Note: You need to drag these bookmarklet links  to the bookmark bar of your browser.

1.Bit.ly : Bit.ly has become the most powerful url shortening service. Rather than visiting the Bit.ly site, just click on this bookmarklet (after you drag it to your browser) and generate the Bit.ly shortening link for the webpage you are viewing.

2.BugmeNot : You visit a site and need to login to check its content. However, the signup process is tedious and you wan to avoid it . Just click on this bookmarklet on your browser and it will open up a Bugmenot window and show you some free login ids and passwords . Just use those login ids and you can check the site easily. I find this one of the most useful bookmarklet.

3.Find Tweets On Current Page: Want to find how many tweets a webpage has received on twitter ? Just click on this link once it is on your bookmarks bar.

4.Search The Current Site : This Google site search bookmarklet enables you to search within the current site without needing to open any search engine. Cool, isn’t it?

5.Download Current Video:You are viewing a Youtube/Metacafe/Myspace  Video and want to download it. Just click on this bookmarklet and download the video easily. You will need to visit  their homepage to get the bookmarklet as it is quite heavy.

6.Translate to English : You are viewing a page in French and want to see the English version . No need to open the Google Translate; just click on this bookmarklet and see the English translation.

7.Edit Current Page: Do you want to edit the current page and use it somewhere? Just click on this bookmarklet.

8.Check CSS,Javascript On Current Page : This firebug bookmarklet shows you immediately the javascripts on the current page and the CSS or the HTML if you desire. Very useful for developers.

9. Show Password: This is one of my favourite bookmarklets. It shows any passwords that are there on a form on a current page. It is very useful since we are getting so used to browsers auto filling the passwords for us that we sometimes need to check what password we are using !.

10.Delicious Bookmarks : Need to check how many bookmarks the current site has on Delicous? Just use this bookmarklet.

11.Twit This : For the tweeters, this can be useful . If you are logged in to Twitter, just click on this bookmarklet to Tweet the current page.

12.Digg This : Digg the current page with this bookmarklet.

13.WHOis : Want to check the WhoIs details on the site you are viewing? Just use this bookmarklet.

14:Gmail This URL : Want to Gmail the current URL to your friends? Click on this bookmarklet and it opens your gmail composed email with the url in the email body. Just add address and send !.

15.Google Page Rank : Find the Page Rank of any page with this bookmarklet.

16. Resize to 800 : Resizes window to 800X600. Good for checking how a page looks in this resolution.Also, Resize to 1024 and Resize to 640 can be used.

17. Map This : A simple utility to search Google Maps. Opens up a search box to search Google Maps.

18. Mobile View : Want to see how this page looks in a mobile? Click on this bookmarklet.

19. Validate HTML : This bookmarklet is useful for developers and avoid few steps to validate HTML on the webpages.

20.Show Images & Pixel Size : This is again useful for developers to quickly analyze images on a webpage  by showing the images as well as their sizes.

21. Validate CSS : Another one for the developers. Validate the CSS on any page quickly

22. Google Trends : Find the relative popularity of any site using this bookmarklet.

23.Print What You Like : A great bookmarklet to enable you print whatever sections of a webpage that you wan to print.

24.Download PDF : Another cool marklet to enable you download PDF file of any webpage that you are viewing.

25.Clean Read : Read a webpage in a clutter free format and print it if you like..

Do mention in comments if you find any good bookmarklet has been missed…

Is there a way by which you can easily remember almost all your shortened links ? I think so – and its  very easy to do so .

Making Easy to remember short links for your own site/blog

Let’s say I want to create easy to remember short links for  the posts on my blog.  I use services like Tinyurl and Bit.ly as these services allow custom name on the url. So what I do is that I create a custom name in two parts :

First Part of the shortened URL : It is fixed ie for my blog  Bestonlinetools.org  it is “ bot-“  (bot is the shortened version of Best Online Tools and a character ( – ) is used to make the custom name difficult to copy.

Second part of the shortened URL : For the second part of the custom URL , I just take the most important word from the post which I can easily remember.Now if I want to create a short url for

1. For one of my most popular posts 50 best websites to download free mp3 songs , I will use ‘songs’ as the second part of my short URL custom name. So my shortened url becomes like

bit.ly/bot-songs or tinyurl.com/bot-songs

2. Similarly the shortened URL for my post 50 Websites to Download Free Ebooks becomes bit.ly/bot-ebooks  or tinyurl.com/bot-ebooks after adding the second part of url “ebooks”

Now I am not going to forget (I hope !) that the standard fixed element of my shortened URLs is ‘bot-‘ and I have to just keep on adding new words after it to create short links for different posts on my site.

