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Play Katamari in Your Browser
Want to play a little Katamari in your browser? I have found a bookmarklet that will turn any webpage into a quick game of Katamari Damacy. For those of you not familiar with that game, you play as a little guy who rolls a ball around, and the larger the ball gets, the bigger stuff he can pick up.
Rearrange Webpages with Liquid Page
When it comes to redesigning your website, sometimes you only want to make small changes. Maybe you just want to see what one webpage element would look like like over here, rather than over there. Rather than messing up your website layout, try using the Liquid Page bookmarklet.
Quicker Window Resizing in Firefox
You might need to resize your browser window for a number of different reasons.
Maybe you need to check to see what your web site looks like at a smaller resolution? Maybe you want to take a quick screenshot? Now, of course you can resize the browser by dragging the edges around till you get the perfect fit, but that is often tedious and if you are a perfectionist like myself, you have a hard time getting the browser back to the perfect shape and size it was before, until now.
Make Any Site Print Friendly
Ever been browsing an article or guide online that you wish you could print out, without all the junk that the web site provides? Print Friendly offers to make any web site out there easier to print. You can use their web site tool to enter the URL you wish to simplify for your printer, or use the bookmarklet to gain access to the tool at any time.
You can then e-mail the printer friendly version to your friends, tweet about it, or edit the document removing pictures or blocks of text.
Want to add this interactivity to your own web site layout, maybe under each article that you post? You can do that too by grabbing the Print Friendly button code. For WordPress users, there is even a plugin you can install to add it to all your blog posts automatically.
Overall, Print Friendly is a pretty nice service, if you are looking to do a little article simplification, perfect for print.
Another Read it Later Service
Seems like I am getting more “save it for later” or “read it later” services suggested to me. Toread is a service that gives you quick and easy access to an instant “read it later” list of web bookmarks.
To use it, all you have to do is save the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar, and then click it anytime you are checking something out that you want to temporarily save. For example, let’s say you were checking out this post here – and wanted to try out the Toread service later today. You could click your bookmarklet, save this link and return to it later in the day.
The “save it for later” services like this save on bookmark clutter being added to your browser, work in a number of different browsers and locations, and are easy to sort through at any time.
Go visit toread.cc and let me know if you like it better than the other alternatives out there.
Bookmarklet to Convert Any Page to PDF
I love looking at bookmarklets. These handy bookmarks that allow just about any browser to do even more amazing things are really handy to have. Want to convert any web page to a PDF to read later? I have found a bookmarklet that does that too.
The people behind PDF Download have produced their own bookmarklet to convert web pages into high-quality PDF files free from any browser. Just drag and drop this link to your bookmarks toolbar, and click it when you want to export to PDF:
Here are the setup instructions for all the various browsers out there:
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Firefox (also see full add-on)
- Internet Explorer (also see full add-on)
- Opera
Only negative I could find is I got the “server is too busy” message more than a couple of times.
Know of anymore bookmarklets that will allow you to export a page into an entirely different format? Me neither, but if you do – please share. PDF Download’s solution will work for the time being though. Save on paper and export to PDF. That tree outside your window will thank you.
Give Your Twitter Posts Some Enhancements
Want to add special characters or symbols into your Twitter posts? TwitterKeys is a bookmarklet and web site that will give you a large selection of these cool symbols you can copy and paste into your Twitter posts.
All you have to do is highlight the one you want to use, select “copy” and then paste it into your next Twitter post. Simple, yet effective. You can check out their official blog for more information on the project. I like it, but wonder how the other status services like MySpace, Facebook and the like will take to these “purdy” characters?
Top 5 Google Pop-up Bookmarklets
I love bookmarklets. I love Google. So, mixing the two should not seem like that much of a stretch, right? Sometimes opening in a different tab just doesn’t get the job done. So why not open some of the simple services out there in their own popup window?
Google
To open up Google, just drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar:
Google Notebook
To open up Google Notebook, just drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar:
Google Talk
To open up Google Talk, just drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar:
Google Calendar
To open up Google Calendar, drag this bookmark to your bookmarks toolbar:
Google Reader
To open up Google Reader, drag this bookmark to your bookmarks toolbar:
What other useful Google resources would make for a good bookmarklet? These are the ones I find myself using the most, how about you?
Looking Ahead at WordPress 2.6
With Firefox 3 out, now I need something else to look forward to in the area of tech. Hmm, WordPress is already working on version 2.6 you say? I like WordPress, and the hinted at list of new features looks to be building on an already solid 2.5.
Here are a few things to look forward to in WordPress 2.6:
- Post Revisioning
- A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
- A new image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
- Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
- Built-in word counting in the post editor
- The ability to relocate your content directory
- The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
- Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
- Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
- Check box range selection with shift-click
You can check out the full list of goodies over at Ryan’s blog and also pickup the beta 1 if you have a place you’d like to play with it.
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