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01.18.06
Browser Relief For Keyboard Fans
 By Shel
Holtz
I'm a keyboard guy. This probably is a combination of having learned to type in
junior high school (a revelation; I started typing everything, and this was back
in the days when your only choice was a manual typewriter) and having jumped into
computers when your only option was working with a command line.
Which was fine with me. I still relish the opportunities to invoke DOS or work
in UNIX so I can make things happen just by keying in a simple command. With the
exception of online forms, though, most of the work that goes into using a browser
involves pointing and clicking. Ah, to be able make things happen from a browser-based
command line.
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So I was thrilled to find YubNub, a browser-independent
tool for executing command-line prompts for the browser. The folks who developed
this little gem have created a batch of commands. For example "gim" is the prompt
to get images, so if you typed "gim meetings," you would get the results of a
Google image search with the keyword "meetings." No need to go over to Google
and select the image search. "WP" launches a Wikipedia search, "tec" brings up
Technorati, and "flk" goes to Flickr. (I ran "flk neville hobson") and got pictures
of my "For Immediate Release" co-host.)
Further, you can create your own commands to simplify whatever it is you frequently
do on the web.
The YubNub site includes instructions
for getting the tool to work in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, and
Camino.
Hat tip to mip's
scan.
About the Author:
Shel Holtz is principal of Holtz Communication
+ Technology which focuses on helping organizations apply online communication
capabilities to their strategic organizational communications.
As a professional communicator, Shel also writes the blog a
shel of my former self.
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