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One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.

The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. "What's happened to me? " he thought. It wasn't a dream.

His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame.

It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel quite sad.

"How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was.

He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before. "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell! " He felt a slight itch

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This is a very short tutorial explaining how you can turn the address bar of popular Mac OS X web browser Camino into a quick search bar. I know there are widgets for searching, but I'm not comfortable with continually running such widgets on my Mac. So, I decided to find an alternative...

I find myself heading over to Dictionary.com quite a bit - I need to stop talking to people who use big words. I soon got tired of typing the URL out each time i decided to visit, so I looked for an alternative. Unfortunately, Camino doesn't allow you to customize the built-in address bar search... it comes as a Google searcher and it stays as a Google searcher. Here's my solution (and in this example I will be using Dictionary.com, but anything can be in its place):

1. Figure out the URL pattern of the site you want to search. This can be easily done by simply conducting a couple of searches and noting the similarities. With Dictionary.com, it is quite obvious. Your search results are always in this form: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/.
2. Configure Camino. Like Firefox, to configure Camino, type about:config into your address bar. If this is your first time, it may alert you... don't worry, we're not going to kill anything.
3. Filter the fields. You'll see a lot of fields and values which we don't need to worry about. Filter your results by typing "keyword" into the filter box. This will narrow the list down to two items.
4. Plug in the new values. In the keyword.URL field, you will enter in the observed search pattern. In this example, the value would be "http://www.dictionary.com/browse/". Simply double click the field and type in the new value. Now you'll actually have to enable the keyword searcher. To do this, double click the keyword.enabled field to set it to true.
5. Restart Camino. When you return - test it out! Just type a word into the address bar and hit enter, you should be taken to its result on Dictionary.com.
6. Customize it. I know not everybody will be wanting to search a dictionary. You can even customize it to search Newsvine... whatever! Unfortunately, you can only have one quick search at a time. What I would like to do is have the ability to type "d " for searching Dictionary.com or "n " for searching Newsvine, as some other browsers do. Until then, this is the next best substitute!

Currently tested (and working) on versions:

• 1.1b
• 1.0.3

Just as in Firefox.