Share your custom internet searches...
 

Anyone use the Edit Internet searches app to create their own customized searches?

Sharing a few of mine, the others aren't "family oriented" so I'll be keeping those to myself.

PS, be sure to use YouTorrent for legal torrents only. :D

YouTorrent: http://www.youtorrent.com/tag=%s
YouTube: http://youtube.com/results?search_query%s&search_type=

logos attached below

(youtube search is practically irrelevant with the progress made by MyTube. Comments, subscriptions, etc are about the only thing I got to the actually youtube site for now.)

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With Firefox you can just right-click in any searchform and save it as a bookmark ('add keyword for this search'). Then you copy the url from the bookmark for the tablet (or use it in the Firefox addressbar like 'imdb somesearchterm'). I am thinking of making a Microb scriptlet or add-on to search selected text in search engines, like the Smartearch Firefox plugin.

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Maybe a greasemonkey script would be faster to create. In fact, that's not a bad idea at all.

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Sorry for the dumb question, where can I find the Edit internet search app?

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Not a dumb question at all...

I should have called it isearch-edit.

Available here:

http://people.debian.org/~tschmidt/m.../isearch-edit/

Oh yeah, you'll need to add the tschimdt repository, which you can pick up here: http://www.gronmayer.com/it/index.ph...stem=maemo4%0A

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Dude, this app is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! I wonder if it would be possible to setup a repository/directory of sorts where users could upload searches and images and access right from the app? I'd be more than happy to put some together if I knew a way that would enter them in the app.

I'm thinking like how it is in Firefox where you can pick from a list and it adds them. I've been looking for this functionality ever since I got my N810!

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Hi, i am the author of isearch-edit, i never did an official announcement about this tool, which might be the reason why not very much people know it. I planned to release it officially as soon as i fixed some usability problems. ;-)

One feature which is on my personal list of possible features is pretty much like what you are looking for, i have the idea of a feature where users can share their searches just from inside the app, just by doing a few clicks. And of course the same in the opposite direction, so that users can import shared searches directly in the program.


Regards,
Thomas

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Great work, is all I have to say. As I offered before, if I can be of assistance by creating logos/finding search URLs, please let me know where to store them to, to help create the database. I couldn't program my way out of a wet paper bag, but this is finally something in the Tablet community I can actually help in. :)

EDIT: Also, I'd suggest adding iSearch-edit to the Maemo.org directory so others can find it! I searched but didn't come up with anything.

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Thank you very much, but i guess if the planned feature will work as i want it to work, it would not be required to add anything to a database manually, you would be able to upload everything directly from isearch-edit with just a few clicks. :)

Yes, this is what i meant with "no official release yet". ;-)
I am totally aware of this index, but i do not want to add it there until i fixed some bugs. :)


Regards,
Thomas

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Aha, good deal to both. :) Please be sure to update this thread when it's ready to rock and roll, this just added a whole new degree of functionality to my N810. :)

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As far as i can remember there is already a repository of search URLs for Mozilla Firefox.
You may evaluate add at least a function for importing searches from there.

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this is one of those apps that should have come with the tablet os in the first place. this appears to have some great potential. anxiously awaiting an official release.

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Here's another one:
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/O..._tabletsearch/
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...light=skweezer

Not by me.

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Hi,

There's a great German online dictionary called "dict.leo.org" supporting several languages (English, German, Spanish, Chinese and Italian).

It's very "lean" (meaning: not containig Flash crap, tons of grapics or commercials), finds out the language of the seach term automatically and also has a pda-optimized version, available at http://pda.leo.org

My custom search (German<->English) for isearch-edit looks like this:

http://pda.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=de&...=std&search=%s

With this link you get an ordered list of the search term (exact matches, examples, phrases etc.) with German as language for the Website output.

http://pda.leo.org/?lp=ende&lang=en&...=std&search=%s

uses English as language for the Website output.

I downloaded this little picture as icon for isearch-edit:
http://dict.leo.org/ende.gif

Have fun.

Franko30

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Does anyone know what URL I need to put into isearch-edit for InternetTabletTalk search? TIA

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I use this one. ITT Search

EDIT: I've attached the little image I use.

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Hello...I have this installed and have my icon for IMDB all done...but every time I try to insert the search URL:

www.imdb.com/find

(or anything else for that matter)

It won't save it and just reverts to the "example.org" entry.

Help appreciated!

PS:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/
I think this is the repository of search engines that was mentioned earlier.

Mrglass

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It does not accept the search url, because it does not contain %s, search-urls must contain something like x=%s, otherwise it would not be possible to convert it to the xml-format that is expected by the internet-search-applet. I guess i should modify isearch-edit to show a warning in case a wrong url was added.

You should use http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s;s=all for imdb.

Thank you very much for the hint, i look at it.


