Bookmarklets

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Convert A Bookmarklet To A Chrome Extension

2:00AM January 25, 2012 | Thorin Klosowski

Do you have a favourite bookmarklet you love to use but hate having it cluttering up your bookmarks bar? An easy-to-use web app solves the problem for you, no coding experience required. More »


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Don’t Be Evil Bookmarklet Makes Google’s Social Results Useful

6:18AM January 24, 2012 | Adam Pash

A group of engineers from Facebook, Twitter and MySpace released a “Don’t Be Evil” bookmarklet that tweaks the Google+ integration in Google search results. It displays the most relevant social network for an individual rather than simply promoting Google’s (often less relevant) Google+ page. More »


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De-Blackout Wikipedia With This Bookmarklet

4:45AM January 19, 2012 | Adam Pash

Yes, Wikipedia is blacked out to protest SOPA, the bill that wants to censor your internet. We’re already staunchly anti-SOPA around Lifehacker HQ, so while we’re all for the blackout (solidarity!), it’s kind of preaching to the choir. And while we’ve rounded up a few ways to circumvent the blackout, the best yet comes courtesy of Chris Beidelman. More »


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Readability Offers Free Users Unlimited Access To Premium Features

12:00AM January 12, 2012 | Alan Henry

Readability, one of the first services on the web to take ad-ridden web pages and present their content in plain text, announced this morning they were taking down the barriers between their free and paid versions, and now offer free users all of the benefits of premium accounts. Now all Readability users will get unlimited access to their reading lists, favourites, archives and more. More »


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Skip Past Boring Intros On YouTube Videos With A Bookmarklet

11:30PM October 13, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

Have you ever watched a YouTube video and thought, “The first 40 seconds of this was completely unnecessary?” With a simple bookmarklet, you can jump right to the 40% mark in the video so you can get to the good stuff. More »


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SendTab Easily Moves Your Browser Tabs To Nearly Any Device

9:00AM October 4, 2011 | Adam Dachis

SendTab is a very simple utility that lets you send a browser tab to another device with one or two clicks. It works in an instant, cross-browser, and even with iPhones and iPads. More »


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Pistash.io Sorts Bookmarks Into Categories, Reminds You To Visit Again

1:30AM September 9, 2011 | Thorin Klosowski

There are plenty of bookmarking tools out there, but Pistash.io separates itself from the pack by allowing you to sort those bookmarks into categories and set reminders to visit the link later on. More »


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Pleeq Bookmarks And Shares Images

3:00AM September 6, 2011 | Thorin Klosowski

Generally speaking, when we think of bookmarking, we think of web pages or other important links, but if you’re interested in keeping track of photos you find online and don’t want to download them, Pleeq is a web app and bookmarklet that does just that. More »


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SENDtoREADER Instantly Sends Web Pages To Your Kindle

11:00PM August 9, 2011 | Alan Henry

SENDtoREADER is a new web app that instantly sends any web pages you’re viewing to your Amazon Kindle ereader for future reference. The service works much like previously mentioned Chrome to Phone, and once you’re registered you get a bookmarklet that you can click at any time to send the currently loaded page to your Kindle. More »


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BookmarkQ Lets You Share Text From Web Pages With Short URLS

11:00PM July 19, 2011 | Alan Henry

If you ever wanted to link someone to a specific part of a page instead of telling them to read the whole article, BookmarkQ is for you. The service gives you a bookmarklet that you can click after highlighting text to link someone directly to that part of a web page. More »