tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-292333682024-03-08T17:38:54.312-05:00Boris' 1st Serious BlogFinally have some real need to publish / record / share "findings" online from October 23, 2006.Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-19565997364503574442006-12-12T09:11:00.000-05:002006-12-12T10:35:04.223-05:00Collaborative Space and JavascriptThere are more and more applications that online communities build together.<br /><br />First, there is <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia </a>which is a collaborative space. Even when finding a certain piece of news, you search in <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google </a>which gives you a collection of new from various media, and you should also find it in <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a> because anybody can modify that site and incorporate updates into it.<br /><br />I do not pay particular attention to online collaboration until I found there are thousands of amazing Firefox <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/">extensions</a> and <a href="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/">search plugins</a>, where people volunteer to write codes to enhance the functionality of Firefox. Then, the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/748/">Greasemonkey </a>extension brought me to 2 million <a href="http://userscripts.org/">userscripts </a>which can be imported into the extension to modify websites automatically. Alternatively, those javascripts can be implemented manually by <a href="http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/">bookmarklets</a>. The <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/39/">Mouse Gestures</a> extension further presented to me how to use javascripts to control Firefox and its extensions, and it has a <a href="http://en.mousegestures.org/gesture-exchange/index.php">Gesture Exchange</a> site where people share the scripts they write. Recently, my sister introduced to me <a href="http://www.msgpluslive.net/">Messenger Plus! Live</a> where <a href="http://www.msgpluslive.net/scripts/">scripts </a>also extend its features.<br /><br />The above javascript databases, together with the proliferation of AJAX sites like <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/">Gmail</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/calendar/render">Google Calendar</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/">Google Docs and Spreadsheets</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/view/">Google Reader</a>, etc. (<a href="http://local.google.com/">Google Maps</a>, <a href="http://maps.live.com/">Virtual Earth</a>...), it seems like javascript is taking over the world!<br /><br />Also, online collaborative space is so powerful that free goodies are expanding and updating continually like <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Answers</a> and <a href="http://desktop.google.com/plugins/">Google Desktop Gadgets</a>, just to name a few. I do have some contributions in <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedia</a>, <a href="http://userscripts.org/">userscripts</a> and <a href="http://en.mousegestures.org/gesture-exchange/index.php">Gesture Exchange</a>. Get to learn more when there is time.Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-79442158973008297132006-11-28T13:30:00.000-05:002006-11-28T14:32:28.436-05:00Split Firefox<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/Split%20Firefox.0.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/Split%20Firefox.0.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Wants to write a Firefox extension to make reading Gmails even easier (now there are <a href="http://persistent.info/archives/2005/08/20/gmail-preview-bubbles">Gmail Conversation Preview</a>, <a href="http://persistent.info/archives/2005/12/23/greasemonkey">Gmail Macros</a> and many more) by seeing emails and reply at the same time. This needs to split the view the tab so that one views the email received and another views the reply to that email currently being composed. Scrolling any view must not affect the position of another. This way, the questions in the email can be answered one by one easily.<br /><br />The first splitting ability I came across was found in <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1918/">popTart</a>, but it only works for Digg. Then, I noticed <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3153/">Tricky Frames</a> and <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3275/">Split Pannel</a> (deliberate typo?!). The most promising extension available is <a href="http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_contentholder.html.en">Content Holder</a> from <a href="http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/xul.html.en">lots of extensions</a> unlisted on the <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/">official Mozilla Add-ons</a>.<br /><br />They are not very suitable for the Gmail reading purpose and are not quite well developed. All but Split Pannel supports only up to FF1.5. They all load separate pages in each view, but maybe splitting only the view of the same page, like Word of Acrobat, is a better idea.