I’ve been a regular reader of ProfHacker since its launch. The posts (tips and tutorials for higher ed), are helpful – and usually timely. Just as I’m thinking about or needing something, a post turns up providing useful tips, often with links to more info. However, the mass of bookmarks I’ve accumulated is losing its effectiveness because there are just too many. What I really needed was an easy way to search the site.
Enter OpenSearch.
I’ve taken my ProfHacker addiction as an opportunity to create a Firefox search plugin. Now when I need to find something on ProfHacker, I tool over to my browser search bar (using Ctrl+k / Cmd+k), choose ProfHacker from the list of available search engines, enter my query, and I’m off.
And because I like to share, you can click here to get the plugin that will search ProfHacker.
06 April 2010, 4:58 pm
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07 April 2010, 5:08 am
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