Google Suggest is a nifty feature of Google. It shows you a list of searches and the number of results before you actually search.
Firefox has accessed this list for a while now but only today did I notice that the results also include results from Google calculator, which as my main calculator I find very useful.
Hope you do to.
Update: so this is old news. But I’d missed it, hopefully you didn’t.
Here’s an experiment. Since Twitter acquired & integrated Summize ($15m Cash+Stock) they’ve had search. A better search then Twitter had previously. So, why not try it as your default search?
For Safari:
perl -pi -e 's/%@.google.com\/%@\?q=%@&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8/search.twitter.com\/search\?no=%@,%@&q=%@/g' /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari(this should all be on one line within Terminal)For Firefox:
Last year Josh and I played with QR codes. One of the prototypes we’d been sitting on has finally seen the light of day- a QR code for every photo on Flickr. It does require you use Firefox and have Greasemonkey enabled.
Check out Josh’s video demo. If you have Firefox & Greasemonkey install it now.
Over on Spread Firefox they’re trying to set a Guiness World Record for most software downloads in 24 hours. Over on Pistach.io we thought we’d support their efforts by giving a pro bono advert to their cause.
We don’t plan on this being a one-off, feel free to suggest other open source and/or charitable organization for us to consider.
Given the title I imagine Safari, Internet Explorer, and Firefox have just popped into your mind. Forget 90% of what you’re thinking and consider that more & more browsing is being done on other devices; iPhone; mobiles; Wii; PSP; etc.
How easy is it to install multiple browser and select them as the default browser on those device? For the most part, it isn’t. Wasn’t that the sort of anti-competitive behavior that landed Microsoft in it back in 2000?
Why won’t it happen, yet? When Apple created the iPhone and Safari for iPhone they didn’t knock any iPhone browser businesses’ market share down - there wasn’t any. And although if you dig into the depths of that, and analyze it more broadly, yes I’m sure they dented the market share of RIM, but to the general public these companies are creating new places to browse, on your: TV; gaming console; portable gaming console; virtual world.
When it’s understood by the lawyers that browsing is browsing is browsing, not browsing is a personal computer function. Who knows, maybe the law suits will appear? Maybe everyone learnt from last time?