Tag: SCRIPT

Gmail could very well be one of the most hackable web services of all time. One only needs to check our Gmail tag to see what tools are available for enhancing one's experience, and now we have a slick new cross-platform Firefox add-on to link to from our friends at Lifehacker: Better Gmail. As its name suggests, Better Gmail rounds up a number of popular Greasemonkey scripts and other extras ...

Why Google hasn't built something as fundamental as a todo manager into Google Calendar is beyond us, but now you have one more option for tasks on in gCal. While we've previously seen hidden code lead to speculation that todos were (finally) coming, as well as Remember the Milk integration, a new Greasemonkey script brings its own todo list to Google Calendar with an interesting twist. As you ...

Userscripts.org is a useful repository of scripts for Greasemonkey, the killer Firefox add-on that allows you to augment the way some sites look or function. I've used the site for some time now, but was always a little irked at its not-so-intuitive design. As you can see, the new design offers a breath of fresh air, with a much cleaner and more streamlined experience, though it isn't quite a ...

Mihai Parparita, avid Googler and Greasemonkey script peddler extraordinaire, has been blogging a few updates to the fantastic Gmail scripts he's had a hand in. Mihai has made changes and added a few features recently, but also points to a Google Group where users have been trading their own mods to the scripts. Most notably, the new features in Mihai's 'official' Gmail Macros script include: ...

If you want to make a PDF from your web pages for visitors to download, use FPDF, a very simple, powerful PHP class that is free to download, and easy to configure. There are several tutorials on the FPDF website on how to use the class, and the manual makes all the functions easy to use and modify. FPDF makes controlling every aspect of your PDF creation simple, including adding an image or ...

Ooh, now this is cool: Lifehacker points us to a this great Stylish script that gently tweaks Gmail to put meaningful icons next to messages with attachments. Instead of a generic paperclip icon, this puts a PDF icon next to messages with PDF attachments, an image icon next to messages with attached images, and so on for Word docs, Zip files, text files, executables, video files, and so on. Very ...

Continuing the buzz surrounding the new Google Reader, 3rd party Greasemonkey scripts are cropping up that either modify or add much-requested features (like integrating it with Gmail). At the top of this request list (or at least near it) is search - after all, it is a Google product. Unfortunately, the Reader team's own Mihai Parparita has explained in the product's Google Group that search is ...

Anyone who has hand-coded HTML (I know, oldskool) has wished for a tool like this real-time HTML editor, though regrettably the days of hardcore hand-coding HTML are pretty much over. I still code HTML in my free time just for the tactile feel of simple code beneath my fingers and remembering the old day before things got easy. Real-time HTML Editor puts your code into practice as soon as (and ...

Camera phones are undoubtedly alluring, but even the best of them produce mediocre images. Aaron Straup Cope, unsatisfied with his results, built filtr, a shell script for FreeBSD and OSX that will takes your blah camera phone photos and lets you apply one of seven filters to it: dazd, heathr, postcrd, postr, stndpipe, rockstr, and filtr. There's also movr, which will turn a video file into a ...

Mozilla has released a security update to Firefox, version 1.5.0.5. TechWeb is reporting that this update fixes 13 vulnerabilities, including 8 that have been deemed critical by Mozilla. For those keeping score: all 8 of these critical bugs are errors or vulnerabilities that have been found in JavaScript. Firefox 1.5.x should automatically download this update, but users can still manually obtain ...

Greased Lightbox is a nifty Greasemonkey (and Creammonkey for Safari) script by Joe Lencioni that I came across yesterday. When it finds links to image files, clicking those links causes the image to pop up with the suddenly-popular "lightbox" effect rather than navigating away from the linking page. Not only is it a cool effect, it makes browsing image galleries and Google Images a lot ...

Since version 3.0 Internet Explorer has had a "standalone mode" that has allowed web developers to view their work in several different versions of the browser concurrently, but earlier this month a cumulative security patch for IE6 released earlier this month broke standalone mode. It prevents, among other things, developers wishing to make their sites work with Internet Explorer 7 from ...