Thanks to a recent post by Paul Stamatiou, I got a quick heads up on a brand new feature of OpenDNS. Shortcuts in OpenDNS are just about the coolest thing since sliced bread in my book. It’s so easy to integrate into your network preferences and makes surfing the net just that much faster and easier. You can set up shortcuts for websites you frequent (For example, typing “ibam” into your browser address bar takes you to this site). They have tutorials for both OS X and OS 9 so you can be flying to sites faster than ever. I did the tutorial in 30 seconds and didn’t even have to reboot like they said at the end. Might be different for you, but for me it was friggin easy.

Here’s a few of mine:

• ibam = iboughtamac.com
• g = google.com/ig
• mail = gmail.com
• read = google.com/reader
• 9 = 9rules.com
• ps = paulstamatiou.com
• 531 = 5thirtyone.com
• synergy = synergyprod.com
• tcs = thecreationshop.com
• wb = whatablogger.com
• pc = podcampaz.org

Honorable Mention via Yohannes Wijaya: YubNub does a lot of the same things as OpenDNS but has been around for longer and has more predefined shortcuts. Also, it’s integration with QuickSilver is pretty cool as well.