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Command List (ls)

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yotos
Corrected URL! Searches for public domain images with the Yotophoto.com search engine, which queries several public domain image resources.
30 uses - Created 2005-10-24 18:22:30 - Last used 2010-01-06 03:06:49 - Nominate - Description - http://yotophoto.com/search.php?what=%s

tfl
Transport for london journey planner. Transport for London (TfL) has a really nice tool to work out your route (http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk) To create a new route, just type the postcode of two points example: tfl -start SW1X7XL -end CR01XX by default it will use the postcode but can be configured to use address (address), stop/station (stop) or address (address) or place of interest (pov). e.g. tfl -start victoria -end belsize park -type stop or tfl -start buckingham palace -end london br…
711 uses - Created 2005-10-24 18:09:55 - Last used 2023-08-26 10:58:41 - Nominate - Description - http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?&language=en&execInst=&sessionID=0&ptOptionsActive=1&place_origin=London&place_destination=London&name_origin=${start}&type_origin=${type=locator}&name_destination=${end}&type_destination=${type=locator}[post]

frooglede
Search Froogle in German
555 uses - Created 2005-10-24 18:00:39 - Last used 2018-08-02 11:46:08 - Nominate - Description - http://froogle.google.de/froogle?q=%s&hl=de

frde
Search Froogle in German
40 uses - Created 2005-10-24 18:00:06 - Last used 2012-09-20 15:03:04 - Nominate - Description - http://froogle.google.de/froogle?q=%s&hl=de

abk
german abbreviation on abkuerzungen.de
678 uses - Created 2005-10-24 14:52:25 - Last used 2022-04-10 00:50:25 - Nominate - Description - http://www.abkuerzungen.de/pc/html/result.php?abbreviation=%s

filmdb
Search for movie in german movie-database
98 uses - Created 2005-10-24 14:46:54 - Last used 2015-01-24 22:34:32 - Nominate - Description - http://www.filmdb.de/globalsuche.php?name=%s

dtdc
Search for DVD-Covers on Darktown.com
107 uses - Created 2005-10-24 14:43:57 - Last used 2024-12-19 01:18:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.darktown.to/index_d2.htm?http://img.darktown.to/search.php?action=search&what=%s&category=dvd&submit=++Suche++

ublt
Search UBL by album title
544 uses - Created 2005-10-24 12:28:37 - Last used 2007-12-12 03:45:35 - Nominate - Description - http://ubl.artistdirect.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+Search?select=MusicTitle&searchstr=%s&searchtype=NormalSearch&start=1&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

ubla
Search UBL by artist name
175 uses - Created 2005-10-24 12:27:29 - Last used 2007-05-17 08:23:47 - Nominate - Description - http://ubl.artistdirect.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+Search?select=MusicArtist&searchstr=%s&searchtype=NormalSearch&start=1&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

bigw
Search for Title of books at Bigwords
131 uses - Created 2005-10-23 23:28:23 - Last used 2018-12-06 14:37:50 - Nominate - Description - http://www.bigwords.com/search/index.php?z=easysearch&searchtype=title&searchstring=%s&Go=search%21

wsp
Search species.wikipedia.org Example: wsp dog
59 uses - Created 2005-10-23 21:52:37 - Last used 2023-08-28 16:28:40 - Nominate - Description - http://species.wikipedia.org?search=%s

iart
Uses Tristan's "iTunes Album Art" script (the styled version) to retrieve large cover art from the iTunes Music Store. You must provide the full iTMS URL as the parameter -- you can get this by finding the album in the Music Store, going the the album's "page", and right clicking the cover. This produces the "Copy iTunes Music Store URL" contextual menu option. example: iart http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=2873000&s=143441
113 uses - Created 2005-10-23 19:50:03 - Last used 2011-03-23 19:49:44 - Nominate - Description - http://tpemble.urfbownd.net/itunes/itunes-art-style.php?itms-url=%s

wetter.de
Zeigt das Wetter in Deiner Stadt auf wetter.de Beispiel: wetter.de 91522
42 uses - Created 2005-10-23 15:50:25 - Last used 2025-04-04 09:27:06 - Nominate - Description - http://wetter.rtl.de/shared/php/search_plz_ort.php?in=%s

fde
Search Froogle in German
1292 uses - Created 2005-10-23 11:16:02 - Last used 2025-02-25 00:47:09 - Nominate - Description - http://froogle.google.de/froogle?q=%s&hl=de

defd
OpenThesaurus. An open-source thesaurus for the German language.
16 uses - Created 2005-10-23 09:50:33 - Last used 2012-11-15 13:19:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.openthesaurus.de/multimatch.php?word=%s

