Greasefire Helps You Automatically Find GreaseMonkey Scripts For a Website

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

If you are a Greasemonkey Fan and often find yourself downloading interesting scripts from UserScripts.org. This article shall bring great news for you. 

Firefox Add-On GreaseFire is an interesting add-on which lets you automatically find GreaseMonkey Scripts for a website. When you visit a web page that has compatible user scripts on Userscripts.org, this extension will highlight the Greasemonkey icon in the status bar. Right click the Greasemonkey icon and choose the “X scripts available” item to see and install the scripts available for the current page.

Greasefire automatically finds Greasemonkey scripts for the website being surfed.

Image: Greasefire automatically finds Greasemonkey scripts for the website being surfed.

If you are thinking that using GreaseFire might bring in more latency to the page load time, you might be surprised to know that Greasefire uses a local index to look up scripts that apply to the page you are on — it does not send any browsing data to a server.

Set your Preferences for GreaseFire

Image: Set your Preferences for GreaseFire

This index is updated periodically, you can update your preferences for this update time by going through Tools –> Add-ons -> Greasefire -> Preferences for details.

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Blogging: 7 essential Firefox add-ons

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Vaibhav Pandey

Blogging is a buzzword these days. According to a blog study which happened in 2006, around 500 million USD were generated by top 50000 blogs.

Below, keeping this revenue potential and the blog buzzword in mind, i am presenting a list of seven essential firefox add-ons which i believe can do you wonders and make your blogging experience more smooth.

  • Clipmarks : This firefox extension is a handy tool for clipping parts of a webpage and posting it to your blog quickly. Get it from here

Clipmarks

 

  • Deepest Sender: Deepest Sender is a client that will allow you to post to blogs from directly within Firefox. It is primarily a LiveJournal client, although it supports Blogger (GData) and WordPress (metaWeblog) too, with support for more stuff to come. Get it from here

Deepest Sender
  • ScribeFire: ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. ScribeFire lets you drag and drop items from a web page directly to your blog post. Get it from here

ScribeFire

  • Adsense Notifier : Adsense Notifier lets you find out how much you have earned from AdSense by displaying it in the browser status bar.Get it from here
Adsense Notifier
GreaseMonkey
  • Load Time Analyzer: The Load Time Analyzer allows developers to measure and graph how long web pages take to load in Firefox.Load Time Analyzer produces graphs that show the occurrence of events such as requests for the page, images, stylesheets and scripts, along with events like the execution of an onload script. Get it from here
Loadtimeanalyzer
  • KGen : KGen helps you optimize your blog for a search engine by presenting you with the strongest keywords on your blog. KGen retrieves every words of a page and lets you know how many time they appears on her and their weight in the page (a word in the title of a page has a stronger weight than a word in a paragraph).Get it from here
KGen
Hope you found these add-ons interesting. In case if some of the links seem to be not working, i would suggest that you search for the mentioned Firefox Add-ons at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/browse
Do share your add-ons too with me.
Cheers
Vaibhav

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My list of 5 best Firefox Extensions

Posted on October 21, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Firefox Extensions definitely adds value to Firefox. Infact, extensions have played a vital role in the popularity of Firefox.
In this post, I am putting up a list of 5 best Firefox Extensions. These are the extensions that i have been using since sometime now.

1.) Scrapbook:- Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.

Scrapbook

  • ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:

    * Save Web page
    * Save snippet of Web page
    * Save Web site
    * Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks
    * Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection
    * Editing of the collected Web page
    * Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes

2.) GmailManager:- Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications.

GmailManager
GmailManager displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.

3.) DictionarySearch:- Looks up a user selected word in an online dictionary.

DictionarySearch

DictionarySearch allows you to select a word, right-click on it, and choose Define.A definition provided by Dictionary.com then appears in another tab. This is a very easy way to learn the meaning of new words from within Firefox.

4.) About This Site:- One-click access to web site metadata.

AboutThisSite

About This Site gives One-click access to web site metadata – traffic, related and linked pages, and more – added to the Tools menu and context menu.

5.) FoxyTunes:- FoxyTunes is a Firefox add-on that allows you to control your favorite media player without ever leaving the browser.

FoxyTunes

FoxyTunes lets you listen to Music while surfing the Web. It lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.

Supports WinAmp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine, Pandora, foobar2000, Windows Media Player, Xbox Media Center, Musicmatch, Quintessential, J. River, jetAudio, XMPlay, MediaMonkey, Media Player Classic, Sonique, wxMusik, Real Player, XMMS, Noatun, Juk, Amarok, Music Player Daemon, Rhythmbox and many other players.

Just click on the orange note and select your player.

This was all about my list of Firefox Extension. Do write about the extensions you should have made it to the list.

