Archive for July, 2008

Greasemonkey script for highlighting google results

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Each individual on internet have their own browsing habits. For example, I have seen lot of people type the web address directly in the search box instead of the addressbar(If you look at the top searched queries, you can see yahoo.com, etc).

One of my browsing habits is to look for wikipedia articles. If it’s a movie, I look for imdb. So, instead of spending 1/2 seconds to go through results and analyze site address, i decided to write a simple greasemonkey script.

You can grab the script from here. If you have your own list of sites, you can simply edit the source(greasemonkey provides you a simple interface) and change the “sites” array.

Nautilus Tabs

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

If you are a gnome user, you might have seen the TABs meme in gnome planet during GUADEC. Most of them are crazy mockups and if implemented totally useless(some are really funny). However, nautilus tabs is really useful and have been a long awaited feature. So today, I compiled the nautilus trunk and now I’m a happy user of nautilus tabs.

For ubuntu 8.04, I had to compile, libgnome-2.23.4, intltool-0.40, gnome-desktop-2.23.4 and eel-2.23.4 before compiling nautilus svn trunk(svn://svn.gnome.org/svn/nautilus/trunk).