We’ve released a significant update to KwiClick that adds quite a bit under the hood, as well as some pretty nifty new features you can play with. Here’s a quick list of some of the updates:
* Facebook status provider
* Status message customization
* BlipTv video provider
* jQuery integration
* Reworked error page
* Other Google Ajax searches
* Preference window size based on locale
* FireGestures integration in the main window
Lets go through each one of these.
Facebook status provider - You can now post videos and images directly into your Facebook profile/stream from any video or image provider we support. This is what it boils down to: if you’re browsing around the web and see a video that you’d like to share with friends on Facebook, you can simply “favorite” that video, and it will automagically post to Facebook. This works for all the video providers we support: Youtube, Veoh, Vimeo, Howcast, LiveVideo, blip.tv, and Viddler. Just look for the star icon above each video. This also works for videos you discover inside of KwiClick as well. Once you link up your Facebook account to KwiClick, the process is just a single click! Just hit the star icon (more Facebook goodness coming soon!). We’ll be posting a video to walk through this over the next couple of days.
Status message customization - Now you can enter a message that gets sent along to Facebook and/or Twitter when you post videos/images. If you want, you can post videos to Facebook and Twitter at the same time. It’s slick and very easy to use.
BlipTv video provider - We’re big fans of blip.tv and now you can enjoy their videos from inside KwiClick as well! You can also browse their most popular, most recent, and random videos as well.
jQuery integration - A top secret project is in the works and jQuery will help us make the magic happen. It’s going to be used for some slick stuff.
Reworked error page - Before today, if you searched for something in KwiClick that didn’t have any search results, you ended up looking at a pretty bland message telling you ‘no results were found’. With this update, we give you a few more options to help you find what you are looking for; things such as running the search on the providers site, reviewing your historical searches, etc. It’s not the absolute best way of handling no results, but it’s a step in the right direction. We’ll keep plugging away on improving the usability of the ‘no results page’.
Other Google Ajax searches - We received a number of suggestions that we should add in more types of Google searches, like Image Search, Blog Search, etc. So, we’ve added in Image, Blog, News, Patent, and Book searches. We’re still working on linking these up with the Firefox search box, and that is coming shortly as well.
Preference window size based on locale - For non English speaking users, this update will help make sure the preference windows are the appropriate size so that everything fits handy dandy.
Firegesture integration in the main window - One of the easiest ways to search something using KwiClick is to highlight something on a page and use a mouse gesture to run the search inside KwiClick. Now you can perform all sorts of gestures inside the KwiClick panel itself. Gestures such as: go back/forward in history, next/previous page of results, scroll to top/bottom, open links in new windows/tabs/background tabs/copy to clipboard, and many more. You can use wheel gestures, rocker gestures and both mouse button gestures. If your running the latest version of FireGestures, this will be super easy to setup.
We’re really excited to share these updates with you, and hope that you’ll continue to give us feedback and suggestions on what you’d like to see from KwiClick.
To get the latest version, head on over to the KwiClick addon page at Mozilla.org.