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Command List (ls)

Tip: For a list of particularly interesting Yubnub commands, check out Yubnub Golden Eggs. Also see the Most-Used Commands.
Tip: You can search the descriptions by typing "ls [word or phrase]". For example, to search for all commands about music, type "ls music".

clphx
craigslist for sale/wanted search in the phoenix area To search for hedge trimmers for sale in the phoenix area. Example: clphx hedge trimmer
93 uses - Created 2005-12-07 18:21:59 - Last used 2011-05-23 07:23:37 - Nominate - Description - http://phoenix.craigslist.org/cgi-bin/search?areaID=18&query=%s&catAbbreviation=sss

searchsegel

64 uses - Created 2005-12-07 16:44:51 - Last used 2011-12-06 12:21:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tau.ac.il/dirsearch-heb.html

nova
Launch Radio Nova Stream in a new browser window.Streams it with Windows Media Player but you can change the player in the window launched
110 uses - Created 2005-12-06 23:08:00 - Last used 2024-02-27 22:41:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.novaplanet.com/radio-nova/player/radionovalive.php?bw=hd&p=wmp

mother
MotherNature.com Search MotherNature.com has a list of maladies and natural remedies available. To look up something, just type what you're looking for. Example: mother asthma
296 uses - Created 2005-12-06 20:26:11 - Last used 2025-12-05 14:44:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mothernature.com/search/index.cfm?query=%s&Type=Library

gmit
Google search mit.edu
592 uses - Created 2005-12-06 18:45:50 - Last used 2025-04-14 08:43:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amit.edu+%s

gut
Search Project Gutenberg, first and largest single collection of free electronic books. This command uses Google to search. usage: gut [search term] example: gut "art of war" b.a.
660 uses - Created 2005-12-06 03:24:24 - Last used 2026-01-08 17:16:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Agutenberg.org+%s&btnG=Search

cthd
Blog:Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon-ÎÔ»¢²ØÁú
28 uses - Created 2005-12-05 23:28:15 - Last used 2023-01-05 05:33:27 - Nominate - Description - http://syber.wordpress.com

spe

169 uses - Created 2005-12-05 22:19:51 - Last used 2022-04-24 13:08:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.spellcheck.net/

jci
Journal Citation Index
12 uses - Created 2005-12-05 21:33:30 - Last used 2011-03-22 11:13:43 - Nominate - Description - http://portal.isiknowledge.com/portal.cgi/portal.cgi/jcr?Init=Yes&SID=W15bD6J5gBl1gD6Anbo

tau

119 uses - Created 2005-12-05 20:00:09 - Last used 2015-10-10 17:15:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tau.ac.il/

goobooks
Google Books Search Example: goobooks martian timeslip
1103 uses - Created 2005-12-04 18:36:40 - Last used 2013-05-22 20:17:54 - Nominate - Description - http://books.google.com/books?q=%s&btnG=Search+Books&hl=en

syber

213 uses - Created 2005-12-04 15:38:00 - Last used 2026-04-01 20:37:34 - Nominate - Description - http://syberw.blogspot.com

cn
Chinese main website in Chinese.
283 uses - Created 2005-12-04 15:31:27 - Last used 2026-03-31 18:47:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.china.com

conversion
converts anything (e.g., size, temparature) to anything
106 uses - Created 2005-12-04 14:31:36 - Last used 2021-03-06 14:57:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.onlineconversion.com/

psychonomics

42 uses - Created 2005-12-04 14:04:38 - Last used 2020-02-16 04:59:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.psychonomic.org/

searchpsy
library search links for psychology
36 uses - Created 2005-12-04 14:00:15 - Last used 2019-08-10 01:13:12 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tau.ac.il/soclib/eng/eResources/databases/psychology.shtml

gcc
Google Creative Commons Search.
671 uses - Created 2005-12-04 03:22:31 - Last used 2026-02-25 13:18:06 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&as_rights=(cc_publicdomain%7Ccc_attribute%7Ccc_sharealike%7Ccc_noncommercial%7Ccc_nonderived)&start=10&sa=N

