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Quix Help

Quix is a bookmarklet which opens a prompt, and then responds to commands. When you type whois, for instance, it’ll take you to a page with the whois of the domain you’re currently on. It can also understand more complex commands, like gs help, that will make it go to Google, searching the current site for the text “help”.

You can also select a word, and use that as extra input for the command. So for instance, when you select the word dictionary, then open Quix and just type d in the prompt, it’ll take you to a Google define: search for the word dictionary. The same would happen if you had not selected anything and typed d dictionary directly.

The available groups of commands:

• Basic commands
• Social commands
• WordPress
• SEO
• Webmaster
• Quix
• Analytics
• URL Shortening
• App Integration commands
• Mac Integration commands

Basic commands

These are the most basic commands Quix offers, but possibly also the most powerful ones.

Command	Description
a	Amazon Search
d	Google Define a word
e	Email link
f	Flickr Search
fc	Flickr Commercial use CC Search
g	Google Search
gbs	Google Blog Search
imdb	IMDB Search
img	Google Image Search
map	Google Maps
gs	Search the current site with Google
nf	Netflix Search
php	PHP Function Search
tr	Translate the current page
w	Wikipedia Search
mh	Mahalo Search

Social commands

These commands are for dealing with social networks and social sites.

Command	Description
db	Bookmark the current page in Delicious
fb	Share the current page on Facebook
gb	Bookmark with Google Bookmarks
tn	Tweet the current page
s	Twitter Search
t	Twitter User
v	Vimeo Search
yt	YouTube Search
tumblr	Share on Tumblr
post	Share on Posterous

WordPress

Quix was of course created by Yoast, a WordPress addict, and as such, some WordPress functions are of course needed!

Command	Description
codex	Search the WordPress codex
plugin	WordPress plugin search
wp	WordPress function search
wpmu	WordPress MU function search
wpseek	WordPress function lookup with wpseek.com

SEO

As an SEO you have dozens of things you can check on a site, Quix aims to make those things simpler by adding a large set of easy to remember and use commands for SEO’s.

Command	Description
archive	Check archive.org for the current page
can	Check whether the domain canonicalizes its homepage correctly
dmoz	Searches DMOZ for the current Domain
gbd	Search Google Blogsearch for links to the current Domain
gbu	Search Google Blogsearch for links to the current URL
gc	Google cache for current page
gi	Google Insight for the keyword phrase
gwt	Google Webmaster Tools for current domain
h	Header info for the current URL
linkcheck	Check the links on the current URL
nofollow	Shows all nofollows
seo	Does a quick SEO checkup of the current page
seothis	Open SEO tabs
yd	Yahoo Inlinks for current Domain
yl	Yahoo Inlinks for current Page
ydir	Searches Yahoo! directory for the current Domain

Webmaster

Webmasters often have dozens of bookmarklets for all sorts of simple checks, Quix replaces a lot of those bookmarklets by giving you simple to remember commands to deal with them.

Command	Description
csstoggle	Toggle css on and off
firebug	Loads Firebug lite.
font	Font overlay with FontFriend
host	Host info for the current domain.
myip	Your current IP & homepage.
p3p	Check the P3P policies of the current page.
register	Register a domain (f.i. use register test123.com).
resize	Resize browser (might only work with single windows in some browsers).
ruler	Shows a ruler that can be used to measure elements.
speed	Do a Pingdom speedtest of the current URL.
spriteme	Sprite the current page using Spriteme.
vs	View source of the current URL.
w3c	Validate the current page.
w3css	Validate the CSS of the current page.
whois	Whois info for the current domain.
xray	XRAY the current page.

In a meta sort of way, Quix provides some commands that should help you to debug Quix.

Command	Description
debug	Debug Quix
help	Help file
quix	Takes you to the specified Quix page
yoast	Lucky search on Yoast

Analytics

Some simple scripts to detect which web analytics program a site is running and to debug Google Analytics

Command	Description
da	Detect the current sites analytics
ga	Analyze Google Analytics settings on the current page
gaexport	Make the export function in Google Analytics export way more lines (credits: Arjan Snaterse)

URL Shortening

A group of URL shorteners

Command	Description
trim	Shorten with Tr.im
bitly	Shorten with bit.ly
awesm	Shorten with awe.sm

App Integration commands

Integrate with cool programs on all platforms.

Command	Description
evernote	Clip current page with Evernote
tubesock	Download video with Tubesock

Mac Integration commands

A lot of Mac programs allow easy integration with browsers by allowing for URL’s like tweetie: to open them. These commands take full advantage of that.

Command	Description
cssedit	Preview and extract current page in CSSEdit
mars	Start a blogpost in Marsedit about the current URL
pukka	Bookmark the current page using Pukka
tt	Tweet the current page with Tweetie
snap	Snap the current page in LittleSnapper
delibar	Bookmark the current page using Delibar
shove	Catch current page in Shovebox

Brilliant bookmarklet tool… going to use it.