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3 more useful Bookmarklets

Britt — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:48:21 +0000

I’ve recommended a couple of really useful bookmarklets (they add one-click functionality to a browser) before and here are a few more I feel are truly worth knowing about that I’ve discovered thus far. With so much available at our finger tips and internet “bling” vying for our attention, here are some convenient tools to capture the moment all the while making said capture easily available for future reference:

Read It Later

This bookmarklet enables you to compile articles and other content or pages for, you guessed it, reading later. You can use it on your computer or phone. What’s great is the compilation can be accessed when you are offline, so commuters on planes, trains or subways can get caught up on reading without internet connection. Get it or discover more of it’s functionality here.

Remember the Milk

For those of you who love lists and organization or those of you who are seeking more order, first of all this web application is fantastic task manager complete with various kinds of notifications and accessibility. Sign up for it and then add this bookmarklet to your browser – pure expedience.

Google Bookmarks

This is another content management tool. Bookmarking is easy, managing bookmarks is getting easier – especially with this bookmarklet. Enjoy the cross-browser syncing functionality of Google Bookmark’s service. A pop-up window lets you edit the title, add tags, note, etc. It just makes accessibility a breeze.

images from readitlaterlist.com, rememberthemilk.com, google.com/bookmarks

Sharing bookmarks between computers on a business network

Kurt Ludwig — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:11:25 +0000

In some business environments people end up using the same bookmarks (resources for work, search tools, favorite vendors, etc) but have to maintain their own bookmarks manually. This is fine but it’s really a waste of time and energy if you have to send an email around letting people know who a new vendor is and to make sure to remember to update their bookmarks accordingly. Here’s a great workaround that let’s this happen automatically.

If you use Firefox instead of Internet Explorer this walkthrough is useful too. Firefox doesn’t have a way to share bookmarks automatically, however you can use this trick plus PlainOldFavorites (that we talked about here) to get your bookmarks sync’d in Firefox as well.

Getting the share setup

First, make a folder somewhere on your network (preferably on a server in a shared folder) and find it’s UNC path (generally \\\\)

Once you make this folder copy all the bookmarks from your bookmarks folder into the new folder on the network share. (or just leave it empty and you can start adding bookmarks through Internet Explorer after you’ve finished this walkthrough)

Setting up the workstations

On each computer you want to have access the shared bookmarks do the following:

1. (for windows xp) Click on start, then run and type “regedit” (with no quotes) and hit enter

1. (for windows vista) click on the windows button, then where it says “Start Search” type “regedit” (with no quotes) and hit enter

2. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders

3. Find the “Favorites” key on the right hand side and double click on it. Change the value to the UNC path from above (e.g. \\\\)

4. now find the key on the left called “User Shell Folders” (it’s generally about 15-20 folders down the list on the left) and change the “Favorites” key in it the same way you did in step 3

That’s it!

Restart your computer and when you open Internet Explorer you’ll see all the bookmarks from the shared folder.

Sharing bookmarks between IE and Firefox

Kurt Ludwig — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:55:36 +0000

Do you switch back and forth between Internet Explorer and Firefox and miss the bookmarks of the one when you’re in the other? Then check out the Firefox extension PlainOldFavorites for a quick fix to this and get your bookmarks in sync.

What PlainOldBookmarks does is creates an extra option in your menu bar called “Favorites” right next to your “Bookmarks” in Firefox. This is a list of all the favorites in Internet Explorer that you can now access, sort, add to and delete from right through Firefox.

Grab it for free from:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/668