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Readability 2 Makes Web Pages Even More Minimalist
10:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | If you loved Readability, the previously reviewed bookmarklet that cuts the extras out of sites for easy reading, but wanted an even more minimalist experience, you’ll definitely want to try out Readability2. More »
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Printliminator Quickly, Easily Makes Any Page Printer Friendly
3:00AM Adam Pash | The Printliminator bookmarklet lets you selectively remove any element from a web page to make it printer friendly in just a few simple clicks. More »
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Google Docs Viewer Bookmarklet Makes PDFs Less Freeze-y
10:40PM Kevin Purdy | Clicking a PDF and waiting, waiting, waiting for it to load, or possibly crash your browser, is an inescapable web annoyance of bad-stand-up-comedy proportions. Unless you convert all of a page’s PDF links to open with Google Doc’s streamlined viewer. More »
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Todoist Anywhere Turns Gmail Messages, Websites Into Tasks
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Web-based to-do manager Todoist already integrates with Gmail forwards and opens from Launchy, but a “Todoist Anywhere” bookmarklet makes the service easy to integrate with Gmail labels or individual messages, as detailed in this video. More »
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Read Google Sidewiki Comments Without Installing Google Toolbar
2:30AM Adam Pash | Want to see what others are saying about a web page with Google’s newly released Sidewiki but don’t want to install Google Toolbar to do it? Amit at Digital Inspiration has cooked up a simple bookmarklet that lets you do just that. More »
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Get Real-Time Search Results From Google
9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Google’s built-in options let you filter your searches to show “Recent” or “Past 24 hours” results, but a quick URL tweak can give searchers near-real-time results. With a bookmarklet, you can activate Google’s semi-hidden real-time results on any search. More »
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PBTweet Enhances Your Twitter Experience
8:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | PBTweet is a Twitter-enhancement available as a bookmarklet, GreaseKit script and GreaseMonkey script, which allows you to enhance and tweak Twitter in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. More »
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Recordr Creates Quick Webcam Videos For Sharing
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Need to capture something on your webcam real quick? Free webapp Recordr offers both bookmarklets to snappily enable your webcam and microphone, as well as an upload service to embed or link your social videos, no registration required. More »
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Use Firefox’s Spellchecker On Any Page
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Firefox only: Firefox has long had a handy built in spellchecker, great for proof reading emails, blog posts and other communications. What if you want to use the built-in spellchecker on a static web page however? Use this bookmarklet. More »
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