23 April 2007 - 20:08I finally found a ‘linkify’ bookmarklet!

Updated Dec. 2008, Looks like moving from Blogger to WordPress broke this post quite a bit

I’ve been looking for a bookmarklet that would turn plain-text URLs into clickable links for a while, because it got tedious opening big blocks of plain-text links in Google Reader or in torrent trackers. I had it on my to-do list to write one, but I happened upon one that had already been written at squarefree.com’s bookmarklets site. ..I just wouldn’t have guessed the name.

To make this worthwhile, here are my 3 favorite bookmarklets:

1. Linkify – Turns plain text URLs into clickable links. Try it out here if you want: http://www.dmack.ca
2. Hide visited links – makes visited links invisible (in real time, even). Try them on the above url once you make it a link.
3. Remove redirects – a good way to get around a lot of interstitial ads. Removes redirect scripts from urls in this format: http://www.example.com/out.php?url=http://www.example.org/

Post your favorite bookmarklets in the comments section!