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Fill up your queue
We've always been a fan of Boxee as a solid media PC app, but now we've found a way to make it even better. Boxee's own bookmarklet allows users to add videos from sites like YouTube to their queue. As long as you have Boxee installed on your system (it doesn't have to be open), you can click the bookmarklet and it will add the video in your browser to your account's queue. It's a must have for all Boxee users!
Sync bookmarks from any browser
You may know that you can sync your Chrome bookmarks to your Google account, but did you know you can easily do the same thing using any browser? This bookmarklet makes it possible. Clicking the bookmarklet displays a pop-up window that lets you edit a site's title, add tags, notes, and add it to your Google bookmarks list. If you haven't been using Google to manage your bookmarks yet, this little tool just might make it worth your while.
Making the to-do list is the easy part
Do you use the Remember the Milk web app to manage your tasks and reminders? Remember the Milk's own bookmarklet is a great way to add tasks to your account as soon as you're reminded of them. See a concert online that you want to eventually purchase tickets for? Just highlight it, click your bookmarklet, and add it to your list of things to do. You can edit the title, date, tags, and list all with the bookmarklet, and based on what you highlight, Remember the Milk will fill in some of the blanks for you.
Avoid unsavory surprises
Thanks to Twitter's 140-character limit, URL shorteners have become all the rage. If you're tearing your hair out over all these short URLs, breathe a sigh of relief; Long URL Please is here for you. This handy bookmarklet supports 80 services, and will help keep you from accidentally stumbling upon things you'd just rather not see. Click the bookmarklet and the origins of every shortened URL on the page are revealed.
Create links with a simple click
XenoMachina's Linkify is a true timesaver for anyone that publishes content to the web. How does it work? Open up your blog editor of choice, start a post, and type. Get to something you'd like to create a link for? Select the term, click Linkify, and you'll get a pop-up that searches Google. Just pick the result you'd like to link to and you're all set. Linkify doesn't work in Google docs, but it works just about everywhere else—Flickr, Blogger, and yes, even Twitter.
Now they're speaking your language
It seems like nearly every one of Google’s myriad online services has a bookmarklet, and Google Translate is no exception. In fact, there are more than 50 bookmarklets for the online translator—one for each language it supports. Simply save the bookmarklet for your mother tongue, then highlight some text in another language and give it a click. Google Translate will take care of the rest.
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Dennis Hully
September 09, 2010 at 3:58pm
I can download files, however, I can't play them. What media player recognizes these file extensions?
shoalcreek5
December 04, 2010 at 11:09pm
Most any media player can play .mp4 files. VLC player from videolan.org will play almost any movie file, including .flv as long as you have the necessary codecs installed.
bllreyn
July 25, 2010 at 9:18pm
Grooveselect works for me. Didn't work at first and then I realized that Noscript was blocking it. Once I allowed it I had to highlight the song again and click the bookmarklet.
nattybohman
July 21, 2010 at 7:51pm
It's a shame too. After reading the article, the one I was most excited about was Grooveselect and the bookmarklet doesn't even work.
Did you guys test this stuff before writing the article?
At least I found out about the website Grooveshark.com - very cool site.
dougarb
July 08, 2010 at 3:37pm
but thanks for the tip on grooveshark, i seemed to have missed that one
great selection, even charlie patton, and sun ra and jelly roll morton
Watcher
July 03, 2010 at 3:29pm
Hello to all my fellow brethren: The Bookmarklet - GrooveSelect; Does anyone know how to query the server without having to find the song you want to listen on a page?. So, I'm looking for a way to manually enter a song and artist, then I can highlight the sound and then hit the GrooveSelect BookMarklet. Search boxes do not seem to do the job? Thanks for any and all replies.
Bwana
June 30, 2010 at 9:41pm
GMapToGPX bookmarklet will create a GPX file from a Google Maps route so you can upload it to your GPS. Very primo.
DReborn
June 28, 2010 at 11:54am
I dragged the grooveselect bookmarklet into my firefox bookmark toolbar, highlight a song text I want to hear (use sombody - Kings of Leon), and then click the grooveselect bookmarket. Nothing happens.
any ideas? fully updated FF
gregparsns
June 06, 2010 at 6:58pm
Perfect for when you are surfing around and want to tell someone (or yoursef) about a page you just found.
No need to bring up full on Gmail, just po up a small Gmail This window.
I learned of it here http://lifehacker.com/190122/gmail-this-bookmarklet
flatlinebb
June 04, 2010 at 11:06pm
You don't mention the link in the article, and there is no official bookmarklet on LMGTFY website. Double FAIL!
Sparx10
June 05, 2010 at 3:14am
LetMeGoogleThatForYou <--- That's the bookmarklet right there, just select text and press it. It's not very useful though, because it just searches the highlighted text on LMGTFY and doesn't give a link. I think it's just better to go to the site and make your own URL.
JoeBobJohn
June 02, 2010 at 7:35pm
I love the PwnYouTube bookmarklet! However the article linked to the main page rather than the bookmarklet. This is the direct link to get the bookmarklet for downloading videos from YouTube
http://deturl.com/bookmarklet-to-directly-download-videos-from-youtube.asp
By the way, it also works on DailyMotion and Facebook.
Sparx10
June 02, 2010 at 7:26pm
GrooveSelect is AWESOME :D It even found these semi-rare German rock (not Rammstein :P).
Try these (if you like hard rock then you'll probably like these :D)
1. Oomph! - Du Spielst Gott
2. Oomph! - Beim Ersten Mal Tut's Immer Weh
3. Oomph! - Ego
4. Oomph! - Träumst Du
And no, they don't sing about the devil, Hitler, or nazism like everyone stereotypes -.-
herrleelee
June 02, 2010 at 3:56pm
Is it me or some of these do not work with chrome, for example vozme and switter.
Danielt876
June 02, 2010 at 12:13pm
The password one seems a little useless, if you were really that bad with typing your passwords then you could just type them into the search bar, or address bar, then copy and paste it into the password box.
wootwoot
June 02, 2010 at 11:05am
Nice list. I stumbled across http://www.marklets.com
the other day. I think it's probably the biggest list of bookmarklets I've ever
seen. I found the marklets.com bookmarklet (mentioned in the article) http://www.marklets.com/bookmarklets/Marklets.com.aspx the most useful. It lets you just search their database right from the
sites you're currently visiting. Pretty cool trick and you don't need
to bookmark a huge list of bookmarklets.
morphar
June 02, 2010 at 5:57am
Thank you for mentioning my project: slapnotes.com
And thank you for a great article, with some great bookmarklets! :-)
Best regards
Dan
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