August 30th, 2005
I just finished up an excellent new Delicious bookmarklet that I've been working on - it's called Lazy Sheep and it's going to change the way people use del.icio.us. To quote the Lazy Sheep page:
Lazy Sheep is a del.icio.us bookmarklet that auto-tags and auto-describes your bookmarks.
Using the tags and descriptions shared by other del.icio.us users, Lazy Sheep makes tagging a page a one-click operation. In order to best suit any user, Lazy Sheep also includes a comprehensive set of options that can be configured to your exact specifications.
I highly recommend giving it a try - during my testing of it, this past week, I've gone from occassionally bookmarking a few links to tons of links per day - it's very exciting.
I learned my lesson with the Super-Fast Delicious Bookmarklet - people are very particular about how their bookmarklets operate - and they want them to do very specific things, so this time around I made sure that there are tons and tons of options for people to pick from - to be able to get the exact bookmarklet that they want. So, give it a try and let me know what you think.
Tags: delicious, bookmarklet, javascript, gtd
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August 7th, 2005
Today I noticed that Chris Lott was looking for a super-fast way to post to del.icio.us after having posted a link to this bookmarklet on his del.icio.us link page.
The bookmarklet provides the following functionality:
- The ability to type 'd tag1 tag2 ...' on the location bar to tag a new URL.
- If you select a block of text on the page, that is saved as the extended description. (Borrowed from here)
- The window is automatically closed after the link is posted. (Wanted by the author)
If you wish to use this, in Firefox, there are a couple steps which you have to take:
- drag this link to your toolbar
- Right-Click the bookmarklet and select properties.
- In the Name field, change it to something like 'tag' (or whatever you like).
- In the location field look for the text 'CHANGEME' and replace it with your del.icio.us username.
- In the keyword field of the property window type the letter(s) that you would like to use to do your quick tag. I like to use ‘d’. (thanks craig!)
- Click OK to close the Properties window. Now go to the location bar go to 'about:config'.
- Note: If you'd rather not have the window automatically close, skip the next two steps.
- In the search field type 'allow_sc'.
- Right-Click the field labeled 'dom.allow_scripts_to_close_windows' and click 'Toggle'.
- You will now be able to type 'd tag1 tag2 tag3...' in your location bar then hit enter (just like if you were entering a URL). This will easily tag a page - enjoy! Don't click the link in your bookmark toolbar, as you'll end up tagging your pages with '%s'!
Tags: delicious, javascript, bookmarklet
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May 3rd, 2005
A good new feature in Safari 2.0 is the RSS reader, which I'm sure everyone has heard about by now. However, Apple feels compelled to change all feed URLs from their original http: to a new feed:, making it annoying to use that address elsewhere. The one area that is particularly frustrating is trying to subscribe to a web site using a bookmarklet (such as one provided by most of the major news aggregator services). So, in a nutshell, here are a bunch of modified bookmarklets that will work in Safari, handling the wonky feed URLs easily.
Drag the following link(s) your bookmark bar:
Note: The above links will still work in Firefox, IE, Opera, et. al.
Tags: apple, osx, safari, rss, feed, blogs, bookmarklet
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