Category Archives: GreaseMonkey

the uber FireFox extension that lets you re-write the Web

Using GreaseMonkey’s persistent data functions as a aged Cache, revised.

By Ian | December 15, 2009

In eating my own dog food I have revised, corrected, improved and fixed the code I posted last week. The biggest changes are related to ensuring that all that cached data does not just accumulate and never gets cleared away.
Values set using the “GM_setValue” function are saved in the Firefox preferences back end and [...]

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Use GreaseMonkey’s persistent data functions as a aged Cache.

By Ian | December 9, 2009

GreaseMonkey (Don’t know that GreaseMonkey is the greatest thing since slice bread? See Greasemonkey) has two persistent data function’s, GM_setValue and GM_getValue, which let you set and get values. See Mark Pilgrams excellent Dive Into Greasemonkey : Storing and retrieving persistent data for more details. (even better, go to GreaseSpot and it’s api [...]

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Greasing the bird : enhancing Twitter with GreaseMonkey

By Ian | March 13, 2009

GreaseMonkey is an add-on to (primarily, but not only) the Mozilla FireFox web browser that lets you run small (javascript) scripts to modify HTML pages on-the-fly, changing how they behave and look. It was originally created by Aaron Boodman (aka youngpup) in 2005.
Twitter is a social networking and micro blogging service that enables its users [...]

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Adding Tags to your Blog posts, The Magic rel=”tag”

By Ian | August 15, 2006

For those who don’t have a blogging tool that auto-magically adds tag’s the process can seem a bit bewildering, especially when there is so much to do.
We have come a long way since Folksonomies on Slashdot, and since the Beta of Blogger.com looks to include tagging (making my Technorati and del.icio.us Tags added [...]

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Illuminating the Web, with GreaseMonkey

By Ian | August 17, 2005

Back in November 2004 I made some mention about a system to find and display commentaries on the current web page. We have Progress !…

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Is 2005 the “Year of JavaScript”?

By Ian | July 26, 2005

I asked this below , but it’s really a big enough point to ask on it’s own.
First AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) made it possible to build much more dynamic web application. , then GreaseMonkey made it possible to do custom re-writing on web sites (and prototyping concepts / extensions), now Konfabulator / Yahoo! Widgets [...]

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Rewriting Amazon : GreaseMonkey script for the Toronto Public Library

By Ian | May 26, 2005

I customized Carrick Mundell’s LibraryLookup Greasemonkey script (for the Seattle Public Library) to do the same for the Toronto Public Library.
What’s it do? On any Amazon.com book listing page, the script inserts a hyper-link below the book title which, when clicked, will search for the book in the Toronto Public Library catalog.
I also made a [...]

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Technorati and del.icio.us Tags added with GreaseMonkey for Blogger.com users

By Ian | May 10, 2005

Fabricio Zuardi (http://idomyownstunts.blogspot.com) wrote a GreaseMonkey script to make it easier to add Technorati Tags to your blog post when/if you are editing with in www.Blogger.com (but not within the pop up “BlogThis!”). Bryan Price (http://www.bytehead.org/) modified it to make it conducive to being XHTML compliant.
I’ve took that script and made some trivial changes [...]

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Automating Geobloggers with Google Maps longitude and latitude

By Ian | May 9, 2005

Via Andrew Baio’s Waxy Links we have a newer, faster way to annotate the web using the previously mentioned Flickr + Google Maps Remix known as Geobloggers.
Excellatronic Communications has been hacking up a storm, starting with a GreaseMonkey script which fills my LazyWeb request (very dangerous) with both Greasemonkey script and bookmarklet’s (so [...]

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