A quick question: I’m trying to get some anecdotal data about the most popular 3rd-party Ubiquity commands. If you use Ubiquity, are you subscribed to any 3rd-party commands, and if so, which ones are most useful to you?
August 7, 2009
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Not The User's Fault
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August 7, 2009 at 4:40 am
http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2008/08/31/firefox-ubiquity-command-fyi/
Adds a simple mailto: command to ubiquity, which works with every mail client, not only gmail
August 7, 2009 at 8:23 am
add to calendar
August 7, 2009 at 8:36 am
My own ‘moz-bug’ command (not publically available): it takes a Mozilla bug number as an argument and loads the bug’s page. Makes it faster when someone says “look at bug 123456”.
August 7, 2009 at 11:45 am
Why settle for anecdotal data when you have actual data? Isn’t this what the Ubiquity Herd Command Feed is for?
August 7, 2009 at 11:47 am
Or is it that you don’t think that a command’s installed base doesn’t necessarily correlate to how useful it is?
Why not take the top commands from the herd stats and have people vote for how useful they find them?
August 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I’m using the leo translation service all the time:
http://www.geocities.com/ubiquities1/leo.htm
August 7, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I really use Kortina’s bitly command alot.
I can never get the “Show All Feeds” link to work for Herd… is it just me?
nada…
https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/herd/
August 7, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Sam Hasler: The Herd hasn’t been able to run correctly for several months, ever since the quantity of data overwhelmed the server infrastructure it was running on. We’re working on a brand-new implementation that will be more scalable and avoid this problem, but for now, we do not in fact have actual data on command usage. That’s why I’m doing an informal survey.
Bill: It’s not just you.
August 8, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Text2Link is the only 3rd party command I have because I would have thought that that would have been built in and I use it all the time.
I’d love to get a hold of Nick’s moz-bug command though. Especially if it could preview the description and status like what you get when you hover over a bug link in bugzilla.
August 12, 2009 at 4:23 pm
My favorite is the RTM command:
http://garyhodgson.github.com/ubiquity-rtm-api/
and a personal command to show new PM and unread topic in the italian Mozilla’s forum.
August 12, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I like the “grammar” command: http://apoema.net/langbot/en/gc.lb
It can verify grammar of a selected text. Available languages are:
* Dutch
* English
* French
* German
* Icelandic
* Italian
* Lithuanian
* Portuguese
* Polish
* Romanian
* Russian
* Slovak
* Slovenian
* Spanish
* Swedish
* Ukrainian
It is a good command to use if you are not a native speaker!
August 19, 2009 at 5:22 pm
[…] a thread on my blog to ask about people’s favorite 3rd-party commands. It’s here: https://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/your-favorite-3rd-party-ubiquity-commands/ One person mentions a command called TextToLink which he thinks ought to be […]
August 19, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Text2Link is extremely useful. This seems natural to be part of Ubiquity core functionality.
I’d also put a vote in for the suggestions
(from the Google Groups post) of “Go to” and “Find”.
Google (this site) seems interesting but is it too limiting to tie it into one search engine (i.e. Google) rather than using the Firefox current default? Wouldn’t something like “search site for” be preferred or is this functionality something only Google can provide?
I personally don’t care for image editing from Ubiquity, but would be interested in what’s being suggested.
August 22, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Well, I’ve many favorite 3rd-party commands. I’d like YubNub integrated in Ubquiquity 0.6 Like with Ubiquity, you can create your own commands. I think anyone who likes Ubiquity, likes YubNub and YubNub is also very useful.
I’ve found this YubNub command called “cmdline”
http://yubnub.org/kernel/man?args=cmdline
I think that is a good example of the YubNub uselfulness.
August 29, 2009 at 5:29 pm
google site search is very useful!
March 20, 2010 at 9:12 pm
i’ve made a pretty clever freebase command, that i now cannot function without
http://www.spencerwaterbed.com/soft/ubiquity/westport.html
answers things like
‘canadian astronauts’
‘david bowie’s birthday’