The Most-Used Commands

Tip: For a list of particularly interesting Yubnub commands, check out Yubnub Golden Eggs. Also see the Most-Used Commands.

Tip: You can search the descriptions by typing "ls [word or phrase]". For example, to search for all commands about music, type "ls music".

gomtv
gomtv.com GOM Player (The most wide spread movie player in South Korea) 's free VOD site.
35 uses - Created 2007-06-23 17:34:18 - Last used 2011-10-22 04:02:17 - Nominate - Description - http://www.gomtv.com

dora
Online character store for toys, bedding, party supplies, school supplies and more!
35 uses - Created 2007-07-04 15:04:21 - Last used 2024-12-10 16:26:53 - Nominate - Description - http://www.heroesforkids.co.uk

sofp
search in softpedia.com
35 uses - Created 2007-07-14 09:08:34 - Last used 2011-08-07 11:14:52 - Nominate - Description - http://www.softpedia.com/progSearch?src=%s

zah
search on www.zeroathome.de just type 'zah <query>' to search for <query>
35 uses - Created 2007-07-17 21:41:50 - Last used 2010-09-02 20:00:30 - Nominate - Description - http://www.zeroathome.de/wordpress/index.php?s=%s

$set
Sets a variable in a cookie (that lasts for a year, this is extended to a year each time the variable is used). Example: $set -var postcode -val KH1 9BN
35 uses - Created 2007-07-22 07:08:51 - Last used 2010-04-17 10:26:58 - Nominate - Description - http://www.grahamedgecombe.com/yubnub/setvar.php?var=${var}&val=${val}

hhp
Hoops Hype's rumor page is a quick way to survey basketball articles from many different newspapers
35 uses - Created 2007-08-16 21:09:32 - Last used 2014-12-29 00:32:48 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hoopshype.com/rumors.htm

uiop
A person search on the University in Oslo web pages.
35 uses - Created 2007-08-20 14:16:27 - Last used 2010-08-30 08:44:13 - Nominate - Description - http://www.uio.no/sok?pstype=person&qt=%s&type=query&rd=3&side=person

isms

35 uses - Created 2007-08-28 19:26:00 - Last used 2011-06-02 22:25:45 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ipipi.com

hwik
searches heroes wiki (heroeswiki.com) for given string e.g 'hwik claire' searches for claire if its a real article or close enough the wiki should redirect to the page you want also accepts multi word args, like 'hwik group of 12'
35 uses - Created 2008-11-16 21:31:58 - Last used 2019-05-14 04:46:34 - Nominate - Description - http://heroeswiki.com/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

hakia
Search with Hakia.com, semantic search engine
35 uses - Created 2008-11-17 17:34:27 - Last used 2020-10-07 09:13:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hakia.com/search.aspx?lang=nl&q=%s

htag
looks up the text at http://hashtags.org
35 uses - Created 2008-12-02 10:48:55 - Last used 2020-08-31 10:55:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.hashtags.org/tag/%s/

amimg2
More fun for Wes.
35 uses - Created 2008-12-18 15:15:56 - Last used 2008-12-30 17:59:11 - Nominate - Description - echo <a href="http://amazon.com/dp/%s/?tag=affiliateid-20"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/%s.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg"> PUT TITLE HERE</a> <a href="http://amazon.com/dp/%s/?tag=affiliateid-20"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/%s.01.THUMBZZZ.jpg"> PUT TITLE HERE</a> <a href="http://amazon.com/dp/%s/?tag=affiliateid-20"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/%s.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg"> PRODUCT NAME HERE</a> <a href="http://amazon.com/dp/%s/?tag=affiliateid-20"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/%s.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg"> PRODUCT NAME HERE</a> <a href="http://amazon.com/dp/%s/?tag=affiliateid-20"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/%s.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"> LINK TEXT HERE</a> <a href="http://amazon.com/dp/%s/?tag=affiliateid-20"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/%s.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"> LINK TEXT HERE</a>

jorno
Wall Street Journal... In Today's Paper page
35 uses - Created 2008-12-24 15:59:21 - Last used 2016-01-13 13:55:11 - Nominate - Description - http://online.wsj.com/public/page/us_in_todays_paper.html

difm
Digital Imported Radio
35 uses - Created 2008-12-29 14:38:55 - Last used 2024-02-27 22:41:16 - Nominate - Description - http://www.di.fm/

lingg
puts Linux filter on Google Search
35 uses - Created 2009-01-03 17:25:33 - Last used 2012-02-12 17:25:36 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&q=%s

hackn
Loads Ycombinator's Hacker News - http://news.ycombinator.com/
35 uses - Created 2009-02-25 14:39:12 - Last used 2023-08-19 17:25:49 - Nominate - Description - http://news.ycombinator.com/

