have access to a mobile device, specifically an iOS device…

Out-of-the-box Safari on iOS has no way to save a bookmark other than as a regular bookmark. Good thing iOS has a share sheet and Workflow app.

I built the following workflow using the Workflow app that enables you to save out a bookmark file to Dropbox. The workflow has been setup as a share sheet extension so anywhere you have the ability to share an URL this extension would work.

Recently David added bookmark support to Blot which makes use of bookmarks dragged out of Safari into a folder named Links (but it could be anywhere in Blot’s app folder). Since Apple now only provides Safari on platforms OS X and iOS, Blot subscribers not making use of a Mac are left out.

For my daytime job I am making use of a Windows based machine, so if I during the day come across a link I want to share on the link blog I would have to make sure to remember (yeah, sure…) this when I get home and have access to my Mac.

Luckily these OS X bookmark files are just plain text files with a specific content. Meaning that you will be able to make use of this feature regardless of your choice of computing platform.

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Recently I can into a issue with one of my Windows based VirtualBox images. It had run out of disk space. Lucky for me it is possible to increase the size of a disk image.

Backup, backup, backup

Before performing any of the following steps make sure you have a complete backup of your virtual machine.

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