Over time, I’ve come to use my bookmarks bar exclusively for bookmarklets. These are little JavaScript applets that sit up there as a bookmark. When you click on them, the JavaScript can execute a host of functions beyond what a simple http:// bookmark can do (take you to a page, and….point made).
There are just four here at the moment, two of which I’ve written myself. One is a neat one from a company dedicated to providing handy RSS feeds. I’ll update this list with more as I find/create them.
Drag these to your bookmarks bar to install:
If you have problems with the bookmarlets, LEFT CLICK on them and copy the code beginning with “javascript:”.
You can manually add them to your bookmarks bar this way.
| Get Page Date | This one uses Google to find the publishing date of the current page, great for referencing! Credit to Amit Agarwal for the original Google trick (I just made a bookmarklet out of it). |
| PDF Search | This one searches Google, but limits the file type to .pdf; great for…finding PDFs! |
| RSS to Email | This is from Feed My Inbox. It will send RSS updates from the current page to your email address. Their version wouldn’t work for me so I rewrote the code a little to fix it. Let me know if it doesn’t work for you. |
| Asteroids | This is an AWESOME one that creates a game of Asteroids on the web page you’re currently viewing! You can actually destroy parts of the page, including ADVERTS. Courtesy of its creator: Erik Andersson. You have GOT to try this one. |