Create your own web address shortcuts with OpenDNS

This is going to be nothing short of a new revolution. OpenDNS has introduced a new feature enabling you to create your own shortcuts for websites you frequently access.

With OpenDNS shortcuts turned on, the address bar of your browser can be used to launch websites via your own shortcuts (for example g for google.com or mail for mail.yahoo.com).

What Shortcuts ?

For creating a shortcut you first need to log in to your OpenDNS account. Then go to Shortcuts in My Account. There you can create the shortcuts you want.

For example if you frequently access Wikipedia. Using OpenDNS shortcuts, you can simply create a shortcut wiki in OpenDNS, so that everytime you type wiki in the address bar of your browser you will be taken to Wikipedia.

You can create as many shortcuts as you like. For these shortcuts to function, you should obviously have set up OpenDNS on your computer. If you have not, it is very simple. Just change the DNS servers of your connection to the ones provided by OpenDNS which are :

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

You can change the DNS server from the TCP/IP Properties section of your network connection.

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