Posts Tagged ‘Mozilla Labs’

Ubiquity 0.5 released

Posted 09 Jul 2009 — by Arun
Category Announcement

Mozilla Lab has released Ubiquity 0.5. If you are not sure what Ubiquity is, click here. According to Mozilla Lab, this release brings

  • The first internationalized Ubiquity, where even non-coders can help bring Ubiquity to their language
  • A more natural, human, and robust way to give Ubiquity instructions.
  • A new, game-inspired interactive tutorial.
  • Experimental smart suggestions: type “pasta” and Ubiquity recommends Yelp.

Ubiquity 0.5 requires Firefox 3.5. If you have Firefox 3.5 and you want to install Ubiquity, click here.

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Weave 0.4 released

Posted 29 Jun 2009 — by Arun
Category Technology

Mozilla Labs has released Weave 0.4, a prototype that encrypts and securely synchronizes the Firefox experience across multiple browsers, so that your desktop, laptop, and mobile phone can all work together. Weave Sync is the first prototype component in Weave. From what I read, Weave seems to be something similar to Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks). Here is what Weave can do, according to Mozilla Labs:

  • Get the same results on the Smart Location Bar on each of your Firefox browsers, so you can get to your favorite sites with just a few keystrokes
  • Continue what you were doing: have the ability to open any tab you have open on any of your Firefox browsers
  • Keep the same list of bookmarks on all of your Firefox browsers
  • Easily sign in to all your favorite sites using your saved passwords (this is especially handy on mobile phones, where it’s hard to type in complex passwords)
  • Do it all securely: Weave Sync encrypts user data before uploading it to Mozilla’s servers, so that only you can access your data

Weave 0.4 has the following features:

  • Preference syncing (including Personas)
  • Identity support (automatic login, including use of OpenID logins)
  • Better support for addons using Weave
  • Support for Fennec 1.0 beta 2 on Maemo Linux
  • Significant improvements in performance during startup and opening new windows.

To use Weave, you have to have Firefox 3.5. It won’t work with the current stable Firefox release.

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Snowl 0.3 pre2 released

Posted 25 Jun 2009 — by Arun
Category Technology

The second preview release of Snowl 0.3 is now available. You might have read my old blog post about Snowl. If not, take a look at it to understand what Snowl is. Snowl 0.3 Pre2 includes lots of bug fixes and couple of major improvements.

This version groups messages by day (with plans to support grouping by week and month in the future) and lets you traverse them using buttons on the toolbar.

Second, you can once again view all your subscriptions at once. To do so, select the Subscriptions item from the list of collections.

Source: Mozilla Labs.

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Ubiquity from Mozilla Labs

Posted 27 Aug 2008 — by Arun
Category Announcement

Mozilla Labs announced the launch of Ubiquity, a Mozilla Labs
experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find
new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do
common Web tasks more quickly and easily.

According to Mozilla Labs,the overall goals of Ubiquity are to explore how best to:

  • Empower users to control the
    web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type
    what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.)
  • Enable on-demand,
    user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words,
    allowing everyonenot just Web developersto remix the Web so it fits
    their needs, no matter what page they are on, or what they are doing.)
  • Use Trust networks and social constructs to balance security with ease of extensibility.
  • Extend the browser functionality easily.

Ubiquity 0.1 was released. It’s a prototype version, so install it at your own risk. Ubiquity 0.1

  • Lets you map and insert maps anywhere; translate
    on-page; search amazon, google, wikipedia, yahoo, youtube, etc.; digg
    and twitter; lookup and insert yelp review; get the weather; syntax
    highlight any code you find; and a lot more.
  • Find and install new commands to extend your browsers vocabulary through a simple subscription mechanism

Future Ubiquity Thumb

Source: Mozilla Labs.

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