I have long been a fan of the Google toolbar for IE, which allows you to enter a search term right in the toolbar, without going to Google first.
Well now there’s Nutshell, which is the same idea, but you can choose to search in Google, IMDB, Amazon, Dictionary.com or Daypop. Cool.
(Bonus geek points if you know which current computer program, eclipsed by its Microsoft rival, was called “Nutshell” when it was first released in 1983.)
That’s pretty handy.
You’re my new hero.
Of course, now you’re making me think about the old database creation program Nutshell… which I actually still have and use on the 286 (whoa! 40 megs of space!) I have at my in-laws place…
Hey, that’s a cool widget. I’m going to give a few days, then, I suspect, shout it to the heavens.
opera has a built in thingie like this. my favorite part about opera’s version, though, is that you can highlight words, right click, and search several sites(amazon, google, some other stuff) without typing nary a word.
hooray for lazyness.
Fun. I downloaded it and have played around with it a bit. Thanks for pointing it out.
Ooh but what a way this is to make a debut on the site. I’ve read WMT intermittently for a while, though not long enough to become emotionally committed to it; but, it being 1:00 AM as it is, my brain is addled enough to think it is appropriate to respond on a software thread by commenting on grammar.
Hoorah indeed for lazyness, though I would spell it differently; but surely its avatar would like to do something by typing nary a word, rather than without typing nary a word. What I should do is type nary a word; what I am doing is going to sleep after having gone without typing nary a word.
Boy I’ll regret this in the morning, but at least having posted once I’ll have an excuse to do so again.
Apparently my e-mail doesn’t appear unless I give myself a name, so here I am, That Guy.