tslt
Torrentspy's latest torrent list.
345 uses - Created 2005-10-23 09:18:23 - Last used 2013-12-27 13:16:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.torrentspy.com/latest.asp

kjaz
Listen to KJAZ (San Francisco jazz radio station)
41 uses - Created 2005-10-23 07:31:04 - Last used 2009-08-10 22:40:35 - Nominate - Description - shoutcast kjaz

loc
Search the Library of Congress (by keyword) Example: loc harry potter
317 uses - Created 2005-10-23 04:47:12 - Last used 2024-04-03 09:46:34 - Nominate - Description - http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=%s&Search_Code=FT*&PID=6157&SEQ=20051023004542&CNT=25&HIST=1

mangabooks
a lot of manga books
14 uses - Created 2005-10-23 03:31:12 - Last used 2009-01-21 03:42:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.tokyopop.com/

isoh2rss
Produce RSS feed from isohunt torrent search. Example: isoh2rss iggy pop
9655 uses - Created 2005-10-23 02:29:32 - Last used 2016-11-09 03:38:00 - Nominate - Description - http://isohunt.com/js/rss.php?ihq=%s

fsn
Fox Sports is the home of the World Series, and is the #2 sports site (behind ESPN). Great GameTrax on Sundays for all the fantasy football players.
11 uses - Created 2005-10-23 01:38:33 - Last used 2012-03-26 14:36:02 - Nominate - Description - http://msn.foxsports.com/

mrc
Mr. Check (German Glossary). Everything you always wanted to know about <mysterious word here>, but were afraid to ask. Mr. Check gives defintions of german words by accessing well known sources as the "Duden" or the "Brockhaus". Example: mrc Kakophonie
249 uses - Created 2005-10-22 23:09:53 - Last used 2021-12-21 01:22:38 - Nominate - Description - http://app.mr-check.de/13d322420af3279f50830e242cee6373/v2.0/Mrcheck.php?SB=%s&CID=tanto1

single
Search Allmusic by songtitle.
566 uses - Created 2005-10-22 22:11:20 - Last used 2025-09-15 14:22:10 - Nominate - Description - http://allmusic.com/search/song/%s

gyg
Go to a yahoo group you know the name of. gyg sample_group Would take you to the group front page for the yahoo group "sample_group" Note; only use a single arguement on this command because I believe all yahoo group names are a single word.
158 uses - Created 2005-10-22 21:23:48 - Last used 2014-04-02 04:47:04 - Nominate - Description - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/%s/

ada
Artist Direct search. Search by artist name. Example: ada al dimeola
196 uses - Created 2005-10-22 20:34:42 - Last used 2025-07-06 10:36:27 - Nominate - Description - http://ubl.artistdirect.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+Search?select=MusicArtist&searchstr=%s&searchtype=NormalSearch&start=1&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

adt
Artist Direct search. Search by album title. Example: adt elegant gypsy
76 uses - Created 2005-10-22 20:31:23 - Last used 2025-03-25 14:52:32 - Nominate - Description - http://ubl.artistdirect.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+Search?select=MusicTitle&searchstr=%s&searchtype=NormalSearch&start=1&submit.x=0&submit.y=0

bes
Surk BlogExplosion blogs (must be logged in)
45 uses - Created 2005-10-22 18:10:14 - Last used 2025-04-01 05:22:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.blogexplosion.com/members/surf.php

nvdic
Integrated dictionaries search of Naver which is biggest portal of Korea. It has more than 8 dictionaries including encyclopedia, english-korean, japanes-korean, chinese-korean and so on. But if you cannot read korean, it may be useless for you. This command is made by valueinno@gmail.com.
184 uses - Created 2005-10-22 17:41:28 - Last used 2019-08-29 09:05:33 - Nominate - Description - http://dic.naver.com/search.naver?mode=all&query=%s

pan
Pandora music
1950 uses - Created 2005-10-22 16:34:40 - Last used 2020-05-28 06:08:21 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pandora.com/

