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mapqs
NAME mapqs - search for location maps using the MapQuest.com service. SYNOPSIS mapqs [ COUNTRY ] [ -a ADDRESS ] [ -c CITY ] [ -s STATE ] [ -z ZIP/POSTAL CODE ] mapqs provides commandline access to the basic parameters used to search for a location using MapQuest.com whether foreign or domestic. These parameters are displayed clearly as part of the URL for this type of search. OPTIONS Note: The country only needs to be specified if you are searching for a map location that is abroad. To obtain a…
119 uses - Created 2007-03-11 06:08:54 - Last used 2016-02-15 15:14:10 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address{ifNotEmpty %s -then &country=%s -else }{ifNotEmpty ${a} -then &address=${a} -else }{ifNotEmpty ${c} -then &city=${c} -else }{ifNotEmpty ${s} -then &state=${s} -else }{ifNotEmpty ${z} -then &zipcode=${z} -else }

roots2
NAME roots2 - search genealogy of the RootsWeb.com database. SYNOPSIS roots2 [GIVEN NAME(S)] [SURNAME] roots2 simplifies the roots command by using only the name-based options. Without the specifying the parameters each name should follow the command in order (i.e. first middle last). EXAMPLES Example: roots2 Result: Opens the Global Search webpage for the RootsWeb.com. Example: roots2 Doe Result: Search the database for the surname Doe. Example: roots2 John Doe Result: Search the database for …
137 uses - Created 2007-03-11 04:03:39 - Last used 2010-07-04 18:19:20 - Nominate - Description - http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?surname={ifEmpty -value {% 2 %s} -then {% 1 %s} -else {ifEmpty -value {% 3 %s} -then {% 2 %s}&given={% 1 %s} -else {% 3 %s}&given={% 1 %s}+{% 2 %s}}}[no url encoding]

blackbox
Blackbox Google search. Black Box searches return proxied results, which (if you dont click on too much ad junk) will not create any tracking cookies on your machine, nor reveal your IP address when typing in the search.
43 uses - Created 2007-03-10 12:59:40 - Last used 2022-09-11 16:59:18 - Nominate - Description - http://blackboxsearch.com/cgi-bin/searchGoogle.cgi?q=%s

wdb
Use the Mercedes Benz VIN Decoding Service from MB Club Russia to get more information on a specific car. Type wdb following the vin: wdb WDB1260000A000000 Note: the above is not a working vin ;)
117 uses - Created 2007-03-10 12:34:15 - Last used 2009-12-04 19:59:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mbclub.ru/mb/vin/view.html?lng=eng&full=1&vin=%s

blinklist
blinklist <query> Search <query> in BlinkList social bookmarking.
22 uses - Created 2007-03-09 22:09:09 - Last used 2008-08-21 08:34:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.blinklist.com/search.php&q=%s

msconfig
WinXP version of msconfig
43 uses - Created 2007-03-09 20:00:03 - Last used 2017-03-13 00:46:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.perfectdrivers.com/local/msconfigxp/msconfig.exe

ipaddr
Shows your IP
28 uses - Created 2007-03-09 18:24:59 - Last used 2012-03-25 12:22:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ip-adress.com/

ktor
searches Torrents with ktorrent.com example: ktor knoppix
110 uses - Created 2007-03-09 16:43:16 - Last used 2011-11-27 21:11:41 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ktorrent.com/search.php?q=%s

rlm
http://railsmanual.org/ search
13 uses - Created 2007-03-09 15:09:58 - Last used 2017-11-12 12:08:45 - Nominate - Description - http://railsmanual.org/doc/search?name=%s

horde
Go to Gradwell's Horde email login page.
16 uses - Created 2007-03-09 12:42:51 - Last used 2025-05-09 03:13:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gradwell.net/horde

