Bookmarklet For TinyURL and Flickr Search

Bookmarklets have become common over the internet nowadays. They are helpful too. Bookmarklets are like small tools for specific purposes.

They are relatively new things for me. But I found them pretty useful.

Wiktionary defines bookmarklets as “A small piece of JavaScript code stored as a URL within a bookmark.”
Users can drag this piece of code onto their browser toolbars. After that bookmarklet is ready to use. Just click on it from the toolbar when you are on a webpage.

Bookmarklets are supposed to do one click functions. I thought why not create some. Though I created several to experiment, only 2 of those are worth sharing(At least I think so). Others perform weird functions like disabling css of a page, making all images on the page invisible etc etc. If you want code for these also, just drop a message below.

Here is the first one that searches flickr for any term you select on any web page. If you do not select any text, it will prompt you for keyword.(Nonsense??? I know that). Slight modification can make it google search or dictionary search or whatever search you wish.

Search Flickr

The second one is slightly more useful.
Just click it and it will create tinyURL of that page you are visiting. You can then post it to twitter or share with friends(Cool, isn’t it).

Create TinyURL

Why wait now, Drag these to your browsers toolbar and have fun.

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