RSS Feed ‘Quick and Dirty’

February 1, 2007 on 5:15 am

A friend once asked me what is RSS and what is it for. In sort, utilizing the RSS (web feed) you can easily and quickly got the latest update from any sites that you are subscribing in. For a blog, this means you will be notified if a new entry is made by the author. For news sites, the latest news will be automatically arrive to your RSS reader. For a forum, you can quickly find out that a new reply has been posted by someone. And so on, and so on.

The illustration below should give easy explanation on how to start using web feed. This illustration is based on the assumption that the browser used is Firefox ver. 2.0.1 (get your copy here if you have not had one) and the RSS Reader to be used is Google Reader.

Web Feed using Google Reader (1/4)
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[FF Extension] SearchWords

January 19, 2007 on 9:30 pm

SearchWords
by Ryan Flint

Assign keywords to your search engines for quick and easy access to all of your search engines without using the search bar and without having to switch from your current search engine.

To use, add keywords to your search engines via the search engine manager and then simply type ‘keyword searchterm’ into the address bar and search away!

Get it here

Nice, now then I can always do something like this: <Ctrl+T>, then “g zalfany” —narcist mode ON p — or “w google” and there I got my result.

Yeah yeah, I know that you can use <Ctrl+K> to reach the Search Engine Box, then <Alt+Down Arrow> to select the proper search engine if necessary. But with this, even the Search Engine Box can be hidden * you’ve already minimized the number of things in your toolbar, right? *

You can achieve someting like these also before (through Lifehacker) but using this add-on installation method is much much much easier ) .

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