hypep
NAME hypep - Open audio stream from The Hype Machine SYNOPSIS hypep [SONG OR ARTIST] EXAMPLES hypep menomena <-- Searches The Hype Machine for the band "menomena" and streams the resulting m3u playlist (Winamp format). hypep menomena -f asx <-- Searches The Hype Machine for the band "menomena" and streams the resulting asx playlist (Windows Media Player format). hypep menomena -f smil <-- Searches The Hype Machine for the band "menomena" and streams the resulting smil playlist (RealPlayer forma…
116 uses - Created 2007-03-09 02:02:37 - Last used 2012-05-27 00:42:04 - Nominate - Description - http://hypem.com/playlist/search/%s/${f=m3u}/1/today.${f=m3u}

twitt
Update your Twitter status if you supply a parameter; otherwise, go to your Twitter homepage (twitter.com/home). Must be logged in to use. Example: twitt (goes to the homepage) twitt planning world domination (updates your status with "planning world domination") NOTE: will add a backslash in front of some characters (single quotes, backslashes, others)
218 uses - Created 2007-03-09 00:57:28 - Last used 2024-05-07 08:19:34 - Nominate - Description - http://twitter.com/{eop status/update?status=@{change %s -method urlenc -simple yes}@ -else home}[post]

clin

14 uses - Created 2007-03-08 18:12:34 - Last used 2012-08-23 00:46:52 - Nominate - Description - https://access.clinphone.com/Default/auth/login.aspx

mapy
search mapy.cz
220 uses - Created 2007-03-08 07:07:25 - Last used 2024-10-24 06:16:10 - Nominate - Description - http://mapy.seznam.cz/?query=%s

tyda
Translates eng-swe.
1338 uses - Created 2007-03-07 23:54:12 - Last used 2017-01-31 01:18:30 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tyda.se/index.php?lang=&w=%s

ningclone
NAME ningclone - Clones the given Ning app. SYNOPSIS ningclone [APP ID] EXAMPLES ningclone socialnetwork AUTHOR Jonathan Aquino
19 uses - Created 2007-03-07 18:09:44 - Last used 2008-04-01 23:01:01 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ning.com/?view=apps&appUrl=%s&op=clone

gbaidu
Searches baidu for whatever you searched for and then runs it through google translator.
12 uses - Created 2007-03-07 14:49:52 - Last used 2021-12-23 08:53:02 - Nominate - Description - https://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.baidu.com%2Fs%3Fwd%3D%s&langpair=zh|en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools

pickit2
Pickit-2 Datasheet
14 uses - Created 2007-03-07 00:07:43 - Last used 2012-01-08 20:44:22 - Nominate - Description - http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/41250E.pdf

wsc
Find the definition of a word using word.sc.
18 uses - Created 2007-03-06 21:47:40 - Last used 2013-12-03 23:18:43 - Nominate - Description - http://word.sc/%s

dsb
DSB danish railway travel fares at rejseplanen.dk Use -to and -from to indicate departure and arrival train stations. Example: dsb -from Høje Tåstrup -to Århus
29 uses - Created 2007-03-06 21:01:56 - Last used 2024-12-24 01:30:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.rejseplanen.dk/bin/query.exe/mn?queryPageDisplayed=yes&S=${from}+station&SBHF=2&Z=${to}+station&ZBHF=2&wai=no&start=Find+rejse&start=Find+rejse

krakfirma
KRAK company search. Commercial yellow pages of Denmark. Type some info on the company to lookup, like phone number, full (or partial) name or postal address.
11 uses - Created 2007-03-06 19:55:19 - Last used 2009-07-31 09:03:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.krak.dk/Firma/Resultat.aspx?Query=%s

krakperson
KRAK person search. Commercial white pages of Denmark. Type some info on the person to lookup, like phone number, full (or partial) name or postal address.
47 uses - Created 2007-03-06 19:52:12 - Last used 2009-07-31 09:02:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.krak.dk/Person/Resultat.aspx?Who=%s&WhoOnlySearch=false&Sort=Name

tvfriends
friends section of alluc
13 uses - Created 2007-03-06 15:42:47 - Last used 2010-02-06 08:15:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.alluc.org/alluc/tv-shows.html?action=getviewcategory&category_uid=569

