Tyrantmizar’s blog is mostly about Firefox extensions, with some other stuff thrown in for flavor.

The BlinkList Toolbar Extension is Excellent!

posted by Tyrantmizar at 11:49 am EST on November 25, 2005

The BlinkList toolbar extension is a must have for anyone who has a BlinkList account.

I have a BlinkList account, therefore, I must have this toolbar (oooo! big leap there!)

It is rich in BlinkList features, and yet simple to use (something that every technology should strive for). The only thing you have to configure is your BlinkList username. No passwords, no API, nothing.

You can:

  1. Instantly Blink the page! Uses the same functionality as the bookmarklet to automatically add selected text as a description.
  2. View your BlinkList from a button. Simple and easier than typing it in.
  3. View your friends page. Your friends page will show you all of the things that your friends have recently added. Quite useful.
  4. Search public tags, your tags, or Google. This is the same basic functionality as the searchbox at the top of BlinkList.
  5. Tag the page from the search bar. You add your tags, and then Blink It! Your tags and whatever description you added are automatically inserted.
  6. QuickBlink and QuickStart Both are features that I don’t really use, but are useful nonetheless.

As I said, this extension has the most used and most useful things BlinkList can do (which is a lot) in one easy-to-use toolbar. A true necessity for BlinkList users.

BlinkList Toolbar 0.2.3 for Firefox 1.5 (no support for Firefox 1.0)
BlinkList Toolbar 0.1 at Mozilla Update for Firefox 1.0-1.0.7
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