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.

Free(dom) Software and Free Rice

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Last week, proving one of the most effective open source successes, firefox hit 500+ million downloads. There are no arguments, they have definitely changed the world. Now, in honor of firefox downloads, they are going to change the world in another perspective by helping the Free Rice foundation.

Free Rice

Now, it’s your turn.

Fire(bug)

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Note : Before you read this blog post, if you are a web developer/designer and you have never tried firebug, then stop all your work and try that.

As you might already know, the best tool to debug a web frontend is firebug. It’s really easy and efficient. When you get used to it, you can’t actually live without it.

I was working on a web project for several months now, and there was a very strange behavior on that site. Everytime I go there, firebug stops working. That’s very annoying specially when that site is AJAX (and when there are lot of bugs there ;) ).

Today, I found what makes firebug stop. I was using “parent” as a variable name. The site works perfectly with it but firebug didn’t manage to handle that.

Test your site in internet explorer. Are you using IE Tab?

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

If you are a web developer/designer you should have surely checked your site in popular browsers. Specially if you are using css. I always used to use only firefox for the development stages and then later test the sites in IE. But after that i came to aware about the mozilla plugin “IE tab”, it became easier. I started to test the site with IE in the development stages. But recently Nayana have found out that IE doesn’t emulate the Internet Explorer exactly. I dont know what is happening there even when it is using same ActiveX control. However, if you are using IE tab, be careful – just a small warning.