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TUAW Tip: easy TUAW login bookmarklet

by Mat Lu Sep 10th 2007 at 4:30PM

A lot of folks write in complaining about the login system for commenting here on TUAW. While we completely sympathize (all the TUAW contributors have to login the same way to leave comments) in this day and age of comment spam it's an unfortunate necessity. That said, computers are supposed to make things easier, right? Well in a comment to a recent post Kalessin pointed us to a super handy bookmarklet from Alex Coles that will automatically fill in your TUAW credentials for posting comments. Of course you'll have to edit the bookmarklet with your own email and password, but I've tested it and it works great in Safari and Camino. So if your browser just won't save your personal info for whatever reason, just stick this bookmarklet in your bookmarks bar, edit the credentials, and your TUAW login is always only a click away. Obviously, the same idea can be extended to other sites, as well.

Thanks Alex for this great timesaver!

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Djuan

For some odd reason, my profile says "No Profile Found". :(

November 02 2007 at 12:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
The Plaid Cow

The last comment that I had posted was back in February! This is way too difficult to change your password.

September 27 2007 at 6:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HandyMac

@ Macroy, kj: Thanks for the tip. I found an old comment (not easy to do, as there seems to be no way to look for a user other than to click on his name under a comment -- fortunately I'd kept a file of a long comment I made, with the url to where it was posted), clicked on my name, then clicked the "Are you HandyMac? If So, Login Here." link. And nothing happened. Some kind of JavaScript trick that doesn't work with Safari? So I switched to Camino and tried it, and a password blank appeared, I entered the old password, logged in and changed it to a new one I can remember.

So it worked, outside of this being yet another Mac-focused site that doesn't work properly with Safari. Thanks much.

September 12 2007 at 10:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James C.

@ 19 Eric F.
Thanks, it's working now.

September 11 2007 at 5:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
zsteiner

Does any one have an idea about general principals for applying this to other web pages? This would be useful for a variety of different pages.

September 11 2007 at 2:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
scott

This also works at Engadget!

September 11 2007 at 10:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
scott

Nifty keen!

September 11 2007 at 10:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kalessin

You can just drag the link from the page to the Bookmarks Bar, then right-click on it to edit in your details.

September 11 2007 at 9:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eric f

works!!

@18/JAmes bookmark any page, go to edit that bookmark, rename it TUAW or something, and paste that javascript link provided as the address.

then edit the javascript link by replacing the "your email/password" with your personal info.

September 11 2007 at 9:41 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
James C.

Beacause I'm a geek, but still an idiot, I could not figure out how to get the b'm'let to work, so I will do as I have always done. I have a sticky in dashboard that holds the tuaw password and i just copy and paste.

September 11 2007 at 8:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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