Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 Jedi Master

Bookmarklets, in case you're not familiar with them, are bookmarks that perform a specific action. I can't live without these because they speed up my day, especially when you use them with browser keywords. Here's a list of some new ones that I have started to use in the last few months. Just drag these to your bookmarks/favorites bar and you're good to go. For more fun with bookmarklets, be sure to also check out Blummy.

Pocket Tweets Pop - pops up the Pocket Tweets interface for interacting with Twitter. (More pop-ups here)

Twit This - send a web page directly into Twitter (requires you first enter your info on the TwitThis site)

Map This - pops up a window, enter an address and you will take you to the map

Gmail-to-Gcal - takes any selected text in Gmail and converts it into an event

Mobilize Me - great for mobile phones, takes any web page you're viewing and strips away the formatting by running it through the Google mobile transcoder

Share on Facebook - takes a web page and sticks it into Facebook as a shared item

Pasword Saver - for sites that won't remember your login info, click this link then enter your username/password and your browser will never forget it

Take Screenshot - automatically create a screen grab of any public web page you're visiting

Search and Highlight - scans a page for any term you enter then highlights the results

New Doc - creates a new word processing Google Document

Movie Times - enter your zip code and get a list of all the movies playing in your hood

Amazon This - pops up a little window, enter a term and it will run your search through on Amazon

Convert Me - takes any YouTube video and converts it into another downloadable format using Zamzar

Edit in Picnik - pushes a web page's images into Picnik where you can edit and save it

Comments

[DC Crowley]

Amazingly amazing tips Steve! Thanks.

[Tim Kersey]

I've got one you can add to your list. It's a del.icio.us search bookmarklet that also works great on the iPhone. The real power of this bookmarklet happens when you bookmark del.icio.us search shortcuts.

In del.icio.us you can bookmark urls from search engines where you insert '%s' where you search terms should go. For example: My bookmark for Wikipedia search is "http://www.wikiseek.com/results.php?q=%s". Then you tag each bookmark with shortcut:"name of shortcut". For example: I tagged the previous url with shortcut:wp. When you use search del.icio.us you put a "!" before the shortcut and then your search terms. For example: "!wp steve rubel" .

You can look at my del.icio.us search shortcut bookmarks for more search shortcuts. del.icio.us/entangledstate/del.icio.us+shortcut

del.icio.us search - pops up a del.icio.us search box.

[Dmitry Honcharenko]

Nice & useful!

I see you have about 5k boomarks on del.icio.us - so you can add another one button in your browser: deliGoo search (www.deliGoo.com). It helps to perform full-text search at content of websites and pages, saved in del.icio.us bookmarks.

[marieboyer]

So how does someone (non-geek, thickheaded) get these bookmarklets into a functional place? How do I get a one-click google doc without bookmarking this page and clicking your link?

I looked at Blummy. Not clear to me yet.

Thanks in advance for any help with this!

[Steve Rubel]

Marie, just right click on any of the links above and add it it to your bookmarks. Then all you need to do is choose that bookmark to create a new Google Doc. Blummy simply puts a bunch of bookmarklets into one.

[marieboyer]

Never mind! I figured it out!!!

[Naser]

You forgot one of the most important bookmarklets for web-developers and basic users alike, called "Mypage" that puts you in control of the current page. You can remove, isolate, edit page items with keyboard control. On-screen print-preview emulation lets you see how the page will print while editing.

[Fred]

What about http://www.siphs.com for forwarding links. It's great!

[Jody Baty]

If you want to take this concept to the next level, checkout the Operator Firefox add-on at: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4106 . It is able to identify microformats on a page for events, addresses, business cards and feeds them to relevant applications. No retyping required!

Jody Baty
Lead Developer of the myMaps Curriculum Mapping Application

[Adam Kayce : Monk At Work]

Wow, these are great; I've never gotten into bookmarklets before, but these are bound to save quite a bit of time.

Thanks!

[Amit Agarwal]

Thank you - Edit in Picnik and Convert Me will come very handy.

I also prefer to have GMailThis and BlogThis! (source code)

[Jay Meattle]

Steve, when you get a chance check out http://shareaholic.com

Firefox extension that aggregates social bookmarking bookmarklets. Less nav bar clutter, more joy :)

[Tina]

Thanks for providing these creative bookmarklets.

To automate more complex tasks I use the iMacros Firefox extension lately. It allows you to include complete web browser macros in your bookmarks or even post them on social bookmarking sites. My own macros are private, but some good examples can be found at http://del.icio.us/imacros/imacro

[LightningCrash]

I'm disappointed. I have no use for any of those bookmarklets.

[NS]

Nice and useful list...some of them are real cool

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