I don’t remember where I stumbled upon these little tricks but I’ve found myself quite the nifty habit:
Whenever I want to pull up a website (ie, www.devinreams.com) I just type ‘devinreams’ in the address bar and hit Ctrl-Enter. Both Firefox and IE fill in the http://www. and .com for you!
Think of all the time saved!
Bonus: Firefox does the same for .net and .org with Shift-Enter and Alt-Enter, respectively! Reason #1837 why Firefox is so much better!
…ah, who am I kidding? I can’t think of one top-level site I visit daily that isn’t .com.
With Safari, you merely type the domain and hit enter (.com only), and it does the same thing. One less keystroke!
Wow, not bad. I haven’t tried Safari, though. Maybe some day…
Great tip. How many times do I have to use it before I knock myself over the head to remind myself to use bookmarks or bookmarklets?
Hah good point, Ed. I’ve finally brought myself to add the top 10 or so sites to my links toolbar. At least they’re visually there and serve as a reminder!