BOOKMARKLETS: BIGGEST, BEST BLOGGER RESOURCE - COMPLETE LIST
This article features the biggest, best and most comprehensive list of bookmarklets, bookmarklet generators, favelets, and pastelets for use on both web-based and mobile-based blogs.
A bookmarklet is unobtrusive script written in JavaScript and stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. The term is a portmanteau of the terms bookmark and applet, however, an applet is not to be confused with a bookmarklet, just as script written in JavaScript is not to be confused with a script written in Java. Whether bookmarklet utilities are stored as bookmarks or hyperlinks, they are designed to add one-click functionality to a browser or web page. When clicked, a bookmarklet performs some function, one of a wide variety such as a search query or data extraction. Usually the bookmarklet is a JavaScript program. - Wikipedia
Additionally:
Bookmarklets are free.
Bookmarklets allow you to:
- Modify the way you see someone else's webpage.
- Extract data from a webpage.
- Search more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine.
- Navigate in new ways.
- Capture information without downloading any software, or writing any code.
They rest nicely and unobtrusively in your browser’s Favorites or Bookmarks bar - the one that generally runs vertically down the left side of your computer screen. In fact, many of these nifty bookmarklets are loadable as mobile apps for your iPhone or Android. How convenient! There are also a number of great sites and posts listed below that actually generate bookmarklets specifically for snagging RSS feeds, generating and saving passwords, or for filling out forms -- a phenomenal timesaver, especially if you have to fill out a large number of forms daily; wouldn’t it be fabulous to virtually automate the form-filling process? There are also some bookmarklet generators which provide a variety of other very useful functions, especially if you are a blogger or a webmaster.
Mobile or QR-code generated bookmarklets are often referred to as “Pastelets.” Some other coders and techno-geeks prefer the term “favelets”.
Don’t forget that having a bookmarklet for your own blog or website is a wonderful marketing, branding and traffic-building tool.
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The following sites are just loaded with bookmarklets as well as descriptions which include their various functions and how to add them. In fact, some of the sites give you instructions (tutorials for creating your very own. In my opinion, you’d do best to avoid any bookmarklets that are attached to, or require that you download any type of special toolbars.
Please click on each of these sites, grab the bookmarklets that you’d like (or, as I do, just Bookmark or Favorite the site itself for your future use) and go back to this article. Just keep on repeating this process, until you’ve collected them all.
http://marklets.com/
http://subsimple.com/bookmarklets/default.asp
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/100-useful-bookmarklets-for-better-productivity-ultimate-list/
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/create-bookmarklets-the-right-way/
http://www.benjaminkeen.com/open-source-projects/smaller-projects/form-filler-bookmarklet/
http://www.benjaminkeen.com/open-source-projects/smaller-projects/
http://supergenpass.com/
http://mobilemind.net/iphone/
http://code.google.com/p/qrbookmarklet/
http://angel.net/~nic/passwdlet.current.html
http://toolki.com/en/form-filler-bookmarklet
http://tools.w3clubs.com/bookmaker/
Enjoy these diverse and fascinating mini-utilities with my compliments.
Douglas E. Castle
