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25 Brilliant Bookmarklets to Boost Your Browsing

techradar.com — Speed up your productivity with these simple JavaScript applets.

Who dugg this? Made popular Jul 4, 2009

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  • bonkeykong, on 07/04/2009, -3/+21I have a Garfield bookmark from 5th grade that works just fine, thank you very much.
  • detcade, on 07/04/2009, -0/+16I found none of those brilliant, and the article itself was poorly presented
  • mozzep, on 07/04/2009, -0/+6Readability - http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
  • Daniel0, on 07/04/2009, -1/+5Maybe it's just me, but I've never found any great utility in bookmarklets. "Change all fonts to Verdana"? Yeah okay...
  • lougoose, on 07/04/2009, -0/+3That was the most useless list I've seen in quite a while.
  • inactive, on 07/04/2009, -0/+2My bookmarklet isn't really for productivity, but it lets you download 720p videos directly from YouTube in H.264 without transcoding. http://www.paultow.com/2008/11/25/how-to-download- ...

    BugMeNot.com has a bookmarklet, which is handy for sites that require registration for no reason.

    There's also a bookmarklet which adds a seekbar to Flash content that doesn't already have one, such as Homestar Runner. https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/flash.html
  • inactive, on 07/04/2009, -0/+2Mo Meh
  • Pushkin, on 07/04/2009, -0/+1Horrible
    Only remotely useful one (translate) had syntax errors because it was not complete
  • shinkou, on 07/05/2009, -0/+1"You're browsing a web page, and need to find a contact email address. Normally you'll scroll up and down, looking for links, and eventually you might spot one."

    How difficult can this be if the website is properly organized? If you choose to visit those malformed websites, then it's your problem... and I doubt if those bookmarklets can really come to help.
  • inactive, on 07/04/2009, -0/+1Oh! Here's one for us Digg users that I almost forgot. When Digg traffic crashes a site, there's a bookmarklet for getting a mirror. http://rorr.im/about.html
  • inactive, on 07/04/2009, -0/+1There are definitely some very useful ones out there. You just have to spend some time looking around.
  • kristinaduff, on 07/04/2009, -0/+1A single article which could have been written in one page has been splitted to maximum number of pages for ad optimization... sucks badly... :(...
  • xErath, on 07/04/2009, -0/+1BS article, many bookmarklets are either useless or syntactically invalid javascript. What a big fail.
  • phosphite, on 07/04/2009, -0/+1Zap Plugins is the only one I ever use, but with Adblock Plus I don't usually need it much any more.
  • ploke, on 07/04/2009, -1/+1instapaper and readability.
  • skeeter112375, on 07/04/2009, -4/+4Dugg for Garfield.
  • Haphaz, on 07/04/2009, -1/+1No. As a web developer looking at this list these all seem like terrible.

    Change all outbound links to blue and all local links to red... seriously?

    To top if off, the write of the article is using Internet Explorer and inherently knows nothing of how to "boost your browsing". If you want to boost your browsing, go download Firefox and consider the thousands of plugins.
  • db50, on 07/04/2009, -1/+1HUH?
  • lawnmowerpusher, on 07/04/2009, -1/+0This is terrible. Doesn't this guy know they have free health care in Cuba?
  • branndon, on 07/04/2009, -3/+1Meh.

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