IDT Labs - software updates from Internet Duct Tape

[WORDPRESS] Comment Ninja 0.61

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:29:18 -0500

- Fixed duplicate comment anchors in WP 2.5
- Remove the different colouring for comments that aren't yours on multi-author blogs (too distracting)

Click here to install the script.

[TPB] Soundamus + PirateBay = Crazy Delicious

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:29:18 -0500

Soundamus is this kick ass new website that shows you all the new music release based on your Last.FM music habits. This script adds links to Soundamus to perform the same search on the Pirate Bay.

Click here to install the script.

[TPB] Always sort The Pirate Bay by seeders

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:25:12 -0500

Title says it all: always sort TPB by seeders when searching. Very handy.

Click to install.

[FRIENDFEED] Who Are You? v0.4

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:48:32 -0500

This is a massive update to the Who Are You? script. This script is insanely useful for browsing your friends and strangers on Friend Feed.

Adds a "Who are you?" link on profile pages AND on that little popup box when you hover over a name.
Clicking on the link

shows who they are on all of their services
shows which friends you have in common
shows which friends you don't have in common

If you use the script from someone's profile page, you'll get the little user popup on all of their friends (which you can then use to browse all of THAT person's friends).

I've also changed my "promote this script" strategy. Instead of showing a "share this" link it automatically shares itself every X times you use it (currently set at 50, I will do an update if that is too often).

Click here to install the script.

[FRIENDFEED] Show Usernames

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:13:09 -0500

Because I find it annoying as well having 12 friends with the exact same first name and no last name.

Click here to install the script

[FRIENDFEED] Import Your Twitter Contacts v0.0.4

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:55:33 -0500

I've updated my Twitter importer to v0.0.4.

The new version does a better job of guessing who your Tweeps are on Friend Feed.

It also supports setting up the username / passwords on the command line so that you can make a schedule task to run the program.

v0.0.3

v0.0.4

[REDDIT] Rusty Pipes Are Flowing Again

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:26:41 -0500

Some of my old pipes for Reddit.com are working again.

Reddit Feed Redirector will make the links in a reddit RSS feed go to the comments page instead of the item linked.

Social Site Submission Watchdog keeps track of when your site is added to Digg/Reddit.

[FRIENDFEED] Import Your Twitter Contacts

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:57:21 -0500

There's a solution for importing your Twitter contacts into Friend Feed.

You can find more information about it here.

[FRIENDFEED] Hide Friend of Friends

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:53:40 -0500

Actually, don't install this script.

Friend Feed already supports hiding Friend of Friends.

Find a "friend of" item in your feed.
Click Hide
Click More hide options
Click Hide friend of friends

[FRIENDFEED] Tweak Refresh Rate

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:26:27 -0500

This was a request from Tony because he wanted to change how often Friend Feed autorefreshes and reloads the page. The default setting is 2 minutes, but I've created a Greasemonkey script where you can tweak the value (to over 2 minutes).

You can access it from the Tools >> Greasemonkey >> User Script Commands menu.

It'll save the value between browser sessions.

You can set it to a large value to disable autorefresh.

Click here to install the script.

[WORDPRESS] Big Excerpts

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:10:25 -0500

I'm not quite sure on what planet having a 4 line text entry for the Excerpt field on WordPress blog posts is usable. On my planet you need to be able to see what you're typing. Especially when you have to enter the HTML by hand.

Click here to install the script.

[FRIENDFEED] Hiding the Oldies

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:12:58 -0500

Hides any entries older than a week from your Friend Feed.

Click here to install this script.

[FRIENDFEED] Put Alert Thingy and Twhirl to bed

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:50:59 -0500

Ok, Twhirl is doing the "via twhirl" spamming in Friend Feed as well.

"I hope engtech doesn't lol...in bed" indeed. :)

"These days, instead of googling for something I want, I'm increasingly turning to my network of friends for recommendations instead...in bed"

"Perhaps Facebook is coming later ...in bed"

"Maybe that's coming next? ...in bed"

It's really too bad Steve wasn't using twhirl/alert thingy for that last message :(

"Wouldn't mind writing one Robert if you think I'd be good enough ...in bed"

"definately a nice implementation.. trying it now ...in bed"

"I like it! ...in bed"

"This will not help me to get rid of my addiction to both services ;) ...in bed"

"This will probably be my only comment pushed thru Alert Thingy... deinstalling AT, installing Twhirl new version! Competition = Innovation <=> True! ...in bed"

"please remove the "... via twhirl" message ...in bed"

"Why two windows? Can't they integrate to one UI? ...in bed"

"@arnaud well via alert thingy is around too, and @samuel why the clients need filters to prevent you from seeing double ...in bed"

"Two windows definitely not working for me...needs consolidation and twitter posting ability. ...in bed"

I'm still pulling for Alert Thingy. I think it's a much cleaner interface. It also handles comments better too. ...in bed

"I can one-up that. I have a director that can actually make useful implementation suggestions. He's only a year our of a developer role though, I'm sure his ability will atrophy. ...in bed"

Yes, I am 12.

