How to use Search It
1. Make sure Search It is running.
Check this by looking on the menu bar in the upper right corner of your screen. (Just next to the clock.) There you should see a s!-Item.
If there’s no s! just start Search It like any other mac application.
2. Now you can do your usual work. ;-)
3. As soon as you’d like to look up something on the net, just press the
Option + Escape key. (Option first, Escape second.)
4. The Search It window will show up. Just type anything you would type into a search engine. Let’s take Apple for that tutorial.
5. After you’ve typed Apple just press the Return key.
6. Search It disappears and opens your default browser with the Google search results.
7. But maybe you’d like to look up Apple on the Wikipedia?
Well that’s easy to!
Just press Option + Escape again.
8. Now the Search It window pops up with Apple already entered.
Search It remembers your last search so you can search for that again or redefine your search. If you’d like to search something completely different just start typing.
But for now we don’t enter anything new and just press Command + Return.
9. Search It disappears and opens your default browser with the Wikipedia article for Apple.
10. That’s all.
11. Oh, wait. There’s something we forgot:
Opening an URL:
Just bring the Search It window to front by pressing Option + Escape.
Then enter your URL - lets go with apple.com.
After that just press Shift + Return.
12. Search It will open http://apple.com.
