TextMarker! (an extension for Firefox)

TextMarker! is an extension for Firefox that lets you highlight text in your browser. It makes a nice interface to a vocab tool.

Highlight words and then have those words added to your vocab list…and keep the page and the highlighting too.

TextMarker! :: Firefox Add-ons

TextMarker! 0.3.2

by Simon Shareef

Allows you to highlight text selections via keyboard and context menu. Also allows for the highlighted text to be copied individually or all. 3 highlighter colours are available that can be customised.

Works with:

• Firefox: 1.5 – 2.0.0.*

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Developer Comments

With this extension you can highlight important text on web pages and copy the highlighted text. Useful when you have several pages open on multiple tabs, while doing online research for instance.
To highlight:
1. Select text to highlight with the mouse
2. Right-click on the selected text OR click b,n or m keys
3. Select Highlight Text! from the context menu
To erase/copy individual highlighted text hover mouse over the text and right-click to reveal the context menu. Then follow "Highlighted Text" sub-menu.
Options Panel to change highlight colours is available via Tools menu -> Extensions -> Right-click on TextMarker!

Version 0.3.2 — October 25, 2006 — 20 KB

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Software for Students … or maybe an Improved Bookmark Manager for All

Zotero: Citation management and much-much more. Read more at http://www.zotero.org/

Use this program, which requires Firefox 2.0+, and you’ll be amazed at the magical powers of Zotero, but to full appreciate Zotero you probably need to integrate it with your word processor. If you use Microsoft Word you’re in luck, if you don’t well then this won’t work for you …, but you still can buy a lotto ticket. Honestly though, to fully appreciate Zotero’s capabilities you’ll have to suffer through constructing a Bibliography by hand at least once.

Zotero has a template that integrates Zotero with Microsoft Word (Mac and Windows). It’s really easy to install and will make you a Zotero slave. You can find this plugin at Zotero’s website:

http://www.zotero.org/documentation/microsoft_word_integration

The plug-in is really a Word Template and has been tested with Word 2004 for Mac and Word 2002 (Office XP) and 2003 for Windows. To install this you need to download the appropriate template and then move the file to a special folder on your computer.

Mac users need to move the template into the folder:

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Startup/Word.

Windows users need to move the template into the folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\::username::\Application Data\Microsoft\Word\Startup

Zotero is certainly a terrific Bibliographic research tool, but isn’t it also an extremely powerful and flexible Bookmark manager too?