Marc Abramowitz » My projects

Yahoo Search Sidebar 1.2

Marc — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:41:21 +0000

I updated my Yahoo Search Sidebar Firefox extension to version 1.2. The only changes are that it works with Firefox 2.0 and I eliminated a bunch of global JavaScript symbols, which is a good Firefox extension development practice for preventing extension conflicts.

This Firefox extension adds a "Yahoo! Search" item in Firefox's View | Sidebar
menu (Alt+Y is the shortcut key) that opens a sidebar tailored for Web searching with Yahoo! Search.

More info at the Yahoo Search Sidebar page

Yahoo! Briefcase Widget

Marc — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:37:41 +0000

I finally posted my Yahoo! Briefcase Widget, which I did with my colleague, Tony Wong, for a Hack Day like thing some time ago.

This Yahoo! Widget Engine widget allows convenient viewing of the contents of your Yahoo! Briefcase with a Windows Explorer/OS X Finder like interface as well as upload and download capabilities.

YME Jabber Control

Marc — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 18:18:04 +0000

I’ve made my Jabber Control plugin for the Yahoo! Music Engine available for download.

This plugin allows the Yahoo! Music Engine to connect via Jabber (XMPP) protocol and listen for remote control events.

More info here

Yahoo Music Engine plugin: Export2Excel

Marc — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 00:34:05 +0000

Screenshots

What is it?

This Yahoo! Music Engine DLL plugin installs a new item in the service drawer called
“Export to Excel”. This new page has a button, which if clicked will
dump the contents of your media database to an Excel worksheet and then
autoformat it.

It may take a couple of minutes for Excel to import all of the data,
depending on how many items you have in your media database. During the
import, the A2 cell will display a “please wait…” message and when the
import is done, the message will change to say “DONE”.

Use cases

The main use for this is so that you can print out your list of songs
and share it with friends to see what you have in common. Folks who are
comfortable with VBScript could also use that to perform tasks on their
data (e.g.: do stats, graphing, etc.), which may be a win for people who
are skilled with VBScript and don’t want to learn to program the YME API.

Requirements

Microsoft Excel (I tested with Excel 2003)
.NET 2.0 Runtime

Donate

If you like this plugin and want to see more like it in the future (suggestions?), I invite you to donate whatever you think it’s worth to you.

Ian linked to me on the YME plugins site.

My Atari stuff

Marc — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 08:21:59 +0000

I created a new “Atari stuff” page with the two Atari computer programs (written in BASIC) and accompanying articles that I wrote for Antic Magazine when I was a teenager.

Yahoo! Search Sidebar for Firefox

Marc — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 08:04:29 +0000

This Firefox extension adds a “*Yahoo! Search*” item in Firefox’s View | Sidebar
menu (Alt+Y is the shortcut key) that opens a sidebar tailored for Web searching with Yahoo! Search. It’s using JavaScript to access Yahoo’s Web Services API.

Check out my Yahoo! Search Sidebar for Firefox.

Direct download link on my sourceforge site

I’m working on getting this added to Mozilla Update. Here’s the "bug report"

Working on a Firefox sidebar

Marc — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:44:14 +0000

I’ve been messing around a bit in my spare time with an extension that adds a new sidebar to [Firefox][]. It’s not ready for public consumption yet and I can’t give too many details at this time, but hopefully I will be able to release it in the next few months.

Developing in Firefox has been a mixed experience. [XUL][] is pretty interesting and even [JavaScript is not as bad as I once thought it was][]. However, there are some annoying things. Like the fact that I tried to [hack my installed-chrome.txt][] and [disable XUL caching][] but it doesn’t seem to work and so after I make a change I have to restart Firefox. Ugh. This really slows me down and prevents me from getting in a proper groove.

[Firefox]: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
[XUL]: http://www.xulplanet.com
[disable XUL caching]: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dev_:_Tips_:_Disable_XUL_cache
[JavaScript is not as bad as I once thought it was]: http://www.crockford.com/javascript/javascript.html
[hack my installed-chrome.txt]: http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/notes/quicksetup.php