tail -f findings.out

This tweak is a little more involved than most I put up, but it is totally worth it. When done, you can fire off any custom web search from Launchy!

Here are the steps (I assume you have Launchy installed and know what a keyword bookmark is):

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First, I just want to say, that keyword bookmarks are definitely the coolest thing since sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. If you have never used one, get ready!

Go into Organize Bookmarks, create a new one (can be hidden in a new folder, you don’t need to view and click on these, as you will see). Try out the following:

Now, you can open a tab and type “wiki all your base” to get that informative Wikipedia article. The general principle: You have some site with things you regularly want, and then are available via sensible URLs. You can copy a representative one and change your search term to “%s” which will insert in that variable whatever you type after the keyword! I like to add these for Amazon, Wikipedia, YouTube, and more. It’s quicker and easier than using the specific engine in your Google Searchbar. And you can add these for all sorts of things that don’t have engines for the Searchbar, and even add things that don’t even have searches on their sites!

Here are others I like:

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