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Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated | silly business

silly.business
2025-02-22T23:32:12.948Z
web bookmarks bookmarklets javascript

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"Bookmarklets" are an underutilized and frankly little-known feature in Chrome and Firefox (and probably most other browsers too) that allows you to create a bookmark that contains a little bit of JavaScript instead of a link to a web page.

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Hacks Bookmarklet to delete archived personal documents quickly - MobileRead Forums

www.mobileread.com
2012-08-31T04:07:39.000Z
bookmarklets kindle amazon imported:pinboard

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when I tried to delete personal documents from the archive I realized that it is too boring to delete them one by one. Then with the help of Aei, created a bookmarklet to delete them page by page.

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Bookmarkleter

chris.zarate.org
2011-11-03T01:28:16.000Z
webdev bookmarklets js imported:pinboard

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<blockquote>You have JavaScript. You need a bookmarklet. This does that.</blockquote>

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Unicons - Readme

bradchoate.github.com
2010-02-18T14:55:11.000Z
unicode textareas bookmarklets nifty javascript imported:pinboard

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"For times when you can't insert images into your posts, you can insert Unicons! Use this on Twitter, TypePad, Tumblr... pretty much any text field on the web that accepts unicode characters. "

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b3ta - Kittens Bookmarklet - Reload.me.uk

reload.me.uk
2009-08-10T16:10:13.000Z
kittens bookmarklets b3ta cute silly system:host=reload.me.uk imported:pinboard

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"Internet getting you down? Tired of reading tales of doom and disaster? Ever wanted to cheer yourself up by looking at floofy kittins? Of course you have. And now you can! With this little bookmarkelet that replaces all images on the page with pictures of kittens."

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John Resig - Bulk Vote for Reddit, Digg, and Hacker News

ejohn.org
2008-09-04T15:08:54.000Z
ubiquity javascript webdev greasemonkey bookmarklets imported:pinboard

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"In a lot of ways I see Ubiquity as being a solid replacement for Greasemonkey and bookmarklets. It's far simpler and will make their execution much more flexible. I'll be curious to see what people end up doing with it, in the upcoming months."

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Amazon.com - Wish List

www.amazon.com
2008-07-18T20:34:08.000Z
shopping wishlists bookmarklets amazon imported:pinboard

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"It's the essential tool for adding items from any website to your Amazon Wish Lists."

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Steve Minutillo :: messy-78 » Word count bookmarklet

minutillo.com
2008-05-06T23:13:32.000Z
writing metablogging bookmarklets imported:pinboard

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"This word count bookmarklet searches through the page you’re on, and attempts to report the word count of the selection. It will first look for the text selection, and if there is none, it will search for a textarea that has a selection."

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Blog Juice - kentbrewster.com

kentbrewster.com
2008-02-13T19:27:24.000Z
mybloglog yahoo bookmarklets metablogging socialsoftware imported:pinboard

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"Here's a toolbar bookmarklet that looks for a MyBlogLog identifier on the page you're on, and uses the MyBlogLog API to dig out information about its reader roll"

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17 powerful bookmarklets for your iPhone at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and Life

www.lifeclever.com
2007-07-19T03:45:15.000Z
bookmarklets favelets iphone webdev huh imported:pinboard

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"Here’s a little known secret: bookmarklets work on your iPhone."

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tingelets – Bookmarklets for Web Developers

www.tingelets.com
2007-02-02T23:38:01.000Z
webdev bookmarklets imported:pinboard

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"When clicked, they highlight a certain tag or set of tags in a specific color or background tile"

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Netflix Queue Shuffler: Randomize or reverse your queue with bookmarklets‽|‽ badsegue.org : a journal of creative computing

badsegue.org
2006-08-06T20:54:34.000Z
bookmarklets netflix javascript imported:pinboard

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"Here’s a little tool to randomly re-order your Netflix queue."

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Lorelle on WordPress - More Must-Have Bookmarklets Than You Can Swing a Browser At

lorelle.wordpress.com
2006-02-07T11:48:12.000Z
javascript bookmarklets imported:pinboard

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"I thought I'd do you better and offer you more must-have javascript bookmarklets than you can swing a bookmarklet at - if you could swing a bookmarklet. Can you?"

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My extended del.icio.us post bookmarklet for Firefox | the rompe blog

blog.rompe.org
2005-11-29T03:45:32.000Z
delicious bookmarklets webdev imported:pinboard

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"If no text is selected, the bookmarklet tries to find a page description in the HTML meta information."

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Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: AJAX: Creating Huge Bookmarklets

codinginparadise.org
2005-11-29T03:45:19.000Z
bookmarklets ajax javascript webdev imported:pinboard

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"I've put together a way to have huge, arbitrarily sized bookmarklets, where most of the code resides outside of the bookmarklet link."

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Del.icio.us Address-barlets

naeblis.cx
2005-08-16T14:23:47.000Z
bookmarklets del.icio.us firefox imported:pinboard

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"The del.icio.us social bookmark system completely replaces my in-browser bookmarks with the addition of the following Keymarks (or Searchlets or Address-barlets or whatever you call them)."

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