GleeBox: advanced command line for your browser
Do It Yourself Productivity / / December 19, 2019
Forty-seven years ago by Douglas Engelbart in the walls of the Stanford Research Institute invented the computer mouse. At the beginning of the eighties computer mouse gets the mass acceptance and becomes an integral part of the life of any user. And indeed, how to get started and explore most of the programs? Of course, without reading the user's manual, and by computer at random in everything. It passes the first stage of the study of the interface, and you must move on. The second step is to know the hot keys and dive into the work with the development of automation techniques. And yet, even if you know all the shortcuts to your Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, you probably feel uncomfortable navigation without a mouse. How to quickly navigate to text input field? How to quickly open the RSS-blog GoogleReader, take a screenshot of the screen, send a link to a page on Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Vkontakte or in a moment to find the film's profile on IMDb? All this can be done with the help of extensions for Google Chrome - gleeBox (there is a plugin for Firefox, but the full functionality only on the Google browser users).
gleeBox is a pilot project for the transfer of the navigation functions with the mouse, the automation of a number of actions to simplify the user's life. That is, we do not focus on the mouse, and the individual elements of the web services interfaces, and translucent command line in your browser. By default line hotkeys G. We then define the task.
If you want to enter a search query on the website or fill out a form, then the search command molds text will be most welcome. Prescribes?? and then navigate to the molds highlighted in yellow. If several molds, then use the Tab key to select necessary.
It's no secret that the best way to read a large number of blogs in Google Reader. Meanwhile, to subscribe to a blog, you must first see the RSS icon (if any), click on it, choose from a Google Reader-reader and then subscribe. If we use gleeBox and team! Rss, then immediately move into Google Reader and open channel current blog or web service. Unless gleeBox find RSS-channel, as blunders sometimes happen.
An interesting and useful information on the network is always worthy of attention of an increasing number of readers. How to share the page with your friends from Facebook, Twitter, Vkontakte, make a bookmark to Delicious? No, the button social web services to use is not necessary to install unnecessary extensions and plugins for browsers also do not have today. In one fell swoop all of them will replace gleeBox. Entering commands! Share fb,! Share deli or! Share vk. Available and the team! Share m (sending the page address in the mail),! Share su (share with StumbleUpon),! Share buzz (transfer to the Google Buzz).
Found information about an interesting movie? We put this on the command line: imdb plus the name of the movie, and voila! Opens a page of search results in the largest database of movies.
If your computer is worth a good tool for creating screenshots, you can only envy. On my computer worth SnagIt, which is once again due to the slowness does not even want to run. Now, using the command! Snap (only in Google Chrome), you do the illustrations, which immediately opens in a new window. It remains only to keep the illustration.
In this article I only brought a number of commands used in gleeBox. You can also quickly open the Extensions page, your browser downloads (! Ext and! Down), use hundreds of commands and social service YubNub.org Quix.com. Of course, there are drawbacks gleeBox (RSS is not always, as you type in the string does not always find the text on the web page), but this is minor compared with the emerging amenities.
Extension for Google Chrome and plug-in for Mozilla Firefox