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As web designers and website owners we spend a lot of time working within the web. Discover how you can streamline your browsing experience with launchbar and quix.

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Posted on: Sunday, January 17, 2010

Apologises for the rather unprofessional video (with the wife wandering around in the background). However, as this is not strictly about web design and so therefore not strictly a boagworld official post, I thought I could get away with it!

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http://redcubemarketing.com Gemma Went

This is such a useful post, thanks. Setting this up is now one of my sunday tasks.

I have another question, what do you use to record what you’re doing on screen as you speak to cam? I need something similar.

Thanks again

http://headscape.co.uk/people/boag.html Paul Boag

Its called Screenflow.

http://yoast.com/ Joost de Valk

Thanks for this awesome review Paul!
mila

can you share your instapaper custom command??
thanks…

http://yoast.com/ Joost de Valk

Go to your Instapaper extra’s page, and copy the bookmarklet. Then create a custom command file and add this line:

insta javascript: Read Later with Instapaper

that should work :)
mila

rhanks..works fine…
http://www.apermanentwreck.com Newton

Hey Joost de Valk,

For those of us who are a little slower, I’m not sure I understand what it means to create a custom commands file? Can you maybe explain how to do the instapaper command a bit more in depth. Thanks.
http://www.apermanentwreck.com Newton

So through stumbling around the documentation, I figured out what needs to be done to create your own custom commands. You will literally create a .txt file that has the syntax
“insta javascript:function%20iprl5(){var%20d=document,z=d.createElement(‘scr’+'ipt’),b=d.body;try{if(!b)throw(0);d.title=’(Saving…)%20′+d.title;z.setAttribute(‘src’,’http://www.instapaper.com/j/XrUEsaM01oLr?u='+encodeURIComponent(d.location.href)+'&t='+(new%20Date().getTime()));b.appendChild(z);}catch(e){alert(‘Please%20wait%20until%20the%20page%20has%20loaded.’);}}iprl5();void(0) Read Later with Instapaper”
and then you’ll have to upload the file to your own server and hit the Quix extend page (http://quixapp.com/extend/) to tell them where the url is for the .txt file. Then you can drag the bookmarklet to your browser bar and you’re all set.

http://shiningthrough.co.uk Dave

Good stuff Paul, now you have a minimal browser experience, perhaps you should focus your attention on your system icons, they take up nearly half the width of your screen! when was the last time you used your bluetooth connection? If you hold the apple key, you can simply drag icons of the menu. You might also appreciate this blog http://minimalmac.com/
Alan

How do you get everything to appear in Large Type in LaunchBar?

http://www.borndigital.be Ben Jansen

Great stuff, any chance someone could help me out with creating a custom command for readitlater ?

Thanks !
http://headscape.co.uk/people/boag.html Paul Boag

I don’t. That was done by the screen capture software so you can see what I am typing.

http://ankitahuja.com Ankit

gleeBox goes a step further to streamline the browsing experience (allowing navigation, scrolling and lots of other cool stuff using the keyboard), especially if you love the command line. Give it a shot at http://thegleebox.com
Simon F

Wicked! How do you think these compare with Ubiquity? Looks like I don’t need Ubiquity for quick commands
http://vanderven.se/martijn/ Martijn van der Ven

This is great, didn’t know about Quix yet. I used to go with Shaun Inman’s Shortwave, but Quix seems to do the job even better.

All I need now is a launchbar for Firefox.

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