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Googleholic for July 4, 2008

by Christina Warren Jul 4th 2008


Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix for everything Google, the July 4th column! Happy 4th everyone!

In this edition:

  • Google C++ testing framework
  • Google Talk for iPhone
  • Google Maps voice search for BlackBerry Pearl
  • Use Spotlight to find online Google Docs
  • More ways to earn revenue from YouTube

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Tags: adsense, blackberry, c, google, google talk, googleholic, GoogleTalk, spotlight, youtube

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Filed under: Internet, Macintosh, Freeware

Inquisitor brings Spotlight to Safari

Macby Amber Rhea Nov 5th 2006

If you use Mac OS X, you're probably familiar with Spotlight, which searches your hard drive and displays results as you type. Well, why not bring that same capability to web searching? Inquisitor is a free OS X app that adds "search as you type" functionality to Safari. Install Inquisitor, restart Safari, and when you start typing in Safari's search bar, Inquisitor will display up to three links and several suggested keywords as you go.
Inquisitor

This, of course, works best if you have a fast computer and fast Internet connection. I found Inquisitor to be a bit slow on my 800mhz iBook G4 (hey, we can't all have the latest and greatest). And of course, it would be simply impractical for Inquisitor to search the entire web as you type; instead it pulls its results from Google, Amazon, Wikipedia, and several other sources.

If you don't have Safari, there's also a free web-based version, currently in beta. I actually found the web-based version to be faster than the Safari version.

Tags: browsers, Inquisitor, Mac, Mac OS X, MacOsX, OS X, OsX, Safari, search, search engine, SearchEngine, Spotlight

Filed under: Macintosh, Productivity, Web services, Open Source

Search your del.icio.us bookmarks with Spotlight on OS X

Macby Jordan Running Feb 27th 2006

Searching del.icio.us in Spotlight

Developer Ian Henderson has released a cool addon for Mac OS X that lets you search your del.icio.us bookmarks with Spotlight. It updates itself from your bookmarks every 30 minutes and imports URLs, titles, descriptions, and tags. It's open source, too.

[Via Digg]

Tags: addon, apple, del.icio.us, delicious, mac, osx, spotlight

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