December 2005 Archives

I was using this trick for a while, and I wonder if people out there are using Firefox Quicksearch feature except for Google searches.

As a System/Network Administrator, I have quite a few handly utilities which I use in a daily basis. These utilities include (but not limited to) ping, traceroute, whois, nslookup and dig. My idea is to make use of these utilites on web, using Firefox Quicksearch and DNSStuff.com. So I can use these tools directly from my web browser's location bar.

As an example, to create a "ping" Quicksearch, go to dnsstuff.com, find the input-box for ping utility, right-click on it and select "Add a Keyword for this Search". Once the "Add Bookmark" shows up, enter "ping" as both Name and Keyword inputs. To test your new Quicksearch, enter "ping yahoo.com" in your location bar and THAT'S IT!

So do the same for other utilities you like, as I did for Traceroute, Whois, nslookup and many more utilities. My other favorite Quicksearchs include RIPE Whois search, RFC Search and OpenRBL Search.

There are unlimited possibilities using this feature. And this trick was from a Networker point of view. Now figure out what more you can do with Quicksearchs.

Yes, I was too serious about uniXified.net. You can see how frequently I am updating it. Currently it is mostly related to my FreeBSD porting activities. But I will add some Solaris related stuff as well.