Sogudi is an add-on for Apple's Safari Web Browser that allows you to visit and search your favorite sites using just a few simple keystrokes in the location bar instead of long and complex URLs. These shortcuts allow you to enter additional parameters that would not be possible with standard bookmarks. Sogudi comes loaded with several common shortcuts and more can be added by the user. Sogudi now allows you to view unix man pages directly from within Safari.
YES. So awesome. Ever since I switched to Safari from iCab, I've missed iCab's capability of letting me define and use other search services besides Google; whenever I wanted to search Amazon or DMOZ or what have you, I just opened the Find box, picked a search engine or two, typed in a phrase and hit Return. Sogudi is a bit harder to use than iCab's doodad, but it works just as well! Thank you for this awesome chunk of code.
from the developers website:
A note for sites such as MacUpdate, VersionTracker, Tucows, etc: Please do not update your listings to this version yet. It is not ready for the general public. The download has no instructions or installer. This page is meant for beta testers, only. They know what they are getting into, but the visitors to your sites will not.
Very cool. A must have.
BUT… it will be even better if the soft allow us to "pack" several search in one word and be abble to open as many tabs as needed.
What I liked about earlier versions of Sogudi was that it allowed you to search various sites through the Google search bar. I have no use for the so-called "shortcuts", which really don't save you work at all.
This app is great, though I don't ask it to do much...
I use it mostly for integration with macupdate, as I've been too busy/lazy to remember other shortcuts, but I love it still...
great little app!
This is great, a nice little tool! I personally have tended to use AcidSearch more lately, however, but if you like hiding the Google bar this is the only one for you!
Version 0.4.5 replaces the "Google" in Safari's Google search box with "Sogudi." I like Sogudi's functionality a lot, but altering Safari's appearance is obnoxious, even though I'm not enamored of the "Google" text.
Please fix this.
anyone else notice that if you type in a search and press return quickly it sometimes tries to load the url with %20 in for spaces? i do this all the time :(
This is wonderful and really speeds up my work. Have tried other browsers with shortcuts but kept coming back to Safari for it's all-round performance. Now I have a better browser.
Yeah, it's awesome. Unfortunately if Apple wanted this, they would just build it in themselves and not pay for it. Fortunately, it's little too advanced for them to want to include for the everyday user (Apple is very KISS oriented with their core software). LightSwitch wasn't so lucky...
For those who've been having trouble getting this to work with the latest (v. 1.2) release of Safari, try simply re-running the installer. That solved the problem for me.
And just to echo all the other comments, this _is_ a terrific addition to the Mac experience. Well conceived, well integrated, and addictive.
This is a great piece of software; I love how tightly it integrates with Safari. Very classy, and kudos to the developer for thinking of it. The one thing that's making it less than useful for me is the fact that you MUST provide a search query for the shortcut to activate; that is, if I create a shortcut "uf" that goes to "http://www.userfriendly.org/", it won't activate unless I type some other word after "uf" in the address bar. I realize there's probably some other way to do straight shortcuts like this, but I'd like to use Sogudi to consolidate all of them in one place.
Definitely one of Mac OS X' most valuable 3rd party add-ins (likethe PDF Browser PlugIn by M. Schubert) ... I'll love it (b'cause it even allows me defining "quick links" like, e.g., 'amt' for the Apple Movie Trailer Website (just by typing 'amt ' -- notice the additional blank at the end of input) -- the one ond only pitfall: searching for concatenated strings like 'just-mac' (including an '-') is a little intricately; avoid problems with Safari's auto-completion by typing ' just-mac' (additional leading blank!).
But even though -- ***** from me (and just in case of: SafariKeywords focusses the same issue; but doesn't work on my JagOSX ;)
YES. So awesome. Ever since I switched to Safari from iCab, I've missed iCab's capability of letting me define and use other search services besides Google; whenever I wanted to search Amazon or DMOZ or what have you, I just opened the Find box, picked a search engine or two, typed in a phrase and hit Return. Sogudi is a bit harder to use than iCab's doodad, but it works just as well! Thank you for this awesome chunk of code.
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