Short Simplified Tips #2

More Useful Links

Boomerang for GMail – Boomerang is an add-on to the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox web browsers that allows you to schedule the sending of your emails. You can select from the options given, or can provide your own specified time. [More Add-Ons]

Read It Later – Creates a reading list for you to read web pages later. You can also save web pages and read offline. It is available for most web browsers, and mobile operating systems.

TBUZZ – Is a bookmarklet that allows you to instantly share web pages on Twitter, and also check if the web page you are sharing is already being talked about on the microblogging platform. [More Bookmarklets]

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Google Scribe – Get AutoComplete Suggestions

The experimental Scribe offers word suggestions as you type.


Google Scribe is a text completion service from Google Labs. It offers suggestions for words and phrases which could be correct or alternative to what you type.

The service works for the English language and can be used with GMail, Blogger, Wordpress or other websites where text editing may be needed.

The best way to use the service is to add the Scribe bookmarklet in your browser bookmarks When needed, hit Ctrl+Shift+J to enable/disable the service.

Related Reading: More Bookmarklets

Quix – A Command Line Bookmarklet For Your Browser

With Quix, all you have to do is provide a command to perform various different, regular internet tasks.


Quix is an excellent bookmarklet, that allows you to easily access all your bookmarklets and has various commands to perform a particular task.

All you have to do is drag this –> Quix <- to your bookmarklets bar or folder on your web browser. Once this is done, to use Quix, you just have to summon it. A text field will appear for you to provide a command to, after which the task will be performed.

For example, let’s say you need to find the meaning of a word using Google Dictionary. Now, without doing the entire process of going to the Google Dictionary website, all you need to do is open the Quix bookmarklet and type ‘dict’ and the word to direct you to the meaning of the word on Google Dictionary (as shown below).


Quix has several such commands, and you can even create your own commands to get more out of Quix. Access the entire list of commands here.

This bookmarklet basically reduces the need for you to maintain various bookmarklets for different tasks. Learn more about bookmarklets here. To set up Quix for a specific web browser, please visit this.

Related Reading: A Guide To Keyword Bookmarks

A Guide To Keyword Bookmarks

For users of Mozilla Firefox – increase productivity with these simple bookmarks.


If you are a user of Firefox, then you should consider optimizing use of certain regular websites by trying keyword bookmarks.

Keyword bookmarks are basically keyword-driven substitutes for URLs with only a mention of the search term required.

For example, to search for the meaning of a word, try the Dictionary keyword bookmark explained below.


Save this website address - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/%s – as a bookmark and provide “dict” as the keyword. 


Next time you need to search for a definition, simply type dict in your address bar, followed by the word to directly land on the Dictionary page of the word.

Try these other bookmarks of popular websites and set keywords of your choice for them:

Search Bing - http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s 

Do a Google search - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

Update your status on Twitter - http://twitter.com/?status=%s

Search for a Facebook friend - http://facebook.com/s.php?&q=%s

IP Address Lookup - http://www.iptools.com/dnstools.php?tool=whois&user_data=%s

Translate Spanish text to English - http://translate.google.com/translate_t#es|en|%s

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

There are plenty of useful keyword bookmarks available here. Simply drag them to your bookmarks bar and provide a suitable keyword for each.

Related Reading: 8 Amazingly Useful Bookmarklets

Highlight Useful Text On Web Pages

Share and save those very important bits of lengthy pages.


Ever wanted to highlight specific text on a web page? Well, use these online markers to do the same.

1. The Awesome Highlighter

A simple marker that allows you to highlight selected texts in a page, and then provides a URL for you to access anytime to read those marked parts or share it instantly with your friends, family or co-workers when explaining specific points.

To use the Awesome Highlighter now, just drag this bookmarklet –> Highlighter <- to your bookmarks bar to start using it right away.

2. Markkit

Markkit is another easy-to-use highlighter with which you can save specific texts to a Markkit Log of your own. To use Markkit instantly, drag this bookmarklet –> Markkit <- to your bookmarks bar.

Use other great bookmarklets and know more about them here.

TinEye – A Unique Image Search Engine

Get all information about images. And find better ones.

 
TinEye is a new image search engine where you can submit an image and find everything about it – it’s origin, how it is being used, whether there are modified versions of the image and also the availability of higher resolution versions of the image.

TinEye finds exact matches of the images, whether they’ve been cropped, edited, resized, modified and returns them as search results.

You simply can upload an image or paste the URL of an image in TinEye. Check out some of their Cool Searches.

If you are using Firefox, get the TinEye add-on and instantly search for image information. Alternatively, get the TinEye bookmarklet (more useful bookmarklets here).

8 Amazingly Useful Bookmarklets

Use these 8 simple bookmarklets to change the way you surf the web.

Bookmarklets are links that offer simple and smart ways to improve productivity. They are easy-to-use, can be marked and removed easily, and are basically scripts that perform a task as a shortcut over the long route of performing it.

Bookmarklets are a great alternative to add-ons, in the case of Mozilla Firefox for example, and are hassle-free tools which only help you simplify tasks.

Here are some of the best and most basic bookmarklets that you just need to drag to your browser's bookmarks bar or Save As a bookmark and use whenever needed.