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Add Mac OS X Hints to Searchling
If you want to add the Mac OS X Hints site to the list of searchable sites in Searchling, open the sites.xml file (Contents:Resources:sites.xml) with your favorite text editor and add the following block of text:
Add Mac OS X Hints to Searchling
Your idea of editing the XML file was great. I always liked Googls for searching the web, but for weather and stocks, I always prefered Yahoo! so I just added the information for searching Yahoo! in the XML file and it worked.
Here is what I added:
name
Yahoo!
types
type
Web
url
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=
type
Weather
url
http://search.weather.yahoo.com/search/weather2?p=
type
Stocks
url
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=
Add Mac OS X Hints to Searchling
Sorry, I had HTML formating on, and it got rid of everything in the brackets. Let me try again.
Add Mac OS X Hints to Searchling
Two more to play with. May I suggest that we send a copy of these over to Michael Thole (mthole@purdue.edu) who might be interested in compiling a central repository?
Add Mac OS X Hints to Searchling
For more inspiration on editing Searchling's sites.xml file, check out the Bookmarklets Search tools webpage. You'll have to do a little editing of the javascript functions to extract the html queries and you'll have to escape &'s (i.e. &). Bookmarklets were likely the precursor to tools like Searchling.
Add Mac OS X Hints to Searchling
I can't find a file named sites.xml.
Add Mac OS X Hints to Searchling
Locate the actual Searchling app. Right-click and you should see a contextual menu appear - in that menu one of the selections is "Show package contents" - select that. You should now see a dir/folder called "Contents", double-click that and you will see several dirs and files. Locate the "Resources" dir and open that and you will find your "sites.xml" file to edit.
Add Mac OS X Hints to Searchling
Ahhh....
not in my searchling
i know how to open package contents, but when i open my searchling, there is no sites.xml file anywhere within. the first level contains the following: |
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