I added two great bookmarklets to my Safari Bookmarks Bar today. The first is Convert Me (Don’t click this link yet! Read on…). If you’re looking at a video in a YouTube page, simply click on the bookmarklet to Zamzar’s site where you choose the file format you’d like and enter your email address. They then convert the file for you and email a link to the download. There are a few stand-alone applications that will do the same thing, but this is much less hassle.
The second bookmarklet is Mobilize Me which takes the complex, slow to load page that you happen to be viewing and sends it through Google’s conversion thingie and reloads it as a simple cellphone-friendly version.
Not familiar with bookmarklets? Simply make sure that Safari is showing the Bookmarks Bar, then drag the links above to the bar to make the buttons; each one uses javascript to look at the URL of the current page being viewed to work its magic.
Both of these bookmarklets were found here. I talk about some other useful buttons at my Some Great Web-Based Services page.
Micro Persuasion: Bookmarklets for the Web 2.0 Jedi Master
