Comments on: Google timesaver http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/google-timesaver/ Sports News - Tech Reviews - Entertainment - Life Tips for EveryJoe Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:02:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bob http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/google-timesaver/comment-page-1/#comment-310145 Bob Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:52:21 +0000 http://slackermanager.com/2006/11/google-timesaver.html#comment-310145 <p>If you use the Opera browser (www.opera.com), right clicking in any text area will pop up the default search feature or a dictionary (ask.com) as a selection.</p> <p>They also provide browser command line searches with the engine of choice (configurable). I enter "g search term" in and get Google. Enter "a search term" to get Answer.com, e for Ebay, I added m to get msn.com. Simply right click in any engines' search "box" and look for the "create search" selection and it creates one for you and you provide the character of choice.</p> <p>A blazingly fast and better browser and completely W3 compliant (sorry, no "active X" proprietary stuff. RSS standard, too!</p> If you use the Opera browser (www.opera.com), right clicking in any text area will pop up the default search feature or a dictionary (ask.com) as a selection.

They also provide browser command line searches with the engine of choice (configurable). I enter “g search term” in and get Google. Enter “a search term” to get Answer.com, e for Ebay, I added m to get msn.com. Simply right click in any engines’ search “box” and look for the “create search” selection and it creates one for you and you provide the character of choice.

A blazingly fast and better browser and completely W3 compliant (sorry, no “active X” proprietary stuff. RSS standard, too!

]]> By: Bren http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/google-timesaver/comment-page-1/#comment-310148 Bren Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:32:08 +0000 http://slackermanager.com/2006/11/google-timesaver.html#comment-310148 <p>Good tips, thanks, Chris!</p> <p>Evel: just put something like, "35 celcius to kelvin"</p> Good tips, thanks, Chris!

Evel: just put something like, “35 celcius to kelvin”

]]> By: Evel http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/google-timesaver/comment-page-1/#comment-310149 Evel Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:36:00 +0000 http://slackermanager.com/2006/11/google-timesaver.html#comment-310149 <p>That is so cool! You learn something new everyday.</p> <p>One question? How do you do the temperature conversion? I am having a brain cramp.</p> That is so cool! You learn something new everyday.

One question? How do you do the temperature conversion? I am having a brain cramp.

]]> By: Chris Cree http://www.everyjoe.com/articles/google-timesaver/comment-page-1/#comment-310153 Chris Cree Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:02:14 +0000 http://slackermanager.com/2006/11/google-timesaver.html#comment-310153 <p>You can also add a dictionary.com search engine to the FF 2.0 search bar and get definitions directly that way. The way FF 2.0 lets you add different search engines is great. For example it makes it easy to compare the same term in Google, Yahoo, and MSN all with one mouse click.</p> <p>Do you already know what your are looking for is in Wikipedia, or the Internet Movie Data Base? Just a click of the mouse and you can be searching there instead of getting noise from the whole web. Good stuff.</p> You can also add a dictionary.com search engine to the FF 2.0 search bar and get definitions directly that way. The way FF 2.0 lets you add different search engines is great. For example it makes it easy to compare the same term in Google, Yahoo, and MSN all with one mouse click.

Do you already know what your are looking for is in Wikipedia, or the Internet Movie Data Base? Just a click of the mouse and you can be searching there instead of getting noise from the whole web. Good stuff.

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