Anton’s Stuff

Subscribe in Google Reader

To use, drag the URL to your bookmark toolbar.  When you find a blog you’d like to subscribe to, hit the bookmark and it’ll take you to Google Reader and offer to subscribe to the feed (if Google can find one).

Google Reader’s new search can find the rss feed when you search for a blog’s URL. This book marklet takes you to the search results for the current page. Makes subscribing to blogs in google reader way too easy. It seems to work equally well from pages withing a blog as from the front page.

IEs 4 Linux - Internet Explorers for Linux » English Page

This script ran perfectly on my Ubuntu Breezy laptop.

I’m not advocating using IE on linux for general purpose browsing, but it’s useful for testing a page design in IE without hunting down a windows box.

IEs for Linux is a simple Bash Script program that installs Internet Explorer 6, 5.5 and 5 on Linux using Wine. The whole process is automatic and very easy.

This should work on other similar systems.

su or login as root first.

# wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5b1/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5b1.tar.gz

# cd /usr/lib
# tar xzvf ~/firefox-1.5b1.tar.gz
# mv firefox firefox-1.5b1
# which firefox
/usr/bin/firefox
# cd /usr/bin/
# mv firefox old.firefox
# ln -s /usr/lib/firefox-1.5b1/firefox .

That should do it, and shouldn’t affect any of your launchers or file associations.

[update]  It appears that you may need the compat libs for this to work.  If you use a package manager, search for ‘compat’ and you should find something like compat-libstdc++ or libstdc++-compat.  If you install them FF should be happy.

lr2Clique - Combination click and hit stats

Just a quick post to let you know that progress is being made on my community plugin for the Weblog Tools Collection plugin contest.

I’ve had the data collection plugin running here for about a week now. Please comment, or email me if you have seen any strange javascript errors.

I’m working on, and have a fair start for a combination link and hit tracker with a community twist.

One of the ways that I frequently fetch files from the internet is with wget. It is a very useful command line utility that is capable of fetching anything from one file to mirroring whole sites.

When looking for new and interesting music I often find myself on a page with a few or more mp3 urls. Using firefox to download them all, even with a good download manager is tedious. The following bash script will read from stdin and download each url it sees.

# while read url ; do wget "${url}" ; done

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I’ve started working on a series of bookmarklets.

I’ll write more here later, but for now, here’s the link:
http://anton.lr2.com/marklets/.