A handy multi-site search tool
Jack of All Widgets is a popular, free Mac software, that is part of the category Utilities with subcategory Dashboard Widgets.
More about Jack of All Widgets
Since the program has been added to our selection of software and apps in 2006, it has managed to obtain 1,130 downloads, and last week it gained 0 downloads.
About the download, Jack of All Widgets is a relatively light software that doesn't take up as much storage space than many programs in the category Utilities.
It's available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and previous versions, and it is only available in English. The current version of the software is 2.3.2 and its last update happened on 12/11/2006.
Jack of All Widgets is a multi-site search tool. It provides quick access to dozens of commonly used web searches. It allows the user to type in a search and send it to one or more of dozens of different websites. The websites can be chosen by popup menu, or specified in the search itself (command-line style).
The widget activates Safari and executes the search(es). It has over two dozen searches built in, and is infinitely customizable (if you know how to open a widget package and edit XML files).
Built-in Searches:
- Accuweather
- Acronymfinder
- AirborneExpress/DHL (package tracking)
- Amazon
- Barnes and Noble
- Borders
- Bugmenot
- Citysearch
- eBay
- Epinions
- Federal Express (package tracking)
- Foldoc (Free online dictionary of computing)
- GasPriceWatch (gasoline prices by zipcode)
- Geocoder (Find the latitude and longitude of an address)
- Google — general, maps, news, Froogle
- Infospace — find persons, businesses-
- Internet Movie Database (IMDB)
- jux2 (searches google, yahoo and msn simultaneously)
- Lyrictracker
- MacUpdate
- Mapquest (find address, find latitude/longitude)
- Meriam-Webster (dictionary and thesaurus)
- NOAA (weather)
- Online Guitar Archive (OLGA)
- Reversephonedirectory.com
- Superpages.com
- Shopping.com
- UPS (package tracking)
- USPS (find zipcode)
- USPS (package tracking)
- VersionTracker
- Weather.com
- Webopedia (computer terms)
- Whitepages.com
- Wikipedia
- WiFi-HotSpotList.com
- Yahoo — general, maps, movies, real estate, stock prices
- Zabasearch
- Zap2it — TV Listings
