these things I have learned
Attention: Firefox users / Google fans
Maybe I'm late on the boat on these things, but I tried out Greasemonkey for the first time tonight. It's a firefox extension that has an insanely large community writing handy little scripts for it, most of which are designed to enhance the functionality of specific sites.
To test it, I got this Gmail macro set. It is unbelievably cool. I am now a master of shortcuts in gmail, and just filed about 400 things that had been lollygagging around the inbox, despite being read, because I wasn't in the mood to do all the mouse clicking needed to appropriately label and archive them. You hit "?" and you get a list of the shortcuts - I had them memorized fairly quickly, and I don't think my (several hours a day) of Gmail usage will ever be the same. If you're even a mild fan of Gmail and Firefox, GET NOW. You shant regret it, or I will stop using antiquated contractions.
Then, my appetite sufficiently enticed by the power greasemonkey offered, I got this.
If you have ever used Google Image search, it is godly. If, like me, it is a daily part of your life, it transcends Godliness and enters some sort of mythological fan-fic territory wherein Zeus gets it on with some Norse demigod and their child is infused with the power of Chuck Norris and so on down some road that probably includes Anime charaters and Ron Weasley.
Imagine if someone made ACDSEE for the web, and that's what that does. You do a google image search, click one, and you don't have to find it - it just plops the image in an overlay over your search. You can hit + and - to zoom, and left and right to NAVIGATE THROUGH SEARCH RESULTS. It's like having the interweb locally cached. Friggin amazing. Apparently it works with flickr and many other places people pillage for images.
If this is all old hat, I will feel foolish, but I felt the need to share what I had learned. Now I'm off to see if someone has written a script that writes a loopback address in your hosts file for any site with a Punch the Monkey flash ad on it.
[seriously I don't even want a playstation 3 and I like monkeys]
Maybe I'm late on the boat on these things, but I tried out Greasemonkey for the first time tonight. It's a firefox extension that has an insanely large community writing handy little scripts for it, most of which are designed to enhance the functionality of specific sites.
To test it, I got this Gmail macro set. It is unbelievably cool. I am now a master of shortcuts in gmail, and just filed about 400 things that had been lollygagging around the inbox, despite being read, because I wasn't in the mood to do all the mouse clicking needed to appropriately label and archive them. You hit "?" and you get a list of the shortcuts - I had them memorized fairly quickly, and I don't think my (several hours a day) of Gmail usage will ever be the same. If you're even a mild fan of Gmail and Firefox, GET NOW. You shant regret it, or I will stop using antiquated contractions.
Then, my appetite sufficiently enticed by the power greasemonkey offered, I got this.
If you have ever used Google Image search, it is godly. If, like me, it is a daily part of your life, it transcends Godliness and enters some sort of mythological fan-fic territory wherein Zeus gets it on with some Norse demigod and their child is infused with the power of Chuck Norris and so on down some road that probably includes Anime charaters and Ron Weasley.
Imagine if someone made ACDSEE for the web, and that's what that does. You do a google image search, click one, and you don't have to find it - it just plops the image in an overlay over your search. You can hit + and - to zoom, and left and right to NAVIGATE THROUGH SEARCH RESULTS. It's like having the interweb locally cached. Friggin amazing. Apparently it works with flickr and many other places people pillage for images.
If this is all old hat, I will feel foolish, but I felt the need to share what I had learned. Now I'm off to see if someone has written a script that writes a loopback address in your hosts file for any site with a Punch the Monkey flash ad on it.
[seriously I don't even want a playstation 3 and I like monkeys]