Bookmark icons for Macs and other Ubiquity commands

I didn’t know people still used the commands I wrote back in August last year. Thanks to Philippe Mongeau reminding me, they are working again. The FoxyTunes and StumbleUpon command sets let you control the respective extensions. So, you can play/pause/skip songs playing in iTunes or SongBird using Ubiquity. The get-lyrics command searches for the [...]

Here’s to the lazy ones: a semantic LazyBar

Aza Raskin has been experimenting with a mouse-based UI for Ubiquity. Here’s my attempt – the LazyBar. It’s extremely simple. It’s for people who are too lazy to even select something.
Imagine you’re listening to You’re gonna go far, kid by The Offspring on Youtube, what are you most likely to use Ubiquity for? Searching Youtube [...]

Defining Ubiquity

I love how the Ubiquity logo is being designed. It’s genuinely open, attracts more people to the community and generates a lot of buzz. But I can’t bring myself to like any of the proposed logos. As Mike Beltzner put it here,
My feeling is that Ubiquity is an emotional, conceptual thing more than it is [...]

Books of Last Year

“Never let school interfere with your education”. But of course, I didn’t heed Mark Twain’s advice. In the last two years of high school, I didn’t read a single work of fiction. Just Physics for Scientists and Engineers and Biology. But the years prior to 2007 were prolific in the reading dimension for me:

After a [...]

App of the Year: Things

But in less than 4 days, you have to pay $49.95 to use it. I have a solution to keep it free forever. Unfortunately, it won’t be ready until March. What will I do for the next two months.