Wednesday, July 27th, 2005, 2:34 am
Internet Command Line
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Getting data more quickly using a CLI
ome time ago I came across YubNub – YubNub.org which is a command-line interface for the Web. It allows you to operate in and on the Web much more efficiently than by using the traditional GUI‘s. You can, for example, query Google for ‘saturn’ by typing in
g saturn
YubNub provides a very quick way of navigation the Web as chaining of commands is possible too and nearly 100 commands exist. The site was a great find, but I do not believe it can replace a keyboard-navigable portal (see example). Maybe I can embed the YubNub command-line in portals at some stage, which would make it ever more flexible. While on the issue of portals, Google have extended features offered by their Portal (personalised homepage) service. Among the new features:
- Adding your own bookmarks
- Selecting from more news feeds
- Adding your own RSS news feeds
July 27th, 2005 at 7:56 pm
Hi Roy – You can also get at YubNub from the address bar (as a bookmark keyword in IE/Firefox), or if you are using Firefox, someone has written a search plugin for it. Email me if you need more info.
July 28th, 2005 at 3:06 am
Thanks Jonathan. I will look into it.