Thursday, 18 August 2005

Search Simpy directly from Firefox

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If you are a Firefox/Mozilla user and want a quick way to search your Simpy bookmarks from the browser without having to explicitly visit www.simpy.com, here is what you can do.

  1. Search your Simpy links and bookmark (in your browser!) the resulting page.
  2. Open that bookmark's Properties dialog window in your browser. You should see a dialog similar to the following screenshot:
  3. Bookmark Properties Dialog

  4. Edit the Location field to make it look like the field in the above image.
  5. Edit the Keyword field to make it look like the field in the above image. I use "sy" keyword, but you can enter anything you like (e.g. "s" or "simpy" or ...)
  6. Save your bookmark changes and try it out! Use your Keyword shortcut and enter some search terms in your browser's Location field. In the screenshot below I entered "sy blogs", which will search my Simpy links for the term "blogs".
  7. Search Simpy - simple query

  8. Obviously, you can go all the way, and use more complex queries directly in your browser, as shown in the following screenshot.
  9. Search Simpy - complex query

Enjoy!

Posted by otis at 1:03 AM in Tips & Tricks
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