Thanks to the fact that the latest web browsers support Open Standards in certain places it means that we can develop simple little tools to make our lives easier. The OpenSearch standard allows us to create a little piece of code which tells your web browser to add a new search engine to the little search box in the top right hand corner (which normally defaults to searching Google). Well if you have Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 2 then opening this file will add the ability to search the php website directly from your browser (php is the code we use to make interesting web sites).
If you’re not so technically minded this file will let you do the same on the Multimap web site - give it a go, you can easily uninstall them if you don’t like them and you never know it may make your life just that little bit easier. We created these two this morning but there are a whole host of other ones at the Mycroft web site.