Auto-Highlight New Items With The Newslight UserScript

October 12th, 2009

Newslight is a Greasemonkey script that you can use to automatically highlight new posts, new blog comments, recent product listings or any other kind of new content that has been added to your favourite website(s) since you last visited.
The way it works is simple : when you see a web page you’d like to keep [...]

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How To Speed Up Your JavaScript (Video)

August 10th, 2009

JavaScript has become an integral part of the modern Web. Some would praise it as the miracle stuff that ties together diverse web technologies and creates more responsive user interfaces, the stuff that makes glorious mashups and truly interactive web apps possible. Some would rather liken it to a sticky sludge that attaches itself to [...]

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AutoPagerize For Opera

July 23rd, 2009

AutoPagerize for Opera is a userscript that will automatically load the next page of a website inline when you reach the end of a page. This makes browsing paged search results or multi-page articles much more seamless as you don’t need to click “Next” all the time. The full version of the script supports hundreds [...]

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Anti-Privacy 1.0 (Beta)

February 7th, 2009

Imagine you are a systems administrator at a major ISP. The company’s servers log every page your clients visit, and due to your position you have full and unrestricted access to those logs. This comes in handy when troubleshooting network problems, but nobody would find out if you browsed somebody’s web history for other reasons [...]

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Does Adblock Matter For Your Site?

January 26th, 2009

There’s been some controversy about the ethics of using Adblock. Webmasters want advertising income, users want a better browsing experience. Yadda yadda yadda. I can certainly sympathize with both sides of the debate – on the one hand, I hate intrusive ads as much as anyone. On the other hand, this site is mainly ad-supported.
But [...]

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Cross-Domain POST With JavaScript

November 20th, 2008

Normally you can’t send cross-domain requests in JavaScript due to restrictions imposed by the same-origin security policy. There are many clever hacks that circumvent this by using remote script includes (even CSS includes) or proxy scripts, but so far I haven’t seen anything useful for client-side, cross-domain POST requests.
However, it turns out you can [...]

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Displaying Recent Posts On a Non-WordPress Page

November 15th, 2008

Listing recent posts on a WordPress page is easy – there are various widgets and theme functions available just for that purpose. But what about a non-WP page, or even a different site? That’s not that hard either – simply grab some posts from the blog’s RSS feed and output them on your page. In [...]

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JavaScript Splitters And Resizable Panels

October 23rd, 2008

In this post I’ll review* several splitter components for JavaScript. A splitter is usually a vertical or horizontal bar that you can drag to change the size of the surrounding elements. Most splitter scripts also depend on, or are part of a JS framework, which may be an important consideration if you’re already using some [...]

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SEO For Opera

September 5th, 2008

During the last week I have ported (more or less) the famous SEO for Firefox addon to Opera. Now die-hard Opera fans can also enjoy it’s excellent market research capabilities and enhanced Google/Yahoo! search results
In case you’re not familiar with this outstanding SEO tool check out the “Features” section below.
Download & Installation [...]

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Google Chrome vs Opera – JS Speed Test

September 3rd, 2008

With the recent release of the Google’s Chrome browser lots of sites have jumped on it and started churning out reviews. However, most reviews focus on Chrome vs Firefox – for example, I have already seen no less than three articles discussing whether Chrome’s brand new JavaScript engine is really faster than the one used [...]

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How To Highlight Nofollow With Opera & More SEO Tools

January 9th, 2008

A review of a free Opera plugin that can highlight nofollow links, display Alexa rank and PageRank, show the number of backlinks that a page or a domain has, and more. Basically it is a full-featured SEO toolbar for the Opera web browser.

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Search The Current Site – A Firefox Extension

December 1st, 2007

There are lots of search engine plugins for Firefox, and it’s easy to make a simple search plugin for your own site. That’s why it came as a bit of a surprise that I couldn’t find any search engine plugins for searching the currently open site. So I created one. Download it here.

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