Google module: yadelicious

I'm pleased to publish my second google module:

Yet another enhanced del.icio.us module.
This module is inlined so it can access it's own user preferences, to enable quick tag selection.
Initially based on Kim Schulz's and Alex Young's.

screenshot
module:
http://membres.lycos.fr/kyrlian/yadelicious.xml
mirror on googlemodule.com:
http://www.googlemodules.com/module/286/

To enable inling you must have the developper module installed:
Click "add Content", and then type "developer.xml" in the "Create Section" box.
This module will list all the modules you have, with "Inlined" and "Cached" checks.
You can check both for "yadelicious.xml".

Notes for later use

I just noticed that you must grant access to the internet to LSA shell. I noticed that because my java update could notice the new versions but could not get them.
Also, Generic Host Process for Win32 Services doesn't need access.

Google module: Personalized Home

Here is the latest version of my google module: Personalized Home.
This module is aimed at modifying the look of google personalized homepage.
You can change columns spacing, text padding, link color, link style, title font color and title bar color..

screenshot

module :
http://membres.lycos.fr/kyrlian/personalizedhome.xml
You'll need to set it as "Inlined" using the developer module (see below).

I tested the module on Firefox 1.5 and opera, with windowsXP.

Inlining:
As my module modifies the page style, you'll need to set it as Inlined.
To enable inling you must have the developper module installed.
To add it, just type "developer.xml" in the "Create Section" box.
This module will list all the modules you have, with a 'Inlined' and a 'Cached' chekbox.
You can check both for "Personalized Home".
More info about inling

Update
Due to numerous user inputs, the module is regularly updated. To force updating of your module, just untick the 'cached' checkbox. Then tick it back to save my bandwith, thanks.

Due to the limit of 10000 characters applied on google base, the google base mirror is discontinued.

But we have a new mirror on GoogleModules.com:
http://www.googlemodules.com/module/184/

My Google Menu

Also wrote a greasemonkey script named My Google Menu.

This script will add a link to google “Personalized Home” and a link to google “groups” just after the “you@gmail.com” in the top right menu of any google page (if you are logged in).

Google Module

Hey.
Recently wrote a google module.
A module is a snippet embeded in google personalized page.

This module is aimed at modifying the look of google personalized homepage.
You can change Columns spacing, Text padding, Link Color, Link style, and Title bar color.

screenshot :
http://membres.lycos.fr/kyrlian/personalizedhome.jpg

module :
http://membres.lycos.fr/kyrlian/personalizedhome.xml
You'll need to set it as "Inlined" using the developer module (see below).

I tested the module on Firefox 1.5 and opera, with windowsXP.

Inlining:
As my module modifies the page style, you'll need to set it as Inlined.
To enable inling you must have the developper module installed.
To add it, just type "developer.xml" in the "Create Section" box.
This module will list all the modules you have, with a 'Inlined' and a 'Cached' chekbox.
You can check both for "Personalized Home" (or for 13694720870286158375 if you are using the google base mirror)
More info about inling

Screenshot there.

You can find info about google modules here.

Update:
A mirror of the module is available there:
http://base.google.com/base/a/13694720870286158375

You might want to have a look at the google groups thread if you have a google groups account.

Update:
Due to the limit of 10000 characters applied on google base, the google base mirror is discontinued.

But we have a new mirror on GoogleModules.com:
http://www.googlemodules.com/module/184/

Flock

Trying Flock

del.icio.us

I tried del.icio.us some time ago, but it wasn't very convenient. Having to go to a webpage to get my bookmarks, in a lenghty format, having to go to another webpage to add a bookmark, too much for too little.
Then a friend reminded me of it, at a time when I was working on different computers, with need of online bookmarks.
So I searched for a convenient way to use del.icio.us.
I surely am not the first one to find it, but here it is - firefox only:
First go to your del.icio.us bookmark page, This icon should appear in your status bar, it's for live bookmarks. Click and choose 'Subscribe to feed for xx bookmarks'.
If it doesn't appear, open bookmark manager, click File, New live bookmark, and enter the url of your bookmark page.
Now your del.icio.us bookmarks will appear in a folder together with your regular bookmarks.

Then the 'add bookmark' button.
Del.icio.us proposes a 'remember this' bookmark, which brings you to a web page to enter details about the new bookmark. with a little modification (see below), you can skip the details and just save the bookmark with no tags.
To do this, edit the bookmark, and change this
javascript:location.href='http://del.icio.us/YOURID?v=3&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)
with this
javascript:location.href='http://del.icio.us/YOURID?v=3&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)

Google web accelerator

It seems google web accelerator is availlable for download again.
As I recall, it came up early May 2005, and went down shortly after that.

You should read some comments before using it.
at 37signal,
at metafilter,
at o'reilly radar,
at bnc.
You can also read google web accelerator faqs here and there.

Considering drawbacks previously raised, I will wait for some more reviewing before installing this.
Anyone uses it ?

Clusty

Recently tried clusty, a clustering search engine.
I usually use google, but when I didn't find what I was searching for I tried clusty, and found.
Don't know if this clustering thing is of any use, it enables to categorize your search in a different way... Sort of post-processing.
Just like google, clusty has web, news, images, shopping searches, also has wikipedia, blogs and jobs searches.
Note: Google's blog search is currently beta.

