some web tools

This updated Google+ bookmarklet is better than the old one I had, which used the mobile webpage. That old one doesn’t work anymore.

(Don’t just drag the link to your browser this time: go click over to AJ Batac’s webpage and choose whether you want a version that opens a new window or one that uses the same window.)

Creates a gradient in CSS for a web background and gives you the text to put in your stylesheet. It’s pretty cool.

YooouuuTuuube is a funny site that provides a bookmarklet to watch a grid of videos played back at a slight time offset. It’s a wacky effect. #ButYouDontHaveToTakeMyWordForIt

Click here to experience Maru like you’ve never seen him before…  …

Facebook has made a bunch of changes recently*.  In the meantime, I didn’t notice just when Facebook altered the page its official share bookmarklet uses to gather your context information about links you’re sharing. Around the time when Facebook made some changes to users’ privacy options, they changed how the per post privacy settings worked, and updated their bookmarklet to match. Now instead of default settings, there’s a menu that matches the new ones on posts, pictures, and other content on the main Facebook site.

You don’t need to update your bookmarklet to use the new feature.

*as we sit in the shadow of the #f8 developers’ conference.

Sharing via the Share on Tumblr bookmarklet a Google+ post made via this Share on Google+ bookmarklet [bookmarklet link].

(Source: techlifeweb.com)

Share on Twitter <— Here’s the bookmarklet
This is Twitter’s official share bookmarklet. It even uses Twitter’s own t.co url shortener so that URLs don’t look shortened on the Twitter website.
I’m sharing this one as part of a series of all my various web sharing bookmarklets. I previously had all the bookmarklets in a “Tools” dropdown menu on the bookmark bar, but I kept losing the share ones in there, so I had to create a new folder called “Share”, because that’s one of the main things to do with a URL these days. One of my favorite Android features, in fact, is the Share menu that is accessible in almost every application that looks at things with URLs. With each sharing app installed, there’s an entry. My browser Share menu sort of recreates this experience.

Lifehacker explains how to post to Twitter right from the address bar of your browser.

This one’s easy and essential. Search Wikipedia (English) by bookmarking this link to your quicksearches folder and editing it to add a keyword.

A helpful tip: Name your bookmark with your keyword prominently featured so you can easily learn it and make it a tool truly at your fingertips. I use “WP - Search Wikipedia”

By Dan Herbert: a bookmarklet that will take you from the standard Youtube video viewing page to a fullscreen popout so you can work in another browser window on the other monitor without losing your fullscreen video like you would if you just hit the regular Flash fullscreen button. One caveat: you have to be on the actual Youtube video page, not viewing an embedded video or on a user’s channel page.

Here is the actual bookmarklet you can drag to your address bar.

NOTE: Chrome doesn’t kill your fullscreen when you switch out.

Need to make a quick-witted comment? Bookmark this quicksearch to find a rhyme just in time.

(How to use quicksearches)