<br /><h1></h1>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-22960195665281045462006-11-26T01:07:00.000-05:002006-11-26T01:32:37.972-05:00Music Search by Solfege NameI sometimes hear wonderful music somewhere (TV, mobile phone ring, radio...) and wonder what is the title of the music. This is especially useful when it is hard to hear the lyrics or only the melody suddenly pops out of my mind, and most classical music does not have lyrics. Without words, the only input into such search would be the sound. However, it is hard to ask a computer to match the sound recorded from my singing to a music database, nor is it feasible to search through the database by listening.<br /><br />After some thinking, I come up with a method to do this: searching the sol-fa names of part of the music in a database containing sol-fa names of many songs. Say inputting 'd r m d m d m' will give a search result containing the song "The Sound of Music". And then, the sheet music can be found for playing on the piano. A Google search does not suggest anybody is doing that yet, so this may be a business opportunity.Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-24824450784938541252006-11-18T22:29:00.000-05:002006-11-18T23:59:22.369-05:00Truly Disposable Gmail Address<p><a href="http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools?tool=3">Disposable Yahoo! email address</a><span> can be made on top of their original Yahoo! email. Gmail has similar thing by letting you receive emails sent to <a href="mailto:basename+keyword@gmail.com" class="linkifyplus">basename+keyword@gmail.com</a> in the <a href="mailto:basename@gmail.com" class="linkifyplus">basename@gmail.com</a> account, but sooner or later spammers will spam your original address because the prefixes are the same. To make a truly disposable Gmail address with alternative base name:</span><br /></p><ol><li>Create a new Gmail (preferably with shorter name).</li><li>Set auto forwarding from the new Gmail to primary Gmail.</li><li><span>In the primary Gmail, create a filter having "basename OR basename+ -keyword" in the "To:" field, where <a href="mailto:basename+keyword@gmail.com" class="linkifyplus">basename+keyword@gmail.com</a> are given out.</span></li><li>In the next step, select whatever you want to do with the spams, say "delete".</li></ol><span>To clarify, you get a new Gmail <a href="mailto:a@gmail.com" class="linkifyplus">a@gmail.com</a>, and give out <a href="mailto:a+b@gmail.com" class="linkifyplus">a+b@gmail.com</a> to a website, the "To:" field of the filter in your primary Gmail <a href="mailto:c@gmail.com" class="linkifyplus">c@gmail.com</a> should read "a OR a+ -b". In future, when more disposable address are made say <a href="mailto:a+d@gmail.com" class="linkifyplus">a+d@gmail.com</a>, just append " -d" to the filter.</span><br /><br />Filters are not set up in the new Gmail (and hence step 2) so that no logout is needed to modify the filter. The "To:" field allows about 1400 characters, so many disposable addresses can be filtered (even if it is full, create up to 20 filters, or even get create in the new Gmail or at worst, get another new Gmail for more filters...).Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com72tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-59788806978545469882006-11-18T17:54:00.000-05:002006-11-18T23:38:20.160-05:00Microsummary in Firefox 2.0<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/785277/Microsummary.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4312/3568/400/713980/Microsummary.png" alt="" border="0" /></a><blockquote><b><a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/">Live Titles</a>:</b> When a website offers a <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries">microsummary</a> (a regularly updated summary of the most important information on a Web page), users can create a bookmark with a "Live Title". Compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and are regularly updated with the latest information. There are <a href="http://people.mozilla.com/%7Emyk/microsummaries/sites/">several websites</a> that can be bookmarked with Live Titles, and <a href="http://people.mozilla.com/%7Emyk/microsummaries/generators/">even more add-ons</a> to generate Live Titles for other popular websites.</blockquote>One significant innovation in FF2 is microsummary proposed by <a href="http://www.melez.com/mykzilla/">Myk Melez</a>. Unlike email or RSS aggregator, it can track a specific thing and be displayed as a headline. The default update interval in 30 min, but just add "<span style=""><a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.microsummary.updateInterval">browser.microsummary.updateInterval</a>" to be 1 in <a href="about:config">about:config</a> and all live titles will refresh as soon as possible (still 1 min). <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Microsummary_XML_grammar_reference#The_.3Cupdate.3E_element"><update interval="1"></update></a> can be specified for each generator's xml in the profile folder. Currently, there is no built in method to remove the generators, but to delete the xml in the profile.