Friday, September 19, 2008
Monday, September 08, 2008
The UberCool Ubiquity!
This is what the Prototype already does:Imagine that you have Ubiquity installed on your Mozilla browser. You select some text on a web site (say a good review of a restaurant) ... control-tab ... ubiquity side-tab/window appears ... you write "email to angelina" ... gmail opens with the address filled-in (angelina@jolie.fr) ... the text is already there in the body ... you then select the address of the restaurant (within the email or anywhere) ubiquit "map" and a map appears centred on the address ... you choose "insert" and the mail now includes a map of the area. Now you also ubiquit "add to (calendar) lunch with Angelina tomorrow at 2:00 pm" ("lunch with Angelina" appears on your g-calendar for 2:00 pm the next day). Now all you have to do is to have someone call Brad on an all day audition tomorrow for the next safari blockbuster ... in Timbuktu. You also send Muppet-theatre tickets for the nanny to take the children. You finally ubiquit "weather Paris" and before you're done writing ... you see the weather there ... so you know what to wear I guess. :)
I'm serious. You don't believe me? Check it out for yourself:
Introducing Ubiquity
User Tutorial
x-tra Ubiquity Verbs
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Chrome!
Update 2008-09(September)-07(Sunday):
So far ... possibly because I tend to have tens of tabs opened at the same time, I've found that Firefox is much faster than Chrome, which seems to slow to a crawl and then stops working altogether after opening more than a few of them.
As excited as I was bout Chrome, it got on my nerves. And so I'm writing this in Firefox 3. As of today Chrome doesn't even come close to it.
Admittedly I have not explored Chrome's every feature. And given that it's open-source, it is certain to improve. It's still in beta in any case. And it's probably already much better than ie (which undoubtedly sucks). It's just that Firefox users are spoiled. It's an amazing browser. And our expectations are very high. Give Chrome some time I guess.
So far ... possibly because I tend to have tens of tabs opened at the same time, I've found that Firefox is much faster than Chrome, which seems to slow to a crawl and then stops working altogether after opening more than a few of them.
As excited as I was bout Chrome, it got on my nerves. And so I'm writing this in Firefox 3. As of today Chrome doesn't even come close to it.
Admittedly I have not explored Chrome's every feature. And given that it's open-source, it is certain to improve. It's still in beta in any case. And it's probably already much better than ie (which undoubtedly sucks). It's just that Firefox users are spoiled. It's an amazing browser. And our expectations are very high. Give Chrome some time I guess.
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