Month: February 2009

Spank my monkey part 2

Post author By Anders Rune Jensen
Post date February 28, 2009

This is a list of scripts that I have been collecting over a long period of greasemonkey use. The extension to firefox just keeps getting better and better all the time.

Flickr

Allsizes+ – Now with nag screen galore, but still very nice to snatch bigger resolution pictures.
Cross recommendations – This really makes browsing random pictures on flickr much more interesting.

Last.fm

Chart changes – See which tracks goes up and down in the most played tracks of yours.
Aaverage plays on artist pages
Lyrics – My favorite for last.fm, adds lyrics to the track pages.
Normalised charts – Show charts by amount of play in time instead of number of plays. Good for artists like Opeth with long songs 🙂
Top tracks on artist pages

IMDB

imdb runtime fix – Show runtime in a sane way instead of in minutes only
Enlarge actor images – on hover. Not really that useful, but the pictures are small.

Google/Gmail

Block unwanted results – like the damn Experts Exchange described here
Replace http with https – for better security

Tags addon, extension, firefox, flickr, gmail, google, greasemonkey, imdb, last.fm

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DRM

Post author By Anders Rune Jensen
Post date February 20, 2009

Now if only they would sell their music in flac instead of mp3 🙂

Tags comic, drm, flac, fun, itunes, mp3, xkcd

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Bridging the gap between web applications and desktop applications

Post author By Anders Rune Jensen
Post date February 17, 2009

Google gears has been touted as the answer to offline web applications, but so far very few sites have adopted it. Maybe its because exactly what makes web applications great is the fact that you can communicate with people in real time, or maybe its because adopting a non-trivial web site to work with gears is a very significant task, or maybe its because gears was never bundled with a browser by default (until now).

One area where it really makes sense is for email. Google of course realized this, but it took them a complete phone stack before they actually did it 🙂 The only other thing that I use geagle for wordpress, but that’s only speeding it up. So contrary to the gmail integration it doesn’t allow you to read, modify and post while offline.

Even with the ubiquity of fast wireless 3G connections coupled with netbooks, the offline support is a welcome change to gmail and only adds to the already long list of reasons for using gmail. It still amazes me that google was able to deliver a new email client at a time when at least I thought the webmail race was over. It really just goes to show that building rock-solid products is still king. Not just time to marked. And that is really good news for the ones of us that still care about that 🙂

Tags 3g, chrome, email, gears, hotmail, musings, netbook, offline, random thoughts, wordpress

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Vdpau without tearing

Post author By Anders Rune Jensen
Post date February 12, 2009

Acmelabs made a great blog post about how to install the latest nvidia drivers (180.29) and set them up to avoid annoying tearing. I installed it on my system and it A/V sync has also been much better so far. Upgrading heavily recommended 🙂

Tags linux, nvidia, tearing, vdpau

yayart

Yay, lot of things happening at YayArt

Post author By Anders Rune Jensen
Post date February 12, 2009

Yay! Bunch of new 21st century art on YayArt. And we have a new competition, Art for better health, with some awesome submissions. Really think they’ll put a smile on the face of people at the hospital. And also make sure that you take our survey, if you want to help us better understand how you use the site and have a chance of winning a 90×90 canvas 🙂

It appears that the Yay Nay voting system has spread to shoes as well 🙂

Tags 21st century art, art, competition, survey, yayart