Adding A9 as the search provider for IE7

IE7 uses a cool open search provider method (called opensearch!) to add search engines in addition to the defaults (google, msn search and msdn). It was funny that this open search method  is actually from A9 and A9 itself wasn’t listed in IE’s search provider page. I know its darn simple to add, and as a matter of fact it was so simple that I have created one.

Click here and click on a9.html file to install A9 as search provider for IE7. I love A9 especially since its powered by windows live, the clean interface is also a plus. I know there are many other search aggregators but I feeling happy about A9.

Using Live.com as default search engine in Firefox

I have been using live.com for all my searches and it really looks good. More so, I wanted to test and see if I can use live.com as the default search engine for firefox (its quite easy to do in IE7). So here you go:

type about:config into the address bar
in the config screen , type "search" as the filter
look for browser.search.defaulturl and modify the value to
http://www.live.com/#q=
I’ll update later to see if I am completely google search free. Not that I dont like google, just a way to entertain myself.

CAT equivalent in MS-DOS

Today at work  there was a need to dump contents of multiple text files into one. I knew about the redirection operator ">" . I felt like a retard that I dint know how to print a text file to console. So here you go amigos,

the equivalent for CAT ( *nix ) in DOS  is TYPE.  So all we had to do was a

 

type *.* > all.txt

 

On “Myth of Keeping Up”

Just the other day I was mentioning– about staying ahead in the game or as renamed Art of Keeping Up, and now Jeff has a cool post about Myth of Keeping up. His pointer towards Kathy‘s post is exactly  what I have. Things that I need to follow from Kathy’s tips are

 

1. Cut redundancy
2. Unsubscribe from as many things as possible. So out you go
   • digg
   • Engadget
   • all the linked list sites (Jason Haley, Larkware)
3. Read newspaper from newspaper sites
4. Understand you possibly cant learn everything in the world. You dont need to be Scott Hanselman
5. Just in time learning is OK.
6. Read and learn something outside my field. I dont have any other skills, and you know what Napolean Dynamite had to say.. "Girls like men with great skills…" , so let me try to do something else other than just computers.

And oh yeah.. I probably will still be posting technically oriented stuff, although I will try to mix and match more with others in furture.