Shortwave – extensible quicksearch bookmarklet

Jim just asked me about what I used to do a quick Wikipedia search in Safari – I just hit a key combo and a text entry window pops up, where I entered “w trans lux” and got to the wikipedia page for the company behind the awesome Mighty Hercules cartoon.

I’m using Shortwave to search all kinds of crap – it’s like the Firefox search shortcut dealie, except that you don’t have to inflict Firefox on ...