For the following terms, the Google “Feeling Lucky” button redirects you to stuff I created.

1. julius eckert :)
2. julius eckert blog
3. keyboardr
4. simpletodo
5. julius eckert quicksilver
6. bezelhud
7. silverflow
8. wallybally
9. chor
10. ffboosta

Try it out: Google.

Ever tried find a list like this for yourself? if someone knows other terms to complete my list please leave a comment!

(I used the english version of Google)

I am really on a run. On the last 2 days I managed to get CouchDB and a pretty basic server-side-javascript (SSJS) running. (200% layer-increase for JavaScript)

Not familiar with CouchDB? Its generally a super-ultra-google-like-mega-scalable database, which kind of replaces the good old SQL-language with JS. At the current version (0.8.1), still no fulltext search.

My SSJS is a little three-classes Java application based on Simple and Rhino.

Backend “Hello World”:
echo(”Hello World”);

Frontend “Hello World”:
echo(”<script>alert('hello world'); </script>);

Database “Hello World”:
load(”lib/couchdb.js”);<br /> var couch = new couchdb(”localhost”, 5984);<br /> var r = couch.request(”GET”, “/”);<br /> echo(”couchdb => ” + r.data.couchdb);

I am a first-timer on SimpleFramework and Mozilla Rhino. Anyone has experience with stability, performance etc. (comment or mail me)?

My 1-day-SSJS: Download (including Screencast)

(remember its not meant to be super robust, scalable or performant. but if you know how to make it better then let me know. I am strongly interested in this topic + a java noob.)

This is how keyboardr.com feels like on the iPhone (in this case my iPod Touch 2G).

keyboardr.com does not have an iPhone specific version, yet. Usually websites try to create iPhone specific website which avoid, having the user to zoom. In keyboardr the zooming is actually great. I think the whole site in general works great with the iPhone. Of course, there is a lot to improve for the iPhone like improving readability and decreasing bandwidth usage (no need to search on all keypresses, as the results are hidden while typing anyway).

keyboardr.com, since its release on monday, had a great time.

A lot of blogs mentioned keyboardr. Our favorite:
“Use Keyboardr for a while and the ‘old’ google suddenly feels like Windows 95.” - thenextweb.com

Community

Communities, like the one from Twitter, provided a lot of great feedback and helped us with issues, like the Tab-key-issue, which broke Chrome-Tabs: Tweet.

Our official twitter account is: keyboardr
My personal account is: julius_eckert
Anything related to keyboardr (eg. feedback, questions, issues, webresources), is welcome in our friendfeed room. Especially you are welcome!

Tips and Tricks

By the way, keyboardr works great with Tabs, so if you are on Safari, this might be helpful.

Some users popupblockers made their results inaccessible. Always make sure you are the one in control.

UPDATE: Forgot to mention, pressing ESC resets the search, takes you back to the clock instantly !

One thing only a few know is, google is a all-in-one search. Try searching for “imdb Matrix”. Or “lastfm james brown”. Or “php str_replace”.

A feature often missed by the users eye, is the “All results” links to get the full version of each search engine. E.g. you need to calculate “5+5”, “define:word” or check “weather cologne” then you just open “All results” from Google, right above the results, to get your answers from Google. We have changed the interface today, to clarify this.

What’s next ?

We are very motivated and hard working on more features and updates. Today’s update, decreased keyboardr’s size for 70%, to 40kb. Which is especially good for iPhone users (got an iPod Touch 2G. Anyway keyboardr uses alot of bandwith while searching, so take care if you got a limit).

One feature which is definetely coming, is that you will be able to start a search query from the addressbar, enabling technologies like firefox keywordsearch, firefox searchbox, quicksilver websearch and many more.

Thanks

Thanks to all users and anyone who is providing feedback.
Some further blog posts we really liked:

• ajaxian.com
• sitepoint.com
• lifehacker.com
• news.cnet.com
• readwriteweb.com

in german:

• meedia.de
• netzwertig.com

in russian:

• habrahabr.ru

keyboardr is a homepage. It speeds up your internet experience.
And if you like, it helps you keeping your hands on the keyboard.

In the first place keyboardr is a meta-search. You get Google, Wikipedia, Youtube altogether. The instant search and the keyboard navigation are replacing the feeling of “searching” with the feeling of “launching”.

UPDATE: Check out this post, for tips and tricks and more.

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When we released chosr.com a few month ago, I promised:

I am now working on the future of chosr. We do alot of research on integration of webservices (want to see a peek of the possibilities ? try the youtube search), and usability, as people without Quicksilver-Concept-Expirience have big problems getting into it.

Since then the project has gone through many concept redesigns. We finally have found the probably best concept to solve the problems we got. And I am sorry, we can’t release the whole package yet, as its a lot more to code than my current amount of time allows.

In the video I show you, what we are releasing on monday and what the project will look like in the, hopefully near, future.

Project has changed its name and you can check it out at:
http://keyboardr.com