<br /><br />Now, only <a href="http://people.mozilla.com/%7Emyk/microsummaries/sites/">some sites</a> have microsummary embedded, so <a href="http://people.mozilla.com/%7Emyk/microsummaries/generators/">microsummary generators</a> are needed for other sites. A good way is to use this <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3741/">Microsummary Generator Builder</a> to "generate a microsummary generator", install it, and bookmark the live title to Bookmarks Toolbar.<br /><br />With live title, the specific info like CNN headline will really be the "head line" in FF2. It is suitable when the past info is not as important (otherwise, use an aggregator). The missing piece may be sound notification once any of the live titles is updated.<br /></span>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-72147824222353468762006-11-16T23:16:00.000-05:002006-11-19T00:56:59.699-05:00CZ-5 Model 1st Exposure in Zhuhai Space Exhibition<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/2006_11_3_8326_4108326.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 315px; height: 416px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/2006_11_3_8326_4108326.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://pic.tiexue.net/post_11_1591522.html">http://pic.tiexue.net/post_11_1591522.html</a><br /><br /><ul><li>1.5 stages</li><li>4 boosters (3.35 m diameter)<br /></li><li>1 central rocket (5 m diameter)</li><li>25 ton LEO</li><li>14 ton GEO</li></ul><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/11726/2006_11_3_8336_4108336.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 224px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/x/blogger2/4312/3568/400/764629/2006_11_3_8336_4108336.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-83132583063309518142006-10-30T05:08:00.000-05:002006-10-30T05:30:25.538-05:00Album on Honor System<div style="text-align: center; width: 194px; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 83%;"><div style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/umhongkonger/HalloweenParty?authkey=AAQoRjErOTXb8jvITJaSWXVGveM"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/umhongkonger/RUV1BVSxABE/AAAAAAAAAFc/yIct135VeZc/s160-c/HalloweenParty.jpg" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0px; margin-top: 16px;" height="160" width="160" /></a></div><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/umhongkonger/HalloweenParty?authkey=AAQoRjErOTXb8jvITJaSWXVGveM"><div style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Halloween Party</div></a><div style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Success or failure? Let's see...<br />Reason: no sharing control yet<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div></div>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-90231986124777242462006-10-24T16:43:00.000-04:002006-10-24T18:50:22.650-04:00Send your name to the asteroid belt on the Dawn spacecraft<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/Dawn.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/Dawn.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Your name will be recorded onto a microchip that will be placed aboard the spacecraft accompanying it on its mission to the asteroid belt.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a set="yes" href="http://www.dawn-mission.org/DawnCommunity/Sendname2asteroid/nameEntry.asp" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.dawn-mission.org/clickworkers/images2/banner_ast_belt2.jpg" alt="asteroid belt with spacecraft" border="0" height="91" width="497" /></a></div>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-71167528121704961092006-10-24T02:35:00.000-04:002006-10-24T19:16:23.196-04:00Calgoo: Offline Google Calendar<p style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://www.calgoo.com/index.html"><img src="http://www.calgoo.com/images/Calgoo-Aug17-small.jpg" height="260" width="434" /></a></p>It synchronizes with Google Calendar but not secure to give it my Google account password. Maybe one day Google will buy the company and there will be no such safety concern. Still trying it out... with my spare Google account :p.Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-46426096732254501362006-10-23T15:19:00.000-04:002006-10-26T02:48:34.183-04:00Floating Desert Palms<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/top10_2004/palm1-31july2004-10x10_dra_3000.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;" src="http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/top10_2004/palm1-31july2004-10x10_dra_3000.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>This IKONOS satellite image was collected on July 16, 2004. The image shows this man-made island that lies off the coast of Dubai in the Persian Gulf. The island is being built from 80 million cubic meters of land dredged from the approach channel to the Emirate's Jebel Ali Port. When complete, this resort will have approximately 1,200 single-family and 600 multi-family residences, an aquatic theme park, shopping centers, cinemas and more. Photo credit "Space Imaging Middle East"</div><br /><a href="http://www.space.com/imageoftheday//image_of_day_061023.html">Space new image of the day</a><br /><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?key=ABQIAAAAQwmY3w9D9JGQMjZYjjEeOhRPJrSAIo9QdD1fwzBK7pFzYiLkuRQighQ3STOpdx6x_TZHbadFpIZa5w&ie=UTF8&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;z=18&ll=25.115965,55.133064&spn=0.003143,0.007178&t=k&om=1">Google Map</a> looks the best.