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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

I don’t get Google Wave

Thought I’d quickly stick something up before I went away, in hope that I’ll get some responses whilst I’m away over the weekend.
I’ve been using Google Wave for a while now, as I was in the first round of invites, and the developer preview before that… but I say using in the loosest sense of [...]

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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Google Chrome Twitter Extension: TweetPage

I’ve just written another Google Chrome extension, this time a little more complex. It’s a Twitter ‘Tweet This Page’ extension, much like the many available bookmarklets, except this one allows you to tweet directly from within the extension, without leaving the site you’re on to go to twitter.com. You’ll need to log into Twitter the [...]

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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Chrome NoFollow extension updated

As a quick follow up to my nofollow marker post, I’ve put up a new version of the extension. It does exactly the same job as the old one, except without the need for any JavaScript. The new extension simply uses the following CSS:
a[rel~=nofollow]
{
background-color: #FCC !important;
border: 1px dashed #F55 !important;
color: #600 !important;
}
I should really have thought [...]

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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Googling for strange things

Wade and I have been fairly actively blogging for a few weeks now, and every so often, we check analytics and webmaster tools accounts for what keywords people have used to find our sites. Finding out that he ranked number one for “anti-gravity mice” has caused Wade to go on a bit of a rampage [...]

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22 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Google Chrome Extension: nofollow marker

I was just playing about with Google Chrome’s extension system, and threw together a very simple one that highlights all nofollow links in pink, as I’d seen a few people using something similar in Firefox. It doesn’t do anything complex, the code is as follows:
var elements = document.getElementsByTagName(’a');
var length = elements.length – 1;
[...]

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