playcom
Searches http://www.play.com/
112 uses - Created 2005-12-03 23:41:35 - Last used 2012-12-16 20:59:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=search&searchtype=allproducts&searchstring=%s&page=search&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

cdwow
Searches http://www.cdwow.com/
21 uses - Created 2005-12-03 23:38:12 - Last used 2010-11-21 13:42:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.cd-wow.com/searchresults.php?searchfield=%s

ypod
Searches yahoo podcast: ex. ypod wikipedia
35 uses - Created 2005-12-03 08:03:04 - Last used 2008-04-26 10:05:37 - Nominate - Description - http://podcasts.yahoo.com/search?p=%s&c=b&find=Search

clA

32 uses - Created 2005-12-03 04:02:28 - Last used 2024-01-22 05:48:20 - Nominate - Description - http://albany.craigslist.org/

cutiepie
hey what up
18 uses - Created 2005-12-03 00:16:14 - Last used 2006-02-26 05:17:56 - Nominate - Description - http://xanga.com/kalliwalley

wetsandsocal
This command takes you to the wetsand.com southern california surf report
332 uses - Created 2005-12-02 15:48:32 - Last used 2009-05-09 03:50:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wetsand.com/swellwatch/report.asp?locationid=2&tabid=1441&subtabid=0&catid=295&subcatid=295&SPLTabID=350

gar
Google Argentina
30501 uses - Created 2005-12-01 19:49:14 - Last used 2026-03-12 07:53:49 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com.ar/search?hl=es&q=%s

artifact
Search www.artifact.ac.uk - a guide to the best of the web for the arts and creative industries. Created for UK higher and further education users, but freely available to all.
18 uses - Created 2005-12-01 14:21:52 - Last used 2020-03-08 10:38:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.artifact.ac.uk/search.php?q=%s

tao
Shortcut to the Western Reform Taoism web site.
85 uses - Created 2005-12-01 02:20:11 - Last used 2019-01-24 17:43:29 - Nominate - Description - http://westernreformtaoism.org/home.php

time\phil

18 uses - Created 2005-12-01 01:20:51 - Last used 2006-01-06 04:17:24 - Nominate - Description - http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_PH.aspx

time\sd

10 uses - Created 2005-12-01 01:20:17 - Last used 2006-01-10 20:19:37 - Nominate - Description - http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_US-CA.aspx

dpopf
del.icio.us popular by filetype. valid arguments: mpg, mpeg, avi, wmv, mov, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, pdf, doc
16 uses - Created 2005-12-01 01:14:07 - Last used 2010-11-29 12:13:16 - Nominate - Description - http://del.icio.us/popular/system:filetype:%s

dpopm
del.icio.us popular media valid arguments: video (includes mpg, mpeg, avi, wmv, mov) image (includes jpg, jpeg, gif, png) document (includes pdf, doc)
49 uses - Created 2005-12-01 01:09:03 - Last used 2007-11-06 03:02:33 - Nominate - Description - http://del.icio.us/popular/system:media:%s

8ball
Ask a question, press enter and the answer will be yours.Sounds simple huh...
42 uses - Created 2005-11-30 23:35:47 - Last used 2012-04-19 06:58:38 - Nominate - Description - http://hell.com/

fuskamicasa

14 uses - Created 2005-11-30 17:15:22 - Last used 2006-05-20 18:20:00 - Nominate - Description - http://fuska.backpackit.com/page/345680

feedtier
Feedtier (http://feedtier.somee.com/ ) is a site that creates RSS feeds from sites that don't have them. The feedtier command takes a URL as an argument, and creates an RSS feed from that page using the Feedtire site. The resulting RSS feed can be added to your feed reader (try using the blub or grss commands). usage: feedtier [url you want a feed of] b.a.
138 uses - Created 2005-11-30 15:34:53 - Last used 2012-10-19 07:51:07 - Nominate - Description - http://feedtier.somee.com/?%s[no url encoding]

