J2 Consulting » bookmarks http://j2mac.com Chicken Soup for the Mac Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:18:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Bookmarklets for your fun and convenience http://j2mac.com/2009/02/bookmarklets-for-your-fun-and-convenience/ http://j2mac.com/2009/02/bookmarklets-for-your-fun-and-convenience/#comments Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:51:01 +0000 jjmarcus http://j2mac.com/?p=644 I’ve come late to the game of public — or “social” — bookmarking using Delicious, but it’s so freaking useful. Instead of adding a bookmark to Safari or Firefox, I post it to Delicious, where I can tag it with multiple categories, and share it. A friend and I are planning a trip, so as I collect relevant pages, I can save them on Delicious, tag ‘em with “triptowherever”, and then me and my pal can always go to http://delicious.com/jjmarcus/triptowherever to see what each other has found.

Now, if I’m surfing in Firefox, I can use the great Delicious plug-in. Safari, however, isn’t as easily extensible as Firefox, and regardless of the browser, one can get some nifty functionality using bookmarklets: little bits of JavaScript that can take information from your current browser page and perform some quick action with it. Adding a bookmark to Delicious is an excellent example.

(I should mention that I do use some fantastic Safari extensions such as SafariStand and Inquisitor; find a full list at PimpMySafari. But I digress…)

In this post, I’m going to forego writing instructions for creating bookmarklets, but I will list the ones I have found useful so far. PimpMySafari has a long list of these, too.

Here are mine (the links contain the code):

I put them all in a folder in my Bookmarks Bar, for quick access.

]]> http://j2mac.com/2009/02/bookmarklets-for-your-fun-and-convenience/feed/ 1