Bookmarklets

This shows what the search bookmarklet looks like once you click on it. Notice the ":" is highlighted. Using a ":" before your search terms tells wURLdBook Research to search your content. Without it, wURLdBook Research will try to resolve an alias of yours or guess a location. If you put a "?" before the terms that tells wURLdBook Research to search all your active content for the entered terms. You can use boolean logic here too. Also, you need to do the same thing in the search text field found on all the wURLdBook Research pages. Don't worry if you think you'll forget there is a handy tool tip that pops up and there is a pretty good help page that details this peculiar way to search. But, it's handy because then there aren't tons of UI widgets to pollute the pages and you can use things like the search bookmarklet no matter where you are and the Firefox/Mozilla search plugin too.

This illustrates all four convenient boolmarklets being used in the favorites bar to easily accomplish four major tasks: [Mail], [Add], [Add RSS], and wURLdSearch.

BTW, if you don't know what a "bookmarklet" is don't feel bad. I'll tell you now. " Each bookmarklet is a tiny program (a JavaScript application) contained in a bookmark (the URL is a "javascript:" URL) which can be saved and used the same way you use normal bookmarks. The idea was suggested in the Netscape JavaScript Guide. JavaScript has been used by page authors on millions of webpages; Bookmarklets allow anybody to use JavaScript - on whatever page you choose (not just your own page). " from bookmarklets.com.

wURLdBook uses bookmarklets to assist in adding new content, adding RSS feeds, and to mail a web reference to a collegue or friend. Continue...