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Clipboard - Select. Collect. Reflect. Ibeam. Your bitmarks. Dataich/Diibar. Bookmark and read the web. Mirror your Pinboard bookmarks with OpenMeta tags. Update [April 3rd, 2011]: The current version, 1.0.4 at the moment, has bugfixes for running without Tags.app installed, more error handling and a new setting for locations where the date format is dd-mm-yyy. If you had a previous version and run into trouble, please replace the script with the latest and delete your ~/getpinboard.yaml file to regenerate a new one with the additional localization setting. The download is at the end of this post, but I highly suggest reading at least the setup section before you get all crazy with it.

I wrote a script a while back that would watch for changes in my Delicious bookmarks and mirror new ones to .webloc files on my drive, applying OpenMeta tags so that they were locally searchable with Spotlight and other OpenMeta applications. I stopped using Delicious, though, and started using Pinboard, which I mentioned recently that I adore. In the process of revamping the script it became a little more “involved” than the original.

Setup and Features Tips. Work around New York Times 20 article limit | Eurica! March 2013 update #2: they added a workaround, it’s been fixed again, but you have to re-install the bookmarklet, sorry. I hadn’t realized that that NYTimes.com is blocking access after 20 articles/month for Canadians. Fortunately, though, they’re just putting some cruft in front of the article, so if you’d still like to read it, you can drag the following bookmarklet onto your bookmarks toolbar. And click it any time nytimes.com blocks you on a page. It does nothing on any other website, but clicking it on a blocked NYTimes article will show the content as usual. It should work with any browser that has a bookmarks toolbar showing, let me know if you have any problems.

Having trouble? Edit: Wow, I’ve gotten thousands tens of thousands of hits since this went up yesterday, especially considering this was a lunchtime project — You just can’t see a wall like this without wondering how you can get around it. Zbooks ‹ jQuery bookmarklet maker ‹ zzzzbov.com. ZzzzBov.com. Quix Help - Quix. Quix is a bookmarklet which opens a prompt, and then responds to commands. When you type whois, for instance, it’ll take you to a page with the whois of the domain you’re currently on.

It can also understand more complex commands, like gs help, that will make it go to Google, searching the current site for the text “help”. You can also select a word, and use that as extra input for the command. So for instance, when you select the word dictionary, then open Quix and just type d in the prompt, it’ll take you to a Google define: search for the word dictionary. The available groups of commands: Basic commands These are the most basic commands Quix offers, but possibly also the most powerful ones. Social commands These commands are for dealing with social networks and social sites.

WordPress Quix was of course created by Yoast, a WordPress addict, and as such, some WordPress functions are of course needed! Webmaster Quix Analytics URL Shortening A group of URL shorteners App Integration commands. Quix - Your Bookmarklets, On Steroids. Heck Yes Markdown. The Printliminator. The Printliminator (repo) is a bookmarklet with some simple tools you can use to makes websites print better. One click to activate, and then click to remove elements from the page, remove graphics, and apply better print styling. Here is the bookmarklet: Video Demo Credits By Chris Coyier and Devon Govett.

Bundle and share web content easily. The Associative Knowledge Network. ThisIsLike.Com - The Associative Knowledge Network. Get the hottest trends from your friends. Io - Stash the good stuff. Add URL to Remember the Milk from the iPhone. I use Google Reader on all my mobile devices (currently an iPhone) and frequently find myself wanting to switch to the desktop to finish a story.

Google Reader has great desktop integration with other services to save articles, but is very limited on the iPhone. Google Reader mobile allows you to email a link to yourself, but the whole process is painful and I get enough email. I am also a heavy user of Remember the Milk as my task management system. Wouldn't it be great to be able to add URL's directly from the iPhone? The Bookmaklet above adds the URL into the mobile Remember the Milk site.

Additionally, there are two other options worth noting: estimate: Any valid time estimate can be used list: The integer list id that applies to your list. To add this bookmarklet to your iPhone, do the following: Copy the JavaScript Bookmarklet above into Notepad.Edit the values in the array as to how you would like to populate Remember The Milk. 9 Bookmarklets To Instantly View Your To-Do Tasks on Remember The Milk. There’s also an officially supported Remember The Milk bookmarklet (that loads what you see in the screenshot) that lets you add tasks with one-click, but there’s currently no bookmarklet to just load your task list quickly. Sure, you can open a new tab and head to the RTM website, but a mini-app such as a bookmarklet could easily help you get to your tasks a lot faster. Firefox users can open up the RTM iGoogle gadget in the sidebar, but Google Chrome users don’t have that much luck with a sidebar.

There’s probably a lot of desktop applications and even extensions that could let you open up your task list. Instead of browsing, downloading and testing all of these to find one that works for me though, I decided to try editing some of my favorite bookmarklets (such as GmailThis!) Like Steve Rubel does here so these aren’t all that new. I’m not a Javascript expert though so I consulted a few Javascript tutorials to hand-roll these. To Open In New Tab To Load A Popup Image credit: goosmurf.

Gmail / any alternative way to make tasks from emails? Cek1227 says: By stealing ideas from many other people, I created a bookmarklet that works in Chrome, FF, and Opera. When I have an email open in GMail, I just click the bookmarklet, which pops up the RTM mobile task add dialog, with the task title prefilled to be the email title, and the URL preset to be the email itself. I also have default presets for list, location, etc. If you are not logged into the mobile RTM page, the first time you run this, you'll have to log in, and then select the bookmarklet again to get the task to fill in.

Then, when I'm going through my RTM tasks, on this task, I just click the URL and the email pops up. One side benefit is that the add-task window stays open, so you can manage many emails, one after the other. To create the bookmarklet, on your bookmarklet bar, just add a bookmarklet (depends on which browser), and the put this script in the URL field. Obviously, you'll need to modify some of the presets in order to suit your own RTM habits. Jesse's Bookmarklets Site. Bookmarklets Bookmarklets are free tools to help with repetitive or otherwise impossible tasks in your web browser.

To use a bookmarklet from this site on another web page: Bookmarklet categories: Search Bookmarklets.Search Engine Optimization Bookmarklets: search for backlinks, analyze search engine positions.Log Analysis Bookmarklets: analyze referer logs efficiently.Flash Bookmarklets: pause, rewind, and fast-forward Flash cartoons.Tipping Bookmarklet: send money to an e-mail address in a page.Color Bookmarklets: change all colors on a page at once.Keyword Bookmarklets for Scripters: type "jb document.body" to make document.body blink, etc.Site-specific Bookmarklets: fix annoyances on some sites I read.Bugzilla Bookmarklets: for people involved in the Mozilla project or other projects that track bugs using Bugzillas.Testing browsers: test features or stress limits of browsers. Other pages: Social bookmarking tool using smart semantic Wikipedia (DBpedia) tags. BlinkList.com - Discover, Blink & Share.