For example, right-click the field on dictionary.com and declare that "d foo" in the address bar will look up "foo" using that form from now on.
It's not quite as easy as right clicking the search box in Chrome, but you can still do it by right clicking the address bar and going to Edit search engines. You can manually add named searches there. After the first time you search on certain sites, it will automatically add them as named searches (I noticed this with Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia--you'll see them show up in the Edit search engines area).
Yes. I believe FSJ has pulled this very same trick before. His deadpan is improving, though. Perhaps he's been studying Andy Kaufman tapes.
The beauty of it is that Apple -- having just silenced a critic by executing a very real shady, secret backroom deal -- is in no position to claim that it doesn't pursue shady, secret backroom deals to silence its critics.
yes, they are too cheap, especially when they can find something else for free. People nowadays think that they're always entitled to digital things for free for some reason.
The tagging makes it the best. The whole low-resolution thing makes artistic photos not work out too well, but for pictures containing people, Facebook really is the best. Especially if you're in college, in which case nearly everyone has a fb account.
I'm glad to see this project working out. I saw Negroponte give a presentation about the OLPC at UCLA a year ago, and it was amazing how genuinely enthusiastic he was about it.
It's not quite as easy as right clicking the search box in Chrome, but you can still do it by right clicking the address bar and going to Edit search engines. You can manually add named searches there. After the first time you search on certain sites, it will automatically add them as named searches (I noticed this with Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia--you'll see them show up in the Edit search engines area).