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Browser Tip of the Day: BetterSearch
by Jordan Running Jul 5th 2005 at 11:08PM
I couldn't come up with a better title for this one because it describes itself pretty well. BetterSearch is an extension for Firefox that adds features to search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, etc.) and others (del.icio.us, Simpy) alongside each link. For each result it can show a thumbnail screenshot, a Page Info (Alexa) link, a link to the page on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, and, for links to Amazon product pages, a snapshot of the product, current price, and customer rating. Not all of the features are for everybody -- the thumbnails, for example, are sometimes just in the way -- but overall BetterSearch is an impressive little hack that will make your co-workers ask, "Why doesn't my Google look like that?"
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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R-Bro said 10:18AM on 7-06-2005
Sweet plug-in! What the author fails to mention on his site (maybe he assumes it's obvious) is that you have to shut down and restart Firefox after installing the plug-in.
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Adora said 12:10PM on 7-06-2005
You have to do that with all firefox extensions. So yes, it is a little obvious. =]
:: Lisa
:: adora [at] techslut [.] net
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