http://hackaday.com Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:45:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/5560f98f805877b0e332f191cb9e0af3?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://hackaday.com http://hackaday.com/2008/08/27/ubiquity-a-browser-command-line/ http://hackaday.com/2008/08/27/ubiquity-a-browser-command-line/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:30:00 +0000 Eliot http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/08/27/ubiquity-a-browser-command-line/ ]]> During the last day the web has been abuzz about Mozilla Labs’ Ubiquity. It’s an addon for Firefox that can help you streamline how you get things done on the web. In the example above, they show constructing an email with a map and reviews using mostly keyboard driven input. The addon is quick to install and we think you’ll find it saving you a lot of time on tasks you’d normally hit the search box for. In the popup, you can do quick Wikipedia lookups, define words, translate, perform calculations, and many other operations. You can email a page to someone by just typing three words. The best part is: anyone can write a command that will expand Ubiquity’s function. Greasemonkey helped fix broken websites and we think Ubiquity will help make interactions between sites much easier. We can’t wait to see what clever uses people come up with.

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