More Firefox reads:

Yoono and Firefox.. the way to go

MeasureIt: A must have firefox add on for Pro’s

DownThemAll: Must have Firefox Add on.

Better Gmail is in…Install it now

Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin

Create a firefox search plugin: Tutorial

Cheers,
Vaibhav

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Open Coffee 2nd Meet: What the attendants say?

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

The second meet for Open Coffee Club’s Bangalore chapter happened on 2nd September 2007, Sunday. The meet took place at BrewHaha, Koramangala.

This time the focus of the meet was Marketing and close to 40 people attended the event. Unlike the last meet, this time the meet was more focussed with regards to the agenda. Primary Speakers for the meet were Ranjith from Kapston, Prateek Dayal from Muziboo and Swaroop from Ion. Interestingly, this time the participants came from diversified industry verticals like Legal, HR, Marketing.

Below I am trying to consolidate all the posts in one post by presenting the links to you. Go around and get a hang of what the participants are talking about. The links below carry the blog posts about Open Coffee meet held on 2nd September at BrewHaha.

Also note: This list will keep evolving with the links.

Himanshu’s Blog ( This is one of the most precise and crystal clear coverage of the event): http://thoughtsprevail.blogspot.com/2007/09/open-coffee-club-september-22007.html

Hari’s Blog ( Was the first one to blog about the event. Clear, crisp and well articulated post): http://harisays.blogspot.com/2007/09/occ-meet-on-2-sep-07.html

Swaroop’s Blog ( Swaroop from Ion, was also a key speaker at the event. He shares his views on OCC at his blog): http://www.swaroopch.com/archives/2007/09/03/opencoffeeclub-2/

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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Open Coffee Club Bangalore: Meetup on 2nd September

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

It’s again time to notify you all of Open Coffee Club’s second meet which is scheduled to happen on 2nd September 2007 from 11AM – 1PM. The first meet was a grand success with 60 people participating.

Read:OCC gets a Thumbs Up in Bangalore

The venue and the timings for the second meet have also been kept the same as the first one. The meet however this time is planned to be more focussed on issues like Marketing 2.0 and Sales as proposed by Ramjee Ganti.

For those of you planning to attend the event can mark the attendance at UpComing (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/240840 ) .

For directions map of the venue, check the map on Brewhaha Site or on Google Maps.

Also, there is a Google Group for OCC Bangalore available at http://groups.google.com/group/opencoffeeclubatbangalore

In case you are new to the Open coffee club concept check out my previous posts on the same at

Open Coffee Club Bangalore : First debut meetup planned

Open Coffee Club Meet @Bangalore: Updates

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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OCC gets a Thumbs Up in Bangalore

Posted on August 20, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

It should be called an Amazing start. Around 60 ppl gathered at BrewHaha,Koramangala in Bangalore. The event was scheduled to start at 11 AM and it did start by then.
With around 60 ppl turning up in the event, the event definitely got a big thumbs up.

One of the early reachers for the meet was Jace

Jace happens to be one of the organisers for BCB and there is always a great learning involved when such people are around.
I am trying to put up the list of some of the people present for the event.( Thanks to Himanshu for having consolidated this information for us 🙂 )

 When me ( Vaibhav) and Ramjee first met on 12th August at Woody’s restaurent in Jayanagar for dinner, we never thought that 60 ppl will turn up for the event. Our estimates ( even on the day of the event) were around 35. Its really amazing to see and experience the kind of energy people bring with them at such events.

Below piece of info is taken from Himanshu’s blog
Crowd present at the OCC:
[Attendees who haven’t provided information about their blogs are tagged with their email id’s. Also,if I have missed out your name,kindly add it in the comment section…]

  1. K. Aditya
  2. Saurabh Singh
  3. Kaushik Gala
  4. Deepak Shenoy, founder of MoneYoga
  5. Pooran Prasad, co-founder of Zealous Solutions
  6. Vaibhav Pandey
  7. Harish Kumar, founder of OneBigWeb
  8. Sandeep C Senan
  9. Kiran Jonnalagadda aka Jace
  10. Manasi Baranwal
  11. Shivakumar Ganesan
  12. Prashant Acharya
  13. Gunasekaran S
  14. Sameerkanth , ConsultantNEN Bangalore
  15. Venkat Ramana
  16. Anand
  17. Piyush Gupta, Co-founder of RouteGuru
  18. R. Senthil
  19. Kiran Kadekoppa
  20. Parvez Ahmed
  21. Ajit
  22. Rohit Bansal
  23. Prateek & Nithya Dayal, Co-founders of Muziboo
  24. Karthik Jain, Co-founder of PicSquare
  25. Satish TJ
  26. Anshul Gupta
  27. Meera K , Community & News media
  28. Rajan, Co-founder of Motvik
  29. PV Sundaram
  30. Vipul Gupta
  31. Bhasker Kode,Co-founder of “The Returnable Project”
  32. Laura Parkin, Executive Director, NEN & Wadhwani Foundation
  33. Yiting Shen
  34. Saurabh
  35. Paveen Kumar
  36. Parineeth Reddy
  37. Harinath Pudipeddi
  38. Siva – now an Entrepreneur
  39. Akshat Choudary, Co-founder ActivMobs
  40. Amit Singh, Co-organizer of BCB4
  41. Ashish Solanki, Co-founder Yulop
  42. Puneeth Prasad

