Archive for November, 2007
Faster SkreemR Audio Search Add-on for Firefox (auto-suggest feature)
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Firefox, HTML, MP3, Music, Plugins on November 27, 2007
Update 3rd Dec 07: James over at SkreemR has officially added my Firefox plugin to their 3rd party plugins “Tools” page view the page here
I coded this firefox add-on to query the SkreemR mp3 search site much quicker than the standard search tool add-on.
SkreemR currently provide a useful search add-on, it installs SkreemR search to your current list of search engines within Firefox. By searching for an artist or song you are directed to the SkreemR website and results are displayed.
I re-coded their XML install file to include a live suggest feature pulling related words as you type from Yahoo to speed up your search query.
Examples:
Popularity: 100% [?]
How to Grab a Thumbnail Screenshot Of Any Website
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, HTML on November 19, 2007
An easy tutorial on how to grab a thumbnail image screen shot of any website. This is an easy way for webmasters to grab a screen shot of their own websites to include them in their portfolio pages, clients websites or just storing the images for later use.
We will use Snap Shots cached thumbnails to retrieve a web page screen shot. You can grab a small 270 x 173 pixel image or a large 427 x 274 pixel image of your website here is do it how to:
In your html page just call the image from within the <img> tag like so:
<img src=”http://shots.snap.com/preview/?url=http://www.kmcgraphics.com&size=small” />
or if you want the larger size type:
Popularity: 16% [?]
Update on Imagine/Gaelic Telecom Problems
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Broadband, Oddities, Rants, Telecom on November 14, 2007
In my last post I mentioned about problems connecting to my own blog from my home broadband connection with Imagine/Gaelic Telecom. Although it is now fixed I am still having problems accessing my friend Robert’ Sweetnam’s Blog. I am accessing his blog through proxify.com its the only way at the moment – I rang Gaelic Telecom/Imagine support again last Friday night complaining about not been able to view his site.
I was asked if I have “Content Filtering” enabled which I said no and his reply was “Well I really haven’t got a clue why you cannot access http://blog.sweetnam.eu” he went on to say “I will send a ticket up to tech support and see what they say” he also asked me for my mobile number so a “techy” could ring me back within the hour, but as expected I was left still waiting on the call.
Monday morning came and lo and behold I got a call back from Gareth “the techy guy” at Imagine Telecom Support. He said they were still looking into the problem and that he would call me back before the end of working day. He also suggested that they change my IP address as that would surely fix the problem, I said no to the IP change and left them to it but hence to say I got no call back.
Left it stew for Tuesday….
This morning Wednesday I called back support went through the whole “rigga’ ma’ roll” (procedure) again with general support and demanded some answers by today. An hour later Gareth called back with the solution of changing my IP and I quote what he said…
Popularity: 14% [?]
Pubs Of Youghal – Google Maps
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Google Maps on November 8, 2007
This a Google Maps visual tour of the pubs of Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland. There are 28 active pubs and bars in the town. Click on markers to view photos, address, telephone numbers, pub info etc.
I created this map just for fun but also to play around with ideas on how to code for Google Maps.
If you ever get around to having a drink in all of them don’t forget to mention I sent you there…
Popularity: 13% [?]
Youghal Clock Gate – Live Clock Screensaver
Posted by Kieran McCarthy in Bits Of Code, Software on November 7, 2007
Click here to view the “Youghal Clock Gate – Live Clock”
I created this flash live clock from a picture of Youghal Clock Gate. If you keep watching the hands on the clock you will see them move in real time based on your own computer’s time clock, it was an idea I had for a while so if you like it you can download the free screensaver.exe version or the flash movie version from the links below.
You are free to use and share these files also there is no malware, spyware or any nasty stuff in any of these downloads, just a bit of fun.
Click here to view the “Youghal Clock Gate – Live Clock”(new window)
Click here to download the screensaver.exe version (1.25MB)
Click here to download the Flash file version zip (66KB)
Popularity: 12% [?]
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