??
cloned from the ?? bot used in woz!
88 uses - Created 2005-10-22 16:03:12 - Last used 2020-11-19 12:30:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=%s&meta=

gnl
Google search in Dutch pages only.
5506 uses - Created 2005-10-22 09:32:04 - Last used 2026-01-07 08:17:00 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl&q=%s&btnG=Google+zoeken&meta=cr%3DcountryNL

angie

40 uses - Created 2005-10-22 05:48:10 - Last used 2022-10-27 08:41:51 - Nominate - Description - http://www.xanga.com/x_awwitzangie

en2sp
translates words from English into Spanish (wordreference.com) traduce palabras de inglés a español (wordreference.com)
18365 uses - Created 2005-10-22 02:22:19 - Last used 2026-01-15 13:24:03 - Nominate - Description - http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=%s&dict=enes&B10=Search

cfsql
Codefetch SQL Search. Searches SQL programming books. To find code examples of left joins Example: cfsql left join Find examples using multiple primary keys Example: cfsql KEY.*(.*,.*)
11 uses - Created 2005-10-21 22:37:00 - Last used 2006-05-31 18:46:09 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=sql

cfruby
Codefetch Ruby Search. Searches Ruby programming books and the Ruby and Rails APIs. To find code examples regarding observer Example: cfruby observer
21 uses - Created 2005-10-21 22:33:34 - Last used 2008-12-11 03:02:14 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=ruby

cfperl
Codefetch Perl Search. Searches Perl programming books and the Perl API. To find code examples using gethostbyname Example: cfperl gethostbyname Find examples of hash assignment Example: cfperl %.*=
21 uses - Created 2005-10-21 22:27:19 - Last used 2011-05-10 04:38:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=perl

cfcocoa
Codefetch Objective-C Search using Cocoa API. Searches Mac OS X programming books and API. Example: cfcocoa nsstring
14 uses - Created 2005-10-21 22:23:58 - Last used 2012-08-24 07:24:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=objccocoa

cfjs
Codefetch Javascript Search. Searches Javascript programming book source code. Find out how to use js regular expressions: Example: dfjs regexp
23 uses - Created 2005-10-21 22:15:21 - Last used 2007-07-23 07:25:08 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=javascript

cfc++
Codefetch C++ Search. Searches C++ programming books. Find source code examples of socket programming. Example: cfc++ socket
13 uses - Created 2005-10-21 21:56:47 - Last used 2011-12-23 08:51:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=cplusplus

cfc#
Codefetch C# search. Searches C# programming books. To find code examples of directory lists Example: cfc# directory list
11 uses - Created 2005-10-21 21:53:41 - Last used 2011-09-27 19:37:14 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=csharp

cfc
Codefetch C search. Searches C programming books. Find code examples using 'printf' Example: cfc printf
35 uses - Created 2005-10-21 21:51:33 - Last used 2019-09-22 06:34:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=c

cfjava
Codefetch Java Search. Searches Java books and API. To find code examples regarding database drivers Example: cfjava database driver Find examples using the 2 param form of encode. Example: cfjava encode(.*,.*)
48 uses - Created 2005-10-21 21:38:00 - Last used 2009-01-19 14:57:37 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=java

goal
Add a goal on 43things for example: "goal get a new job"
77 uses - Created 2005-10-21 21:26:27 - Last used 2025-12-30 02:21:11 - Nominate - Description - http://www.43things.com/people/adopt_goal?goal[name]=%s

cooltools
Search Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools. Example: cooltools teapot ---------- Old implementation: http://www.kk.org/mt/mt-search.cgi?search=%s
46 uses - Created 2005-10-21 18:55:53 - Last used 2019-10-09 14:11:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/cse?cx=001456274107331321700:isympz5z6os&cof=FORID:0&ie=UTF-8&q=%s&sa.x=0&sa.y=0

lw
LinuxWiki
120 uses - Created 2005-10-21 13:10:38 - Last used 2026-01-10 07:42:46 - Nominate - Description - http://www.linuxwiki.de/?action=fullsearch&value=%s

pl
Pro-Linux (German Linux portal)
321 uses - Created 2005-10-21 13:08:08 - Last used 2025-12-16 09:47:59 - Nominate - Description - http://www.pro-linux.de/cgi-bin/s.cgi?q=%s

gnde
Google News Germany
1784 uses - Created 2005-10-21 12:51:07 - Last used 2018-01-23 05:52:00 - Nominate - Description - http://news.google.de/news?hl=de&edition=de&q=%s

oti
Seach opentravelinfo.com usage: oti keyword
15 uses - Created 2005-10-21 01:29:21 - Last used 2019-10-29 23:40:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.opentravelinfo.com/?q=search/node/%s

cowchick
The command "cowchick" takes you to page 2 of Fat Chicks in Party Hats. Cowchick is strong and proud, but easily confused when hungry.
14 uses - Created 2005-10-20 22:18:47 - Last used 2006-08-07 03:55:22 - Nominate - Description - http://www.fatchicksinpartyhats.com/part2.shtml

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