postcode
Searches the postalcodes in the Netherlands when the city and street are given. Example: postcode kalverstraat,amsterdam
170 uses - Created 2007-03-06 15:18:14 - Last used 2025-02-27 02:02:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.postcode.nl/index.php?action=search&goto=postcoderesult&TreeID=1&x=0&y=0&address=%s

navenet
Search a product on navenet (a site from Paraguay), the site is in brazillian portuguese. Procura muambas no paragua :D na navenet
17 uses - Created 2007-03-06 13:38:44 - Last used 2008-01-21 13:39:18 - Nominate - Description - http://rsofthost.com.br/rw/sistema/index.php?palavra=%s&class_merc_cd=0&Submit=buscar&mpath=resultados&plv=1&tit=Resultados+da+Busca&r5505pw3b7379c6900a6281d476e3a631bec1c4e1=eccbc87e4b5ce2fe28308fd9f2a7baf3&PHPSESSID=2edi8eeui6jm6lkpeb7fmnf6i6

bongaa
Adds new page to Bongaa.info.
17 uses - Created 2007-03-06 11:55:27 - Last used 2007-04-17 19:46:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bongaa.info/submit.php?url=%s

Basketball
Basketball News - Famous Basketball players & League Information- NBA Basketball Team Logos
42 uses - Created 2007-03-06 06:43:16 - Last used 2023-11-20 21:59:46 - Nominate - Description - http://www.1888basketball.com/

directory
Free human edited web directory of quality, seo-friendly, and spam-free sites, organized by category. Reciprocal links are offered.
130 uses - Created 2007-03-06 06:14:40 - Last used 2023-10-26 14:07:59 - Nominate - Description - http://www.huntbegins.com/

robots
Find out what search engine spiders and how they crawl the Web sites.
19 uses - Created 2007-03-06 06:11:15 - Last used 2018-09-12 10:43:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.huntbegins.com/search-engine-robots.html

tutorial
This tutorial explains how to optimize a website to get the best ranks in search engines.
78 uses - Created 2007-03-06 06:01:57 - Last used 2023-06-22 10:46:54 - Nominate - Description - http://www.huntbegins.com/seo-tutorial.html

pearls
Goes to <i>Pearls Before Swine</i> (a comic strip by Stephen Pastis)
559 uses - Created 2007-03-06 05:58:19 - Last used 2017-12-16 16:53:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.comics.com/comics/pearls

xkcd
A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
7183 uses - Created 2007-03-06 05:43:53 - Last used 2025-08-18 17:45:42 - Nominate - Description - http://www.xkcd.com

sstock
Sina finance for Chinese stock
284 uses - Created 2007-03-06 03:30:12 - Last used 2007-10-08 01:51:55 - Nominate - Description - http://finance.sina.com.cn/realstock/company/%s/nc.shtml

sinfesty
Shows the Sinfest comic for yesterday. Made by XmasBug.
3508 uses - Created 2007-03-06 00:26:04 - Last used 2017-05-03 12:14:58 - Nominate - Description - sinview {date -format Y-m-d -offset -1}

serials

39 uses - Created 2007-03-05 21:17:13 - Last used 2017-11-17 10:21:55 - Nominate - Description - http://www.theserials.com/

countdown
Launches the WDW Magic Countdown page for the given username. For more information about the WDW Magic Countown, check out http://www.wdwmagic.com/tripcountdown.htm
121 uses - Created 2007-03-05 20:31:43 - Last used 2024-09-18 14:18:58 - Nominate - Description - http://countdown.wdwmagic.com/tripcountdown_2.aspx?mode=search&find=%s