hittavem
Look up a person/organization using the location/person/organization finder hitta.se
557 uses - Created 2005-11-30 15:06:04 - Last used 2012-02-09 08:05:40 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hitta.se/SearchMixed.aspx?UCSB%3aTextBoxWho=%s

hittavar
Look up a location using the location/person/organization finder hitta.se
628 uses - Created 2005-11-30 15:03:31 - Last used 2012-07-17 13:43:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hitta.se/SearchPlace.aspx?UCSB%3aTextBoxWhere=%s

setty
opens up karthik setty's blog http://karthiksetty.blogspot.com
85 uses - Created 2005-11-30 12:24:36 - Last used 2007-09-04 06:17:07 - Nominate - Description - http://karthiksetty.blogspot.com

bbw
black boardn for wcpss
166 uses - Created 2005-11-30 12:24:15 - Last used 2025-06-03 02:20:05 - Nominate - Description - http://blackboard.wcpss.net

pandora
Music Genome Project link. The Music Genome Project On January 6, 2000 a group of musicians and music-loving technologists came together with the idea of creating the most comprehensive analysis of music ever. Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the most fundamental level. We ended up assembling literally hundreds of musical attributes or "genes" into a very large Music Genome. Taken together these genes capture the unique and magical musical identity of a song - everything f…
5027 uses - Created 2005-11-30 04:49:15 - Last used 2026-01-26 15:06:04 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pandora.com/

scro
Scroogle Search. Scroogle does a Google search, scrapes the results and provides an ad-free result page. Works just like g. Example: scro porsche 911
3802 uses - Created 2005-11-30 04:39:27 - Last used 2025-12-03 10:29:34 - Nominate - Description - http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/nbbw.cgi[post]?q=%s

panic

53 uses - Created 2005-11-30 00:26:26 - Last used 2020-11-25 11:47:42 - Nominate - Description - http://atworkandbored.com/panic.html

lists
Takes you to McSweeney's lists.
362 uses - Created 2005-11-29 17:00:53 - Last used 2024-04-13 15:35:18 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/

geocache
Returns Geocaches from Origin lat / lon Usage: geocache -lat DECIMAL-LATITUDE -lon DECIMAL-LONGITUDE
47 uses - Created 2005-11-29 13:43:25 - Last used 2016-05-20 12:45:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?origin_lat=${lat}&origin_long=${lon}

spl
Search the Seattle Public Library. For instance, to find books about cats, do: spl cats ---------- Old implementation: http://catalog.spl.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?index=.GW&term=%s
2945 uses - Created 2005-11-29 03:35:48 - Last used 2025-10-09 17:02:11 - Nominate - Description - http://seattle.bibliocommons.com/search?commit=Search&page=1&q=%s&t=keyword

wgov
weather Gov site by ZipCode
137 uses - Created 2005-11-29 01:24:16 - Last used 2010-12-15 21:32:35 - Nominate - Description - http://www.srh.noaa.gov/zipcity.php?inputstring=%s

asc

45 uses - Created 2005-11-28 23:06:23 - Last used 2022-10-12 12:44:58 - Nominate - Description - http://airsoftcore.com

riya
Search the Riya photo site. usage: riya [search term] b.a.
26 uses - Created 2005-11-28 22:44:15 - Last used 2010-03-15 11:50:56 - Nominate - Description - http://www.riya.com/search?btnSearch=btnSearch&p=0&searchText=%s

oceansidebouy
Takes you to a near realtime data link for the ocean swell bouy off the coast of Oceanside, CA
84 uses - Created 2005-11-28 22:12:01 - Last used 2007-02-17 21:36:56 - Nominate - Description - http://facs.scripps.edu/surf/oceanside.html

uml
Opens a page describing how to type characters with umlauts on both Windows and Mac computers.
77 uses - Created 2005-11-28 21:22:59 - Last used 2022-04-10 14:44:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au/la/lote/german/materials/umlauts.htm

statc

15 uses - Created 2005-11-28 18:11:42 - Last used 2010-11-15 07:52:13 - Nominate - Description - http://statcounter.com/

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