By adding custom options to Chrome or Firefox search engine lists, you are able to use the address bar of your browser to add events to your Google Calendar, or even quickly look up Google Map directions from your home.
This quick and easy hack turns your address bar into a simple command line.
How it Works
The gears that make this machine turn are the keyword search tools built into both Firefox and Chrome. These allow you to use short keywords to search tons of different web sites, all from the address bar of your browser. However, you don't have to use them simply for search engines—as long as you have the right URL, you can use the address bar to do just about anything.
It works like this: when you enter text on a web application, the result is often the web page sending that text along to a server as part of a URL. A Google search for lifehacker android results in a URL of http://www.google.com/search?q=lifehacker+android. By finding the right URLs—for Google Calendar events, Google Maps directions, Twitter statuses, and more—we can use keywords in the address bar to submit text to any of those web sites.
Our video demonstration (embedded above) shows how to set up the keyword bookmarks below in Firefox or Chrome. Again, these examples are just meant to get you started. Check out your favorite services, click around, and see if you can't shortcut your text entry by a few clicks.
For more information, please see the full article at lifehacker.
[via: lifehacker]
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