<div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.space.com/imageoftheday//image_of_day_061023.html"><br /></a></div>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-48070025058589971702006-10-23T07:38:00.000-04:002006-10-24T19:17:12.455-04:00Ultimate Method to Make Gmail DefaultNeither Gmail Notifier nor Google Talk nor Google Toolbar works consistently to make Gmail the default email client. <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.googlecityforums.com%2Fblog%2F2005%2F08%2F12%2Fgmail-default-email%2F&ei=zYQ8Ra3NLZmepALe86x5&sig=__e-xMVoNqQ9bmBYm-SR-EHdz4gPY=&sig2=HmoXQBtwykvmR1CZaUP5wA"><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">GoogleCity</span> » GMail Default Email Program / Start Menu</a> looks promising, but than adding "Google Gmail" in the Internet options, it doesn't work.<br /><br /><a href="http://gmail.pro/2005/11/25/hack-window-registry-edit-to-make-gmail-the-default-mail-handler/">Hack: Window Registry Edit to make Gmail the default mail handler</a> should work but the file paths are not updated, so I have corrected and optimized it. Somehow it seems that a local file (d<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">ll </span>/ e<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">xe)</span> is needed to direct email requests to a web mail and in this case g<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">notify.</span>e<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">xe </span>of Google Notifier is needed. If Google Notifier is installed, simply download <a href="http://borisyim.googlepages.com/gmail-notifier-registry-xp.reg">this registry file</a> and merge by opening it. Change the paths before merging if F<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">irefox </span>or Google Notifier are not in their default directories, or if F<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">irefox </span>is not used.<br /><br />It should work for the default browser "send link", browser initiated email compose, m<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">ailto </span>links and commands, plus change the email icon in Windows X<span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">P </span>start menu to Gmail (this can be removed afterwards). "Google Gmail" is chosen in the Internet options, and emails are directed to the more secure https Gmail.Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-11157429211196197452006-10-20T23:44:00.000-04:002006-10-24T00:21:41.283-04:00Civet<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/PA200425.jpg"><img style="clear: both; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/PA200425.jpg" border="0" /></a>Deers and civets are commonly seen around campus, but this was the first time I watched a civet so closely, because it was dead. It was on the roadside near my home. It seemed not being hit by car though. <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/PA200427.jpg"><img style="clear: both; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/PA200427.jpg" border="0" /></a>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-90994153891349778092006-10-19T16:09:00.000-04:002006-10-23T07:45:03.876-04:00Pandora.com Comes to Campus<blockquote>Meet Tim Westergren, founder and CEO of <a href="http://www.pandora.com">Pandora.com</a>. Hear how he took his passion for music and "street" knowledge of business and made it his career. Presented by the Career Center and the School of Music, Theatre & Dance. </blockquote> <a href="http://music.yahoo.com/launchcast/default.asp"><span><span>Yahoo! LAUNCHcast</span></span></a> has been around for 6 years and ranks music by user ratings, while but Pandora, a start-up company, hires music experts to categorize music in the <a set="yes" href="http://www.pandora.com/mgp.shtml" target="pandoraContent">Music Genome Project</a>. I haven't used the former but Pandora should be better, at least since the former cannot be opened in Firefox and the latter run on Flash. Zhu Min and I often let this free online music box open now.<br /><br />Got 3 clothes from Tim too.Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-57762796725566961592006-10-18T18:40:00.000-04:002006-10-23T18:52:49.072-04:00Built my 1st Space Ship<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/PA180414.0.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/PA180414.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Star Wars Millennium Falcon Puzz3D (857 pieces) "donated" by my roommate since it was too challenging. He got it from another friend who obviously didn't build it too. Fun activity during the fall break!</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/PA180415.0.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/PA180415.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />There are hooking holes on the surface invisible here for hanging from the ceiling. Don't have wires yet.