Bookmarklets Galore
May 24, 2008 – 6:55 pm
I was just reading an article from Louis Gray about how to use the very cool and capable FriendFeed bookmarklet.
That got me thinking about just how many bookmarklets I have gathered in the past couple of months, and what they all do. You can see them in the screenshot over there.
Social Media Bookmarklets
Ok, be careful clicking on these.. the bold text (in most cases) is the actual bookmarklet. Just drag them into your bookmark toolbar or a folder to use them:
- Add to Mixx
- Share on Tumblr: A custom bookmarklet to clip pictures and quotes to a Tumblr tumblelog.
- gReader Comments: A fantastic bookmarklet from Paul Arterburn that lets you create/participate in a Disqus discussion on any web URL.
- Share on Facebook
- Share on FriendFeed
- Subscribe in Google Reader via Toluu: Use this bookmarklet instead of adding feeds manually to GR and you will also get them in Toluu, which will alert your friends on the service.
- Add to S|B: This is a bookmarklet for the lifestreaming app Second Brain
- Diigolet: Brings up a cool javascript Diigo bar, handy if you are using a browser that does not have support for the Diigo addon yet, like Safari.
- Twurl this!: Drop a link into Twurl.
- Note in Reader: The latest bookmarklet for Google Reader, highlight a section of an article and then click on this. Also allows you to add a personal note.
- Clip to Evernote: Handy way to save parts of the web to Evernote, a web-based image and html storage and search utility.
- Tweetshot: A special utility for making a consistently-perfect screenshot of a Twitter tweet.
- View in Google Earth: Highlight an address or some co-ordinates and use this to bring up the location in Google Earth.
- Clip it! on s|m: A Social|Median bookmarklet, used the same way as the Mixx one.
.. and that’s just my set of social media bookmarklets. The reason I don’t have bookmarklets for certain things (like del.icio.us, Iterasi, StumbleUpon etc.) is because they primarily use browser addons. However, especially in the case of Iterasi, I would love to see a bookmarklet version.
Web Development Bookmarklets
If you are using FireFox (or, to a lesser extent Opera or IE), there is another group of bookmarklets that are really handy that you must check out. They are called web development bookmarklets and they can do magic with CSS.
I would call these essential if you do any sort of web development or are interested in CSS at all.
If you have any bookmarklets you find essential or really useful, please link them up in the comments! Especially a good Digg bookmarklet, for some reason it doesn’t seem to exist.
Tags: Bookmarklet, firefox, plug-ins, social bookmark, social media, twitter
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And yup, My eMac works perfectly, is connected to my network and gets used several times a week.
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Also, are you still using the eMac in your profile picture? :)
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Toulu is the next bookmarklet for me. Tumblr is my current favorite.
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Can I have a link to your tumblelog? I follow everyone in tumblr whom I notice has one, I think they are great!
Also, please do keep me in mind if or when you start beta testing an iterasi bookmarklet. I'll be happy to provide feedback!
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scribkin.tumblr.com, or just scribkin if you are on tumblr..)
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The web developer bookmarklets hook in to Firefox in various ways and there is definitely overlap in what they do.
There are a couple that I find extremely useful personally: the topographic view is excellent, showing how elements are laid out on a page using shaded boxes, and the test styles bookmarklet is extremely handy for quickly messing with CSS code to see what works and what doesn't on an existing page. It also lets you disable certain things without stripping all CSS completely, which is handy for some pages where just one CSS item is annoying, like the font size or background pattern.
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