Bookmarklets are tiny useful javascript nuggets that can be easily dragged and dropped to the bookmark toolbar in a modern browser such as Firefox, Opera, etc. They can be used to quickly perform a task without having to visit the website/web service with just a single click.

I have compiled a list of bookmarklets that I find useful and use regularly.

• Stumble This! - StumbleUpon Toolbar less stumbling link. Very useful if you don’t want any other extra features that the toolbar provides. Become a power stumbler quickly! [via Firefox Facts]
• Gmail This! - One of my most used bookmarklets. Opens up a compose window with the url I am at in the email body and the title of the page in the subject. Based on a reader request, i previously showed how to create a custom gmailthis bookmarklet out of this for your most frequent contacts.
• Share This! - A very useful WordPress plugin also comes as a bookmarklet that lets you share a link via different social networks or by email.
• Digg Submit - Submit a site to Digg easily with this bookmarklet
• TwitThis - Send a quick Tweet if you have a Twitter account. (my Twitter account)
• TinyUrl! - Make a long url a short one with TinyUrl with this bookmarklet
• Subscribe.. (Google Reader) - Subscribe to a website/blog’s RSS feed with Google Reader in one click. You could also try a Google Greasemonkey script to do this automatically when you hit any RSS feed.
• Analytics Today (Google Analytics) - This bookmarklet will take you to your Google Analytics account and show you today’s stats for your site. You have to edit this url and insert your Google Analytics id (you’ll see it in the location bar when logged in) where it says .
  
• RSSFwd - It’s a bookmarklet for a service that lets you have any RSS feed emailed straight to your inbox.
• PassPack It! - This is a bookmarklet for my favorite online password manager program, PassPack. Once setup, it lets you quickly login to websites with your saved username/passwords.
• Add to RTM! - A bookmarklet to add tas
• Google Talk (gadget) - Opens the Google Talk gadget. Read how to open Google Talk gadget in Sidebar here.
• Enlarge Text Areas - Use this to enlarge text areas in forms in any website or blog.
• Zoom images in - This one lets you zoom into images in any website
• Map your Flickr Photos - A very cool bookmarklt that enables mapping, geocoding and geotagging directly in your Flickr photo page [via Sumaato]
• All-In-One Video - The all-in-one bookmarklet supports YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, Myspace, Break.com, Putfile, Dailymotion, Sevenload, MyVideo.de and Clipfish.de. Bookmark the link below and access the bookmark when looking at videos on any of the supported websites. The bookmarklet will give you the download-link(s) for the video you were looking at.
• SecondBrain - You can easily add websites to your SecondBrain account. (3/13/08)
• PricePinx - Just highlight the price in a product page and use this bookmarklet to receive price drop alerts from ProcePinx. (3/13/08)

A great resource I found while collecting bookmarklets I could use and that might be of interest to you, is Jesse’s Bookmarklet site. He has nicely categorized various bookmarklets into different sections.

Do you know of any other bookmarklets that’ll make this list better? Let me know in the comments and I’ll add them to this list. As the other posts in the Top Stuff series (look below for other posts), this list will be an evolving one with updates as I come across useful ones.

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