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Category Archives: Geekery

Secret Firefox Icons

I discovered an interesting feature in Firefox today.  When browsing in a local folder (Anything starting with file:///), small icons are shown to represent the format of each file.  It turns out that you can access these icons with moz-icon://.ext?size=x, where ext is the extension of the file (mp3,txt, …), and x is the size [...]

3D Modeling

Tonight I started playing around with Blender, the free, open-source 3D Modeling application.  Thanks to a great tutorial, this is what I came up with after only a couple hours.

Cooler/creepier models to come.

Facebook Large Photos

Time for my second greasemonkey script.
Ever searched for a long-lost friend on Facebook, only to wish you had a magnifying glass for their profile picture?  The ones shown in the search results are so small.  Well, today’s your lucky day, because I have just the solution for you!

Make sure you are using Firefox.
Install Greasemonkey
Install Facebook [...]

Caps Lock Warning

I just wrote my first Greasemonkey script. It warns you if you are typing a password with caps lock enabled.
The caps lock detection code is complements of Stuart Langridge.
To install:

Make sure you are using Firefox.
Install Greasemonkey
Install Caps Lock Warning

Enjoy!

User-Relevant Timezones 0.1

My friend Stephen and I have just written a WordPress plugin to show the times on your blog in the user’s timezones. Check it out!