[Bubba]

I've been using Ubiquity for a while now, and it's certainly one of the best FF addons that there is - get it here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9527

If you're in any way a FF "power user" then you should love it, it's basically a command line interface to Firefox.

The discussions in another topic regarding Wolfram showed up a very handy feature in Ubiquity, the ability to create search commands on the fly.

First, I wanted to create a Wolfram Alpha Ubiquity search command - all you do is this:

- go to the Walpha search page and position your cursor in the search box
- hit CTRL + SPACE to bring up Ubiquity
- type create-new-search-command wolfram (or whatever you want to call it)
- hit enter

That's it, the new search command is registered. Now if you ever want to search walpha again, all you do is:
- hit CTRL+SPACE
- type wolfram yoursearchText and hit enter.

This is obviously much faster than manually opening up a new tab, etc.


So, I wondered if you could do the same for a UKB search command and you can:
- go to Google advanced search: http://www.google.co.uk/advanced_search?hl=en
- In the box marked "Search within a site or domain:" insert "ukbouldering.com"
- Move your cursor to the "all these words:" search box
- hit CTRL + SPACE to bring up Ubiquity
- type create-new-search-command ukbsearch (or whatever you want to call it)
- hit enter

That's it - now searching ukb using google instead of the pants forum search is as simple as:
- CTRL + SPACE
- ukbsearch yourSearchText
- hit enter

Very nice 

[Bubba]

I can see that went down like a brick - really, try Ubiquity; it took me a little while to "get" it but it really is the dogs.

[butters]

I can see that went down like a brick - really, try Ubiquity; it took me a little while to "get" it but it really is the dogs.

Give me a minute to get logged on here Bubba...  Sounds rather interesting actually so I will probably give it a try.

As a side note there are loads of specialised search engine plugins available at the Mycroft Project page page - just select the one you want from the drop down list in the top right corner and off you go. As a taster for what is available: various different Wolfram ones here, the slack---line special plugin here and one to search the mycroft Project itself here.

It might be possible to create one specifically for searching UKB via Google - I might look into it later if I get time...

bluebrad

[tomtom]

its kinda cool - but I'm not really sure what I would use it for. THat might be me just being tired etc...
I can see that it could be really useful, just not figured what for me yet.. interesting spot though Bubba..

[slackline]

Installed at work, but had to actually do some work.

Will check it out over the coming days, but I do like the greasmonkey aspect of dynamically changing pages as their loaded.

This seems a useful tool for navigating/searching sites that you regularly visit (including search of course), anything its useful for?  Mapping in the Tutorial looks cool and possibly useful, as does the translation, but I'll reserve judgement on that until tested!

[Houdini]

If it can help me tap into the rich vein of dalmation p.ornz that has always eluded me, then I'm your hound, sorry, man!

Woof!

[Bubba]

I've not really sold Ubiquity very well in the above examples - that is just one tip of the iceberg, it can do so much more - in fact, Mozilla like it so much that much of it's functionality is going to be built in to FF 3.5 under the guise of Taskfox.

Beyond just searching for things, commands can be chained together in a Unix stylee, and there are a shit load of other commands being worked on by the community - see Ubiquity Commands in the Wild

Lifehacker has a nice intro: http://lifehacker.com/5145709/make-ubiquity-your-ultimate-firefox-commander

[slackline]

Okay I'm sold already, the email shit is well handy when you want to send a page to people, searching wikipedia on the fly is funky too.

Full list of commands is just 'Ctrl+Space' + 'command-list' going to take some time to search through the commands in the wild and get some proficiency in writing my own commands but its pretty funky  

EDIT: Although there are clearly some security issues that users need to be aware of, this was prominently displayed when I looked at a script for querying the NCBI's PubMed from Ubiquity...

You are about to subscribe to a Ubiquity command from an unknown, untrusted third-party source at http://gist.github.com/67266. If you subscribe, this command could do anything it wants to your browser. It could steal your credit card number or e-mail your grandmother your entire image browsing history.

[butters]

I've not really sold Ubiquity very well in the above examples - that is just one tip of the iceberg, it can do so much more - in fact, Mozilla like it so much that much of it's functionality is going to be built in to FF 3.5 under the guise of Taskfox.

After following the link that Slack---line provided last night it became very apparent that it was more than what I thought it was but then that is nothing new. 

Certainly no great surprise at all that it is being implemented in the next Firefox upgrade.

bluebrad