Firefox Keyword Bookmarks

If you like having a number of bookmarks available to you, then how about using keyword bookmarks in Firefox?

Here’s how it looks:

With the use of favicons, its enough in most cases just to use just one letter, e.g. w for wikipedia. This gives you heaps more real estate to fit in your favourite bookmarks. Of course if you have conflicting bookmarks with the same first letter, add a second letter, e.g. fb = facebook, fl = flickr.

What’s more, you can specify keywords that correspond to each bookmark name, e.g. the letter w for wikipedia or the letters lh for the lifehacker site.You simply type the letter(s) in the address bar and you are automatically taken to your bookmark. You also don’t need to remember the shortcut letter(s) – just look at your bookmarks toolbar, find the favicon and pick out the right one. Too easy!

Here’s how to add keywords in Firefox (note the convention, name = keyword):

March 2, 2010 | In Productivity | 1 Comment

Deleting Stubborn “Stuff” in Microsoft Word

Love it or hate, if you work with computers you generally need to use Microsoft Word. One common problem is that it can be very hard to delete “stubborn” stuff from Microsoft Word, for example a table. If you can’t manage to delete something using the traditional way through menus, try highlighting the offending object (e.g all the cells in the table) and then pressing SHIFT + DELETE.

February 25, 2010 | In Software | No Comments

VMware shared folders can access mapped drives

Turns out that VMware shared folders in VMware workstation can access network shares (e.g. UNC paths) and network drives mapped on your host (main) computer. This can be really handy if you want to access a network share but can’t work out/be bothered setting it up in the VM (e.g for installing software). Simply add the folder and point to the appropriate network share.

It’s nice when something useful that should work, actually does work…

February 24, 2010 | In Software | No Comments

ActionMailer Timeouts

Using action mailer on my rails application, I was getting Timeout::Error messages in my phusion passenger logs when sending email through SMTP. However, testing the application locally on my PC, the emails were being sent without a problem. I came across this post in the Site5 forums which suggested changing the actual address in my SMTP configuration to localhost which fixed the issue.

February 5, 2010 | In Programming | No Comments

A Rails Searchable API

Available from RailsAPI.com, you can either browse it online or download it and open it locally in your web browser. Fantastic stuff.

February 4, 2010 | In Programming | No Comments
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