{"id":48,"date":"2010-10-15T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/?p=48"},"modified":"2010-10-15T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T15:32:00","slug":"my-favorite-bookmarklets-the-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2010\/10\/15\/my-favorite-bookmarklets-the-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Bookmarklets (the Sequel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bookmarklet\">bookmarklets<\/a> to speed up everyday tasks, such as:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>adding a blog to my Google Reader account<\/li>\n<li>bookmarking a page in delicious<\/li>\n<li>rendering a page more simply so I can focus on the text and not all the sidebars, banners, etc.<\/li>\n<li>saving a blog post in a &#8220;to be read later&#8221; location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Over the years, I added lots of these little bookmarklets to the bookmarks toolbar and saw my toolbar get more and more busy. Recently, I discovered a tool that will take all my bookmarklets and combine them into one single button on my toolbar. When I click that super bookmarklet, I get a tiny window that allows me to select which bookmarklet I want to use.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>The tool I used for this is called <a href=\"http:\/\/w-shadow.com\/bookmarklet-combiner\/\">Bookmarklet Combiner<\/a>. You can build your own on the site (the developer&#8217;s blog offers&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/w-shadow.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/02\/bookmarklet-combiner\/\">instructions<\/a>) or you might just want to <a href=\"http:\/\/w-shadow.com\/bookmarklet-combiner\/?bookmarklet=1394\">use mine<\/a> (the site can save your bookmarklet and assign it a unique URL).<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>Here are the bookmarklets that are in <a href=\"http:\/\/w-shadow.com\/bookmarklet-combiner\/?bookmarklet=1394\">my instance of the Bookmarklet Combiner<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Subscribe (uses the official bookmarklet from Google Reader that lets you subscribe to a feed without having to leave the page with that feed; this bookmarklet is found in Google Reader &gt;&gt; Settings &gt;&gt; Goodies)<\/li>\n<li>Readability (uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/lab.arc90.com\/experiments\/readability\/\">Readability<\/a> bookmarklet to clean up web pages and make the main body of text much easier to read)<\/li>\n<li>Read Later (uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instapaper.com\/extras\">Instapaper<\/a> bookmarklet to save the page to my Instapaper account)<\/li>\n<li>Printliminator (uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/examples\/ThePrintliminator\/\">Printliminator <\/a>bookmarklet to re-render the page you are viewing and let you select elements you want to remove before you print)<\/li>\n<li>MarkUp (uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/MarkUp.io\">MarkUp.io<\/a> bookmarklet to let you annotate web pages and share them with others)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\">bit.ly<\/a> (uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\">bit.ly<\/a> bookmarklet to generate shortened URLs for whatever page you are on)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly use bookmarklets to speed up everyday tasks, such as: adding a blog to my Google Reader account bookmarking a page in delicious rendering a page more simply so I can focus on the text and not all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2010\/10\/15\/my-favorite-bookmarklets-the-sequel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,77,78,79,80,10,81,82,83,84],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bit-ly","tag-bookmarking","tag-bookmarklets","tag-css","tag-delicious","tag-google-reader","tag-instapaper","tag-markup-io","tag-printliminator","tag-readability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}