Seriously, I use these for everything. They're so useful.

Another handy tip is using Google for more than just googling the web. For example, if you regularly use a single website but it doesn't have its own search function (www.epguides.com is a good example of this) you can either use Google's site:sitename.com functionality to limit a search, or take it one step further if you trust "I'm Feeling Lucky". Here's one example I have:

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=site%3Aepguides.com+\{@}

This one does a google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search restricted to epguides.com. The end result is if you type in something like "ep: The Simpsons" you will get the episode guide for the Simpsons straight away. Awesome!

this work only in Konqueror?
i have firefox on my linux..

If you want to see a graphical version of all the shortcuts, click Settings -> Configure Konqueror and then scroll down to the Web shortcuts icon. There are dozens upon dozens, and you can add your own.

Huh that's sweet. I've been using the gg: for years.(ps ggi: is image search!) But I never really thought about making my own. After this I made lp: for linuxpackages.net searches. Now I can search for slackware packages without waiting for the site to load.

Because there are so many web shortcuts that are useful, I wrote a 'service menu' which adds to the context menu you get in Konqueror. It's actually a script which generates a service menu for all your web shortcuts, and the service menu itself runs the shortcut on the current contents of your clipboard, opening the result in new tab. Very useful for those shortcuts that you haven't memorised or even discovered yet!

Here is the URL
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=16746

Here's a lazy way of having a list of the available ACRONYMS...

ls -1 /usr/share/services/searchproviders/*.desktop|acro= $(zenity --title "ACROS list" --list --column "(ACROS) What_it_does" --width=350 --height=600)

If you don't have zenity, you could just use the first part before the pipe ('|') to see the list.
You could even add it to a button at your desktop.
If I weren't so lazy (busy) I would add a way of launching the chosen acronym with the searched text from the CLI.

have a look here: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html

try

#tail

or

#man

And of course, the Alt+F2 trick is simply too strong to beat. Combined with google, it's simply a wonder. E.g., for the imperial measuring units challenged:

Alt+F2 gg: 48 pounds in kilograms.

:-)

The feature described regarding typing gg: tux magazine in the location bar of Konqueror is a neat feature, but not so far removed from one that exists in Firefox.

Firefox 1.0 has an entry box where you can select your search engine from a drop down list or even add search engines. With your search engine selected, all you have to do is type your search terms and it will bring up the url list that satisfies your search terms.

For example, I have Google set as my search engine and if I type 'tux magazine into the text box, it loads Google and lists all the urls that reference Tux Magazine.

So this feature is just as neat as the feature in Konqueror.

a great feature that I use in konqueror is the fish:// shortcut.
It uses ssh/scp for drag 'n drop fun. I'm not sure if a special plugin is required or not. It just works on my Debian box.

Give it a shot, fish://username@hostname

On the Google search idea I have made my own shortcut to search Google Linux. I use http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=\{@}&btnG=Google+Search as the Search URI and for the shortcut I used ggli:. Another useful shortcut if you are a user of Debian and have apt-listbugs installed is dbug:bug_number to go directly to the page of the bug report(s) that get listed by the program when using apt-get.

I also like the "gg:" shortcut very much. And the "leo:" one to lookup up German <--> English translations. Or the "info:/" viewer (I *hated* the GNU info system and its 're-invented-the-wheel' text browser, but now I love to seek for man-page like pieces of info with Konqui's supreme 'info:/'mode...)

However my favourit feature of Konqui is its ability to define various "View Profiles". My standard one is which I named "Tabbed Daily Info". Its a button in kicker. If I click it once, Konqui starts up and loads 15 different tabs with all the sites I visit regularly: Linuxprinting.org News Forums, CUPS.org, samba-technical mailing archives, Linuxtoday, Freshmeat, Slashdot, dot.kde.org......

Hmmmm, I think I'll have to modify it by now with a 16th tab for "tuxmagazine".

Thanks for letting me discover this new website! I hope it develops as promising as it looks now.

Maybe Marcel would like one day to write a piece about how one can contribute content to it?

Thanks,
Kurt

FYI - there's no need to keep konqueror open just so that you can use shortcuts like this:

gg: Linux media players

Those shortcuts can also be used from the "Run command ..." dialog. And if you've configured your KDE file associations so that HTML pages will open with Firefox ("firefox %u"), then you can take konqueror out of this picture altogether.

I do this all the time. On my machine:

hit the keys Win-R ("Run command ..."), then "dict: superfluous", and - voila - it opens up a new tab in Firefox pointing to that word definition at the Merriam-Webster Dictionary site.

I never, ever start konqueror. Nor any other web browser application or file manager. I use KDE's minicli. alt-f2, gg:whatever, and I'm set. Same with url''s, same with my files -- alt-f2, ~/doc. My kids take it even further. They don't grasp the logout buttons on kicker, and, besides, have them customized away, so they type alt-f2, logout. A nine-year old friend of my girls has recently acquired an account on one of the six KDE machines about the house, and they're teaching her to do the same. Everything through the minicli.

"gg:" works so well - I use it all the time. I hardly use the new google search field. If I do then it is only for paste from the clipboard from some other app. And even then - because of habit - I often instead clear the Location field, type "gg:" and paste. It would be nice with a button to prefill the "gg:". For the rest of the time - when the term you want to search for is on the page - then there is yet another google search entrance - under the 3rd mouse button.

With Firefox (running 1.0 under FC3) you can CTRL-L to get to the address line, ESC to clear the address line, and "amazon blue screen death" to get the appropriate title at Amazon books. Other keywords that work well include imdb for the movie database, and ebay for searching for a particular ebay item.

What I think is cool about Konqueror is using fish://elaine@lanhost/home/elaine which allows me to use ssh to log into the other Linux boxes on our lan. It prompts me for my password, and then I have a transparent way of browsing the filesystem using Konqueror.

Using Konqueror to browse my web host files is also nice, though at little slow at times: ftp://www.....

In CVS-HEAD KDE as of today, there is also:
uspto: <patent number>

Also don't forget ggl: for "I'm Feeling Lucky" with google. It works impressively well.