Nazly's BLOG » Firefox http://www.nazly.net Personal Weblog of Nazly Ahmed : Web Developer. PHP Addict. Wordpress Hacker. FOSS Enthusiast. (Micro)Blogger. Cricket Fanatic. Husband. Dad. Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:26:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Ubiquity – Connecting the Web with language http://www.nazly.net/ubiquity-connecting-the-web-with-language/ http://www.nazly.net/ubiquity-connecting-the-web-with-language/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:54:42 +0000 Nazly http://blog.nazly.net/ubiquity-connecting-the-web-with-language/ http://www.nazly.net/imgs/ubiquity_side.png

Couple of days back I heard about Ubiquity, an experiment by Mozilla Labs to connect the Web with language that would make Web tasks much more easy and fun to deal with for an average user. I installed Ubiquity and I'm already fascinated by how certain painful day to day tasks can be done easily by combining few commands. The initial version, Ubiquity 0.1 comes with loads of features including working with maps and insert maps to anywhere you want, translate on-page, search google, search wikipedia, digg, twitter, lookup and insert yelp review, get the weather, syntax highlight any code you find, convert a URL to tinyurl and the list goes on. Its definietly a worther try.

Make sure you go through the Introduction to Ubiquity which has most of the information you need to know about Ubiquity. Don't forget to watch the video which explains how easy it is to do certain Web tasks using Ubiquity.

Also read the Ubiquity 0.1 User Tutorial which has some nice tips on how to use Ubiquity and also has some valuable information about how to extend Ubiquity by adding new commands.

Have fun..

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What a day it was, helping Firefox to set a new Guinness World Record. The Download Day is an awesome success I guess reaching more than 8 million downloads in 24 hours. It was supposed to begin at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Tuesday, June 17th. It was 10.30p.m. here in Sri Lanka at that time when I tried to login to getfirefox.com but the site was down and all Firefox related sites were hit hardly by the massive crowd login in at that time. I tried couple of times but no response. Then my Internet connection got dropped may be due to a failure from the ISPs end for some reason. I couldn't login yesterday morning even but checked the progress at SpreadFirefox's Download Day page. Finally around mid-day I was able to download Firefox3 as I pledged. What a feeling it was. The people of Guinness will review the World Record attempt, so it will take a few days to know whether this made it to the Records.

]]> http://www.nazly.net/firefox3-downloads-hit-8-million-mark/feed/ 0 Make history with Firefox3 http://www.nazly.net/make-history-with-firefox3/ http://www.nazly.net/make-history-with-firefox3/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:06:22 +0000 Nazly http://blog.nazly.net/make-history-with-firefox3/ Are you ready to make history? Are you ready to set a World Record? Today is Download Day. To become part of the official Guinness World Record you must download Firefox 3 by 17:00 UTC on June 18, 2008, or roughly 24 hours from now.

-Email from SpreadFirefox

The Firefox3 Download Day has officially begun. For Sri Lankan's the cutoff time will be 10.30pm today. So go download Firefox3 by this time. Don't forget to spread the word as well.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord

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Upto now1,375,759 people have pledged to download Firefox 3 to set a Guinness World Record for the most no of downloads for a software when its released on 17th June 2008 which is today. 1,711 Sri Lankans are in that list so make sure you download Firefox 3 when its released.

The date/time for the Firefox 3 Lauch Party here in Sri Lanka will be announced soon. So be ready for that as well ;-)

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Help set a Firefox 3 world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours on Download Day! Go to the Download Day Headquarters and pledge to download Firefox 3. With your help the Firefox community can go down in history.



http://www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord

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Get Back your Screen Space: Maximize Firefox Viewing Area

]]> http://www.nazly.net/get-back-your-screen-space/feed/ 0 Enhance your Web Development Using the Firefox Web Developer Extension http://www.nazly.net/enhance-your-web-development-using-the-firefox-web-developer-extension/ http://www.nazly.net/enhance-your-web-development-using-the-firefox-web-developer-extension/#comments Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:13:09 +0000 Nazly http://blog.nazly.net/enhance-your-web-development-using-the-firefox-web-developer-extension/ It has been bit over two years since I last posted about the Web Developer Extension for Mozilla Firefox. All these years I have been using it quite effectively on my developments and it still remains a very effective tool. If you haven't started using it yet, here is a nice article that would encourage you to start using it.

9 Practical Ways to Enhance your Web Development Using the Firefox Web Developer Extension

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Check out the Release Notes for whats new in Firefox 2.0. I didn't upgrade it yet though on the course of doing it.

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Check this out..

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/07/12/firefox-2-beta-1-milestone-released/

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