Cool Buttons for Opera

Tuesday, March 13. 2007

UPDATE 2010-07.03:Added latest theme for Opera 10.60 in Unix and Windows versions. (if you provide me with the default Mac skin, I can modify that, too).

Alright everyone. I admit I have abandoned this site for quite a while but this stops now ;-). For my first post in a while, let me share with you what I did to make my favourite browser even better and more useful.

I've created a set of buttons which you can add to your Opera browser. I made these out of bookmarklets, so if you don't use Opera (which would be a shame) you can still use the regular bookmarklets with your browser. These are the buttons:

And this is what they do (just click on the titles to add the buttons to Opera or drag and drop the bookmarklet-links on your Firefox bookmarks bar):

Post to del.icio.us
Post the current page to your del.icio.us bookmarks. del.icio.us is a very cool service that lets you save sites you come across to their online service and easily access them or share them with friends. Once you tried it you will never want to miss it again! (bookmarklet)

Post to del.icio.us
New delicious button.

BugMeNot
If a site requires you to log in to continue (i.e. nytimes.com) simply click this button to get a username and password immediately. Very cool because you can avoid annoying registrations. (bookmarklet)

Search this domain
If you ever had the problem that the search on the site (i.e. newspaper) you are currently viewing sucks, use this button to do a google-search on the current site only. (bookmarklet)

is.gd
A great URL shortener
direc.tor
A unique way of organizing your delicious bookmarks ajax style (bookmarklet)

The last one (direc.tor) is especially cool. It allows you to search-as-you-type in all your del.icio.us bookmarks and has a nice tag-browser. Take a look at the following screenshot to see how it works.

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One last thing: You don't get those nice icons for the new buttons automatically. They have to be added to the skin you are using. Here is a list of modified skins I made (last updated 10-07-03):

To make use of the new icons you will also need a different set of buttons. Use these:


I know this article is similar to one I have written before. But since there are some additions and changes I figured I might just reciycle it ;-)

Cheers,
Matthias



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    #1 Ilya on 08/09/07 at 02:54 PM [Reply]

    Hello, can you give me an advice how I can modify your Search this domain, so it can understand cyrrilic letters?
    Now if I'm trying to type something in the search filed I then have rubbish symbols intsead of russian letters.

    #1.1 dakira on 08/12/07 at 11:48 PM [Reply]

    I Ilya,
    sorry.. can't help you with that because I don't know what is causing this. You could try to find another bookmarklet that performs the same thing and works for you. If you do find one, just let me know and I will update my site (and make an Opera Button out of the bookmarklet)..

    #1.1.1 Ilya on 08/13/07 at 08:04 AM [Reply]

    As I realize later the problem is not in your button, 'cause on russian websites everything work fine, so I suppose the problem exist only when I try to find something cyrrilic on non-cyrrylic sites.

    #2 aircave on 08/03/08 at 08:57 PM [Reply]

    Any chance of an update?

    http://delicious.com/help/bookmarklets

    And maybe a native skin with Opera 9.27 icons too? :)

    #2.1 dakira on 08/04/08 at 05:04 AM [Reply]

    Hey!

    Yeah.. I'm working on both ;) Glad to see someone is using this, as I mainly posted it as a self-reference ;-)

    #2.2 dakira on 10/08/08 at 11:23 PM [Reply]

    Hey,

    took a while, but I updated this entry. So now there's the new delicious bookmarks, and two new skins with buttons.

    #2.2.1 aircave on 10/09/08 at 06:00 AM [Reply]

    thanks for updating. buttons work great.

    #3 dakira on 06/18/09 at 03:58 PM [Reply]

    I updated the post to reflect the new skin that comes with Opera 10.

    #4 Roman on 04/08/10 at 10:07 AM [Reply]

    Wow, your delicious.com opera button is absolutely amazing! Now I can hide personal bar and delete their bookmarklet. Thank you!

    #4.1 dakira on 04/09/10 at 06:50 PM [Reply]

    Heh ;-) You're welcome. I'm keeping this post updated all the time. As soon as Opera 10.50 (or .52) is out for all platforms (including Linux+mac) I will update the themes to include the icons. If you can't wait that long you can easily do it yourself (Google is your friend).

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