Mapping Hacks
by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh
googsh.org - the unofficial google shell
June 5th, 2008 by Richgoosh.org is cool! It gives your browser a command line complete with command history, and you get a scrollback.
It supports searching wikipedia and google, including images, video, blogs, etc.
It also has a command line map mode. You can type ‘map ‘ and get a bit larger than thumbnail map. Location can be any of the search terms which google maps recognizes (but not the proximity searches - you can not look for ‘pizza near SFO’). Instead of ‘map’ you can also type ‘places’ or ‘p.’ (’m’ is reserved for ‘more’).
Goosh implements a simple command history with the up and down arrows.
I have made it my default home page.
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