qwiki
NAME qwiki - Briefly open a Wikipedia page then return to your previous window. SYNOPSIS qwiki [KEYWORD] -t [OPTIONAL TIME IN SECONDS] EXAMPLES qwiki chicago qwiki indie rock -t 20 This is a combination of the "wikigo" and "kwik" commands. It opens the first Wikipedia page found by searching on your keyword. It remains open for 30 seconds, then closes the new page and returns you to your original page. To change the amount of seconds the Wikipedia page remains open, use the "-t" argument. NOTES…
77 uses - Created 2007-03-05 19:24:57 - Last used 2021-03-01 17:15:40 - Nominate - Description - echo <script> def=window.open('http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search='+encodeURIComponent('%s').replace(/\%20/g,'+')+'&go=Go'); setTimeout("def.close();history.go(-1);",${t=30}000);</script>

lasta
Search lastfm.it for artists
113 uses - Created 2007-03-05 19:04:44 - Last used 2017-12-16 03:13:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.lastfm.it/explore/search/?m=artists&q=%s&x=0&y=0

dww
Distrowatch Weekly direct link!
393 uses - Created 2007-03-05 13:09:15 - Last used 2019-12-17 12:42:19 - Nominate - Description - http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php

furl
Search furl.net
178 uses - Created 2007-03-05 12:54:27 - Last used 2011-05-25 18:51:27 - Nominate - Description - http://www.furl.net/search?keyword=%s

slovnik
Translate from English to Czech using slovnik.cz
238 uses - Created 2007-03-05 12:07:45 - Last used 2022-06-24 04:27:55 - Nominate - Description - http://slovnik.cz/bin/mld.fpl?dictdir=encz.en&lines=20&hptxt=0&js=1&lang=0&vcb=%s

sinfest
Shows the Sinfest comic for today. Made by XmasBug.
4104 uses - Created 2007-03-05 11:21:40 - Last used 2017-05-03 12:14:58 - Nominate - Description - sinview {date -format Y-m-d -offset -0}

sinview
Shows the sinfest comic for a certain day. Enter the day in yyyy-mm-dd format. Made by XmasBug.
8616 uses - Created 2007-03-05 11:18:09 - Last used 2017-05-03 12:14:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.sinfest.net/comikaze/comics/%s.gif

komiks
Search komiks.cz - a czech page about comics.
18 uses - Created 2007-03-05 09:20:29 - Last used 2022-03-02 09:58:32 - Nominate - Description - http://komiks.cz/detail.php?action=search&who=titul&fulltext2=%s

rhapartist
Search for an artist's page on Rhapsody. If you're lucky it will come right up.
14 uses - Created 2007-03-05 04:26:20 - Last used 2009-12-14 00:04:39 - Nominate - Description - http://www.rhapsody.com/-search?query=%s&searchtype=RhapArtist

isn

22 uses - Created 2007-03-04 22:36:15 - Last used 2025-05-27 02:56:47 - Nominate - Description - http://images.snap.com/search.php?query=%s

tasklist
searches program names that can show up in your windows tasklist
71 uses - Created 2007-03-04 21:00:24 - Last used 2021-12-25 02:59:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tasklist.org/search.php?q=%s

wettertemp
Shows the current temperature in Germany. The requested hour must be added as a parameter. e.g. wettertemp 18 for the temperature at 18 o'clock (6pm) The website www.wetteronline.de is used for this service.
15 uses - Created 2007-03-04 18:17:34 - Last used 2011-05-22 08:37:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wetteronline.de/cgi-bin/cgiaktgraph?ART=kartealle&LANG=de&JJ={date -format Y}&MM={date -format m}&TT={date -format d}&TIME=%s00&TYP=temperatursyn&KEY=DL

googlecode
Searches Google Code Search. Syntax: regexp - Search for a regular expression "exact string" - Search for exact string file:regexp - Search only in files or directories matching regexp package:regexp - Search packages with names matching regexp. lang:regexp - Search only for programs written in languages matching regexp license:regexp - Search only for files with licenses matching regexp. See http://www.google.com/codesearch for more details.
76 uses - Created 2007-03-04 12:50:29 - Last used 2014-03-03 01:00:44 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%s&hl=en&btnG=Search+Code

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