The new perl.apache.org is so beautiful, and nicely searchable. I went and added it to
my magic start page.
If you haven't seen my Magic Start Page, go check it out, but don't bookmark it. Steal it if you like, but don't go snarfing up my bandwidth, please.
You need mozilla :)
wickline on 2002-07-15T22:35:52
If you aren't already using it, Mozilla's custom keywords feature
is probably something you'd dig. It doesn't replace a start page,
because you never know when you'll want to get to your start page
from someone else's computer, but it will replace most of your
start page's common uses at your normal machine(s).
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html
with that feature, you could type the following queries in your
URL Bar once you'd set up your bookmarks properly:
google some bunch of search terms
amazon Wolfram new kind of science
yahoo "two kinds of camels"
bbc taxation without representation
cpan acme
cpanauth dconway
etc.
If you work with three websites on an ongoing basis, and know all the
URLs by heart, but hate typing them, you can use this feature to save
time there too. Imagine you have a.example.com b.foo.org and c.net to
maintain. Instead of http://_domainnamehere_/path/to/file.ext you can
just do
a path/to/file.ext
or b path/to/file.ext
or c path/to/file.ext
If you don't like typing google, and it's your most frequently-
used search engine, then use that for your "internet keywords"
search engine (the default when no custom keyword is found) and
you can just type
some bunch of search terms
to get a google search.
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/internet-keywords.html
Saves me precious seconds every day. It also makes me the fastest one
with the answer when some odd trivia question comes up at work.
-matt
