Bookmarklets

I think bookmarklets are just about one of the coolest things on the net.
For those who don't know, bookmarklets are small javascripts that you can
bookmark and use on any page at will. They are incredibly versatile, and I
have seen them used for everything from translating 1337 into english, to
restoring context menus on sites that disable them, to counting characters
on a page or in a selection, to decoding rot13. And that is just a small
sampling of what they are capable of.

But here's where it gets even better: what if you want to take the awesome
power of bookmarklets with you? Sure you can constantly export your
bookmarks file and import it on other browsers, but that's kind of clunky.
And you can use portable opera or portable firefox on a usb stick so that
you've always got your own browser with you, but that only works if you
never switch operating systems and you always remember to bring your usb key
with you.

No, the real secret to making the power of bookmarklets universal is
Delicious, and the firefox Delicious Bookmarks
plugin (currently 2.0). This plugin lets you right click on any link
and add it to delicious. (You can also highlight text on the page to use as
the description for the link). That includes javascript links, though for
safety reasons delicious will not allow those to be shared publicly. You'll
still have access to them, though, on any computer you use. And if you open
the links from the menu bar, toolbar, or sidebar provided by the Delicious
Bookmarks plugin, it will work just as if you had bookmarked it in your
browser itself.

Handy, huh?