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Best Ubiquity Commands

A small list of Ubiquity commands that I daily use:

tiny: to quickly create a tinyURL

g: to show the results of a search on google

And more after the jump!


search: start search

get-lyrics: to search for song lyrics

add: to add an event to your google calendar

twitter: to update the status on twitter

ebay: to search for an item on ebay

email (text) (to contact): to send an email directly from Ubiquity

get email: to see how we are logged in Gmail

restart: restarts firefox

map: Google Maps

weather: see the weather for a location

fore: to see the weather forecast

email this to: to send via mail any selection from a page

Zoom: to zoom the page

open book: to open a bookmark

Wayback: to view the old versions of a site

view source: to view the source code of a page

youtube: search for videos on youtube

define: to search for the meaning of a term

highlight: yellow highlight for a selected text

herd: to access the herd and look for new commands

tab: to move to another open tab

digg: to digg a page on digg.com

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