One Thing Well

Src Img

Src Img is a bookmarklet that interfaces with Google™ Image Search to help you find the creators of images you see on blogs that are too ~~lame~~ cool for attribution.

Via Waxy.

Readable

Readable is an application that helps you read more of the web. It reformats text—on any website—according to your exact specifications.

It’s what I use when I want to read something now in my browser, as opposed to later in Instapaper.

Snoopy

Snoopy is a bookmarklet for snooping on web pages. It’s intended for use on mobile browsers (such as Mobile Safari on the iPad) where you can’t view-source to poke around under the hood of sites to see how they’re built.

Beautifully done.

Instapaper

Instapaper facilitates easy reading of long text content. We discover web content throughout the day, and sometimes, we don’t have time to read long articles right when we find them. Instapaper allows you to easily save them for later, when you do have time, so you don’t just forget about them or skim through them.

Almost everyone who’s sent me a list of their favourite simple software has mentioned Instapaper, and with good reason. For many of us, Instapaper has improved the web, stripping away distractions, encouraging us to spend time reading instead of skimming, and letting us build an archive of good articles instead of an unwieldy pile of bookmarks.

And then there’s the app for iPhones and iPads: an exercise in restraint that stays out of the user’s way so they can get on with the business of reading, but still innovates with features like tilt scrolling. (Version 2.2.3, released over the weekend, adds a slew of subtle improvements, especially for you lucky iPad owners.)

If you already use Instapaper all this is old news, but do keep an eye on the ‘Extras’ page, where new features are announced with little fanfare:

There’s an ‘Instapaper Text’ bookmarklet that lets you view any web page Instapaper-style without adding it to your account.
Browse the web through Instapaper’s text engine on your mobile device with the ‘Instapaper Mobilizer’ at http://instapaper.com/m.
Email any text to Instapaper for later reading.

Quix

Quix is a bookmarklet which opens a prompt, and then responds to commands. When you type whois, for instance, it’ll take you to a page with the whois of the domain you’re currently on. It can also understand more complex commands, like gs help, that will make it go to Google, searching the current site for the text “help”.

A simple command line interface for the web. Useful on the desktop, indispensable on the iPhone (and, I imagine, the iPad).

The Printliminator

The Printliminator is a bookmarklet with some simple tools you can use to makes websites print better. One click to activate, and then click to remove elements from the page, remove graphics, and apply better print styling.