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We've compiled a list of 6 free and paid alternatives to Shortwave. The primary competitors include Greasemonkey, Ubiquity. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Shortwave and Quix, YubNub, Site Connector. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.
We've compiled a list of 6 free and paid alternatives to Shortwave. The primary competitors include Greasemonkey, Ubiquity. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between Shortwave and Quix, YubNub, Site Connector. Also you can look at other similar options here: OS and Utilities.
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Customize the way a web page displays or behaves, by using small bits of JavaScript.
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A Mozilla Firefox extension, Ubiquity is a collection of quick and easy natural-language-derived...
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Shortwave is an extensible quick-search and shortcut bookmark.
Shortwave is an extensible quick-search and shortcut bookmark.
Web-Based
Shortwave is an extensible quick-search and shortcut bookmark.
Drag the Shortwave bookmark onto your browser bookmarks bar. Clicking the bookmark will result in a JavaScript prompt.
Shortwave responds to commands. A command consists of a predefined trigger plus optional search terms. To search Wikipedia for “bookmarklet” you would type w bookmarklet into the prompt and hit enter. You could also select the text before invoking Shortwave and just type w then hit enter. Some commands don’t require search terms. To see your current IP address you would type ip. To open the resulting page in a new window simply prefix your entire command with a space.
Shortwave includes a number of useful default commands but you can also add your own by pointing to a custom commands file. Comments in the default commands file explain how to create your own.
Shortwave is perfect for iPhone/iPod touch and anyone using multiple browsers/computers on a regular basis. Because no data is stored in the bookmark (other than the url of your custom commands file) every browser you use stays in sync automatically.
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