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FireFox Roundup
Small FireFox Snap-In Tools
Supported Browser:
Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (0.9 preferred)
PC, Mac, *nix Compatible!
If you're like me and harbor a small distaste for Internet Explorer, you are probably someone who also loves tabbed browsing, hates spyware, and switched away to a browser other than IE. Firefox, however, doesn't have all of the same methods of handling documents that IE does, resulting in a few minor quirks (such as the location of the "Profile" and "Map" link being shifted down slightly. This week's article is actually two articles worth of joy, making up for the week we missed with all the Gaia trouble. So today's article will cover not one, not two, but THREE great Extensions for Mozilla Firefox.
If you aren't a Firefox user, I do recommend giving the browser an honest try.
Firefox Home Page
Building Better with BBCode!
Install Link: http://jedbrown.net/dev/Mozilla/bbcode_0_1_2.xpi
If you've tried using the bbCode buttons on any browser, I'm sure you are aware of the problems associated with trying to color text, make things bold, etc. Often times, after picking a font color, the cursor places your item at the very end of the text, making it hard to highlight your post text, quote things, or do any kind of basic formatting. That is, until you grab the bbCode Extension developed by Jed Brown (site). This small download makes formatting your posts much easier.
Clicking the above link will provide you with the Firefox Install screen. Like all extensions, you must restart Firefox to turn the new extension on. Once done, all you have to do is right-click in your text field to use the bbCode functions.
<center>
Have a look at how easy it is to format with the bbCode Extension!</center>
Get Your ALT Text Back!
Install Link: http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/xpi/popupalt_en.xpi
Look, you just need this. Gaia relies heavily on Alt Text, and so the inability to display the ALT attribute in Firefox has been one of the few annoyances. However, that isn't the case anymore! This plugin gives you back your alt text. Remember to restart Firefox when done to enable it. We'll call this a free plugin too, it's one of those you just need to have.
THE Web Developer Toolbar
Install Link: http://downloads.mozdev.org/webdeveloper/webdeveloper.xpi
This gem is often overlooked, but I'm going to sum up why you need it in a handy list:
- Disable Images (surf Gaia IMAGE FREE)
- Disable Image Animations (Yes, you did read that right..
- Form Autocomplete
- Mark all Links as VISITED
- Mark all Links as UNVISITED
Convinced, get yourself loaded with it via the install link.
We'll be back in a week with more hot tools!
You know it was good for you too... discuss it!
FireFox Roundup
Small FireFox Snap-In Tools
Supported Browser:
Mozilla Firefox 0.8+ (0.9 preferred)
PC, Mac, *nix Compatible!
If you're like me and harbor a small distaste for Internet Explorer, you are probably someone who also loves tabbed browsing, hates spyware, and switched away to a browser other than IE. Firefox, however, doesn't have all of the same methods of handling documents that IE does, resulting in a few minor quirks (such as the location of the "Profile" and "Map" link being shifted down slightly. This week's article is actually two articles worth of joy, making up for the week we missed with all the Gaia trouble. So today's article will cover not one, not two, but THREE great Extensions for Mozilla Firefox.
If you aren't a Firefox user, I do recommend giving the browser an honest try.
Firefox Home Page
Building Better with BBCode!
Install Link: http://jedbrown.net/dev/Mozilla/bbcode_0_1_2.xpi
If you've tried using the bbCode buttons on any browser, I'm sure you are aware of the problems associated with trying to color text, make things bold, etc. Often times, after picking a font color, the cursor places your item at the very end of the text, making it hard to highlight your post text, quote things, or do any kind of basic formatting. That is, until you grab the bbCode Extension developed by Jed Brown (site). This small download makes formatting your posts much easier.
Clicking the above link will provide you with the Firefox Install screen. Like all extensions, you must restart Firefox to turn the new extension on. Once done, all you have to do is right-click in your text field to use the bbCode functions.
A Quick Picture of bbCode for Firefox[color=white]
<center>
Have a look at how easy it is to format with the bbCode Extension!</center>
Get Your ALT Text Back!
Install Link: http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/xpi/popupalt_en.xpi
Look, you just need this. Gaia relies heavily on Alt Text, and so the inability to display the ALT attribute in Firefox has been one of the few annoyances. However, that isn't the case anymore! This plugin gives you back your alt text. Remember to restart Firefox when done to enable it. We'll call this a free plugin too, it's one of those you just need to have.
THE Web Developer Toolbar
Install Link: http://downloads.mozdev.org/webdeveloper/webdeveloper.xpi
This gem is often overlooked, but I'm going to sum up why you need it in a handy list:
- Disable Images (surf Gaia IMAGE FREE)
- Disable Image Animations (Yes, you did read that right..
- Form Autocomplete
- Mark all Links as VISITED
- Mark all Links as UNVISITED
Convinced, get yourself loaded with it via the install link.
We'll be back in a week with more hot tools!
You know it was good for you too... discuss it!
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The SMALLEST Random Image Generator
The 26 Line Randosig
Supported Web Host(s):
Any Web Host that supports PHP 4.3 or better (most do).
If you need a free host, we recommend http://www.hostinganime.com
We've talked about a spell checker for IE, and we've shown you some great tools for FireFox including a right-click bbcode context menu. Probably one of the biggest questions asked in Questions & Feedback is about random sig generators. A different image every time you refresh the page. Undoubtedly, one of the most popular is Rome, but the Toolbox is all about self-empowerment. And so, this time, we are going to show you a 26 line file that will let you host your own random sig generator!
