gHacks technology news » greasmonkey scripts http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Add URLS to Website Printouts http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/16/add-urls-to-website-printouts/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/16/add-urls-to-website-printouts/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:30:22 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/16/add-urls-to-website-printouts/ If you print a website you notice that the urls of the links contained on the website are not added to the printout, only the link anchor text is included obviously. It sometimes makes a lot of sense to print the urls as well and a Greasemonkey script named Annotate Links can do that for you.

All you need is a Greasemonkey compatible browser like Firefox, the Greasemonkey extension and the Annotate Links script that adds the functionality. The annotated links are not visible when browsing websites but will become visible once you print the website. Each link gets a unique identifier (number) which corresponds to a link in the link list at the end of the printout.

Only “real” links are added this way to the document. Javascript links or relative links are not included which makes a lot of sense obviously. You can preview the output if you select Print Preview from the menu of your browser, the way the links are prepared and added should be visible there if the Greasemonkey extension is running.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/16/add-urls-to-website-printouts/feed/ 6 Four Greasemonkey Scripts to improve Youtube http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/24/four-greasemonkey-scripts-to-improve-youtube/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/24/four-greasemonkey-scripts-to-improve-youtube/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:13:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/24/four-greasemonkey-scripts-to-improve-youtube/ Youtube is the most popular video portal on the Internet, that is without question. There are however several annoyances like automatic video playback that irritate at least some users. I collected four Greasemonkey scripts that improve Youtube, that either add functions or remove functions and elements that are not necessary for watching the videos.

You need to have Greasemonkey installed which can be downloaded as a Firefox add-on from Mozilla. The following five scripts will add some great functions to Youtube, a resize function for the videos or RSS feeds for user searches and more.

Greasmonkey scripts are installed in a similar fashion as Firefox add-ons. The browser does not need to be closed though, only the current tab needs to be refreshed, or a new one opened to make the script work.

Youtube RSS Feed

Adds a RSS feed tag to the Firefox address bar for user and tag searches.

Youtube Prevent Autoplay

Don’t you hate it when videos start playing automatically when you are on Youtube ? Users with slow connections surely do. This script replaces the Youtube player that autostarts videos with one that does not.

Youtube Cleaner

Removes comments and related sidebar from video pages with the option to restore them when needed.

YousableTubeFix

Makes it possible to resize videos played on Youtube and removes ads as well. Could not get the download video function to work though

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/24/four-greasemonkey-scripts-to-improve-youtube/feed/ 5 Reveal Destination of Tiny Url Links http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/reveal-destination-of-tiny-url-links/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/reveal-destination-of-tiny-url-links/#comments Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:38:49 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/reveal-destination-of-tiny-url-links/ Tiny Url links are a great way to shorten long urls and hide the destination of the link at the same time. I read several PC magazines that use Tiny Url to print urls in their magazine. There is however a certain danger involved because the user does not see where a link is really leading to. It could very well be that someone is posting tiny url links on trusted websites to fool users into visiting those websites.

Tiny Url are offering a preview function on their website which can be enabled. If you do enable it a cookie will be set and you will be redirected to a preview page displaying the real destination of the link that you clicked on. This is working for as long as the cookie is set.

There is however a better solution if you are using Firefox. The Greasemonkey script TinyURL Popup Preview displays a title popup whenever you are hovering your mouse over a tiny url link. It is using the preview function of the official website for additional security.

tiny url revealer

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/12/30/reveal-destination-of-tiny-url-links/feed/ 7 8 Greasemonkey Scripts for the Lazy http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/19/8-greasemonkey-scripts-for-the-lazy/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/19/8-greasemonkey-scripts-for-the-lazy/#comments Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:50:24 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/19/8-greasemonkey-scripts-for-the-lazy/ Computer users are lazy. Well, not all of them but most are. I just have to look around and see friends to try to automate as much as possible to save some clicks and time. The article Greasmonkey scripts for the lazy is for them, and everyone else who feels the same way. I don’t want to explain Greasemonkey (again) in detail but here is a rather short explanation. Greasemonkey can be installed as a Firefox extension that changes website behavior. To change the behavior you need to install so called userscripts which change elements on websites.

This can be something profane like removing advertisement from websites or disabling comments but also clever additions that increase the usability of a website. You can download the latest version of Greasmonkey from Greasepot. Enough of the babbling, I’m proud to present 10 Greasemonkey scripts for the lazy, enjoy the read:

      Googlestream – Never click Next or previous during Google searches again. The script automatically loads and displays the next batch of search results in the same window you are currently in. It loads them when you reach the bottom of the page.
      RSS+Atom Feed Subscribe Button Generator – Some websites hide their RSS Feed buttons pretty well and it takes some time to find them. With this userscript the feed options will always be displayed in the upper left corner of the website. No more searching for those darn feed links.
      Google Image Direct Links – this userscript links directly to the picture during Google image searches without having to visit the framed website first.
      Flickr Photo Page Enhancer – adds links to different sizes directly, generates html code (to quickly copy and paste the html for a thumbnail link) and loads 20 most used tags.
      Ebay Show only negative feedback – It takes sometimes pretty long to find the few negative or neutral comments that a user received on Ebay especially when he has thousands of auction comments. This userscript adds two new tabs: Complaints received and Complaints Left.
      Technorati English Search Results – Technorati displays search results in all languages unless you choose a specific language in the drop down box before you search. With this userscript only English search results are shown.
      Del.icio.us Autotag – When you save bookmarks on del.icio.us the tags from that link are automatically added to your bookmark.
      Sourceforge Direct Links – Direct download links for files on Sourceforge plus the ability to choose a mirror from a certain continent.
      Digg.com Mirrors – adds links to article mirrors in case the website goes down due to the digg effect. Links to duggmirror, Coral and Google Cache plus Waybackmachine.

Wow the list has 9 entries not 8, take the last one as a bonus if you like.

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