Google Search Box for Mac with Twitter Support
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About 2 years ago, Google introduce Google Desktop for Mac to extend Google search capabilities to your Mac. after that Google rolled out Search Box in developer preview. Now Google officially releasing this technology to all users as the Google Quick Search Box or QSB for short. Quick Search Box already available in the Windows version of Google Desktop as well.
A hot Buzz of development is going in Twitter space, particular desktop app for Twitter like TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop, which both now pull updates from Facebook & Twitter. Now Google is also getting involved in this buzz up.
Google Quick Search Box (QSB) is a Mac desktop application makes your web & desktop searches at a finger tip, With Google Quick Search Box you can search for information from just about anywhere. As you type, suggestions will appear that match your query, ranging from applications and local files on your computer, to web search and navigational suggestions, to items from your browser history and contacts and the types of results you can get will only grow over time! means, if you chose Google Calendar, the next time you search for "cal", Google QSB will reorder the results so that you don't have to arrow down to your desired choice. Instead, you can just type "cal" and press enter.
Google Quick Search Box is extensible. This means that anyone can create a plug-in that enables the QSB to search over additional data or perform more actions on results. in this version you can add twitter plug in
So, aside typing search queries into the Quick Search Box (QSB) , you can also use it as a Twitter status updater. but still you are not able to perform Twitter search via QSB & this feature is missing in Windows version, probable soon, Google will add it in windows version too.
To get started,Go to Preferences > Add Accounts > Add > Select Twitter as the account type > Enter your Twitter account name and password > Click Setup
Your Twitter account name and password will be stored in the standard Apple keychain.
Now to send a tweet via QSB,
A hot Buzz of development is going in Twitter space, particular desktop app for Twitter like TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop, which both now pull updates from Facebook & Twitter. Now Google is also getting involved in this buzz up.
Google Quick Search Box (QSB) is a Mac desktop application makes your web & desktop searches at a finger tip, With Google Quick Search Box you can search for information from just about anywhere. As you type, suggestions will appear that match your query, ranging from applications and local files on your computer, to web search and navigational suggestions, to items from your browser history and contacts and the types of results you can get will only grow over time! means, if you chose Google Calendar, the next time you search for "cal", Google QSB will reorder the results so that you don't have to arrow down to your desired choice. Instead, you can just type "cal" and press enter.
Google Quick Search Box is extensible. This means that anyone can create a plug-in that enables the QSB to search over additional data or perform more actions on results. in this version you can add twitter plug in
So, aside typing search queries into the Quick Search Box (QSB) , you can also use it as a Twitter status updater. but still you are not able to perform Twitter search via QSB & this feature is missing in Windows version, probable soon, Google will add it in windows version too.
To get started,Go to Preferences > Add Accounts > Add > Select Twitter as the account type > Enter your Twitter account name and password > Click Setup
Your Twitter account name and password will be stored in the standard Apple keychain.
Now to send a tweet via QSB,
- Open the Quick Search Box by hiting the spacebar
- Start by entering a space. (This allows you to create a 'text item' in the search box.)
- Just Enter the text you want to tweet. Don't forget Twitter's 140 character limit!
- Now The default result should be a 'text' item. Press Tab on your keyboard to see your possible actions.
- Select Send Twitter Status.
- Press Return on your keyboard.
