Financial gurus and self-help supplicants crowd the airwaves with great advice to streamline your savings and cure your credit problems. Catchy slogans like “leave the latte” encourage you to finance retirement by forgoing a $3.00 cup of coffee.  Efforts like these seem small, but with some magical math, you see amazing results, like $720 extra per year.

The QuickDrag add-on is appreciated in the same way. Some extra clicking or typing doesn’t seem like a big deal, but when you’re online, that’s all you do. So it really adds up. Shave extra clicks off a repeated action and you’ll find yourself zipping along that much faster.

After you install QuickDrag, start using it right away. Highlight a word, and drag it just the tiniest bit. Let go and a tab opens up with the results of a Google search using your highlighted selection as the keyword:

Repeat the drill with a url, and the tab opens up to the address location:

Drag an image and it will be saved on your desktop as soon as you let go:

Pretty simple, huh? There’s no reason not to try out QuickDrag.

Post from Elise Allen, whose French press paid for her to visit Italy, where she blew the savings on espresso. See all posts by Elise Allen.