Manage your Bookmarklet’s with Blummy

This article was written on January 01, 2007 by CyberNet.

Bookmarklets are starting to become more and more available. Ryan just wrote about some of the best bookmarklets available for your browser. They’re great, but just like bookmarks or extensions in Firefox, it’s easy to get a bunch of them which can clutter things up. Blummy is the perfect way to organize and manage some of those helpful Bookmarklets.

Blummy organizes all of your Bookmarklets into a single pop-out menu. There are a variety of different layouts that you can choose from so that your blummlet’s (another name for your Bookmarklets) are organized just the way you’d like them to be.  Searching for Blummlets is easy because they are broken down into different categories. The categories are popular, new, all, random, or, your own. Within the ’all’ category you’ll find 62 pages of blummlet’s, with each category containing 5.  There are over 3,000 blummlet’s for you to select from! When you find the ones you like, you simply drag and drop them into your layout.Some of the favorites are probably Wikipedia, del.icio.us, Alexa Site info, Gmail send (opens a ‘compose email’ page). You can also add your own Bookmarklet’s with their wizard tool.

Above is a screenshot of one way you can configure your blummy. If you haven’t gotten into using Bookmarklet’s, give it a try. Ryan’s list will be very helpful in getting you started.  Once you do make use of Bookmarklet’s, I’d turn to Blummy to help you manage and organize them. I’m sure you’ll find, as I have, that there are loads of very useful Bookmarklets that make browsing the web so much easier.

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An Interview with Geoff McFetridge on the Interfaces from Her

An Interview with Geoff McFetridge on the Interfaces from Her

Not even those who worked on the Oscar-nominated film Her are sure exactly how near we are to the near-future depicted in the movie. "I think the idea of the near-future is that you can’t predict the pace of technology," says graphic designer Geoff McFetridge, who designed the interfaces for the film.

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Why did Samsung play it safe with the Galaxy S5’s processor?

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Obama: We’re building Iron Man

A simple announcement to change the world.

(Credit: CNN/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

The real news sometimes passes us by, as we eke out our survival and freak out at the state of our lives.

I am grateful, therefore, to have been sent this snippet that might just change the way you think and live.

For here, at a White House press conference earlier this week, is President Obama revealing a “secret project we’ve been working on for some time.”

What could this project be? A crowdsourced surveillance program? A health insurance Web site that works?

No, America is building Iron Man.

You don’t have to take my word for it.

For here the president began by saying that he would be joined by America’s finest researchers, digital cloud designers, and important people from the Pentagon.

He then uttered these words: “Basically, I’m here to announce that we’re building Iron Man.”

The journalists in the room erupted with laughter. In an attempt to quiet them, perhaps, the president then explained: “I’m going to blast off in a second.”

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Surprise! Apple’s Tim Cook is both scary and caring, says new book

The power of silence?

(Credit: CNET)

So much time, effort, and emotion are expended on analyzing everything at Apple that it’s a wonder surprises still manage to emerge.

But on hearing that a new book called “Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs” was to emerge, some felt a tinge of excitement.

Written by former Wall Street Journal reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane, it promised (at least in some imaginations) to reveal secrets of Cupertino life.

An excerpt from the book was published Friday in the Journal and the revelations are few.

If you’d imagined that Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t have quite the same style as Steve Jobs, this excerpt confirms it. He is described as not having “the quasi-religious authority that Jobs had radiated.”

He is also described as “arguably a better manager than Jobs.”

There are many of the already received wisdoms about Cook being more practical, more pragmatic, more orderly, more disciplined, and more modest.

Thankfully, he is still described as being scary. “He could strike terror in the hearts of his subordinates,” says the book. That’s a relief. It would be awful if Apple had suddenly turned into a holiday camp for the indolent.

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[SPOILERS] Craftsman and artist Mick Minogue made action figure-style woodcuts of some of Westeros’ infamously battered – or worse – characters for the Winter is Coming art show at the Ltd. Art Gallery. Needless to say, the figures give away some of the novels’ plot points and are most certainly not for kids.

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Mick also made high quality packaging for the action figures, each with a funny blurb that alludes to the fate of the characters. Mick also said that the art show is based not on the HBO TV series Game of Thrones but on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels, allowing Mick and the other artists to give their own interpretations of how the characters looked.

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That last figure. Man. You’re on Arya’s list now Mick. Mick made eight action figures; if you can’t check them out at the Ltd. Gallery, keep an eye on Mick’s Facebook page, where he’ll share photos of the other toys. Mick also said he might make more aside from the ones he made for the show. It’s not like he’s lacking for material.

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