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Safari Link Exposer
by Jason Clarke Mar 23rd 2009 at 10:00AM
If you have a website, it's pretty likely that you want to know when people are linking to you, and what they're saying. This is a fairly straightforward process if you're not getting linked to every day, but if your site is relatively popular, keeping track of incoming links can turn into a bit of a chore.
Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software came up with an interesting tool to help make this process more bearable. It's an Applescript for Safari that modifies the formatting of the linking page to add focus to the paragraph and actual link, making it easy to find visually in a large document.
If you're not a fan of Safari or even just to check out some alternative implementations like bookmarklets, be sure to read the comments on Daniel's post.
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alex1jam said 10:55AM on 3-23-2009
Apple and Linux are the best.
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Max said 12:00PM on 3-23-2009
Actually, this complex script does virtually nothing like this post implies. All it does is: if you know a page linked to you, you manually go to that page and this script highlights the links to you on the page.
Oh, and you have to edit it in script editor to look for what you're looking for first. Most people can accomplish virtually the same thing with Safari's "find" command.
Not that this script isn't clever or good Applescripting, but try and read what you link to.
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