A helpful little browser bookmarklet from Arc90 strips all but the main text out of any web page and re-formats its layout, size, and margins, creating a newspaper or novel-like page for easier text digestion.Head to the Readability page linked below, choose your “Style” (newspaper, novel, eBook, or terminal), your text size, and how wide across the page you want the text to spread. Grab and drag the customised bookmarklet to your toolbar, and click it when you come across text that’s smooshed, oddly formatted, or surrounded by stuff you don’t want to see. When it works, it does just what it says, and the fonts and rendering are quite relaxing. But it doesn’t catch every site’s text. Intrigued? Check out this video demonstration/mission statement:
Windows only: Internet Explorer add-on Favorites Search is a small, handy button for your toolbar that adds a pop-out pane to quickly search your bookmarks. That’s nothing that Firefox, Google Chrome, or any Windows user who’s installed Windows Search 4.0 or set up Vista for Favorites indexing can’t do, but if you’re dedicated (or locked) into using IE 7 and just need some in-browser search functionality, DzSoft’s lightweight add-on is worth a try. Make sure you add its button to your main toolbar (right-click it and hit “Customize Command Bar”) for quicker click-and-type functionality. Favorites Search is a free download for Windows systems with Internet Explorer 5.0 and above. Hit the via link below for four other small, unique-function add-ons for Internet Explorer. Favorites Search [DzSoft via FreewareGenius.com]
