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Google definition bookmarklet

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alex
on Sunday October 23rd, 2005
in Internet & Blogging
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Do you know the “define:” Google’s keyword? It’s a powerfull keyword that let you look for word definitions on the web.

For example, yesterday I was looking for the definition of the word misgiving, so I googled it, and it gave me:

* scruple: uneasiness about the fitness of an action
* apprehension: painful expectation
* doubt about someone’s honesty

I find it very usefull. However I still have to open a new google page and type there the define: query, what I find a bit unefficient.

As i couldn’t find any bookmarklet to achieve that for me, I modified one that catches any selected word on the active page and look for it on Google. The result is: Google definition bookmarklet.

As any bookmarklet, just bookmark it and you can use it. Then when reading a web page, if you want to look for a word’s definition, just select the word and click the bookmarklet in your browser bar.

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Surfing del.icio.us’ly

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alex
on Saturday October 8th, 2005
in Internet & Blogging
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I love Del.icio.us ! It’s a “social bookmarks” manager. Some of the features are :

* Your bookmarks will always be available to you, from anywhere,
* They are public, so anyone can also see them,
* You can tag them with keywords: it’s more powerfull than organizing them into folders (because usually every bookmark can only be in one folder). With del.icio.us, you can assign several tags to them.
* Del.icio.us provides you many level of feeds (top leval, tag level…),

How does it work? Is it eficient ?

Yes, it’s tremendously efficient: From del.icio.us you get an “Add to my del.icio.us” bookmarklet: it’s a piece of Javascript that you place as a bookmark in your browser(s) links toolbar. Then, every time you want to bookmark a page into your del.icio.us, you just have to click on the bookmarklet link in the toolbar. The Del.icio.us page opens, you can then write down some keyword (”tags”) related to the page, and when you save you come back to the page you were reading.

IMHO(In my humble opinion) del.icio.us is one of the thing that make surfing easier…

If you want, you can also place the last addition to your del.icio.us on your blog page, to share your last reading pages with other people — in my case, i use the WordPress del.icio.us plugin to publish my del.icio.us on this page.

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