Friday, April 3, 2009

open your favorite websites using only your keyboard. with site laucncher


SiteLauncher is an add-on for Firefox that gives you a super-quick way to to open your favorite websites using only your keyboard. One special hotkey brings up the "Launcher" (see image), followed by a unique key to launch a site.

Designed to be especially useful for quickly opening Web sites you use often throughout the day. For example, many people would probably want to add Google, Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter to SiteLauncher--what sites to include is entirely up to you.

Because SiteLauncher appears on demand, it's also useful for minimizing toolbar clutter.

The default hotkey for the Launcher is Ctrl+Space (or Ctrl+Alt for Mac users).




Feature highlights

* Because each site key is displayed in the Launcher, you don't have to memorize a bunch of key combinations to have shortcuts to loads of sites, only one hotkey.
* Default hotkey is customizable, in case you need it for something else.
* Add as many sites to SiteLauncher as you want.
* Just about any character key can be associated with a site, you're not limited to just a-z, 0-9.
* Because you press the hotkey first, no matter what key you assign to each site, you can be sure you will not cause conflict with any of Firefox's built-in shortcuts
* Highly customizable appearance - change colors, text size, spacing, column size, etc
* Optional visual effects - transparency, rounded corners, and gradients
* You can have your site shortcuts automatically arranged or manually arranged in the order you want them to appear inside the Launcher
* Set Launcher to open sites in current or new tab
* Optionally, set Launcher to appear on startup instead of your homepage
Default Hotkey
Hotkey Default Description
Launcher Ctrl+Space (or Ctrl+Alt for Mac users) Press the Launcher hotkey to bring forward the Launcher. Then, simply press the key indicated in the Launcher for the site you wish to launch.
(Alternative) Direct-to-site Shift+Alt (or Shift+Ctrl for Mac users) An alternative hotkey which doesn't show the Launcher. It's included for people who would prefer to use their memory instead of the Launcher, you can safely ignore it otherwise. Because this hotkey doesn't provide visual feedback to indicate when it's active, you have to keep it pressed down while pressing the key for the site you want.
Default sites

SiteLauncher comes with a set of default shortcuts to a number of popular and/or useful websites: Amazon (an affiliate link), Google Calendar, Dictionary, Digg, eBay (an affiliate link), Facebook, Gmail, Google, IMDB, LifeHacker, MySpace, Reader, Wikipedia, YouTube. The defaults should get you started, but you can of course easily delete the websites you don't want, and add as many new ones as you want.
Requirements

Supports all versions of Firefox 2 and 3 to date.

Known to work on the following Operating Systems:

* Windows (tested on XP and Vista)
* Linux based (tested on Debian Etch)
* OSX X (tested on Tiger and Leopard)
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