Currently reading:

Jun 28, '08 2:50 AM
for everyone

I've just spent five minutes covering my Google toolbar with these custom buttons. Here are the Google instructions:

Install the Google Toolbar
Go to http://slashdot.org/
Right click on the search box at the bottom of the page and select "Generate Custom Search..." from the menu that appears
Click on "Add" and then "OK" in the Custom Button installation dialogs
Congratulations! You've created a custom button for Slashdot on your Toolbar.

Not every website has an option for a pretty icon to appear. In that case I get a magnifying glass icon appearing on the Google toolbar, and the only way to find out where it leads is to hover over it. It gets tedious when you have a whole line of identical unlabelled icons. Some websites have no search box.

The easiest thing with both of those is to bookmark the site and add the bookmark title to your Google toolbar. Click on Bookmarks, then Bookmark This Page, then save it in the Bookmarks Toolbar folder. Hey presto! It appears on your Google toolbar.

Tags: computer stuff

Prev: Picture Perfect: Twisted
Next: Gala Concert

reply share

5 Comments

littleronnie wrote on Jun 28, edited on Jun 28

I am still trying to install the last update I did to my toolbar and it just isn't happening. I'm wondering if I caught Multiply on one of it's bad days. I loved the new Media Locker too. Thanks for urging me to go there.

gilesy01 wrote on Jun 28, edited on Jun 28

the bookmarks I'm takling about are ones you add to Google Toolbar for Firefox, which is pretty easy to download and install.

http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/FT3/intl/en/index.html

This is the way to the IE& one:

http://www.google.com/support/toolbar/bin/answer.py?answer=9230&topic=11746

I don't really like IE7 so I only use it at work because it's there already and I don't want to download stuff onto PCs there.

emmm1 wrote on Jun 28

Ugh, can't get my head round that one just now but it sounds like a pretty handy tool there.

I'll have to pin this one and come back to it. The Mult updates have gone pear shaped again. This entry appeared in my inbox as new and then promptly vanished again before I had time to read it. Had to go trawling through the archived posts to find it. It's happened to a few new posts today.

gilesy01 wrote on Jun 28

emmm1 said