February 6, 2009

Ubiquity

Reminscient of Dash, Quicksilver, or Launchy, Ubiquity will be, if it isn’t already, an essential extension for Firefox. Looks like I will finally be ditching Chrome.

Update:  Rather than just give you better context to bait you into watching the video, I think I’ll just quote Deron:  

Andrew, this is fucking incredible. maybe we should put more context in the post so we make sure people will watch this. this feels transformative in the way the iPhone did.

See? Now you have to watch this.

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  1. Deron Bauman on February 6th, 2009 at 11:36 am

    Andrew, this is fucking incredible. maybe we should put more context in the post so we make sure people will watch this. this feels transformative in the way the iPhone did.

  2. India on February 6th, 2009 at 11:46 am

    Nearly all of the examples assume that you’re sending HTML-based e-mail. Most of my e-mail clients can receive HTML, but they don’t display it consistently and HTML usually looks like shit when you try to forward it, so I never use it for outgoing messages. HTML e-mail also sucks on a lot of mobile devices, and it makes phishing a lot easier. If I could keep my mom from ever seeing HTML in her inbox, I’d sleep easier. In short, I’m agin’ it.

    Other than that, Ubiquity looks fly.

  3. Deron Bauman on February 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am

    well played.

  4. Garrett on February 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    I think there are bigger uses of this outside of HTML email, or email in general. The ability to easily write custom snippets for different websites (for instance, blog a selection of text/images/website intuitively straight to your WordPress) is incredibly powerful.

    What Quicksilver did for the development community and general user interaction is mind-boggling. It’s an homage to the command line and the power of simple verbose commands.

    In other words, I for one welcome our new command-to-action overlords.

  5. Andrew Simone on February 6th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

    Of course. The implications are staggering.

  6. India on February 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pm

    Yeah, I’m all for more command-line interfaces. If I could get one of those installed in my apartment? Now, that‘d be bitchen.

    indiamos$ refrigerator -g milk | pantry -g cereal | silverware -g teaspoon | stir 00:00:05 small.bowl >livingroom.table

  7. Andrew Simone on February 6th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    Haha!

    That also reminds me of an SSH quip a friend tweeted the other day:

    “Wishing I could SSH into my microwave and see if the burritos are warm or if they need to be nuked some more.”

  8. India on February 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Yes. Also, as I have been saying for years and years, my apartment seriously needs a defrag utility.

  9. fuz on February 6th, 2009 at 8:29 pm

    Goodbye Camino. You have served me well.

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