Search Specific Mac Sites with Google

By Joydeep Roy Chowdhury in Anywhere  |  1 year ago  |  0 comments

Search Specific Mac Sites with Google

Besides helping Internet users to search for useful information online, Google also provides search for specific Mac sites to assist Mac users in gathering more Mac related information.

As far as I know, there are two ways to perform search on specific Mac sites.

Adding Prefix to Search Keyword

By prefixing 'Mac' to your keyword search, there is a high chance to get returned results related to Mac. For example, to search for useful Mac keyboard shortcuts, you can use this search keyword: 'Mac Keyboard Shortcut'.

Searching with Google for Mac

To narrow down your scope on Mac specific sites, you can always use Google for Mac. Inside this page, you will see the search button labeled as 'Search Mac Sites' instead of usual 'Google Search'.

However, I believe some of us may want to incorporate this Mac specific search with Safari search box. The rest of this article will explain this.

Incorporating with Safari Search Box

It's quite tedious to incorporate this Mac specific Google search to your Safari web browser, as you will need to install additional Safari plug-in called Inquisitor.

Here are the steps required.

Download and install Safari Plug-in: InquisitorOpen Safari Preferences Pane (Menu Bar: Safari > Preferences)Go to Inquisitor Preferences Pane (More Toolbox: Search)Add additional search engines by clicking on Edit Sites button (as shown in screenshot: the highlighted button)Insert following information to provide Google Specific Mac SearchSite Name: Google for MacURL:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%@&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dmac=Search+Mac+Sites&language-switcher=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fmac%2FShortcut: Shift-Return

Finally, after inserting search keyword and pressing shift-return, you will be redirected to results page of Mac specific site

Perhaps, you've another way to search for specific Mac sites, comment box is always there to let you throw your ideas inside.

25 Useful Shortcuts for Safari

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25 Useful Shortcuts for Safari

In most applications, there will be a bunch of shortcuts to help you boost your productivity. Especially in Mac, you will see more shortcuts than when you used Windows, it's just because Mac users are meant to be more productive and used less hand-mouse movement.

Some of the shortcuts, however, are not usually used, some are even not widely known. Today, I'd like to compile some of the useful shortcuts for Safari that you will probably use in the future, including the less-known but highly useful ones.

1 Command-Option-F Select Google Search Box
2 Option-Arrow Up/Down Scroll Up/Down with Larger Increment
3 Spacebar Scroll Down Screen
4 Shift-Spacebar Scroll Up Screen
5 Command-Click Open Link in New Tab
6 Command-Click Bookmarks Folder Open All Bookmarks in Tabs
7 Click-Hold on Back/Forward See List of Recent Pages by Name
8 Option-Click-Hold on Back/Forward See List of Recent Pages by Address
9 Command-Shift-D Bookmark Page to Bookmark Menu
10 Command-Option-B Open Bookmarks Library
11 Command-Shift-K Block Pop-Up Windows
12 Command-Comma Open Safari Preferences
13 Command-Option-E Empty Safari Cache
14 Command-L Jump to Address Bar
15 Command-Option-W Close Other Tabs
16 Command-Shift-I Mail Link to Current Page
17 Command-Shift-B Toggle Bookmarks Bar
18 Command-Slash Toggle Status Bar
19 Command-Shift-Backslash Toggle Toolbar
20 Command.+/Command.-/Command.0 Adjust Text Size
21 Command-Option-K Mark Page as SnapBack
22 Command-Option-P Navigate to Marked SnapBack
23 Command-Option-S SnapBack to Search Result
24 Command.Shift.] Select Next Tab
25 Command.Shift.[ Select Previous Tab

40 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for Finder

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40 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for Finder

1 Command-A Select All Items
2 Command-C Copy Selected Items
3 Command-D Duplicate Selected Items
4 Command-F Search with Spotlight
5 Command-G Find Next Matched Search
6 Command-H Hide Window
7 Command-I Open Get Info (Property) Pane
8 Command-J Show View Options
9 Command-K Connect to Server
10 Command-L Make Alias of Selected Items
11 Command-M Minimize Window
12 Command-N Open New Window
13 Command-O Open Selected Items
14 Command-T Copy Items to Sidebar
15 Command-V Paste Items
16 Command-W Close Finder Window
17 Command-Z Undo Action
18 Command-1 View as Icons
19 Command-2 View as Lists
20 Command-3 View as Columns
21 Command-4 View as Coverflow
22 Command-Shift-A Go to Application Folder
23 Command-Shift-B Open Bluetooth
24 Command-Shift-C Go to My Computer
25 Command-Shift-G Open Address Bar
26 Command-Shift-H Go to Home Folder
27 Command-Shift-I Connect to iDisk
28 Command-Shift-J Open Journler (If Any)
29 Command-Shift-K Go to Network Folder
30 Command-Shift-L Go to Safari
31 Command-Shift-N Create New Folder
32 Command-Shift-Q Log Out
33 Command-Shift-U Go to Utility Folder
34 Command-Shift-Y Attach to Stickies
35 Command-Option-D Hide the Dock
36 Command-Option-M Minimize All Windows
37 Command-Option-O Open File and Close Finder
38 Command-Option-T Hide Toolbar
39 Command-Option-W Close All Windows
40 Command-R Show Original (From Alias)