Regards,
Chelli

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There's been a few new versions, but no searches pre-loaded with this, including the icons. I don't mind spending an afternoon contributing images and urls to this database, but I'm hoping there's a way these can be included, and then users can just check the boxes of the ones they want to keep, with the existing option to add whatever.

I'd think some that should exist are:

IMDB
Amazon
ITT
Mininova
Ebay
YouTube
Dictionary.com

Any others? I'd hate to have to manually download the images for these searches *and* manually copy-paste the URLs into the app. Is there a way for me to email these to the developer (and anyone else could do the same) to be included in the app, with a little walkthrough upon first-run?

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Sorry, i did not yet have time to do a major feature update as promised, the inclusion of an easy import/export of searches is planned, but not yet started, the last changes were just usability improvements.

Yes, i can fully unterstand the problem, one thing why i would not add any images to the application is that i am not the copyright owner of these images, so some companies might not like a third person shipping files of their logos. One thing i would like to add to isearch-edit is the possibility to scale down big logos, so it would be possible to just save the normal logo from the homepage of YouTube for example and use it for the search with just a few additional clicks.


Regards,
Thomas

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I can't copy or paste using the N800's on screen keyboard. I can highlight the field but when I select the copy or paste action the highlight looses focus and vice versa.

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Aha, I didn't think about copyright issues, though I can't imagine they'd be too upset, given that your app is enabling easier use of their sites. Still, I can respect you wanting to respect them. I wonder if, similar to MyCroft, you could just use their Favicon somehow, with some whitespace on either side. Then leave the option for the user to change it to their own image, if desired?

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Yes, this is a known problem, i still have to figure out how to fix this issue, maybe i will add a new dialog where the values can be changed instead of the inline editing of the table.


Regards,
Thomas

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For a temporary workaround, Ctrl+v in an OSK like xvkbd works fine.

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i cant make my new search appear on the search bar... help!!!!

edit: nevermind, i did it. i just reboot, closed the search applet and open it again.

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Just closing and re-opening the search-applet is enough.

I know that this might not be really intuitive, but as far as i know, there is no other way. (I am not 100% sure and i can not validate it, because the search-applet is closed-source.)

I guess i should add some kind of online-help to the program which describes the procedure. :)

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Anyone have a backup of the isearch-edit? Reinstalling apps on my tablet and it seems to have dissapeared from the repo.

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It is currently only available in the extras-devel-repositories of Chinook and Diablo, i want to fix a few problems before i move it to the extras-repositories.


Regards,
Chelli

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I just had to re-find all my favourite searhces and images and thought i'd post here so i can find them later

ebay http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?satitle=%s
imdb http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%s;s=all
dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s
and my personal favourite google "I'm feeling lucky" http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&bt...+Feeling+Lucky



25 useful keywords

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I just put all the searches on one page so i don't have to open up different pages for different searches.

Here's what I use.

Google
Wikipedia
Ebay
Youtube

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">
<input type="text" name="q" size="30" maxlength="255" value="" />
<input type="submit" value="Google Search" />
</form>

<form action="http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php" method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="language" value="en" />
<input type="text" name="search" size="30" />
<input type="submit" name="Wikipedia Search" value="Wikipedia Search" />
</form>

<form method="get" action="http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll" name="headerSearch">
<input type="hidden" name="from" value="R40"><input type="hidden" name="_trksid" value="m37">
<input tabindex="1" type="text" name="satitle" id="satitle" value="" maxlength="300" size="30" class="srchfld">
<input type="submit" value="eBay Search" tabindex="3">
</form>

<form method="get" action="http://www.youtube.com/results">
<input type="text" name="search_query" maxlength="128" size="30">
<input type="submit" name="search" value="YouTube Search" class="submit-button">
</form>

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Some time ago, I've put up a number of search plugins for the Internet Search Applet. This might be helpful for some of you.
Also, don't forget tabletSearch for any tablet-relevant search.

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Here's a quick search add-on I created for the Amateur Radio community:

QRZ Callsign lookup:

and I scaled this icon down from the QRZ web page:

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Here's one I really like: Google Notebook (the mobile version)

http://www.google.com/notebook/m/search?q=%s

This searches your Google notebooks and displays the results in the mobile version of the page (no junk, just the notes, in a top-down list). If you've not started using Google Notebook - start, it's an awesome tool (unless you've not yet sold your soul to Google and are still concerned about all that privacy stuff). The mobile page really works well with the N810. A Notebook is a great way to move stuff back and forth between the N810 and a desktop system.

Oh, and I ripped and cropped the Google Notebook icon right off the Google page in the N810. I cropped it to just "Notebook" for the search icon. Too easy :)

David...

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Here's another iSearch target:

Google Maps, in basic HTML so the page actually loads before you have to be where you're searching for:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%s&f=q...nG=Search+Maps


This iSearch-edit thing is fun :) I never bothered with that search applet before.

David...

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Great ideas here :)