
Bookmarklets rock. They’re great timesavers, and a worthy addition to your browser’s bookmark bar.
So, what’s a bookmarklet? In short, a bookmark, typically constructed with JavaScript that does a specific task. For example, emailing some data via your favorite webmail provider, or checking Bugmenot for a login to a site you don’t really want to register for, or generating a shorter URL for a site. Here are the ones I keep around. Hopefully you’ll use some of them. To grab them, mouse over the link and drag to your browser’s bookmark bar. I recommend you make a folder on your bookmark bar and toss your bookmarklets in that folder (that’s what I do).
Here’s the breakdown of my favorite bookmarklets…
Google Services
Google This: Select some text on a page, click the bookmarlet, blammo – you’ve got a Google search for the selected text.
Google Images: Select some text on a page, click the bookmarlet and you’ve got a Google Image search for the selected text.
GAppMail This: Send the selected text via Google Apps for Your Domain Mail. You’ll need to edit this one to change out yourdomain.com for what your domain name actually is.
Gmail This: Send the selected text via Gmail.
Google Cache: Pull up the Google Cache version of the currently loaded page.
Google Map This: Select an address, get a Google map of it.
Geocode: Get the Latitude & Longitude for the center of a Google map.
Google Translate: Translate the currently loaded page into English
Web Development
Show Divs: Show the <div> areas on the currently loaded page.
ReCSS: Reload CSS for the currently loaded page.
W3C HTML Validator: Run the currently loaded page through the W3C’s HTML Validator.
W3C CSS Validator: Run the currently loaded page’s CSS through the W3C’s CSS Validator.
References
Acronym Lookup: Lookup an acronym in the Internet Acronym Database
Urban Dictionary Lookup: Lookup a selected word in the Urban Dictionary.
Social Networking
Del.icio.us Linkbacks: Show del.icio.us links to the current page.
Compulsory Login Bypass
BugMeNot: Lookup usernames & passwords for various sites.
URL Shorteners
DiggBar: Uses the new DiggBar for URL shortening.
Cli.gs: Uses the Cli.gs shortening service.