Mandatory Background Information
We're going to be working with PHP, a web based scripting language. If your host supports PHP, they will say so, and they will advertise it. Sites such as geocities and angelfire do not have php based hosting. Freewebs does not have PHP hosting. The only currently known free provider that has php based hosting is hostinganime.com (see link at top). We are not going to make you code anything in this thing either, but we are going to have you make a file and upload it. Here are some very basic rules:
- You need a text editor (Notepad, Textpad, Simpletext, KWrite, etc)
- You need a way to put the file we make on your host (FTP)
If you have both of these things, we are ready to begin. You will also want some images. (gif, jpg. or png)
Step 1: rand.php and uploading
No joke, this will be the hardest step. Open a text editor from the above list, and paste the following code, from <?PHP to the final ?>
Before you say it, yes, it is 35 lines, not 26. The longer lines were broken up for readability (and so they would copy correctly). Now that you have this all pasted in, save the file as rand.php somewhere you can find it (I recommend the desktop). Then, upload it into a directory on your web server.
While you are uploading, upload the images you would like to have randomized as well. Here's a picture of my directory:
<center>
5 image files and the "rand.php" file.
For this to work right, remember not to put anything other than images and rand.php into this directory!</center>
Step 2: Using
See, I told you that would be the hard part. If you uploaded your rand.php and your images, you are done. Yes, done. To call the random sig, simply create an img tag pointing to rand.php. For example:
<center></center>
Drop that image tag into your sig, and you're done! And you didn't really have to lift a finger.
You know it was good for you too... discuss it!
The SMALLEST Random Image Generator
The 26 Line Randosig
Supported Web Host(s):
Any Web Host that supports PHP 4.3 or better (most do).
If you need a free host, we recommend http://www.hostinganime.com
We've talked about a spell checker for IE, and we've shown you some great tools for FireFox including a right-click bbcode context menu. Probably one of the biggest questions asked in Questions & Feedback is about random sig generators. A different image every time you refresh the page. Undoubtedly, one of the most popular is Rome, but the Toolbox is all about self-empowerment. And so, this time, we are going to show you a 26 line file that will let you host your own random sig generator!
Mandatory Background Information
We're going to be working with PHP, a web based scripting language. If your host supports PHP, they will say so, and they will advertise it. Sites such as geocities and angelfire do not have php based hosting. Freewebs does not have PHP hosting. The only currently known free provider that has php based hosting is hostinganime.com (see link at top). We are not going to make you code anything in this thing either, but we are going to have you make a file and upload it. Here are some very basic rules:
- You need a text editor (Notepad, Textpad, Simpletext, KWrite, etc)
- You need a way to put the file we make on your host (FTP)
If you have both of these things, we are ready to begin. You will also want some images. (gif, jpg. or png)
Step 1: rand.php and uploading
No joke, this will be the hardest step. Open a text editor from the above list, and paste the following code, from <?PHP to the final ?>
<?PHP
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Your Own Personal "RandoSig"
// Done for the Daily Post: Your authoritative QnF paper!
// Code by Jakob (Jakobo). Public Domain.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$files = Array()
if (is_dir("./")) {
if ($dh = opendir("./")) {
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
if($file != "." &&
$file != ".." &&
$file != "" &&
$file != "rand.php") { $files[] = $file; }
}
closedir($dh)
}
}
$random_file = (rand()%sizeof($files))
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT")
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT")
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate")
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false)
header("Pragma: no-cache")
if(substr($files[$random_file], -3) == "jpg") {
header("Content-type: image/jpeg")
} elseif(substr($files[$random_file], -3) == "gif") {
header("Content-type: image/gif")
} elseif(substr($files[$random_file], -3) == "png") {
header("Content-type: image/png")
} else { header("Content-type: text/plain")
echo "Image Error, could not load (".$random_file.")".
$files[$random_file] print_r($files) }
@readfile($files[$random_file])
?>
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// Your Own Personal "RandoSig"
// Done for the Daily Post: Your authoritative QnF paper!
// Code by Jakob (Jakobo). Public Domain.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$files = Array()
if (is_dir("./")) {
if ($dh = opendir("./")) {
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
if($file != "." &&
$file != ".." &&
$file != "" &&
$file != "rand.php") { $files[] = $file; }
}
closedir($dh)
}
}
$random_file = (rand()%sizeof($files))
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT")
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT")
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate")
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false)
header("Pragma: no-cache")
if(substr($files[$random_file], -3) == "jpg") {
header("Content-type: image/jpeg")
} elseif(substr($files[$random_file], -3) == "gif") {
header("Content-type: image/gif")
} elseif(substr($files[$random_file], -3) == "png") {
header("Content-type: image/png")
} else { header("Content-type: text/plain")
echo "Image Error, could not load (".$random_file.")".
$files[$random_file] print_r($files) }
@readfile($files[$random_file])
?>
Before you say it, yes, it is 35 lines, not 26. The longer lines were broken up for readability (and so they would copy correctly). Now that you have this all pasted in, save the file as rand.php somewhere you can find it (I recommend the desktop). Then, upload it into a directory on your web server.
While you are uploading, upload the images you would like to have randomized as well. Here's a picture of my directory:
Your Sig's Directory[color=white]
<center>
5 image files and the "rand.php" file.
For this to work right, remember not to put anything other than images and rand.php into this directory!</center>
Step 2: Using
See, I told you that would be the hard part. If you uploaded your rand.php and your images, you are done. Yes, done. To call the random sig, simply create an img tag pointing to rand.php. For example:
[img]http://gaia.felocity.org/gavsim/rand.php[/img]
<center>
</center>Drop that image tag into your sig, and you're done! And you didn't really have to lift a finger.
You know it was good for you too... discuss it!
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