Posted July 15th, 2009 by annie
After reading Mashable’s review of TidyTweet the other day and realizing that getting rid of those spammy trending topic tweets would be nice, I decided to create a Greasemonkey script that does that for you when you’re on search.twitter.com.
The Hide Tweets with Multiple Trending Topics script works for Firefox users with the Greasemonkey add-on who are browsing search.twitter.com (maybe I’ll get it working on twitter.com’s search as well, but I don’t use that as much). It suppresses all tweets that have more than x number of trending topics in them (2 is the default). You can choose to either throw them away or compress them at the bottom of the page:
After installing the script, you can customize the options mentioned above. Go to Tools > Greasemonkey > Manage User Scripts… and then select HideMultipleTrendingTopicTweets and then the Edit button. A .js file will open in your text editor, and you can change the values in the Customize section. I’ve only tried this with Firefox 3.5.
It’s kind of fun to look at Trending Topics over a little while. Lots of times people ask why something is a trending topic, thus perpetuating it as a trending topic. People also try to make a game of getting all the trending topics into a sentence.
Enjoy!
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Posted January 19th, 2009 by annie
Man, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Anyways, I’ve been playing around with changing one of my Wordpress sites’ themes using the Theme Test Drive plugin and I like one of the most popular themes I found, iNove. I currently have ratings on this particular site (I use the WP-PostRatings plugin). I think the plugin already uses FamFamFam icons for the stars, but I want to use blue ones to match the comment icons in the iNove PostInfo section. Here’s a screenshot of how the ratings stars will look with the text and comment icon:
Here’s how to use these blue ratings stars in your blog:
1. Install the WP-PostRatings plugin and set it up in your blog (activate it, put the php in your posts, etc).
2. Download this zip file, extract it, and place the stars_blue folder in your blog’s wp-content/plugins/postratings/images directory.
3. Go to the Ratings tab and select the Ratings Options page. Then select the stars_blue radio button. Double-check how it will look by hitting “Update ‘Individual Rating Text/Value’ Display” and then hit Update Options to save.
The yellow is the color that will appear when a user is rating a post while the blue indicates the current cumulative rating of the post.
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Posted September 10th, 2008 by annie
I remember Apple doing this on Yahoo! before, but this ad campaign today on Yahoo! Tech tickled me. Even without the sound on, you still get the gist of the ad.
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Posted May 25th, 2008 by annie
Some great designers at Yahoo! have publicly released a Stencil Kit! It was released internally a few weeks ago and has made it much easier for me to wireframe. The designs are very clean and crisp. Go ahead and check it out – it’s available for OmniGraffle, Visio, Illustrator, and Photoshop!
Here are some examples in OmniGraffle:
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Posted May 8th, 2008 by annie
Yahoo! has launched Glue Beta in India, a new contextual module search result page. It’s exciting to see it in action! I did some searches (artists, actors, cities, political leaders, companies, etc.) and here are some modules that appeared. Along with Yahoo! modules, there are third-party integrations such as Youtube, Wikipedia, and howstuffworks. Pretty cool stuff – check it out at in.yahoo.com.
Also – first time using the gallery and I didn’t upload in the right order…here’s a whole page overview.
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Posted April 8th, 2008 by annie
One of the biggest things keeping me from trying out Firefox 3 Beta was the lack of support by my addons…but I bit the bullet and did it anyways. I heard about this LifeHacker article today and this Nightly Tester Tools addon that lets you make (most of) your extensions compatible with Firefox 3. Basically it adds a “Make all compatible” button to your addons window:
Look at all those sad exclamation points! :( Just click on “Make all compatible” and say OK to this message:
Then restart Firefox and it’ll bring you back to the Addons window where you can see your updated extensions:
Oh snap! Look at all those happy extensions! So of course, do this at your own risk, it could mess up Firefox, etc. etc. I’ve found it to be well worth it though! A word to the wise though: you should probably wait to make your old Themes compatible…trust me, it’s not pretty.
So, what extensions do I use, you ask? Let me list a few of my favorites…
- Adblock Plus – if you haven’t heard of this before, ouch.
- BugMeNot – puts a BugMeNot option in the menu when you right-click on a username/password field which populates them with any available u/p combinations
- del.icio.us – puts a button in the browser menu so you can quickly add a page to del.icio.us
- Download Statusbar – shows progress of your downloads
- Firebug – must have for web design!
- Greasemonkey – customize sites/pages with js scripts
- Link Alert – shows small icon on link hover to show the type of link it is (new window, pdf, js, ppt, etc)
- MeasureIt – lets you draw a rectangle overlay in the browser and says how many pixels wide/high it is (handy for web design)
- Stylish – customize sites/pages with css scripts
- View Source Chart – boxed, color-coded version of a page’s source code
What are you favorite addons? :
Update: I forgot about the awesome PicLens because I just have it on my work computer. But it’ll change how you view pictures online!
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Posted April 6th, 2008 by annie
One of my biggest Firefox pet peeves over the years has been how it handles dragging a boomark to the Bookmarks Toolbar on a Mac (apparently this doesn’t happen on Windows). Here’s a screenshot of how it’s been up through FF2.0:
This tooltip that shows up when you drag the favicon down to the toolbar could be helpful I guess…the first time. But the problem is that tooltip blocks all the space under it on the toolbar, so you can’t actually add the bookmark to any folders you have underneath it. Unless you’re super quick and get to it before the tooltip comes up. There are ways around it (put the bookmark somewhere else and move it afterwards), but it’s still really annoying. I looked into how to fix it a while ago and found this work-around, but it removes ALL tooltips in your browser.
Anyways, it’s something I’ve begrudgingly learned to live with. Until now! The beta version of Firefox 3 (3.0b5) finally lets you add a bookmark to the middle of your Bookmarks Toolbar! So instead of instructing people how to add a bookmark, it has a new tooltip about the current webpage’s identity information, but you can still add a bookmark under it:
After a second of hovering over the tooltip, the folder the favicon is over will expand so you can drop the favicon into the folder. And after 6 or 7 seconds the tooltip disappears altogether. AND sometimes when you drag it doesn’t even show the tooltip at all. Thank goodness!
So what’s that identity information message? A webpage’s favicon is more separate from the web address as a button (in FF2 it’s in the URL box)…and if you click on the favicon it will open a box telling more about the “identity information”:
If you’re on a secure website (starting with “https”), that’s where it will give the identity information:
The “More Information” takes you to the Security tab of the Page Info box. I guess that’s a nice feature, but I doubt I’ll use it.
So color me excited about this in Firefox 3. Yeah, it’s probably the least exciting new feature about FF3 but this has been too annoying for too long. Any other FF3ers out there? What’s your favorite part about it?
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