A couple of Handy Tools

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thumbalizr - a website thumbnail creator - offers up an easy way to take screenshots, either the viewable portion of the screen or the entire page. Once snapped, you can chose from sizes from 320px through 1280 pixels in width to download and use.

Feedmarklet is an interesing new service - part RSS, part bookmarking. No registration is required. Simply give your feedmarklet a name and and webpage is created that will collect your feedmarks. Grab the provided bookmarklet to quickly add links to your feed. Then, view your collection on your page or subscribe to it in your reader.

It took a few minutes of playing with it to really see how this could be useful. In my case, it's a perfect solution for collecting links that I find during the day but won't be posting right away (rather than cluttering up my bookmarks folder). It would also be an excellent tool for collecting resources for research or short-term projects. Because you can make a number of feedmarklets, you can make several for different subject areas (favourite photos on Flickr or videos on YouTube etc.) Of course, this wouldn't replace something like del.icio.us as a permanent bookmarking solution but I think there are certainly uses for it.

August 27, 2007 in Tools and Generators

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