A cool new feature of Firefox 3 is the ability to add a keyword (or “keyletter”) to a search engine.

To add a keyword to a search engine, click the search engine icon to pull the up the drop-down menu and then click Manage Search Engines... . Select the search engine that you want to add a keyword to and click Edit Keyword and then assign a keyword. I personally like to use a ‘keyletter.’

For example, I have the letter G assigned to Google.

What this assigning of ‘keyletters’ allows you to do is to type the letter g into the address bar and then type what you want to search for.

For example, typing in: g justin allard will be like going to Google.com and searching for justin allard.

This trick can be particularly handy for when you don’t want to change the search engine in the drop-down menu just for one search.

I'm not normally one to embed random videos into my blog, but this one is different than any other video. It is awesome. Yes, awesome. And it looks like it took a lot of time to create, thus the reasons there is a YouTube video embedded in my blog.



Song is Again & Again by The Bird and Bee. Video created by Dennis Liu

LogicielMac Update is useful app that checks for updates for all of your non-Apple applications. It will automatically check for updates at a set interval anywhere from every hour to every month. The applications with updates will be downloaded and automatically installed.

One of my favorite features is that LogicielMac Update doesn't mind the organization of my Applications folder. It happily replaces the apps in the folder they were in and checks the sub-folders of my Applications folder.

Another cool feature of LogicielMac Update is that it will let you interact with DMG licenses and the finish installing the application. And, if there is an application that you don't want to have updated, just add it to the blacklist and LogicielMac Update won't check for updates.

Overall, LogicielMac Update is a great little application to help keep your applications up to date.