It also makes it much easier to access these links if you are using a mobile to access certain pages on your site . Also, using the same custom name on different sites also greatly reduces the possibility that your links may be deleted by an act of error by any site.

Is it possible to create such  links for  pages from large sites ?

Many of you will think that it would be easier to do for smaller sites but not for big sites as they would have millions of short links already created for them. Lets see ! .

Lets say I want to create short links for the pages on Google.com

I chose the fixed name (first part) of the URL for Google as “goo”

Now if I want to create short link for some searches on Google , this is how I do it :

Google Search Results for :

1. Web2.0 trends : tinyurl.com/goo-web2 or bit.ly/goo-web2
2. Harry Potter and Half Blood Prince : tinyurl.com/goo-harryhalf  or  bit.ly/goo-harryhalf

Such easy to remember short urls can also be created for pages which do not have a long url, but you just want to remember them easily without searching for their exact URL. Eg, here I have created Short URLs for Google pages like :

Google Talk :   tinyurl.com/goo-talk

Google Books :tinyurl.com/goo-books

You can play around with different word combinations to find the ones that are most easily remembered by you and which are much less likely to be taken up by others. Using special characters greatly reduces the risk of others creating similar links like yours and almost gives you a sort of fixed sub domain !

Creating these short links for the important links that you share or visit often has made my life simpler and I hope it does the same for you.

1.Windows Live Writer : This is my favourite tool and perhaps one of the best tools currently available to help a blogger blog right from his desktop.It has got some great features like image editing, facility to create photo albums, tables etc. You can literally do anything and much more than what you do online on your blog editor (wordpress,blogger etc).Since the post template is also copied on to your desktop, the formatting etc that is done is retained on the final post.The best part is that all your posts are backed up on the system and you can edit them right from here.There are a host of plugins for Live Writer available which you can download and further add to the functionality of the software.Just download this software and save to your desktop.Configure your blog with the user name and password and you are ready to go. For WordPress blogs, you may have to once “Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols” from the Writing section of your blog.This software can improve blogging productivity by 30-40%. See some images from the software below :

2.Global Translator : This is a great plugin for wordpress bloggers. What it does is that it allows your blog posts to be converted in a number of languages( 34 currently). Though you can also use Google,Bablefish and other translators , the difference with this plugin is that it converts your URLs by and stores the converted data .Thus the URL on your blog when converted to Italian would look like yourblogname.com/it/your_post_title  . This content is picked up by Search Engines as fresh content and enables you to get some traffic from people searching in native languages. So, literally you can multiply your content upto 34 times !..As of now, there is no information on whether Google disapproves of this plugin, but I hope it does not in the future also as great new content is being created in native languages.

3.Web2PDF: Do you write great posts which you think can be of use to your readers as a PDF file to be referred to offline? If yes, this service allows you to add a small code snippet to your posts so that anyone can click and download the post as a PDF.The service is free and there is no limit to the downloads, but it does take some time to download the file.Many bloggers though may not be comfortable with the idea that there posts can be easily downloaded and there will be a fear of losing traffic also. However, one golden rule always helps- “If your readers benefit from your blog, so will you”. See how it works

4.Blogdesk : Blogdesk is another desktop publishing tool which is Free and optimized for blog systems – WordPress,  Blogger, Drupal,Serendipity and Express Engine. Using this tool also cuts down your blogging time and enables you to focus on your content.

5.Outbrain : Its always nice to know what the readers think about your post and the best way to know that is from comments and from incoming links. However, not every reader has time to comment or link to your post. But if you provide them a widget to rate your post, they can do so easily in a click. This plugin for WordPress easily allows readers to click and vote their liking. The plugin can be simply searched from the control panel in WordPress 2.7.1 and added with a click.However, the plugin also displays related links from other sites below the rating stars . This may be treated as a value addition by some bloggers and a diversion of traffic by others. Its your take..

