One feature i love about firefox to highlight here is keyword search feature build into Firefox 3.5 onwards

(NOTE: Screenshot below is nightly build bleeding edge firefox version. But dun worry it should look the same in previous version)

By default there is no keyword defined in each search engine in your search box. You can set by following the steps below

In my case, i’ve set

g for google.com,

a for answers.com,

w for wikipedia.org,

y for youtube.com,

b for bing.com

i for images.google.com

Now you can try to type in “w Metaphysics” and press enter will bring you to wikipedia article

“i red book” will bring you directly to images.google.com and search for the images of red book

go a head and give it a try.

in my case i can just key in “y funny thai ads” will give me search result directly inside youtube.

This tool is created using Python programming language and it’s called youtube-dl

To use it you must do the following

1. Then download and install Python (What is Python?). Direct link for Python Windows Installer for XP/Vista
2. Get it from http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/. Direct link to download youtube-dl here (Right click and save as)
3. Press Windows Key + R (Win+R) and key in cmd (Without quote) and then press enter
4. Type in  cd [Path to your downloaded youtube-dl.txt file] press enter  e.g. cd c:downloads
5. Then key in c:\Python26python.exe youtube-dl.txt [PASTE YOUTUBE VIDEO URL HERE]
   Press enter and it will starts to download shortly
   

from screenshot above you can find the *.flv file in c:downloads

you can then dowload http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ to play*.flv file

By default you press Alt+Space key to active the interface (Screenshot 1) and start typing you program that you need to launch. With this tool you do not to organize of look for programs in you Start -> All Programs menu anymore and you do not need to organize them at all.

The best part of this is that it’s a freeware and open source software. But if you like this tools you can make a donation or two here http://www.launchy.net/#donate to support the project and the people who created this tool.

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