Click here to install the new version of the script

[FRIENDFEED] Put Alert Thingy to Bed

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:31:49 -0500

Alert Thingy is the new desktop application for Friend Feed. I applaud them for their work, and when they have as many features as the various Greasemonkey scripts floating around I'll probably switch to using it.

At the moment they're adding a "via Alert Thingy" line to every comment their users make. Hopefully this is temporary until FF adds a way for 3rd party apps to official state the source of the message. This is a great feature Twitter has that helps promote 3rd party app developers. I know I'd use it if it was there.

A few of us were joking about the 'via Alert Thingy' spam and saying it would be funnier if it said 'in bed'.

With this Greasemonkey script it will :)

Click here to install Friend Feed Put Alert Thingy to Bed

[FRIENDFEED] Easy Unsubscribe v0.1

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:41:05 -0500

Add an unsubscribe link to individual user pages.

Click here to install the script.

[FRIENDFEED] Who Are You? v0.1

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:15:59 -0500

Show more information about who people are beside their profile picture.

Click to install script.

Sneak Preview

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:32:48 -0500

[FRIENDFEED] Even More Expander v0.3

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:42:42 -0500

- Bug fix: had problems if there were several "more >>" links.
- Bug fix: didn't work well with pagerization

Click here to install the script.

You'll also need a new version of the pagerization fixer.

[FRIENDFEED] By Service v0.5

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:55:47 -0500

Dynamically grabs the list of services once per day. It should always display the latest services.
When you're on a users' page, it'll add options to filter by the specific services they use.
When your one the main page it will hover in place in the sidebar
Includes optional "Help promote" links to share the script

Click here to install the script.

[FRIENDFEED] Remove Visited Links v0.4

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:34:16 -0500

Hides the visited links using Friend Feed's "hide entry" function.
The entry will be hidden across multiple computers.
You can see the hidden entry at the bottom of the page using the normal "show hidden entries" mechanism.

How awesome is this? When you read Friend Feed at work, you don't see the same entries when you come home because it's persistent across different computers (since it's using the FF site itself).

When you read reddit, digg, stumbleupon etc you don't see the same links in Friend Feed.

This is the bees knees when it comes to improving the signal-to-noise ratio on Friend Feed.

Click here to install the script.

[FRIENDFEED] Twitter Client v0.4

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:25:24 -0500

- Will show the correct character count when tweeting from FF (count down from 140 instead of 104 :) )

- Will show tweets as being from 'idt' once Twitter deploys again.

Click here to install the script.

[WORDPRESS] Auntie Spam and Comment Ninja updated for WP 2.5

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:23:45 -0500

Auntie Spam and Comment Ninja are updated for WP 2.5. They are still backwards compatible with WP 2.3

Akismet Auntie Spam - resize the view of the Akismet spam box to see more spam per page [FireFox+GreaseMonkey]
WordPress Comment Ninja - respond to commenters by email and on the blog all from the comment administration pannel [FireFox+GreaseMonkey]

[WORDPRESS] WP 2.5 Support

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:32:35 -0500

You might not be aware, but I'm hosted on wordpress.com instead of running my own version of WordPress. This means that if you're using one of my WordPress tools it might be broken with WP 2.5 until they get around to upgrading WordPress.com to the 2.5 interface. Sorry guys :(

WordPress Designs for Sandbox Theme - themes and templates designed by yours truly [WordPress Themes]
Tag Cloud Generator - build tag clouds or heat maps without a plug-in [downloadable program]
WordPress Category Resizer - three column layout for add categories [FireFox+GreaseMonkey]
Akismet Auntie Spam - resize the view of the Akismet spam box to see more spam per page [FireFox+GreaseMonkey]
WordPress Comment Ninja - respond to commenters by email and on the blog all from the comment administration pannel [FireFox+GreaseMonkey]
WordPress Comment/Trackback Extractor - get an RSS feed of only comments or only trackbacks [RSS+Yahoo Pipes]

[FRIENDFEED] Greasemonkey scripts

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:29:02 -0500

Here's a list of the Greasemonkey scripts I've created to add more features to the Friend Feed:

http://internetducttape.com/20.....y-service/
- Add “filter by service” links to all pages

http://internetducttape.com/20.....ted-links/
- Add an integrated Twitter client to the FF homepage:
- Automatically remove any links you’ve already clicked on:

http://internetducttape.com/20.....8-scripts/
- Automatically load the next page when scrolling (pagerization)
- Increase the number of items per page
- Add a “reshare this on delicious,digg,stumbleupon,etc” link to every item
- Automatically expand the “4 more item” links

I’ve also hacked together a way of importing Xbox 360 played game info into Friend Feed. Details coming soon.

Behind the Curtain

noreply@blogger.com (engtech) — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:02:52 -0500

Here's a sneak peak into the trials and tribulations of hacking up websites with Greasemonkey: