What really Ubiuquity is ?

According to Mozilla the main goal of Ubiquity is to give users the power to create mashups that can fetch data of there choice with a single command from different websites. It can be a sort of web agent that instead of forcing you to search will get data of your choice from your recommended web properties. With Ubiuquity you can set up commands to manipulate web tasks like mapping, translation, shopping or retrieving entries from Wikipedia, Yelp or Google Maps any many more.

What can i do with Ubiquity ?

If you happen to plan vacation your process of planning would be to first search the list of good vacation spots, then you would find about air fares and available flights, then hotel reservation and compare their price and then of course you want to fetch the map of the location along with pictures of the spot this kind of task can consume allot of your time. For each task you make searches, sort and compare records. But with ubiquit you can simply set up a command line stating ‘vacation’ and create mashup that will fetch data from various websites of your choice including vacation spots, air fares, hotel reservation, and Google maps of the location with just one command line ‘vacation’ & help you compare and make descions. Thus instead of spending more time on search you can create your own web agent that will perform all such tasks for you.

How to install configure Ubiquity ?

The current version is prototype and is available at Mozilla website for free download, you can follow their tutorial to install the application here.

Mac Users > You’ll need to install Growl. This is a Mac OS X system extension that applications can use to display unobtrusive transparent messages. Ubiquity uses Growl notifications to show you the output of commands and tell you about errors.

Windows Users > On Windows (XP and later), you don’t need to install anything special, as Ubiquity will use the operating system’s built-in “toaster”-style pop-up messaging.

Linux Users >On Linux, we don’t have a good messaging system yet. If you have a suggestion for how Ubiquity can display messages on Linux (preferably in a way that will work on all major distros and window managers), please tell us about it.

Source Mozilla Labs, Ubiquity Tutorials

Social Networking Addons for Firefox
1- Facebook Extension for Firefox.
First Comes “Facebook” with an average of above 150 million user subscription, facebook has made its self the no1 social networking website. So the “Facebook toolbar for Firefox” is an essential.

Once installed the Facebook Toolbar brings your facebook life to your browser every time you open up the browser you are logged into facebook, you can search facebook, get notified of the pokes, friends requests and messages you receive. A pop-up will notify when friends update there status, write a note or interact with you on facebook. You can also open your friends sidebar, sort them and keep in touch with them. Apart from that if you run groups or a network on facebook you can share content directly from your browser what else do you need.

An essential facebook extension to keep in touch.

Facebook Toolbar Download , Addons Page

2- Twitter – TwitBin
Are you addicted to twitter just like me ? well if yes then you can add more to twitter, you can answer the question “What are you doing ?” right from your browser, simple download and install TwitBin Send and receive messages to all your fellow twitterholics, right from your firefox browser. While you browse you keep your Twitter alive.

TwitBin Download, Addons Page

3- Social Network Content Sharing – Shareaholic
Share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser.

Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service, including: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, google bookmarks, magnolia, mixx, reddit, stumbleupon, tumblr and twitter. You also have the option to e-mail the web page directly to a friend.

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3- YouTube & Video Sharing Website Add On
Video Download Add on, this add on adds the capability to download any video you see in the web. Download the Add on and then once installed, just right click any video and download. With this ad On you can download videos from YouTube, Metcafe, MSN Soapbox, Yahoo Video and many more.

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4- Get an Internet Explorer Inside Firefox.
This is the essential for web designers, web developers who have to spend hours after hours fixing the cross browser issues. IE Tab ads a tab and Opens any webpage as IE inside Firefox. The interesting part is it creates its own session and maintains its own history. So far i am not sure which version of IE it opens but my rough guess is IE6.0.

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