New Comic Strips Added to the 'Comicstrip' Ubiquity Command

Posted At : November 10, 2008 3:10 AM | Posted By : Erik Vold
Tags: Automation, Comics, Ubiquity

I've finally gotten around to updating one of my Ubiquity commands this weekend. It was perfect timing too, I think, because comics.com just recently made chages to their site, and the comics I was pulling from there stopped working. So I fixed this problem, but unfortunately the speed of the downloads from comics.com are pretty poor now.

The good news is that I found another site to pull some comics from, gocomics.com, they have a really good selection, and a decent connection, so I added some comic strips from there.

The total list for comicstrip, is now:

bc
betty
the boondocks
born loser
dilbert
foxtrot
garfield
get fuzzy
herman
marmaduke
monty
peanuts
penny arcade
off the mark
opus
teenage mutant ninja turtles
user friendly
wizard of id
working it out
xkcd
ziggy

Also, thanks to Russ! for adding the preview list, and the option of typing the number associated to the comic as a shortcut, they were great ideas I think.

Ubiquity Command to Quickly View Comicstrips

Posted At : September 2, 2008 4:56 AM | Posted By : Erik Vold
Tags: Javascript, Comics, Ubiquity

This Ubiquity command will allow you to type the comic you want to view, and display it to you in the preview window, and, if your hit enter, the comicstrip will be dumped in to the area that you had selected. So, like with the built-in 'map' command, you can preview a comicstrip, and dump it into a gmail email, or a blog post.

The command is:

comicstrip (comicTitle)

Where comicTitle can be:

bc
bornloser
dilbert
garfield
getfuzzy
herman
monty
peanuts
penny-arcade
offthemark
opus
userfriendly
workingitout
xkcd

Give it a try!