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title: 'H Double-T P'
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markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/h-double-t-p.md'
date: '2006-01-26'
description: 'H Double-T P is a hack of Apple’s Google widget. Personally, I don’t really need a widget to search Google. My browser has a search box in the upper right corner. So, having a widget to search google didn’t save me enough clicks to be of help. BUT… If I am in another application and my web browser …'
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# H Double-T P

## [H Double-T P](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/h-double-t-p)

    26th Jan 2006   [os x](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:os%20x#body-wrapper) [software](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:software#body-wrapper)  

H Double-T P is a hack of Apple’s Google widget.

Personally, I don’t really need a widget to search Google. My browser has a search box in the upper right corner. So, having a widget to search google didn’t save me enough clicks to be of help.

**BUT…**If I am in another application and my web browser is not open, invoking dashboard and entering a web address does save me quite a few clicks.

So, I hacked Apple’s Google widget, ran its face through ImageReady and wound up with H Double-T P.

Simply put, this widget let’s the user enter a web address (without the http :// ) and it will open the page in the user’s default browser even if the browser was not already open.

If there is enough interest in this widget, I will rebuild it with the following features:

- opening a URL
- searching for a specified term
- choosing what search engine to use

    Since H Double-T P is a hack of Apple’s widget, I am not currently putting it under an opensource license. If I do rebuild it with all of my own work, the widget will be opensourced.

    [Click here](https://code.google.com/p/stevenjaycohen/downloads/list) to download

    (This widget requires either Mac OS X 10.4.x or [Amnesty Browser](https://web.archive.org/web/20070115052744/https://www.mesadynamics.com:80/amnesty.htm) to run)

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