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YubNub is a new RoR (Ruby on Rails) based portal translation of a bunch of recent plug-in activity for Firefox (a good idea except that I switch browsers all the darned time and configuration is a onesy, twosey kinda thing). The idea is (was?) to create a command line browser environment. More info here in Jonathan's own words.
Once I learned of YubNub, I was entranced. I wanted something that drove this query mechanism that lived outside of my browser, was persistent and used whichever browser was currently selected.
I first tried it as a Python TCL/TK app and was unhappy (I really must learn how to create a PyObjC application one of these days).
The result is this very simple AppleScript Studio application (my first, a very crude attempt). I have some issues to deal with (I stole Jonathan's images, closing the window doesn't make the application go away, I'm probably abusing font's left and right, etc.) but the general idea works. Comments, suggestions and flames are welcome.
To get started, try any one of these commands in the entry field and press enter/return or click on the 'Search' button (and if all else fails, click on "Commands" which should take you to the YubNub command list):
g YubNub (you don't really need the g, google is assumed) y YubNub imdb "Gone with the Wind" gnews "Thousand Oaks" stock AAPL am "Gone with the Wind" ls
