Today I decided to switch back to Safari on my laptop, at least for now. Random Flash ads make Firefox on my laptop almost unusable... all for advertisement. Given some of Safari's better features (backing up my passwords, syncing my bookmarks, native controls, slightly nicer look to pages, spell-checker, etc)... well, Firefox has been good to me, but I really don't like my browser becoming unusable because of Flash ads. It's possible my laptop just doesn't have enough power anymore... but 400Mhz should be good enough for browsering the stink'n interweb!

One feature I really liked from Mozilla/Firefox was the ability to make Keyword Bookmarks. The idea is that you could type a site identifier, then the thing to search for, into the browser, and it "run" the search through the associated url.

Example: I use Dictionary.com a lot. Several times a day, at least. Now, I don't want to visit the site everytime I look up a word - I just want it magically looked up for me. In Firefox I would type "dict useful", and it would do the search using dictionary.com's own query string, and return the resulting page

So, I looked in my copy of Mac OS X Panther Hacks, and sure enough there is a utility that provides this in Safari: SafariKeywords

SafariKeywords lets you type your keyword/search terms into the search bar, which makes more sense than having it in the Location bar (where Mozilla/Firefox puts it). I think it's pretty cool

(Why am I so blog-y when I'm recovering from illness??? The Last Time)

Hey, Google, now that you have webmail, why don't you do something like DotMac does and let us use those email addresses as (A)IM names?

Then you could have gmail let us know when our buddies are online (just like Mail.app does.)

Seems like you're building an empire... now time to build some highways...