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/PA180418.0.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/PA180418.0.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />See Chewbacca, Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Han Solo (left to right) in the cabin? <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a></div>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-90586776598672041232006-10-10T15:52:00.000-04:002006-10-25T21:56:43.303-04:00My 2nd Userscript - Close Websites<a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6110">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6110</a><br /><br />Auto close tabs of unwanted sites. Simple one line script takes advantage of GM to automatically detect your given sites and close them. Just change the included pages to whatever you want to close. <p>Every time I connect to the Internet, I am redirected to a login page (<a href="https://wireless-gw.engin.umich.edu/login.pl" class="reify-linkifier">https://wireless-gw.engin.umich.edu/login.pl</a>) where Firefox fills in the password for me and AutoLogin (<a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/750" class="reify-linkifier">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/750</a>) press the login button, and then an unwanted page (<a href="http://www.bluesocket.com/" class="reify-linkifier">http://www.bluesocket.com</a>/) appears which is immediately closed by this script.</p> <p>Thanks to <a style="border-bottom-style: groove;" href="http://www.interwebby.com/blog/2006/02/04/3" class="reify-linkifier">http://www.interwebby.com/blog/2006/02/04/3</a>/ and ‘zenith’.</p>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-72069232091982498692006-10-05T15:48:00.000-04:002006-10-25T22:45:02.208-04:00My 1st Userscript - Callto: Linkify (for Skype)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/Callto%20Linkify%20%28for%20Skype%29.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/Callto%20Linkify%20%28for%20Skype%29.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>No more copying and pasting phone numbers to <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Skype</span>. <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">SkypeOut</span> directly from your online contact list (say Gmail contacts) without any manual synchronization or addition to your <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Skype</span> contact list.<p>Looks for phone numbers in pages and makes hyperlinks out of them. When clicking on the link, your <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Skype</span> will ring and be dialing the number / link you clicked on. Works for all of these patterns:</p> <p>800-555-1212, (800) 555-1212, (800)555-1212, 800-555-1212, 800-555-1212, 800 555 1212, 800.555.1212, 800/555/1212, 8005551212, +1 (number), + (international number)</p> <p>Yes, when it works the above will become: <a href="callto:+18005551212">800-555-1212</a>,<a href="callto:+18005551212"> (800) 555-1212</a>,<a href="callto:+18005551212"> (800)555-1212</a>,<a href="callto:+18005551212"> 800-555-1212</a>,<a href="callto:+18005551212"> 800-555-1212</a>,<a href="callto:+18005551212"> 800 555 1212</a>,<a href="callto:+18005551212"> 800.555.1212</a>,<a href="callto:+18005551212"> 800/555/1212</a>,<a href="callto:+18005551212"> 8005551212</a>...</p> Area code is needed and call to US and Canada by default. <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">SkypeOut</span> from US or Canada for free at least till the end of 2006. <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Skype</span> to another country by changing <span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">defaultPrefix</span> but it is not free. <p><span onclick="BLOG_clickHandler(this)" class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Skype</span> Web Toolbar (<a set="yes" href="http://www.skype.com/download/skypewebtoolbar" class="reify-linkifier">http://www.skype.com/download/skypewebtoolbar</a>) has similar function but makes all websites load much slower. This script makes perceivable delays only when loading lengthy javascript pages, say Gmail all contacts list, but you can choose to disable it at that moment.</p><p><a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6111">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/6111</a><br /></p>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29233368.post-27613713524337745352006-06-05T18:48:00.000-04:002006-10-23T18:50:37.126-04:00My Grape on Fire!<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/1600/P6040075.jpg"><img style="clear: both; float: left;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/4312/3568/400/P6040075.jpg" border="0" /></a> <a href="http://www.pmichaud.com/grape/">http://www.pmichaud.com/grape/</a> <a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"><img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" alt="Posted by Picasa" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="middle" border="0" /></a>Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14743344142224015327noreply@blogger.com1