We’re excited to announce that we’ve rolled out another update to KwiClick, adding a number of requested features and putting some more polish in. There’s quite a few items that have been updated, and I’ll briefly go through some of the bigger updates here. We’ve been working on this build for quite some time, and would love to hear your feedback and suggestions.
AlwaysRaised Issue on Mac: This one has been driving us crazy for a while. The Mac/Linux versions of KwiClick were not behaving the same way as the Windows version, so we dug in, figured out why, and resolved the issue of the KwiClick panel hiding itself. Mac users, I think you’ll appreciate this one.
Turn on/off animations: We did receive some reports that the window animations ran a bit slow on some older computers, so we decided to put in an option to turn these animations off, if you prefer.
Turn on/off auto-hide: Some people like the way KwiClick hides itself, while others prefer to keep the KwiClick window open, and close it when they want to. We tossed in a little option to do just this.
Status Provider: This is a new feature that lets you send updates to Twitter (with support for additional services currently under development) when you “favorite” a video, image, map, or link. It’s a nifty way to share links with your friends on your preferred networks. We’ve built this feature using the Twitter API, so you wont be redirected to a twitter.com page to enter info. All the magic happens inside of KwiClick itself. For now you’ll be able to tweet that you found a video, image, map, or link. In the future we’ll be adding a lot more tweaks to let you customize your messages, etc.
Updated Preferences: We’ve reworked our preference/options window a bit for better usability, with “help” links in case you need them.
Results Language Selector: You can now choose which language you would like your results to appear in.
Favorites Provider: Sometimes I find an interesting video and wish I could save just that video as a bookmark, but not the entire page. This is what the Favorites Provider does; and also works for flickr images, google maps, and links found inside KwiClick. We’ve integrated with the Firefox bookmarks manager to make an easy way to organize videos and stuff. We’ve got a lot planned for this one, so keep an eye out for interesting ways to interact witht the content you add into the Favorites Provider.
Updated Theme Work: We’re continuing our theme work to make sure KwiClick does not conflict with Firefox themes in not-so-cool ways. Still more work to be done here, including the possibility of our own theme engine sometime in the not too distant future.
Send, Share, and Add Favorite Actions: KwiClick lets you interact with search results in some pretty interesting ways. You can open links in background tabs, new windows, and so on. Thats all fine and dandy, but we wanted to add some new ways to interact with links. So, now you can quickly send links, or share them on various social networks just by clicking on them. Want to send a link you found in Google directly to twitter? Do it with a single click of the mouse.
Additional Private Browsing Mode Support: Once you switch into Private Browsing Mode in Firefox, none of your KwiClick tracks are left behind. We made sure to clear out your entire history, to keep everything squeaky clean.
More Language Support: Thanks to the help of translators, KwiClick is available in over 10 languages! Super!
Keyboard Shortcut: On Windows hit CTRL+SHIFT+K. On Macs hit COMMAND+SHIFT+K. Voila!
Please do keep sending the feedback, whether directly to us on twitter, or through our support forums. It really does help us define our roadmap and what you guys think is important for us to work on. We’ve got a lot of interesting projects under development and can’t wait to share them with you all. We promise to continue making your search experience more efficient.
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