So handy is Google Reader’s “Popout” link [...]]]> If you’re like me, your monitor real estate is in high demand. One small corner of one of my displays is dedicated to video viewing. It is usually occupied by a video that I have popped out of Google Reader using the “Popout” links Google applies to embedded videos.

So handy is Google Reader’s “Popout” link that it inspired me to create a bookmarklet that does the same thing when you are on any site that hosts a flash video.

If you come across a flash video you would like to watch but would rather not keep the page it belongs to loaded, you can use this bookmarklet to pop it out into its own little window. It supports just about any page that contains flash video.

To use it, just save or drag the following link to your bookmarks toolbar:

… and then try it out on this video:

If you would like to contribute to the Universal Video Popout Bookmarklet, join the Google Code project.

If you submit as much news to Propeller as I do, you probably have become dependent [...]]]> You might have heard that social news site Propeller has launched a new version of the site. The site was given a new design and a number of new features, most notably a Groups feature similar to sub-reddits on reddit.

If you submit as much news to Propeller as I do, you probably have become dependent on their submission bookmarklet. Since the new site doesn’t have a bookmarklet yet, here’s an unofficial one that will work in the meantime. To use it, just save or drag the following link to your bookmarks toolbar:

… and then click it when you are viewing an article you would like to submit to Propeller.

To use it, just save or [...]]]> Conservapedia is a newly launched wiki which purports to be the Fox News of internet encyclopedias. I’ve been getting a kick out of comparing the entries on Conservapedia to their counterparts on Wikipedia. So I made a bookmarklet to make it easier to jump back and forth between like-named entries.

To use it, just save or drag the following link to your bookmarks toolbar. Then, whenever you’re reading a Wikipedia or Conservapedia entry and get a hankering to see what the other site says about the topic, just click the bookmarklet.

Here are a couple of fun entries to try it out on:

Wikipedia – “Homosexuality”

Conservapedia – “Shia”

Wikipedia – “Internet”

Conservapedia – “Haggis”