Some handy Google bookmarklets (mostly unofficial)


	Some handy Google bookmarklets (mostly unofficial)
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9-16-2008 10:55 AM
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From July 2007 -- ten bookmarklets for one-click access to Google features, including adding to your calendar, translation, Google Send-to-phone, highlighting search terms, backlinks, and maps.
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/useful-google-bookmarklets.html"><DIV>3. Bookmark a page: <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self"http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&output=popup&bkmk="+c(b.location)+"&title="+c(b.title),"bkmk_popup","left="+((a.screenX||a.screenLeft)+10)+",top="+((a.screenY||a.screenTop)+10)+",height=420px,width=550px,resizable=1,alwaysRaised=1");a.setTimeout(function(){d.focus()},300)})();">Bookmark</A>. If you don't want to install Google Toolbar, this a very good way to bookmark the current page at Google Bookmarks.
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/useful-google-bookmarklets.html"><DIV>4. Add an event to Google Calendar: <A href="javascript:var s;if(window.getSelection){s=window.getSelection();}else{s=document.selection.createRange().text;}var t=prompt('Please enter a description for the event',s);if(t){void(window.open(encodeURI('http://www.google.com/calendar/event?ctext='+t+'&action=TEMPLATE&pprop=HowCreated:QUICKADD'),'gcal'));}else{void(s);}">Add event</A>. You can select some text from a web page or enter the description of an event after you click on the bookmarklet.
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/useful-google-bookmarklets.html"><DIV>5. <A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self""+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);d=d.replace(/\r\n|\r|\n/g," ,");if(!d)d=prompt("Enter the address:", "");if(d!=null)location="http://maps.google.com?q="+escape(d).replace(/ /g,"+");void 0">Map this</A>. Select an address from a web page and instantly get the map.
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/useful-google-bookmarklets.html"><DIV>8. <A href="javascript:w=window;d=document;var%20u;s='';if%20(d.selection)%20%7Bs=d.selection.createRange().text;%7D%20else%20if%20(d.getSelection!=u)%20%7Bs=d.getSelection();%7D%20else%20if%20(w.getSelection!=u)%20%7Bs='link:'+w.getSelection();%7D%20if%20(s.length%3C2)%7Bif(String(w.location).substring(0,6)=='about:')%7Bs=prompt('Google%20Blog%20Search%20for:',s);%7Delse%7Bs='link:'+w.location;%7D%7Dif%20(s!=null)%20w.location='http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q='+escape(s);void(0);">Blog links</A> shows all the blogs that link to the current page. <A href="javascript:w=window;d=document;var%20u;s='';if%20(d.selection)%20%7Bs=d.selection.createRange().text;%7D%20else%20if%20(d.getSelection!=u)%20%7Bs=d.getSelection();%7D%20else%20if%20(w.getSelection!=u)%20%7Bs='link:'+w.getSelection();%7D%20if%20(s.length%3C2)%7Bif(String(w.location).substring(0,6)=='about:')%7Bs=prompt('Google%20Blog%20Search%20for:',s);%7Delse%7Bs='link:'+w.location;%7D%7Dif%20(s!=null)%20w.location='http://www.google.com/search?q='+escape(s);void(0);">Web links</A> is the same bookmarklet adapted for links from the entire web.
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/useful-google-bookmarklets.html">10. Highlight the words from your Google query in the search results: <A href="javascript:var gtc = '#000000'; var glc = new Array('#ffff66','#a0ffff','#99ff99','#ff9999','#ff66ff'); function init_google(){ var pat = /google\./i; if (pat.exec(document.referrer) != null){ var u_p = document.referrer.split('?'); if (u_p[1]){ var u_a = u_p[1].split('&'); for(var i=0; i<u_a.length; i++){ var kv = u_a[i].split('='); if (kv[0] == 'q'){ g_g(d_u(kv[1])); return; } } } } } function d_u(url){ return unescape(url.replace(/\+/g,' ')); } function g_g(te){ te = te.replace(/\"/g,""); var t_s = te.split(' '); var c = 0; for(var i=0; i<t_s.length; i++){ h_g(t_s[i], document.body,glc[c]); c = (c == glc.length-1)?0:c+1; } } function h_g(te, container, color){ var t_l = te.toLowerCase(); for(var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++){ var node = container.childNodes[i]; if (node.nodeType == 3){ var data = node.data; var d_l = data.toLowerCase(); if (d_l.indexOf(t_l) != -1){ var n_n = document.createElement('span'); node.parentNode.replaceChild(n_n,node); var res; while((res = d_l.indexOf(t_l)) != -1){ n_n.appendChild(document.createTextNode(data.substr(0,res))); n_n.appendChild(c_n_g(document.createTextNode(data.substr(res,te.length)),color)); data = data.substr(res + te.length); d_l = d_l.substr(res + te.length); } n_n.appendChild(document.createTextNode(data)); } }else{ h_g(te, node, color); } } } function c_n_g(child, color){ var node = document.createElement('span'); node.style.backgroundColor = color; node.style.color = gtc; node.appendChild(child); return node; };init_google();">Highlight</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/07/useful-google-bookmarklets.html"><A href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self""+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);d=d.replace(/\r\n|\r|\n/g," ,");if(!d)d=prompt("Enter the text:", "");if(d!=null)location="http://www.google.com/sendtophone?gl=us&client=navclient-ff&text="+escape(d).replace(/ /g,"+");void 0">SMS</A> </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/68DDCAF1-4306-4C6C-BF08-0167C6FC7815/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>