With all the news about Chrome, it's been pretty easy to forget about one of Firefox's recent releases: Ubiquity. We gave Ubiquity a rave review for giving Firefox a whole new UI. The standard commands, or "verbs", that come with Ubiquity are great. Yet we couldn't help but want more. Developers have been working around the clock to produce some fantastic custom verbs for Ubiquity. Here is ReadWriteWeb's list of the top picks of custom Ubiquity verbs!
Ubiquity already comes with built in search commands for Youtube, Amazon, and Flickr. Here are our top picks for searching media sites using custom Ubiquity verbs:
So far Ubiquity only allows you to interact with one social network: Twitter. With these custom verbs you'll be able interact with more popular social networks.
Outside of Digg, there are no other ways to share news and links with friends. So for those of you on Reddit, Delicious, and other related sites, we have just the verbs for you!
While searching for the best Ubiquity verbs we came across a ton that were great, but couldn't be categorized. Without further ado here are other notable verbs:
We're sure you'll be able to find a ton of new Ubiquity verbs to subscribe to. What we'd like to know is what verbs you're already using and what verbs you hope to see in the near future. To start the list, we're already using quite a few of the built in verbs and most of the social media custom verbs listed here. In the future we'd like to see verbs for Diigo, sharing items via Google Reader, and more video related verbs. Let's hear what's on your list.
StumbleUpon is a popular service that helps millions of people find interesting sites all over the web. Everyday thousands of sites are submitted to this service. We highly recommend StumbleUpon for finding new information on the web. However, If you're looking for more specific results, here are three other "stumbling" sites to help you find what you're looking for on the web.
With social networking sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo, we find it a little confusing as to why you wouldn't just use their search engines to find a random friend or two. Nevertheless, BuddyStumbler aims to fill that space and help you stumble upon new friends. You can search for new people by interests, usernames, or "buddies of". Type in your keywords, sex, age, and zip code and BuddyStumbler will do the rest. Results will link to the user's BuddyStumbler profile and any of their instant messaging handles or social networks such as Flickr. All in all, you're guaranteed to find a new friend or two via BuddyStumbler.
Ticket Stumbler could turn out to be a time and money saver for some. Essentially, Ticket Stumbler aims to help you compare, find, and purchase tickets for sporting events. From regular tickets to season packages, you can find tickets for the following sporting events:
StumbleAudio is one of the ultimate music discovery services with over 2 million tracks availble to stumble through. Check out their charts for the most liked and disliked albums. See what other users are listening to the most or the most stumbled genres. StumbleAudio makes a great addition to other services such as Last.FM, Pandora, and iLike for music discovery.
While none of these sites could replace StumbleUpon, they fill different niches that StumbleUpon may not be the best service for. We recommend them all for discovering the best and most interesting sections of the web. Let us know what else you're using to "stumble" through great sections of the web.
The iTunes App Store is a bit of a big deal these days. Several new applications pop up in the iTunes store every day. With hundreds of apps to download from it can be time consuming to sort through them all. Unfortunately, there is no try before you buy option for any of the iTunes apps. So, if you happen to see one that looks interesting, but requires you to shell out your hard earned cash, app reviews really come in handy. While the iTunes App Store features reviews from others, sometimes you just want a second opinion. Today, ReadWriteWeb brings you 4 iPhone/iPod app review sites.
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What'soniphone is not only a great iTunes apps review site, but also a great web apps review site. With a team of engineers, writers, medical professionals, culinary artists, home makers, What's on iPhone will help anyone decide on an app. Reviews start off with an overview of the application and follows up with their personal take on the app, a mini review, and the final verdict.
If you not only want reviews of an app, but also want to know how many people are really using it, iUseThis is your site. You can register for iUseThis to keep a log of all the apps you're using. However, the site is best for finding out the most popular of two apps. For example, if you're trying to make a decision between two or three note-taking applications and wanted to know which one may have been downloaded the most, iUseThis is a great place to find out.
AppVee is a recently launched application review site. AppVee aims to do things a little differently by providing users with a personal review of the app and also ratings for the apps. Ratings range from ease of use and features to the app's user interface. I've already spotted quite a few app reviews that I haven't seen elsewhere on AppVee.
Apple iPhone School is a great app review site for both the App Store apps and jailbroken apps via Cydia. There's a great selection of app reviews currently available for both sources. If you're looking for a particular app review check out the site's sidebar for categories and more.
Now you'll never have to complain about needed more reviews for an app. With over 4 sources including the iTunes App Store itself, you're all set to make a safe decision on whether or not to buy a particular app. Did we miss any sites? Let us know what your favorite iTunes App review sites are!
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Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference will be a attracting a lot of buzz tomorrow. Anticipation will be high and even Twitter is preparing for a lot of traffic. For those that can't make it, scrambling from site to site and refreshing Google Reader 20 times a minute isn't the best way to keep up with the news. So here's a list of sites and services where you can find live coverage of the keynote tomorrow.
FriendFeed has 3 room so far that will participating in live coverage of the WWDC keynote tomorrow:
If Twitter manages to stay afloat throughout the Keynote you can use this summize keyword search for WWDC or follow these Twitter users for coverage:
There will be plenty of sites hosting live coverage of the WWDC keynote. Here are a few recommended sites:
So far, this is a nice list of sites and services where you can find a multitude of WWDC keynote coverage. Did we miss anyone? If you know of a site, FriendFeed room, or twitter user that's not on the list, just leave us a note in the comments section.
Screencasts, how-to videos that show only what's happening on the computer screen, have been around since as early as 1994, according to Wikipedia. But in recent years, their popularity as an instructional method has grown and screencasts have become an essential means of teaching on the web (the term "screencast" was actually coined in 2004). Below are some of our favorite places to learn by watching on the web.
The now famous "Creating a weblog in 15 minutes" screencast that introduced the Ruby on Rails framework, helped to put Rails in the spotlight better than anything else in the early days. It has since even been emulated a few times by other frameworks. Here's how to find more great screencasts...
We know this list isn't complete, so please share your favorite places to find good screencasts in the comments below. If you want to try your hand at making one, Spread Firefox is holding a screencast contest right now.
Earlier today we mentioned a plugin for AIM that would translate what you type on the fly into another language. That's an exceptionally useful tool, but the far more fluid and accurate way to speak to people in another language, is to actually learn the language. Thankfully, there are a wide variety of ways to learn languages online, many of them available for free. Below is a list of more than 20 ways you can go from knowing how to say "Hello" to fluency.
Now that you've learned the basics, you need to practice. That's not always easy if you've been learning on your own and no one around you speaks your new language. The sites below will help you hook up with a native speaker -- usually over VoIP -- to practice speaking.
Bonus Site: ASL Fingerspelling: Test your American Sign Language chops by watching online spelling demos and guessing the word.
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