BTW, when looking for alternatives to google, I had a look to mozdex. This is an open source search engine, currently beta. With not much activity during last year. It seems a lot of buzz followed it's opening (in 2004), but nothing followed. I guess it's dead.

So

No news.
I'll post a javascript led clock sometimes later.
Too bad Palm is turning toward M$ OS.
Gotta go.

URLize This ! update

Thanks to D. for his input, I've slighlty changed the Googlize This ! script. The added urls are now dash underlined to distinguish from original ones.

To install, first install greasemonkey, then right click here and choose "Install User Script...".
Warning : Greasemonkey doesn't seem to work with firefox beta 1.5.

GG

More good free games :
Open Quartz: From Quake1
tuxracer: Penguin bobsleigh
Every Extend(Japanese, here is the babelfish translation): Action, sort of suicidal shoot them up. Difficult to describe, try it.

Briefly: Minifox

Just found the minimal firefox theme I was searching for: minifox.

Gmail 100

Gmail has increased the invitations to 100 per user, on the way to public release ?

Opera 8 - Later -

Goods:
Skin change show instantly. And there is some choice already.
Fast Rewind and Fast Forward buttons, which go to the more likely previous or next page. We'll see.
Mouse gestures. Well, if you use it.
Voice control. Forward... Forward... Sorry mate, 'was talking to my browser.
Subwindows. Tabs are real internal windows, as in word you can tile your documents, you can tile your webpages. Firefox can't do that. And it seems usefull.
Typing directly in the adress bar triggers a google lucky search - sometimes. Firefox do that - sometimes.
Buttons and text fields have slightly round corners, good looking.

Bads:
The menu bar (File/Edit/View/.../Help) is not considered as a toolbar. Thus you can't place the adress bar up there.
Unfortunatly, this is my favorite layout with Firefox, having a toolbar with menu, few button, adress field, and below that the page tabs.
Then you can't have less than two toolbars (url and tabs), no minimalist AND usable layout then. Except using minimalist skins, such as Breeze Simplified MICRO V4.15.
Popup blocking is quite agressive, even in 'block unwanted' mode, blocking wanted popups.
No extensions, meaning I don't have my stumble upon button. Can't remember if extensions are considered a security breach and won't be allowed, or if it's work in progress. As there is no info on extensions on opera's features page, I suppose this is a no go.
Ads. Opera is now ad-free, good. But you don't have ad blocking functions such as adblock, ads are everywhere again.

Neither good nor bad:
Is it faster ? Well, that's not obvious. Not slower as far as I can notice.
You can call back closed windows. In fact closed windows are moved to a trash, you can then call them back from the trash until you empty the trash. Any use ?

All in All:
Clean and simple. No extensions means no fancy tweaks, it's all about browsing.
I like it. I might stick to firefox for adblock, but I really like it's style.

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Opera

The alternative browser Opera becomes totally free: no ads.

I tried it years ago when it was a good alternative to IE, and Netscape was old and slow. But when firefox appeared, I switched immediatly.
Let's have a look at the new rival.

Get it: english for windows or other langages, platforms.
Let's play with it.

Translate

Wandering on the internet I end more and more often on japanese websites. As I'm very bad at reading question marks, I can either close the page or jump to babelfish translation.
Japanese to English translation, if not perfect, enables to understand the general meaning of a text, better than nothing.
But copying the page url, going to babelfish, pasting, reading, is anoying.

Here comes Translate, a firefox extension which add a Translate function in Tools, and a button in your toolbar.
When on a Japanese page, hit translate and babelhish kicks in with immediate translation.
Linked page are also translated, which is usefull most of the time but can screw up navigation.

URLize This !

I have added three buttons to implement the GooglizeThis! function.
When you click on one of the three buttons, all words longer than 5 letters will be replaced with links to google lucky, wikipedia or google define depending on the button you choosed.
Try it:
- Google lucky: luck
- Google define: def
- Wikipedia: wkpd

The three buttons are placed in the footer of each post, [luck | def | wkpd | ?], they will affect only the current post.

Note: Once applied a replacement can't be undone, reload the page with F5.

Have fun !

Googlize This !

I recently discovered greasemonkey, a firefox extension which enables to launch user scripts after a web page is loaded. Having a look at the existing scripts, I remember an old script idea I had some time ago: Googlize this!

When I am writing posts, I often add links to illustrate my ideas, the firefox and greasemonkey links in this post for example. To do that I just do q quick google search, and often copy the first answer as a link.

Thus I wanted a script which would run onload and replace significant words (ie long words) with a google lucky link.
At that time I didn't know about XML DOM javascript functions, which enable to edit the HTML structure of the document, rewriting it all. I discovered that exploring greasemonkey, and wrote two scripts :

The first script is a grease monkey user script, when installed on your firefox (along with greasemonkey) it will Googlize any loaded page - you can include/exclude pages.

To install the greasemonkey script, first install greasemonkey, then right click here and choose "Install User Script..."

The second script is a simple javascript you can include in a page, and activate with a button : try it (working, but quite slow). Get it.

Of course you could change the URL from google's to anything like wikipedia or google define.

All this was tested with firefox only.

Later.

Update : The greasemonkey script is now listed on greasemonkey, rate and comment !

Zip, zip

Removed google search from sidebar, because it is in blogger's top bar.
Added recent posts in sidebar.