search engines
Google's Chrome browser passes anything you type into the address bar that isn't an obvious URI on to the default search engine.
While web browsers should have some built-in smarts, they can never match the collective intelligence of a worldwide search engine. For example:
weather San
disk defragmentation
I tend to ignore defragmenting my hard drive until I belatedly realize it probably looks like swiss cheese by now:
Wouldn’t it be nice if the operating system took care of defragmentation all by itself in the background when I’m not using the computer? Ah, to dream. Until
registry
Scott Hanselman’s Power User Windows Registry Tweaks has some excellent registry editing tweaks. I’ve spent the last few hours poring over those registry scripts, enhancing and combining them with some favorites of my own. Here are the results:
* Open Command Window Here
Adds a right-click menu to all