Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Old Tools for a New Age

I like Command Line Interfaces alot.

I like them for their power, lack of mouse usage, and mostly their seemingly infinite learning curve. When I say this I mean that given an inifinite level of genius/craziness anything is possible within the CLI. This is good because it lets the hardcore folks really scale in efficiency as they see fit.

Whats about browsers?

They get no loving-embrace from the CLI. I've been thinking alot of what could be brought to the table. Here are some of those thoughts:

Silent+ Easy social media updating
social -tf "Loving this command line interface!"
Updates twitter and facebook with this new status

Ease of click heavy actions
bookmark -a \media\funny\cats
bookmark -m \media\funny\cats \media\awww
Adds the current page to your cats bookmarks folder
Moves all your cute cat videos to the new "aww folder"


Integration with email and other services
maps -d -t="200 university ave waterloo ontario" -f="169 charolette st port colborne ontario" > email -r=scott.tolksdorf@gmail.com -s="Directions to Home" -m="here are those directions"
Gets directions from the university to my house and sends them into an email to me. All from the command line.

I thinking something like a shortcut enabled drop down on the top right to the console. If I find some time I might start working on a chrome extension.

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