I have an old JavaScript bookmark tool I made five years ago– it allows me, from no matter where I am on the web, to either select some text in a page (or enter in a box) and run a search for it in my own blog. This came from realizing that the basic wordpress [...]
Posts Tagged ‘search’
Jul 15
Getting Around Google Search’s Theft of Copiable URLs
cc licensed flickr photo shared by lamont_cranston
One of my primary uses of Google Search is locating URLs for web pages I am creating, blog posts, etc. The way Google outputs search results in a PITA as the links to the results are obfuscated in redirects through google (things they do to harvest our actions).
In [...]
May 08
GSearch in GMail is GGreat
New in Google Labs is an add-on for having embedded web search in your email space- this means while composing a message, there is right in the mail interface a search form. The results appear in a GChat pop-up/overlay, and the results can be directly inserted into your message.
In this case, I am emailing [...]
Sep 04
Finding a .flac Tool, Ducks Optional
I always knew some day I’d have a reason to blog about something I could relate to the insurance duck (don’t seek an answer why).
In my travels last week, a friend I stayed with shared some (well a lot) of concert audio files, all in .flac format- which I had maybe heard of before, [...]