transdk
Translate from danish to english on google translate
35 uses - Created 2009-04-14 15:04:05 - Last used 2010-06-09 09:44:48 - Nominate - Description - http://translate.google.dk/translate_t#da|en|%s

tors
Google Torrent Search - The New Pirate Bay
35 uses - Created 2009-04-21 00:25:52 - Last used 2023-05-04 18:52:43 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&client=google-coop&cof=FORID%3A13%3BAH%3Aleft%3BCX%3ATorrent%2520Search%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fcoop%2Fintl%2Fen-US%2Fimages%2Fcustom_search_sm.gif%3BLH%3A65%3BLP%3A1%3BVLC%3A%23551a8b%3BGFNT%3A%23666666%3BDIV%3A%23cccccc%3B&adkw=AELymgXuBvRn6AlpKJBYIN2I7e4KVbkn9JCglTqqMe88WIU7Cu0cgwwW5x86eAmbUlIMiMM9iCRT1iFcCN1okx8SLfIcClNK0dRXiOwAIkvDb_rOlsMcidg&boostcse=0&q=%s&btnG=Search&cx=003849996876419856805%3Aerhhdbygrma

sploed
Searches the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) via the Seatle Public Library (SPL) online proxy. You must be a member of SPL and authenticate in order to use it.
35 uses - Created 2009-04-21 16:10:13 - Last used 2016-07-06 16:12:58 - Nominate - Description - http://dictionary.oed.com.ezproxy.spl.org:2048/cgi/findword?query_type=word&queryword=%s&find.x=0&find.y=0&find=Find+word

flki
Flickr full text search, with results as thumbnails, sorted by interestingness. From there, you can click on 'slideshow' on the right (or use the cooliris plugin). (NB: 'flk' command does full text search, with results as detail, sorted by relevancy.)
35 uses - Created 2009-04-28 10:51:16 - Last used 2009-12-23 10:13:48 - Nominate - Description - http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=%s&z=t&ss=2&s=int

leoh
dict.leo.org + www.howjsay.com Leo translates an English word into German and HowJSay tells you the pronunciation. Example: leoh deviance
35 uses - Created 2008-01-29 09:28:23 - Last used 2013-01-16 08:04:05 - Nominate - Description - splith http://dict.leo.org/?search=%s http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=%s

moimsn

35 uses - Created 2008-03-11 09:36:38 - Last used 2008-04-18 08:31:25 - Nominate - Description - http://webmessenger.msn.com/default.aspx?R=1

ispace
Gogole image search with cool animated slideshow
35 uses - Created 2008-04-18 10:27:06 - Last used 2010-11-06 14:54:07 - Nominate - Description - http://www.creativspace.at/?q=%s&safe=off

puro
A quick and dirty shortcut to track purolator packages, simply type: puro waybill where waybill equals the tracking number of the package in question.
35 uses - Created 2008-05-30 22:15:15 - Last used 2015-07-21 11:40:51 - Nominate - Description - https://eshiponline.purolator.com/ShipOnline/Public/Track/TrackingDetails.aspx?pin=%s

mandy

35 uses - Created 2005-07-29 07:07:46 - Last used 2019-08-31 20:10:32 - Nominate - Description - http:// www.primates.com/ monkeys/cannabis.html

ymails
Yahoo Mail Search Syntax: ymails 'search term'
35 uses - Created 2005-07-30 20:22:34 - Last used 2010-10-09 20:00:00 - Nominate - Description - http://us.f516.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Search?Find=1&B=1&_p=top&ftyp=A&T=HDRS_ONLY&M=CONTAINS&S=%s&ymuri=ym&folderscrumb=0LkVSWvqxxm&sfi=3&urlextras=YY=70684

mbc
msn checker
35 uses - Created 2005-09-11 10:57:24 - Last used 2025-05-29 03:49:06 - Nominate - Description - http://search.windowsmedia.com/search/mgsearch.aspx?srch=%s

hpd
Hewlett-Packard Drivers Search Finds drivers for HP products on the HP website Example: hpd laserjet 2200
35 uses - Created 2005-09-21 23:46:09 - Last used 2022-06-08 14:09:55 - Nominate - Description - http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Lookup?h_pagetype=s-002&h_query=%s

herm

35 uses - Created 2005-10-03 10:37:19 - Last used 2009-08-27 12:39:16 - Nominate - Description - https://hermes.handysoft.com/exchange

temporary
//t3mp/r3r3
35 uses - Created 2005-10-13 15:45:27 - Last used 2019-04-15 09:20:15 - Nominate - Description - http://www.t3mp.org

cfc
Codefetch C search. Searches C programming books. Find code examples using 'printf' Example: cfc printf
35 uses - Created 2005-10-21 21:51:33 - Last used 2019-09-22 06:34:31 - Nominate - Description - http://www.codefetch.com/search?qy=%s&lang=c

