I’ve been been using the web differently lately.
I discovered a nice application that allows me to wrap my web experience in a nice bundle.
It’s called Quix. And it allows me to use the web on steroids.
Quix is an extensible bookmarklet. It allows you to quickly access your favorite web sites – do an google search, look for a book on Amazon, bookmark a page on delicious… I don’t have to touch the mouse! It’s like a command line tool for the web.
But the real power comes from the extensibility. By default Amazon searches are done on Amazon.com. Since I live in Canada, I find it a bit annoying. So I start to write my own Quix file. You can find it on http://mathieuberube.net/quix/quix.txt.
So far I added these commands to my Quix file:
- Amazon.ca search (a pragmatic programmer) – I overwrote the default Amazon.com search for this one
- SAQ wine search (saq veuve clicquot)
- Javadoc search (java hashmap)
- rubydoc search (ruby array)
Quix has a page to configure custom bookmarklets. I then configured Chrome with the Shortcut Manager extension. Now I just press Ctrl-Q and I’m all set to enter any of the commands above.
Give it a try, you won’t regret it.
Quix in Chrome