Supercharge the Address Bar

No screenshots this time, as this app is so subtle you won't know it's there. Safari already has a feature whereby you can type a word into the address bar and the browser will add www and .com and then try and look it up. This is quite handy for obvious sites like "apple" or "cnn."

With a little bit of preparation on your part, Sogudi expands on that feature. It adds a preference panel to Safari's menu where you can add URLs and one-word shortcuts to those URLs. Once it's set up, it's just a case of Command-L to focus on the address bar, then type the word and hit Enter to go there.

Sogudi comes with a few shortcuts already set up, and here is where it gets interesting: many of the shortcuts include variables. As an example, if I type in movie deep impact it will go to the Internet Movie Data Base, and search for Deep Impact. Pretty cool, huh?

There are lots of other lookup services you can set up, like metric conversion, local weather, currency rates; you name it. Sogudi can also shortcut javascript for switching your browser window size or even emailing selected text.