Category Archives: GreaseMonkey

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

Quick links as of June 4th 2010

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Jeffery To’s Show Short Link GreaseMonkey Script displays an existing short link for the current page (in the bottom left corner of the window), taking advantage of the short link microFormat. Flickr, YouTube, TechCrunch and all WordPress blogs already use the rel=”shortlink” mircoFormat. Nice!

Clarify Your Story Excerpt is a set of questions will [...]

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a GreaseMonkey script for Follow Rank and Follows in Common for Twitter User Profiles

I’ve released a GreaseMonkey script Follow Rank and Follows in Common for Twitter User Profiles which you can use to display the Follows in Common and the Follow Rank for a given users profile page and discover how important they are in your Twitter Social Network.
Similar in aim to FaceBooks “friends in common”, adjusted [...]

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

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.

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

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”

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

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Illuminating the Web, with GreaseMonkey

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”?

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

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

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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