Yojimbo’s new boomarklets for archiving and bookmarking web pages are great. But you will have noticed that they don’t flag new items for your attention. A solution is not far away.

As Jim heIpfully pointed out in the comments to an earlier post on Yojimbo 1.2, you can add flags to new items by gently hacking the code of the javascript.

All you need to do is add &flagged=YES to the script’s parameter list:

1. Open the bookmarks manager in your browser.
2. Find the bookmarklets that came with Yojimbo 1.2, probably in your bookmarks bar or toolbar folder.
3. In Safari, click once on the address field to select it and carefully type in the extra code.

I’ve highlighted in the following screenshots what works for me, (i) for the archive script:

And (ii) for the bookmark script:

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Tapdex is a preference pane that enables you to access your Address Book contacts with a user-defined hot key.

A new version (3.0) is now a universal binary and supports the F13-16 function keys.

It’s very easy and quick to use. Hit your hot key and Tapdex’s search window pops up. Type in the name and the search results narrow in real time until you are presented with the contact you are looking for:

Does this screen remind you of anything? That was my first thought too — BuddyPop.

Tapdex is a kind of “Lite” implementation of BuddyPop. It does not have the rich feature list of BuddyPop (support for Skype, X-Lite and Vonage, Bluetooth SMS, etc) but it is free.

With Tapdex you can launch an email in Mail.app by clicking on the contact’s email address, get a phone number in large type or map an address, which might be all you want to do.

Tapdex is freeware (although there is a USD 7 “Pro” version that removes a small advertisement) and is available from the developer’s web site .address book, hotkey, quick access, contacts, buddypop, universal binary, productivity

BuddyPop, a hotkey-activated pop-up search utility for Address Book has been updated.

The new version resolves potential conflicts with Address Book plugins by disabling them when BuddyPop is launched.

It also features some interface improvements and will work with the new iMac’s Intel-based USB modem.

BuddyPop is shareware (10 ?¢‚Äö¬¨, USD 12) and is available from the the developer’s web site .hotkey, search, pop-up, iMac, modem, BuddyPop