One of my favorite tools to use to check for grammar problems in my writing is called After the Deadline.  Put out there by the same people who brought you WordPress, this plugin for WordPress is the top notch tool when it comes to style, grammar and spell checking.  What if you want to use it other places though?  That is where the After the Deadline Spell and Grammar Check bookmarklet comes into play.
 

Did you know that Firefox comes in handy when it comes to proof reading pages?  Using a simple bookmarklet, you can easily enable Firefox’s built in spell checker on any web site.
The first step to take would be to bookmark this link (or drag and drop it onto your bookmarks toolbar).
+ spell check
When the bookmarklet is clicked, Firefox will turn on the built in spellchecker and highlight any misspelled words that are on the page you are currently browsing.  [...]

I have made not secret that I am a big fan of Plurk, one of the newer social status micro blogging services out there.  I needed a way to keep tabs on it without taking over any of my current browser real estate though.  The solution?  Another bookmarklet!
This one I call mini plurk.  After you have clicked, it will launch a popup window you can move around to where you need it so you can both browse the web [...]

Need to jot something down real quick before you forget, and don’t want to be bothered launching another web site or program to do it?  The Really Simple Notepad bookmarklet is just what the forgetful web user needs.
Just drag and drop this link to your bookmarks toolbar:
Really Simple Notepad
Now when you need it, hit the bookmarklet link and up will come a popup window where you can type. The fun doesn’t stop there though. If you want to save [...]

Like the idea of the Google Notebook add-on but you don’t want to be bothered with installing yet another extension?  Google has released a useful bookmarklet for people using browsers who can’t take advantage of the browser extension.
The secret here is that this bookmarklet also works for handy dandy Firefox.
All you have to do is visit the Google Notebook Bookmarklet web site, and drag the “Note This” to your bookmark toolbar.  Your done!  Now clicking that link will bring up [...]

I love StumbleUpon as much as the next guy, but the toolbar they provide is quickly becoming cluttered with stuff I don’t really care about viewing. I can understand why they want to get more social and interactive – but the main attraction was to browse through web sites other had marked as interesting.
Since nobody has made a StumbleUpon “light” edition toolbar I was out to seek a way to do much of the functionality I like but maybe [...]

Do you often find yourself becoming frustrated at Web sites when they will not remember your passwords? The folks over at Cybernet News must feel that way as well. They have offered up a solution in the form of a bookmarklet. That is right, no extension needed for this fix.
[Tweak Firefox's Password Saver Without An Extension]