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Probably the simplest bookmarklet on this list, Scroll Down does exactly what it says—it scrolls down. Slowly. Sounds silly, but if you're the kind of person who likes to open a long article, sit back and relax while reading, it's exactly what you need. What do you do when you get to the bottom? Well, there's another bookmarklet called Scroll Up, but that would be silly.
Animation, frame by frame
When you click the GIFExplode bookmarklet, you are asked to select any animated GIF on the currently active website. You're then taken to the GIFExplode web app, which "explodes" the animation into its composite frames, which you can view individually or save.
Check the source
Anyone who frequents Wikipedia is familiar with the little bracketed superscript numbers, which link to the all-important references that make the encyclopedia a trustworthy source. The only problem with these source links is that you can't see what the source is without scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page and interrupting your reading. With the Wikipedia Footnotes bookmarklet, you can simply hover over links, and the source is displayed in a pop-up box.
If websites could talk...
Never find yourself without a text-to-speech converter again, thanks to VozMe. Simply highlight some text on a web page, click the VozMe bookmarklet (available in male and female variants) and enjoy the sweet, robotic sounds of the VozMe web app's automatic text-to-speech service.
Get sticky with it
Slapnotes is a web service that allows you to place virtual Post-It-style notes all over the web. You have to create a (free) account to use the service. Then use the bookmarklet to easily generate notes on any website—they’ll still be there the next time you come back to the page. You can manage, browse, and search all your notes from your account page.
Where bookmarklets gather
Hold onto your hats, because things are about to get meta. This bookmarklet keys into the massive bookmarklet database at Marklet.com, to allow you to use virtually any bookmarklet that exists, even if you haven’t saved it to your bookmark bar. Just click the bookmarklet, type something into the search bar that appears, and you'll see a list of all related bookmarklets. Clicking one of the bookmarklets is the same as clicking it in your bookmarks bar, so you'll never be caught without the tool you need.
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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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