Tips for Lightning-Quick Interneting
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Is Interneting a word? My dictionary doesn’t like it, but it ought to be a word. I’m going to use it.
Anyway, this is an awesome article, courtest of Leo Babauta over at the great Zen Habits blog, all about how to make Web browsing faster. His tips range from the ought-to-be-obvious (use a fast browser) to this one, an awesome idea:
Set up keyword bookmarklets. In Firefox and a couple other browsers, there’s the ability to create javascript bookmarklets that have some kind of functionality — for example, a bookmarklet for Tumblr (to create a new post from the page you’re reading) or Instapaper (to bookmark an article for reading later) or Twitter (to tweet a page) or is.gd (to create a short url for a page), and so on (some good examples). Other browsers (Opera is an example) don’t allow you to drag and drop a bookmarklet into the bookmarks toolbar, but you can still create them: 1) create a regular bookmark , 2) copy the link url of the bookmarklet using Control-click or right-click, 3) paste this url into the regular bookmark in your bookmark manager (Cmd-B in Camino), and then create a keyword for this bookmark. Now, if I want to create a short url for a page, I go to the page, press Cmd-L (to go to the location bar) and type “is” and press enter — and instantly have a short url. This works for any javascript bookmarklet.
The article’s definitely worth a read. Great tips, some good resources and tips, and lots of easy steps (what Leo’s great at) to browsing the Web like a champion.
via zenhabits.net
