Object Definitions Blog

For quite a while now I’ve been a subscriber to O’Reilly Safari bookself. It contains a lot of useful books on a wide range of technical and programming topics.

Although there is a good selection of material on the site, I haven’t really made the best use of it until now, since it has in general been less accessible than other web resources (it has just been easier to google for material than navigate to the O’Reilly site, log in, find the right page, search for books etc.). This devalued the whole Safari experience.

However, there is now a search bar plugin for safari (available from the tools page) which allows you to treat Safari as a search engine, and makes its contents available from the search box integrated with your browser toolbar. This innovation is the killer feature for Safari, in my opinion. Suddenly it makes the Safari content as accessible as the rest of the web. Suddenly, I don’t seem to have enough slots in my Safari bookshelf account any more, and the subscription fee seems quite reasonable.

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