Although, people have been giving me and Ramjee a thumbsup for the efforts, personally i feel that its the community which makes such events possible and succesfull. My special thanks go to all those who attended and all those who guided us for this event. When it comes to the guidance part, i must thank Siddhi and Vijay.

A lot of things got discussed and a lot of action seems to be getting seeded. Hope to have great times together.

Do read more about the event action from fellow bloggers Ramjee Ganti and Himanshu.

The next Open Coffee Club meet in Bangalore is scheduled on 2nd September. Hoping to catch you all again.

In case you are new to the Open coffee club concept check out my previous posts on the same at

Open Coffee Club Bangalore : First debut meetup planned

Open Coffee Club Meet @Bangalore: Updates 

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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Open Coffee Club @Bangalore is now Twittering.

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

News is that Open Coffee Club @ Bangalore is now twittering and you can follow the twitter updates posted at https://twitter.com/opencoffeebang.Also read:  Open Coffee Club Meet @Bangalore: Updates

                    Open Coffee Club Bangalore : First debut meetup planned
Cheers,

Vaibhav

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Open Coffee Club Meet @Bangalore: Updates

Posted on August 13, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Finally the Venue and Timings for the Open Coffee Club meet at Bangalore are fixed. The group plans to meet up at Brewhaha this Sunday( 19th August 2007) at 11am-1 pm.

There is no fees for the event and anyone interested can walk in at the mentioned venue. Better still, if you are interested, do register with the group bangalore opencoffee google group

To summarize my post:

Event: Open Coffee Bangalore meet

When: Sunday, 19th August 2007

Timings: 11AM – 1 PM

Where: BrewHaHa

Also read:

Want to know more about Open Coffee Club at Bangalore?

How to organize your own coffee club?

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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GMAIL TOOLBOX: 60+ Tools For Gmail

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Mashable.com has come up with a very comprehensive list of tools for Gmail. Many of the tools they have written up about are the must have kinds. Just to name a few of them before you actually go and grab them ; gDisk, GCount ,gFeeder ,GetMail,Gmail Drive ,GMailFS,GotMailG ,POP3/IMAP server for GMAIL in JAVA ,Send To GMail .

They have even placed a comprehensive list of Firefox tools for Gmail; eg: Better Gmail ,Dragdropupload ,Gmail Checker ,Gmail Notifier ,Gmail RTL ,Google Toolbar,GTDInBox ,WebMail Notifier.

On the blog you can even read about Greasemonkey scripts like Clean Gmail Print ,Force HTTPS for GMail, GCal, and GDocs ,GMail Attachment Icons ,Gmail Date Search ,Gmail Emoticons! ,Gmail Multiple Signatures, plus Float ,Gmail Multi-User Login

There are lots more discussed on this here>>

Also Read: Serial Numbers and CD Keys of Softwares brought to you by Google. 

Cheers,

Vaibhav

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Open Coffee Club Bangalore : First debut meetup planned

Posted on August 10, 2007 by Vaibhav Pandey

Open Coffee Club at Bangalore is planning to host its first debut meeting this month ( time, date and venue still to be decided).

The OpenCoffee Club was started to encourage entrepreneurs, developers and investors to organise real-world informal meetups to chat, network and grow.

According to Ramjee Ganti, a fellow blogger and organizer for Open Coffee Club in Bangalore ,”The concept is simple, events are arranged at a predefined venue and a predefined time where entrepreneurs and interested people come over to chat, discuss their ideas, and most important of all build relationships. It’s not just the entrepreneurs who come but also the VC’s (the people with power!!). This gives the entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their ideas and see if the VC’s might be interested in them. The best part, all of this happens informally, no boardrooms, no presentations.”

 Open Coffee Club at Chennai holds there meetings on Sunday’s and Siddhi happens to be one of the members of Chennai Coffee Club. You can read more about Siddhi here

Interested people can subscribe to the google group created for this. The groups can be found here http://groups.google.com/group/opencoffeeclubatbangalore

If you would like to know more about Open Coffee Club, checkout http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/

I shall write more about the events that have been taking place in Chennai soon. 🙂

Please pass on the word to interested people. 🙂

 Cheers,

Vaibhav

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