We heavily rely on RSS for easily managing our online resources. Thats why its great to learn about sources that can help us create feeds without any effort to keep things in order and manageable. Especially when websites might not have RSS feeds.
Here's a neat little trick we picked up from Lifehacker. Since you can adjust a number of settings in Firefox by typing commands into the URL field, it turns out you can also adjust settings by saving those commands as bookmarks.
Many enthusiastic web surfers know that the venerable Internet Archive is the home of the Wayback Machine, a tool that allows you to go back in time with a particular website to see what previous versions looked like. What we hadn't noticed until today is that the Wayback Machine has a bookmarklet you can use when viewing any site to quickly check if there are archived versions of it. The 'marklet can be had farther down on the Wayback Machine site, and the convenience it adds should prove useful to surfers who are curious about the history of a particular site.
If there was a category we could apply to things that spread faster than wildfire, the craziness that is Twitter would likely be the first example you could use for just such a category. One only needs to check our Twitter tag to find hacks like automatically twittering your blog posts, mapping out tweets and even putting Twitter on autopilot for you. But why stop there? New TwitThis buttons and bookmarklets are likely to take the web by an even bigger storm. As you might imagine, the button is ideal for placing on your website or blog, allowing readers to easily tweet (hopefully in a good way) about whatever you wrote. Fortunately, a full-on WordPress plugin is provided along with the raw code.
Bored? Try the new del.icio.us Randomizer button. It's a handy bookmarklet from del.icio.us that will take you to a random site that's recently been bookmarked on del.icio.us. That's it. No, really, there aren't any other features. Click, get a random site. Click again, get another random site. Oh, and if you want to see something new every time you load your browser, you could add set your browser's home page to its URL: del.icio.us/recent?random&min=10.
Are you a member of Digg, Netscape, Reddit, and del.icio.us? Are you looking to promote your site, or just keep all of your bookmarks spread out? Enger DiggScapeRedlicious. It's a bookmarklet (or favelet, if you prefer) that helps you submit a site to all four of the above social bookmark/news sites simultaneously. Drag it to your bookmarks toolbar and thereafter clicking on it will open each of those sites' posting forms simultaneously, in frames.
Play Tagger is a handy little tool from the makers of del.icio.us that puts a little Flash "Play" button next to every link on a page that goes to an MP3 file. It comes in two flavors: The first is an HTML snippet that you can put on your own web site. The second is a bookmarklet that you can use to transform MP3 links on other people's web sites with one click. Free, of course.
toread is an interesting new
service that describes itself as "an email-based free bookmark service." What does that mean? It means that
when you hit a page you'd like to read later, you can click on your toread bookmarklet and the page--the whole page,
not just the URL--will be sent to your e-mail. This has the advantage of letting you read the article offline if you
download your e-mail before going offline, though it's still unclear what advantage this has over "File > Save
As...," though toread might be easier for the less computer literate. One caveat I've already discovered is that
if you want to read an article that's paginated (e.g. "Page 2 >"), you have to navigate to each page
individuall and click on the bookmarklet. Overall, though, it's a nice concept and might be useful to some users.
del.icio.us
has given a serious upgrade to its URL info page. This is the page that used to
just list everyone who bookmarked a particular URL in one big, long, more-or-less unuseful list. Now it has a brand new
interfaced designed with all the information you want right where you expect it. There's a tag cloud on the right to
show you common tags people have used for that URL, a unified list of descriptions for a given URL, a "posting
history" that shows how many people have bookmarked it this month, last month, and so on, and perhaps most handy
of all, related URLs. Of course the most obvious use is the venerable ego search, so here's del.icio.us' URL info for Download Squad. And to
make it even handier, Lifehacker has posted a bookmarklet
for quick access to info about any URL.
Word has document splitting, Excel has document splitting, so why doesn't the modern web browser have document splitting? Okay, document splitting (i.e. splitting the current document into two side-by-side views that can be scrolled independently) is only really useful in a few situations, like reading a document with a key at the top or a bunch of footnotes at the bottom that you need to refer to continually, but it's a feature that Jeff Mesnil wanted so much that he wrote his own bookmarklet for it. Three, in fact, and they work on both Firefox and Safari.
The standard del.icio.us bookmarklet is great—I especially like the auto-complete for tags—but sometimes it can be slow to load, which is a pain if you just want to slap a few new tags on a bookmark. John Resig has created the solution: the Super-Fast Delicious Bookmarklet. Once you've installed it—which is only slightly more involved than your usual bookmarklet—you can now bookmark a page in del.icio.us simply by typing "d", followed by your tags, into your address bar.
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| # | Blogger | Posts | Cmts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brad Linder | 101 | 8 |
| 2 | Joey Celis | 60 | 1 |
| 3 | Jay Hathaway | 53 | 13 |
| 4 | Lee Mathews | 35 | 35 |
| 5 | Drew Olanoff | 13 | 8 |
| 6 | Christina Warren | 10 | 2 |
| 7 | Nancy Messieh | 9 | 0 |
| 8 | Kristin Shoemaker | 9 | 5 |
| 9 | Christina Clark | 9 | 6 |
| 10 | Danny Mendez | 7 | 0 |
| 11 | Adam Maras | 4 | 1 |
| 12 | Emily Price | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | Todd Ritter | 3 | 0 |
| 14 | Dolores Parker | 3 | 2 |
| 15 | Ian Dumych | 3 | 1 |
| 16 | Nik Fletcher | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | Alan Silcott | 2 | 2 |
| 18 | Jason Clarke | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | Sue Polinsky | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | Victor Agreda, Jr. | 1 | 3 |
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