Lifehacker posted a pretty neat tip about getting a quick weather forecast. The link weather.gov/#####, where ##### is your ZIP code, goes to the NOAA weather forecast for that ZIP code. This handy URL makes it easy to bookmark a forecast for your city, and it is also a prime candidate for a custom Firefox keyword bookmarklet. To create one, open your Bookmarks menu and add a new bookmark. Add these entries:
Name: NOAA Weather[my choice; call it whatever you want]Location: http://weather.gov/%sKeyword: wx[my choice; use whatever you want]Description:[optional]
Once you add that bookmark, to get weather for any ZIP code, just type “wx 20657” for this example (substitute wx for whichever keyword you chose). Very cool… 🙂
I use the Firefox keyword bookmarklet method for many other sites, including dictionary, thesaurus, acronym, IMDB searches. I’d be happy to detail those if there’s any interest; let me know in the comments…
