Depressed
Or maybe depraved – I’m not sure. Very much in the style of Edward Monkton A Beautiful Revolution is very dark and in places incredibly deep and clever web “comic”. I recommend having a look – don’t do it when you’re down though!
Archive for November, 2006
Google2
I’ve further improved the “Google User Interface Enhancements” Grease Monkey script. Version 0.13 allows you to:
- navigate to the “Cached” and “Similar Pages” links with the ‘c’ and ‘r’ keys respectively.
- move forward and back through the results pages with the ‘,’ and ‘.’ keys. Finally
- if you haven’t yet selected a search result, ‘enter’ will take you to the “did you mean?” link if it exists.
- pressing ’s’ will bring the cursor to the search box.
Search
Yesterday, my flat mate asked me if I’d ever written a search engine plugin for Firefox. The answer was no – so I asked him why he wanted one. It turns out he wanted to be able to search the P and H website from the little box. The solution is here.
Perfection
| The Perfect Lad You scored 89%! |
| Ah, Perfect Lad, you are much sought after and very rare. You enjoy the company of smart women who know how to be themselves. You are attracted to her inner self more than her outer self. You are kind and considerate and make a special effort to make people feel appreciated. You have a healthy amount of ambition in life, yet you have a balanced outlook on how to get where you want. Who wouldn’t want to date you? |
My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender:
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| Link: The Perfect Lad Test written by Lawesome on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test |
Not content with adding mousewheel support for 30 Boxes, I have since written a GreaseMonkey script which provides keyboard and mouse support to Google. Several people have tried this in the past, but I couldn’t get any of their scripts to work – mostly due to simple mistakes in the XPath queries. My script, hopefully, uses XPath generically enough that google will have to make radical changes to their layout code for it to break. It has the following functionality:
- Number Keys 0-9 – Jump straight to the link with that number (0 jumps to result 10)
- Letter Keys J and K – Move up and down through the results
- Enter or F keys – Follow the currently highlighted link.
- Mousewheel – Scroll through the selections and the page (try it – it works).
I’m happy to add more functionality as I think of it. If anyone has any suggestions then post them in the comments section and I’ll see what I can do.
Follow this link to download the Google User Interface Enhancements
UPDATE
No sooner had I posted this than a bug report arrived stating that I had hardcoded the number of result to 10. The following link fixes that and makes the link numbers slightly less obtrusive.
Click here to download the Google User Interface Enhancements v0.11
I’ve also been told that the links don’t install – I need to log into my webserver to fix that. In the mean time please change the extension to “.user.js” and then dragging the script into a firefox window should install it.
Productivity
Last weekend I went to visit the sweet little baby mention on this blog previously. Whilst there I, amongst other things, pinched some productivity ideas from its father. One specific thing is the use of 30 Boxes for calendar management. It is very good web application, but lacks many features one would normally associate with a modern Web2 application, so armed with a copy of Mozilla Firefox with the Grease Monkey extension I modified a pre-existing script to provide both keyboard short cuts (press H to see them once the script is installed) and mouse wheel support. This makes the application much more usable. Download 30 Boxes Mouse Wheel Support here.