How many bookmarklets (also called favlets) do you use?
Also which ones do you use? I find they are very convenient so I’ve added 5 of them so far on my browser’s toolbar. In their own folder of course. ^^
The ones I use at the moment are:
* tumblr – post about page/item on my blog
* ma.gnolia – add bookmark on ma.gnolia
* bit.ly – shrink URL
* twine – add page/item on twine
* wishlistr – add item to my wishlist
Explanation of bookmarklets.
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None. I used to use a bookmarklet to open the current page in CSS Edit, but didn’t use it much and deleted it.
I use one for instapaper and I have one the displays the Latitude and Longitude on Google maps. And I use this one to download videos from youtube.
Ping.fm.
bit.ly.
Mento.
Facebook.
Tumblr.
Instapaper.
delicious (replaced by Mento mostly).
Amazon wishlist.
Political colors.
14. All on the top of my browser. Woo!
IMdB
Wiki
Gmail
Wachovia
Google
Fluther
A secret chat room.
WoW Armory
Youtube
Fail Blog
Hulu
Photobucket
PostSecret
Thottbot
The one I use most is named “English”, and just uses Google’s language tools to translate the current page to English. I use that one quite often, and keep it in my bookmarks toolbar.
Another, which I call “Zap Autocomplete=Off”, removes autocomplete attributes from form & submit tags on the page, so that my browser will offer to remember the username/password for me on sites where it otherwise wouldn’t. I use that one once a month or so.
I have another dozen or so in my menu, most of which are related to web development; they do things like remove CSS, show hidden fields, turn table borders on, etc. I don’t use them much any more, because the Firebug and the Web Developer extensions have made them superfluous.
I have a folder of them on my Bookmarks Bar, mostly just things like running a webpage through the W3C HTML validator, I have one that adds my bookmarks to Diigo and Transferr, and one for making a TinyURL. I also use one for YouTube videos with this app called ‘tubesock’, which has a little bookmarklet of it’s own.
They’re actually quite easy to make, I made the one for Transferr in a very small amount of time by basing it off the Del.icio.us bookmarklet. If you find one you like, have a go at tweaking it by copying the code from the URL bar into a text editor and going to town on that!
Nice, I’m perfectly normal then. :) Those where some nice examples btw. Picked up a few of them so now I have more. ^^
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