6.Google Friend Connect : This is a great scoial networking tool from Google and it is being used by all kinds of sites including blogs. What it does in a simple way is that it allows you to create a community around your blog. In a few simple steps, you can get the code for the various widgets provided by them and which can be added to a new widget (Text) on your blog . The visitors come and can login with their Google, Yahoo, Aim and Open ID and they become a member on your site. Besides, you can also select various social gadgets widgets like Game widget, Wall Gadget (for comments) or even create your own custom widget to be put up at the blog. This service of Google is getting viral and giving tough competition to MyBloglog . Besides helping you know more about your blog followers,  it will help you to get traffic from visitors on other sites as they see the link on the profiles. I  feel that by next year , it will one of the most used gadget on millions of sites around the world.

7.PostRank Widget: It is another useful widget for bloggers where with the addition of simple code in your widget box. This widget shows the ranking of your posts with the highest viewed post being given 10 points and other posts given relative points. It gives a very clear idea to the visitors that what is popular on this blog and how much relatively speaking. Humans by nature like sorted information and this tool helps do it on blogs. The widget is unobtrusive as it displays a small logo of Post Rank at top right and does not interfere with the design of your blog.

8.Technology Search: If you are a technology blogger, this might be useful for you. This search engine (powered by Google) enables me to do exactly that. It searches all the Top Technology Blogs(more than 100) and Top Technology Forums , New sites etc . So if I want to know what have top bloggers written on – say – ‘Video Editing’ , I just make a search and click on the category ‘Top Tech Blogs’ and immediately I can see the posts regarding ‘Video Editing’. However, some posts might be as old as 2004 and may not be relevant today. So I just use the time drop down bar and see what they have written in the last 6 months or last one month or even last week and so on. And for finding what people have discussed in reputed forums, I just click on the ‘Top Tech Forums’ category and get the posts. This tool helps me a lot in finding the right and authentic information on tech topics quickly .

9.Social Marker & Only Wire:You have created great post and you want the world to know about it.There are some good services which can be used to submit your posts to multiple social bookmarking sites. Social Marker and Only Wire are among the good ones. Create an account on Social Marker or Only Wire and you can submit your posts to over 160 bookmarking sites. Both provide a submission bookmarklet which rests in the bookmarks folder. However, there is word of caution. Submit only selected content from your site as it might be considered as spamming by these sites. Also, submit posts to only  few bookmarking sites –about 8-10 as search engines may not like seeing links coming to your blog from so many bookmarking sites.

10.Scribefire: With over 1.5 million downloads, this add-on is a must for Firefox lovers who blog. Compatible with a wide variety of blogging services, this add on enables you to blog on the fly. Select any text on a webpage and and right click to make a new post with that text(formatting retained) , drag and drop images from the page into the post, save drafts,share posts on social sites,upload files via FTP and more.. It even allows you to manage published posts . It is one of most used firefox addon.Below, I have just highlighted on some text on Scribefire site ,right clicked and and started a blog post:

For those wanting to try out a new browser to blog better, flock is a great blogging tool.

11.Ping.fm : Though more applicable for micro blogging, it is a lovely tool to enable post and update all your blogs and social networks at once.You can select from over 30 blogging/micro-blogging networks and just with a single message, you can update all your networks or a select group out of the these.These messages can be sent from their web editor ,emails, instant messengers,mobile phones etc. The links are converted to a short URL like ping.fm/a12cd  . No formatting options are available and hence it is suitable for bloggers who like to blog short,sweet,fast and on the move.

12.Auto Copy : We bloggers , at many times, need to copy text from various webpages and use that in the post. The process involves using SELECTING THE TEXT, Pressing CONTROL C and then CONTROL V . Sometimes it does not go on correctly and we have to the whole thing again. Auto copy is a firefox extension which copies any text as soon as you highlight it and you can paste it anywhere. Though it does not sound as giving too much value, once you use it , it will be difficult to work without it !

13.Copy Link and Text : One of the most irritating activities is to copy a link and its text . Eg if you have to copy this text along with the link, you will have to first right click and Copy Link Location, Paste it and then come back to Copy the Text and then again paste it properly. However, with this firefox extension, you can easily copy both the link as well as the text in one go.This again saves a lot of time.Via Lifehacker

14.Yahoo Media Player: If you have often post Mp3 links in your posts, then use put the small code provided by Yahoo Media Player and it will auto detect the links and create an embedded player which is unobtrusive and expands when clicked only.

In your comments do mention about your favourite blogging tools and also the ones that you might be already using from the above list.