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YouJukebox

SkyLined — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:19:14 +0000

If you want to listen to a certain song but don’t have the mp3, you can always look it up on YouTube. With a bit of script this can be made very easy using Google Search and the “I’m feeling lucky” feature.

http://skypher.com/SkyLined/YouJukebox

You just type the artist and song and it’ll play the first hit on YouTube, which is commonly what you want to hear.

Google Chrome released

SkyLined — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:42:22 +0000

Finally I can talk about what I’ve been doing since I left Microsoft: I’ve been working on security for Google Chrome; trying to find as many vulnerabilities before we shipped the beta. In the process I’ve found plenty of bugs in other browsers as well . I’m looking forward to the first real externally found security vulnerability; there have been some reports about crashes but nothing that allows an attacker to completely compromise the machine… we’ll see what happens!

Google Enhancements

Cipher — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:43:48 +0000

I’ve updated my userscripts for Google with Greasemonkey.

Google Instant Type

I added the Classic homepage to the list where it should add the buttons. I also added a button to search Google News.

Google Own Language

Fixed the layout crash due to Google’s tiny HTML adjustment. Also added support for Google News and Images.

Please feel free to respond if you have a request!

iGoogle enhancement

Cipher — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:50:49 +0000

I was talking to Skylined about greasemonkey and my language enhancement of the results of Google, when we came up with another one, dubbed: Instant Search Type.

This new script removes the “I’m feeling Lucky” button and adds an Images and a Maps button. Using these buttons, you can instantly search Images or Maps.

More information, installation and a preview is available at userscripts.org (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25596)

Enjoy!

Google Language Change

Cipher — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:23:25 +0000

Recently I discovered greasemonkey throu the lifehacker website.
After it’s possibilities sank in, I figured out one of my main frustrations: Google. in particular, it’s language settings. Once you switch to Dutch, it’s hard to switch back.
Greasemonkey offers the possibility to add custom JavaScript to any website.
So I wrote a small script to add small links to either Dutch or English results.

The current version can make links for x script languages. To change the languages please download the script from userscripts.org and alter the little array (code comment will guide you). Or install it directly if you think Dutch, English and French are sufficient.

[update 11 April]

I’ve updated the script. You can now change language tags on the fly, using the Greasemonkey User Script Commands Menu. Throu the same menu, you can change the font size.