This is probably posted elsewhere, but I didn't see it. Cool stuff for DuckDuckGo users, just in case you don't subscribe to the newsletter.
Dear DuckDuckGo friends,
Last month we launched DuckDuckHack, our open source platform that enables developers to create instant answer plugins on DuckDuckGo: http://duckduckhack.com/.
The following are the plugins we launched via the platform in the past few weeks.
- New plugin by @crazedpsyc gives HEX color codes for a variety of situations. <http://awe.sm/5xRzL http://awe.sm/5xS02 http://awe.sm/5xS0H>
- New plugin by @und3f does Morse code https://duckduckgo.com/?q=morse+sos
- New plugin by @boyter gives language documentation via the searchco.de API. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=git+delete+branch
- New plugin by @hackariah uses the @bighugelabs API to give synonyms and antonyms https://duckduckgo.com/?q=synonyms+diction
- New plugin by @CanIStreamIt tells you where you can watch movies legally online https://duckduckgo.com/?q=watch+back+to+the+future
- New plugin by @CodeJoust translates unix time into a readable format. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=time+123456789
- New plugin by Adman searches Hacker News for stories and comments https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hn+duckduckgo
- New plugin by @robotmay spells out queries phonetically using the NATO alphabet https://duckduckgo.com/?q=phonetic+yegg
- New plugin by unlisted counts letter frequencies https://duckduckgo.com/?q=frequency+of+letters+in+The+quick+brown+fox+jumps+over+the+lazy+dog
- New plugin by @tantalor gives ISO639 language codes (and visa versa) https://duckduckgo.com/?q=iso639+spanish
- New plugin by @jperla shows "hello world" written in almost 200 programming languages. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hello+world+in+perl
- New plugin by IndelibleStamp parses crontab lines and tells you when cron will do it next http://bit.ly/Jbp562
- New plugin by bm1362 answers is x a palindrome http://duckduckgo.com/?q=is+racecar+a+palindrome%3F
- New plugin by @tantalor gives UN number descriptions https://duckduckgo.com/?q=un+0306
- New plugin by unlisted does ROT13 transformations https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rot13+simple+cipher
- New plugin by @mr__shu tells you whether a site is up or down via @isitup https://duckduckgo.com/?q=is+duckduckgo.com+up
- New plugin by mutilator gives drink mixing instructions via The Drink Project API https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+mix+a+tom+collins
- New plugin by mstratman generates QR codes https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qrcode+http%3A%2F%2Fddg.gg%2F
You can follow along with new plugin announcements at https://twitter.com/#!/duckduckhack.
We'd also love your ideas for more plugins at http://ideas.duckduckhack.com/ -- really anything that would make a good instant answer!