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Highlight text on the web with Markkit


Now that "web 2.0" has been around for a while, it's become apparent that even the most mundane features of desktop apps are going to be available through web-based services. You've probably seen the highlighting feature in word processors like Microsoft Word. Do you need it for web pages and blog posts, too? Markkit, the web highlighter, has got you covered.

Just drag the Markkit bookmarklet (try saying that 10 times fast) to your bookmarks toolbar, and click it whenever you want to highlight some important text on a webpage. You don't get to use a fancy highlighter icon as a cursor or anything, just select text like normal to highlight it in yellow. If you make a mistake, you can mouse over the text to reveal an "unmark" button. Your highlighted pages have their own Markkit URLs, so you can save and share them by bookmarking them in your browser or on a service like Delicious.

Filed under: Internet, Productivity

Mark up any web page with Wired Marker for Firefox

Wired Marker
Have you ever bookmarked a web page only to forget what it was you were supposed to be looking at on that page? Wired Marker is a Firefox add-on that lets you highlight text on a page in one of 8 colors. Next time you load the page the plugin will remember your annotations and reload them for you. If you don't like the default colors, you can also customize them.

This isn't the first application we've seen that lets you markup web pages like old textbooks. But unlike Awesome Highlighter, Wired Marker is integrated with your web browser, so you don't have to enter the URL of the page you want to mark into a separate web application first. Just right click anywhere on any page, select Wired Marker, and pick your color.

[via Digital Inspiration]

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