Ewrick's Rabbit Hole

Grease­monkey is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that runs user scripts on pages to modify their content, rearrange them, add func­tion­al­ities etc.

It comes pretty useful in web­sites like Flickr. For instance, two scripts that I found really interesting:

• Flickr No Awards — To hide the nasty defacing awards in the com­ments of popular photos. The nice treat is that it’s pos­sible to reveal them if you want to.
• Flickr Hide Comment Images — Zaps the images off the com­ments and photo pages. Actually, I use that only on the recent activity pages, and not on the photo pages, were the first one does what I want.

written by Yuki \\ tags: firefox, flickr, greasemonkey, script

Ideas and inspi­ration are much like plants. Usually they don’t require our attention to grow by them­selves in nature, and some of them, like dew­berries, are even sweeter and more deli­cious when picked on their wild thorny bushes than in a neatly groomed garden. But when we want to save our­selves the hunt for the fruits, there is mutual benefit found for both the hungry human and the plant in a gar­dening coop­er­ation.
However, no matter how stubborn and greedy humans may be, nature still has its say. When the soil isn’t ade­quate, or when it isn’t time, then, no point in digging to stretch the roots, like tra­di­tional Chinese wisdom says. And in the reverse, no matter what, it’s amazing how these smallest things grow when you trust they will.

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written by Yuki \\ tags: attention, magic, photos, plant, playfulness, process, success, tomato, tree

After a long wait, Firefox 3 has been released offi­cially, fol­lowing release can­di­dates that were available for a few days already.

The Mozilla team has been trying to setup a first world record of number of down­loads in a single day (June 17^th), and seem to have exceeded expec­ta­tions with more than 5 mil­lions down­loads so far…

Flock is on its way to incor­porate the new version of the Firefox engine at its core, and has released its version 2 beta. (this post is written using this beta version)
There seem to be some real nice memory han­dling and per­for­mance improve­ments, and that’s really all that I’ve been antic­i­pating from this new version.

So far so good

written by Yuki \\ tags: firefox, flock, record, web

 Wisp is released

written by Yuki \\ tags: ezine, wisp