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DIY a Firefox Search Engine - Twitter People
I mentioned it already: I love Firefox’s feature of “Manage Search Engines” (Internet Explorer 7 has copied introduced a similar one as well). Simply love it, and the reason for it is that it saves me lots and lots of time.
One of the “custom” search engines I had installed was called Flickr Tags. Ironically, though, using it was always a burden. Most of the times I didn’t want to simply search Flickr; what I wanted instead was to search Flickr for Creative Commons images(ones I could put on my blog, for instance), sorted by interestingness (to keep the lame ones out). One way to do this would have been to simply search Mycroft Project for a better one. One other way, though, was to just create my own custom search engine, and this proved to be much simpler than expected (the proof is the little plugin over on mycroft.mozdev.org called Flickr Creative Commons Interesting).
For tutorial purposes, I’ll show you how to build, step by step, a Firefox Search Engine for Twitter contacts.
Forget the Apple Terminal, now you have Quicksilver
Remember I promised I’d show you how to do your basic computer stuff from within Quicksilver? Well, it took me a while but I finally pulled myself together and wrote this tutorial - a beginner’s guide on doing all kinds of nice and useful stuff with Quicksilver.
What is Quicksilver, you ask? I dare you ask this again after reading my articles on Application Launchers - the ultimate geek Power Tools
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