!writepost http://ycoolthing.com
| Friday, June 20th, 2008 | --Sean |
So, now that you've got that fancy @ymail address, what are you going to do with it? One suggestion -- refamiliarize yourself with Y! Open Shortcuts. Notably:
Right there from your Firefox chrome (or any other Y! Search box), you can start composing an email to me, which I know is the one thing that you really wanted to do this weekend. Just in general, learn to love Open Shortcuts. Earlier this week, I realized that I was getting to our package documentation pages by typing out a well-formed URL that could totally be parametrized, leading to:
!set pkg http://ourpackagesystem.yahoo.com/by-package/%s/
Meaning I can get to where I want to go just by typing !pkg sports_webserver_thingy in my browser search box or on any other Yahoo! site, on any computer that I use. It's very powerful and probably woefully underutilized, so go on and fix that!
I might take Fridays to reiterate Y! Cool Things that I think are still cool and that haven't gotten love for a little while. But maybe that's me-being-late-for-a-concert talking.