Author Archives: ayn

firefox tip

You probably know that Command-L or Control-L goes to the location bar and Command-K goes to the search box. But did you know that you can type in whatever in the location bar and it would perform a search on that stuff at Google, so there is absolutely no need to have Google set as default at the search box. So now I have Wikipedia there instead. Just thought I’d share this here, I’ve used FF for years and it never occurred to me that it was redundant to have Google as the default selection in the search box. Also, is there a shortcut to change the search engine in the search box without using the mouse? I would use the Yelp and UrbanDict searches more often if I didn’t have to change the engine with the pulldown menu and then change it back… anyone?

okay, Ray and I found the shortcuts to go through the list of search engines:

when Search Bar is focused (command-k): AltOpt+Up Arrow, AltOpt+Down Arrow

I also found that you can complete the .COM with command-return.

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fixed my feed redirect

My /feed/* links used to redirect to Feedburner when you’re not coming from Feedburner, I did that with .htaccess rewrites. But at some point I screwed up my .htaccess file and the feeds were not being redirected properly. I noticed a significant drop in subscriber count at Feedburner but I thought maybe people just unsubscribed. I fixed the redirect yesterday and the subscriber count went back to normal. Thanks for subscribing! If you’re reading the feed you will notice a bunch of new items from del.cio.us and Flickr, this is because I burn those at Feedburner so they will show up as unread or new posts. I don’t point my feeds directly to my Feedburner URL because I want to keep the option open if I switch to a different service in the future.

btw, I also turned off Facebook notes auto-import from Feedburner a while back and disabled the notes application.