Ubiquity prototype offers a natural language web command line. @ Asian Angel: "Just curious, has anyone else had any extension conflicts due to Ubiquity?? " Yes. I did. Same problem: Ubiquity and FastDial do not play well together. I recently went back to Firefox 3 after finding the latest version doesn't disagree with me or my computer as much as the first version did.
Ubiquity was the last new extension I installed, but alas, I had to disable Fast Dial to run it, at which point I lost interest, removed Ubiquity, then I removed Fast Dial, reinstalled Speed Dial (which conflicts with the Silvermel theme, causing me to remove Speed Dial in the first place - but Silvermel and the Dev Build of TabMixPlus don't work together either, so now I've gone back to the Zune theme) and am debating whether not to reinstall Ubiquity. Why can't all the add-ons just get along? How to turn bookmarklets into commands. Bookmarklets are clickable actions (technically a link containing some Javascript) that can be added to the bookmarks bar of your browser. They’re a good way of getting control of the web back into users hands, by allowing them to add whatever new functionality they want to the websites they visit. The main problem with bookmarklets is that they don’t provide a scalable solution for accessing their functionality. You can only have so many buttons on the toolbar before they become an unusable outbreak of pimples that clutter the browser’s interface.
With a new utility function in Ubiquity, it’s now trivial to turn any bookmarklet into a Ubiquity command. Here’s a short video tutorial on how to do it: Here’s the source code for the command in the video. The bookmarklet comes from here. If you’ve got any favorite bookmarklets or great bookmarklet-based commands, put ‘em in the comments. 15 Ubiquity commands to enhance your Web experience.
By Andre · 37 Comments Yesterday Google released its new Chrome browser. I anxiously downloaded it, tried it, then uninstalled it after 15 minutes. I failed to come across anything that compensated for the lack of extension support. Firefox has too many extensions I’m simply not willing to give up. Once you install the extension, you call up the console window by hitting Ctrl-Space. 15 commands in action Ubiquity handles natural language command phrases, so you can theoretically enter a command the way you intuit it, without having to learn the formal syntax.
Many of the commands can be abbreviated to the minimum number of letters unique to their targets. Map. Technorati Tags: Technology, Productivity, Ubiquity, Mozilla, Firefox, Extensions, Add-ons Tags: Productivity · Technology. The ultimate list of custom Ubiquity verbs. With all the news about Chrome, it's been pretty easy to forget about one of Firefox's recent releases: Ubiquity. We gave Ubiquity a rave review for giving Firefox a whole new UI. The standard commands, or "verbs", that come with Ubiquity are great. Yet we couldn't help but want more. Developers have been working around the clock to produce some fantastic custom verbs for Ubiquity. Here is ReadWriteWeb's list of the top picks of custom Ubiquity verbs! Media Ubiquity already comes with built in search commands for Youtube, Amazon, and Flickr. Last.FM - Allows users to search the Last.FM music network for artists pages.Seeq - Search Seeqpod for music.Vimeo - Allows users to search Vimeo for matching video results.Stickam - Watch the livestream of your Stickam friends no matter what page you're on.Netflix Search - Search Netflix for movies.
Social Networks So far Ubiquity only allows you to interact with one social network: Twitter. Ping. Social Sharing and Bookmarking Sites Notable Verbs. A first look at Mozilla’s Ubiquity. You’ve probably heard of Ubiquity by now. It was causing quite a buzz a few days ago before Google Chrome came along and stole all of its thunder. Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension that bills itself as “a powerful new way to interact with the web.” One way to describe Ubiquity that gives you a clearer idea of what it’s actually all about is that it’s Quicksilver for the Internet. We’re all used to the point-and-click, foreign and unnatural way of interfacing with the web. Ubiquity tries to change the way we interface with the web by allowing us to use language rather than buttons and endless URLs.
For me, when I realized that the developers had connected the word “this” to various means of input selection, I realized that there have been many simple ways to create more human interfaces for a long time, but we’ve ignored them. Useful Commands So what exactly can Ubiquity do? Before you invoke a command, you need to summon Ubiquity. Room for Improvement The Bottom Line. Ubiquity In Depth. An experiment into connecting the Web with language. Ubiquity is an experiment two parts. It’s both an interface and a development platform. Ubiquity 0.1 focuses on the platform aspects, while beginning to explore language-driven methods of controlling the browser. Read about the release here, or download it. In this post, we’ll talk first about the interface, and then the platform. For those who are really impatient, and just want to see how the prototype version works, check out all of the pretty screenshots and use-cases in the Ubiquity Tutorial.
The Problem: The Web is Disconnected You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. This kind of clunky, time-consuming interaction is common on the Web. It’s even worse on mobile devices, where limited capability and fidelity makes this onerous or nearly impossible. Most people do not have an easy way to manage the vast resources of the Web to simplify their task at hand. Ubiquity 0.1 User Tutorial. Back to Labs/Ubiquity. Note: This is the tutorial for an old version of Ubiquity. For the latest version, please see Labs/Ubiquity/Latest Ubiquity User Tutorial.
Ubiquity is an experimental Firefox extension that gives you a powerful new way to interact with the Web. You're used to telling Firefox where you want to go by typing Web addresses into the URL bar: With Ubiquity installed, you'll be able to tell Firefox what you want it to do by typing commands into a new Ubiquity input box. Ubiquity commands can do nearly anything. The commands that come with Ubiquity are just the beginning: anyone can create new commands and share them. Ubiquity is still a work in progress, and we are eager for you to join our virtual team to experiment. If you're on a Mac... You'll need to install Growl. On Windows (XP and later), you don't need to install anything special, as Ubiquity will use the operating system's built-in "toaster"-style pop-up messaging. Starting Ubiquity First Command: Searching Wikipedia.