JDHarper.com » firefox http://jdharper.com/blog Stuff Worth Writing About Sun, 13 May 2012 15:10:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Ubiquity http://jdharper.com/blog/ubiquity/ http://jdharper.com/blog/ubiquity/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:50:04 +0000 J. D. Harper Ubiquity adds easy to use commands to Firefox. It’s dead simple to use: activate it with a keyboard shortcut (I use Ctrl-Space), then type in a command. The commands autocomplete, so you don’t even have to remember or type in the whole command. Some good ones:

  • weather <location> gives you the local weather
  • tinyurl <URL> sends the URL to tinyurl and enters in the shortened URL at the current cursor location. (Great for Twitter!)
  • twitter <message> broadcasts a message on twitter
  • tag <list of comma-separated tags> saves the current tab as a bookmark and assigns it the list of tags
  • email <text> to <email address> starts a new email in Gmail with a link to the current web page
  • escape HTML entities replaces all instances of greater than signs with &gt; and all less than signs with &lt; in the selected text–very useful for HTML-enabled forms where you want to discuss HTML tags
  • translate <text> <from language> <to language> replaces the selected text in a website with a translation of that text into a new language.
  • add to google calendar <event> adds an event to google calendar, e.g. “add to google calendar dinner with parents Friday at 5pm”
  • list opens a list of all the commands Ubiquity accepts

Very spiffy.

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