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OpenDNS Launches “Shortcuts”

Started by brentspore · 9 months ago

Thanks to a recent post by Paul Stamatiou, I got a quick heads up on a brand new feature of OpenDNS. Shortcuts in OpenDNS are just about the coolest thing since sliced bread in my book. It’s so easy to integrate into your network preferences and makes surfing the net just that much ... Continue reading »

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  • David Ulevitch

    2 years ago

    Nice post and image you made at the top.

    I'm glad setup was easy. Did you try out the bookmarklet? If you go to a page like finance.yahoo.com and do a search, then click the bookmarklet on the search results page you'll see how to create an "advanced" shortcut. :-)
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  • Yohannes Wijaya (macgeekpro)

    2 years ago

    Brent, continuing on our conversation yesterday on the dns issue, my preliminary conjecture that opendns' shortcuts wont work if we use public wi-fi (since we dont know if a particular public wi-fi uses opendns or not) has been proven wrong for we can insert the 2 dns server addresses directly to Mac's network preferences under TCP/IP tab. I didnt realize this. In my home setup, my apple extreme base station is the one that store those 2 dns server addressses not my macs. Having your (portable)macs store those 2 dns server addresses instead will let you access your opendns' shortcuts regardless of any public wifi you use.
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  • Brent

    2 years ago

    Thanks so much for the "live test" Yohannes. As always, your input here is appreciated!

    Brent
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  • David Ulevitch

    2 years ago

    Have you done any advanced shortcuts yet? :-)
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  • Brent

    2 years ago

    actually no... I just got back in front of the laptop. Heading there now... Got some cool examples for us? (besides the ones on the page)
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  • David Ulevitch

    2 years ago

    We have an internal ticketing system called "trac" that we use. so I type "trac [ticket#]" and go directly there about a million times a day.

    I do "office [some address]" and get directions from my office to another site pretty frequently too.

    -david
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  • Brent

    2 years ago

    Alright David, I made one! pretty cool, I might add! nice feature. I made a string that searches iboughtamac.com (i.e. "ibam opendns"). I love your directions idea, that's gonna be my next one for sure.

    BTW: Yohannes just sent me a direct message through Twitter saying he made an ibam search string on yubnub.org - works great too (just type "ibam [search term]") - Thanks Yohannes!
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