These are small chunks of javascript as links that, if made into bookmarks will alter your browsing life.
To install, drag these links to your toolbar.
MailToCarl
Select an interesting chunk of text and
click this in your browser's toolbar and it composes an email to me.
The subject line is the title of the page followed by the first 30 characters of the selected text, and
the body of the message is the text you selected followed by the URL
for the page the text came from. Pages with frames can goof this one up, you have to open the frame itself and then use the favelet, and it'll probably work.
Even though this is a tiny little dirt road well off the information
superhighway I have spamtrapped my address in the favelet. You can
choose to put up with removing the SPAMTRAP each time, or edit it out of
the code... after
you install it in your browser. The bookmark editing tools should let
you do it. Heck you can modify it to send mail to anyone.
GoogleMap Select an address, get a map in a new window. Test here: 38 Guinan Street Waltham MA
Google Select a word or phrase and get a google search in a new window
M-WDict
Select a word on a page and click this and it finds the
entry in the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary
WikiP
Select a word or phrase on a page and click this and goes to
the search page at the Wikipedia and shows the most relevant results. In a new window.
eBay
Select a word or phrase on a page and click this and you get
the search
page at eBay that shows their results.
TextToLink This one re-writes URLs in the text of a page as a
linked URL which you can then click. Saves copying and pasting. Test
here: www.prospecthillforge.com (I did not write or even edit
this one but I really like it)
I ran into this concept as a 'favlet' on www.confusingwords.com/about.php and like they say there, "Thanks to Steve Splonskowski for the favlet script." I'm standing on his shoulders big-time.
Thanks Steve.