Here’s a really neat trick that saves me a lot of time. It’s nothing new, but I don’t think it’s widely-known.<\/p>\n
Let’s say that you have a tool you often use that just changes the URL. For example, using Trac for storing bugs. I might want to look up Trac #1234, and the URL is something like \/ticket\/view\/1234. Rather than searching through the system, I can just hack the URL to change the number. But that’s a pain.<\/p>\n
So you can set up a keyword. Instead of typing http:\/\/trac.lan\/tickets\/view\/1234<\/a>, I can just type “trac 1234” and it’ll construct the URL. That’s the magic of Firefox bookmarks. Simply bookmark a link, change the variable portion of the bookmarked to “%s”, and define a unique “keyword” field. Then visit them by typing in “keyword variable” in the location bar; if “trac” was your keyword, you’d type in “trac 1234” and hit enter. Viola! Set them for Trac, SANS port lookup<\/a>, dictionaries<\/a>, or all sorts of secret internal tools you might have. This obviously won’t work for things that don’t have hackable URLs, but an awful lot do.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a really neat trick that saves me a lot of time. It’s nothing new, but I don’t think it’s widely-known. Let’s say that you have a tool you often use that just changes the URL. For example, using Trac … Continue reading