dogear
Shortcut to dogear, an in-page bookmarker.
35 uses - Created 2006-08-15 20:55:24 - Last used 2012-03-19 12:59:01 - Nominate - Description - http://efridge.net/dogear

zippy
Zippy search engine combines results and SEO info from Google, Yahoo and MSN.
35 uses - Created 2006-09-06 21:27:27 - Last used 2021-07-02 08:35:20 - Nominate - Description - http://www.zippy.co.uk/search?q=%s

claytonium
The 258th Element Blog
35 uses - Created 2006-09-15 02:52:17 - Last used 2011-09-08 20:33:21 - Nominate - Description - http://claytonium.blogspot.com

prc
search for processes.
35 uses - Created 2006-09-15 18:36:25 - Last used 2020-09-16 07:46:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/files/%s/index.php

Telletubbies
This links you to a cool telletubbies website with lots of telletubbies and not porno. So, remember, this isn't a porno website.
35 uses - Created 2006-10-05 13:14:22 - Last used 2010-12-23 23:00:04 - Nominate - Description - http://playboy.com

webgoggle
a pr0n viewing site. you can view movies by sticking movie in front of your serach like: "horse" - will bring up horse pr0n "movie horse" - will bring up movies of horse pr0n... if you're into that type of thing.
35 uses - Created 2006-10-09 15:22:52 - Last used 2025-11-19 06:36:02 - Nominate - Description - http://webgoggles.com/?f=%s

gmb
link to gmbmg (givemebackmygoogle.com)
35 uses - Created 2006-10-18 03:10:18 - Last used 2017-07-16 05:23:03 - Nominate - Description - gmbmg %s

epad
Editpad text editor
35 uses - Created 2006-10-24 13:37:01 - Last used 2023-05-16 11:14:10 - Nominate - Description - http://tucows.mts.net/files/EditPadClassic.zip

washpost
Searches the Washington Post website at www.washingtonpost.com You can use and, or, not between search terms. The default with no operators is "and". Examples: washpost redskins cowboys gives the same results as washpost redskins and cowboys
35 uses - Created 2006-11-13 04:44:07 - Last used 2018-02-27 00:22:48 - Nominate - Description - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/NewsSearch?sb=-1&st=%s&

am2
Amazon Reviews. Goes to the Customer Reviews page for the given book or product. Example: am2 usability engineering nielsen
35 uses - Created 2006-11-30 06:12:44 - Last used 2011-07-04 06:39:29 - Nominate - Description - http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=%s+inurl:customer-reviews+site:amazon.com

en_fr
Translate from English to French with http://dico.isc.cnrs.fr
35 uses - Created 2006-04-21 12:47:58 - Last used 2011-06-30 07:27:47 - Nominate - Description - http://dico.isc.cnrs.fr/dico/tr/chercher_en?r=%s

chroma
Search a color with the french dictionary pourpre.com
35 uses - Created 2006-04-21 12:50:58 - Last used 2024-05-29 10:58:36 - Nominate - Description - http://pourpre.com/chroma/chercher.php?texte=%s

Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland USA
35 uses - Created 2006-04-26 02:45:12 - Last used 2019-04-20 13:55:26 - Nominate - Description - http://www.ci.baltimore.md.us

pci
portage
35 uses - Created 2006-05-03 18:34:52 - Last used 2018-01-14 09:49:28 - Nominate - Description - http://www.plpsd.mb.ca/pci/

wpContent
NAME wpContent - Returns just the content of a Wikipedia article. SYNOPSIS wpContent [TERM] EXAMPLES wpContent llama wpContent Ranunculus Uses the scrape command to return just the content of a Wikipedia article. NOTES Since this command scrapes the article's source, it is possible it will break if Wikipedia changes their HTML. AUTHOR Allen Ormond - aormond (at) gmail (dot) com
35 uses - Created 2006-05-16 23:17:04 - Last used 2008-12-18 17:36:09 - Nominate - Description - scrape -tokens %3C%21--+start+content+--%3E %3C%21--+Saved -dirs 0 0 -url http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s

vof
forums of voissa.com
35 uses - Created 2006-06-20 17:03:09 - Last used 2014-12-10 01:15:11 - Nominate - Description - http://forums.voissa.com

kavs
Kaspersky Virus Search
35 uses - Created 2006-07-05 18:14:34 - Last used 2010-12-22 08:29:19 - Nominate - Description - http://www.viruslist.com/en/find?search_mode=virus&words=%s&x=0&y=0

ymap
Yahoo maps (new) search.
35 uses - Created 2006-07-12 03:08:09 - Last used 2018-01-18 20:03:53 - Nominate - Description - http://maps.yahoo.com/beta

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