Posted by Dickey on Feb 23rd, 08 | Filed under
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With LinkBunch, you can save dozens of URLs under one shorter URL and then share with your friends.
There are a lot of service which can cut a long URL into a shorter one, but none of them can condense multiple URLs into a single URL. But, LinkBunch provides this service and you can condense as many URLs as you one. The result is a single and short URL which look like this http://linkbun.ch/1o4.
When you open the link, you can see a list of URLs taht you had included. They provide a button “Open entire bunch” for users to open all URLs in new tab. The developers of LinkBunch also create a Firefox extension so that you can instantly create “Bunch” link for all open tabs in your browser. This is very useful when you want to save all the opened tab page and share with your friends.
LinkBunch | Firefox extension
Posted by Dickey on Feb 16th, 08 | Filed under
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This tutorial show you how to create a StumbleUpon-like bookmarklet button for your blog, which will randomly choose an article from your blog when pressed.
Do you use StumbleUpon? If you install StumbleUpon toolbar for your browser, you can press the Stumble! button to randomly jump to some websites. Now, i would like to create an button which can randomly jump to any article, from my blog. You can try to drag this button (TechSnack) to your bookmarklet folder.
Step 1
The first thing that you need to do is install Wordpress Random Redirect plugin, and activate it.
Step 2
Now, you can randomly jump to any article by adding ?random to your website’s URL. For example, http://www.techsnack.net/?random.
Step 3
Right-click the bookmarklet toolbar and choose New Bookmark. Fill-in the Name and the Location. In this example, Name is TechSnack and the Location is http://www.techsnack.net/?random.
Step 4
Done, you can now jump to random post by clicking thing button. If you want to add this button to your website. Simply drag the button to your post. Provide this link to your user so that they can always jump to your random post anytime.
Add this bookmarklet button to your Firefox toolbar
Posted by Dickey on Feb 12th, 08 | Filed under
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Autocomplete Manager is a Firefox plugin which provide advance features for your Firefox address bar.
The original Firefox address bar will try search from the history when we type. For example, when i type ‘tech’, it may shows me a list of URL which start from ‘tech’. But, it can’t provide me the URL that contains ‘tech’ in the middle of the string. With Autocomplete Manager extension, you can do so.
As shown in the screenshot above, when i type ’snack’, the address bar will get a list of URL that contains ’snack’, when the ’snack’ is in the middle of URL. Beside this feature, Autocomplete Manager allow users to search from bookmark, change the sort criterion, and also how the pop up list look like. You can access the settings through Tools -> Autocomplete Manager, and then choose Enhanced Component Options.
This extension is very useful especially for those websites which don’t have an easy-to-remember URL. But i personally feel that the better way to remember such URL is put them in the “Bookmarks Toolbar Folder” so that you can access them in just one-click.
Autocomplete Manager extension page
Posted by Dickey on Feb 8th, 08 | Filed under
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ControlC is an application which will monitor your clipboard and automatically uploaded any copied text and links to the server. The copied text and link can then be retrieved when you login to your account.
With ControlC, you can actually store your copied text or links in the server and you can access them from any computers. By default, windows will only save the last copied item. So, you need to paste them to some text file before copy new item. It is very troublesome especially when we found something interesting in an article and we want to save some text from it.
Let’s try ControlC and see how it works? Before you start using it, you need to create an account which is free (Use ‘beta4040′ as your invitation code). After you create your account, you can proceed to download the desktop client, which is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. After you install the desktop client, you can then log-in with your email and password. When you copy any text or links, the desktop client will automatically upload it to the server. Below is the screenshot showing the copied text from my desktop:
The uploaded text is encrypt to protect your data completely, but you can choose to unencrypt it so that public can access them. Oh ya, you have options to make some of them private while the others are public.
ControlC
Posted by Dickey on Feb 7th, 08 | Filed under
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InstaPaper is a service where you can cerate a list of stories which you will read it later. Use the bookmarklet button to send any articles to your account and read them later.
Still remember my article about how to forward good website to your email account? Basically, both of them let you save article for later read. Let say you go to library and found some interesting articles, or you found some long articles but currently you are not free to go through them, you probably will bookmark them and read later right? But, when you free, do you really read them? I am sure most of you may not read them, or you probably forgot which articles that you bookmarked just now.
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Posted by Dickey on Nov 17th, 07 | Filed under
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YooRL is an online tracking service which let you to track an URL, to monitor the spread of the links to others in real time.
Do you share your bookmarks with your friends frequently? Do you share new website or interesting website with your friends? If so, how to know who visit the link or where the visitors come from? Now, YooRL provide these service for you, and it is free!
YooRL can monitor the spread of the links to web resources and their popularity in real time. This can be view via the “Dashboard” of the link. Users can also know where the visitors come from. YooRL will record the IP address of each visitor and then determine where they come from.
Once you share the link, YooRL users can start to watch what is happening to that link. From the dashboard, you will a map with a few red dots. The red dots show the visitors’ location and you can know how many visitors had view this website.
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