You can try pulling up the page from New York University's Coral cache. This is done by adding .nyud.net:8080 immediately after the top-level domain (eg .com, .org, .net).

For example, the specific page www.whatever.com/whatever would be accessed by changing it to www.whatever.com.nyud.net:8080/whatever.

The Coral cache is similar to Google's Cache, but is more directly accessible, and is often better at preserving the images and formatting on a page.

ALSO:
If you use the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox, this script will automatically generate links to Coral, Google Cache, and 4 other mirrors for the links in every Digg article.

Google Chrome has been public for all of about 30 minutes now. I am very impressed with how fast it downloads and installs, with almost no need for user prompts (except to close your web browser so it can import bookmarks/passwords). It's fast as fast can be.

I can't get over how fast it is. If you type "about:memory" into the address/search bar you'll see a memory comparison between Chrome and any other web browsers you're currently running. It uses so much less memory than Firefox.

Lifehacker has a good round-up of what's "new" in Chrome, as well as ways to tweak Firefox to get the same features. But I can't switch to Chrome because of my dependency on multiple profiles and my Firefox extensions.

Profiles?

Multiple profiles let me log into Gmail with different user accounts at the same time, and keep my browsing history and bookmarks separate from my girlfriend who shares the computer with me.

Heck, I keep my blogging related bookmarks separated from my Joe Public bookmarks for my day-to-day email, Facebook, and job related stuff so I can be more productive.

Plugins?

• I can't log into my accounts without Password Hasher. Not only do I not use the same password for every account, I don't even KNOW my password for most accounts.
• I don't want to surf the web without Ad-block.
• I've written so many custom Greasemonkey scripts that are unavailable on Chrome.
• I don't want to even think about doing any kind of web stuff without Firebug at my beck and call.
• I'm missing my Delicious tag button for bookmarking.

RSS?

There doesn't seem to be any RSS auto-discovery in Chrome. I hate how painful it is to subscribe to feeds in Google Reader using Internet Explorer, it looks like it'll be even worse in Chrome.

Chrome looks very cool, but I think anyone who has been reading Lifehacker for the past few years is going to find they're missing too much of what is "essential" to them. It's really too bad, because I'd love to run some Greasemonkey scripts inside of Chrome with it's better memory debugging. I'm hoping that one of the big brained Googlers figures out a way to transparently run Greasemonkey userscripts so we don't have the same Firefox vs Opera vs Internet Explorer vs Safari development sinkhole.

On the other hand, Chrome might be the best thing ever for people who use Internet Explorer and aren't co-dependent on all of Firefox's wonderful extensions.

The next few summations are for the benefit of, and at the behest of the technophobic and time-poor stragglers currently toying with the idea of entering the 'pixel-zone'. These people of whom I speak (my friends) lie in the outer of the forest, in the scrub - they are the 'On-Off' 'In-Out', 'Send-Receive', '30-50' subgroup.

One aspect in which they claim proficiency is email. I speak now of a richer level of experience - Gmail.

The story so far
Gmail was launched in April 2004. Since then, it has been through many changes, the latest around October 2007 when there came to our inboxes a "Newer version", also sometimes called "Gmail 2". (Note that officially Gmail is still in Beta; it hasn't even released a 1.0!)
There were AJAX applications before Gmail of course, and there have been many since, but as I remember it, it was one of the first ones to be as ubiquitous widespread. The set of practices that go by the name of "AJAX" has been refined and better-understood since, and it turns out to require neither asynchrony nor JavaScript nor XML.

Johnvey Hwang reverse-engineered much of Gmail's original version, and even made a "Gmail API" out of it. It no longer works of course, and the site is down too, but it's available on the Wayback Machine and the section documenting "the Gmail engine and protocol" is still worth a read, if only for its glimpse into the labyrinthine ways in which Ajax applications can work. He turned it (in May 2005) into a SourceForge project ("Gmail API"), last updated June 2005, and the associated Google Group (" Gmail Agent API") is also largely defunct and indicates that the API, or whatever came of it, has not been working since the changes in October 2007, at any rate.

My goal
At this point, I might as well reveal what I want to do, as the rest of this post is reflective of it. In short, I want to make it easy to get the "Message-ID:" header of messages in Gmail. In the current interface, the (only) way of getting it is to click on the pulldown menu next to "Reply", and click on "Show original". This will open up a page that contains the raw text of the message with all its headers, and "Message-ID:" is always one of them. Since I use Firefox, I've been trying to make this easier with a Greasemonkey script.

Trap-patching the P() function
As Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail go, much useful information comes from Mihai Parparita, who wrote many Greasemonkey scripts for Gmail. Quoting from here:

As others have documented, Gmail receives data from the server in form of JavaScript snippets. Looking at the top of any conversation list's source, we can see that the D() function that receives data in turns calls a function P() in the frame where all the JavaScript resides. Since all data must pass through this global P() function, we can use Greasemonkey to hook into it. This is similar to the trap patching way of extending Classic Mac OS. Specifically, the Greasemonkey script gets a hold of the current P() function and replaces it with a version that first records relevant data in an internal array, and then calls the original function (so that Gmail operations are not affected).

Clever. This same information is also documented at Greasespot wiki, with a few remarks on what different parameters to P() mean. Also, it no longer works, because Gmail changed their functions around and renamed all of them, so there is no P() function anymore, and I can't find what the new equivalent is, or if there is one.

Changes of October 2007
Gmail made certain changes in October 2007, including introducing a "newer version", but also changing the "older version" that is still available: so it's not really the older version. As far as Greasemonkey scripts go, another change was in January 2008, where they made all the Javascript load in a separate iframe. So "unsafeWindow" in a Greasemonkey script now refers to this iframe (which is the first frame, frame[0], in the window, and can also be got as top.js). So any scripts written in September 2007 or earlier are certainly useless now.

A lesson from all this is that Gmail will always be a moving target, and one must consider whether it's worth chasing it.

Gmail's Greasemonkey "API":
Sometime in November 2007 or so, after the latest changes, Google even released a basic Greasemonkey API for Gmail, which lets you do a few things, like adding things to the pane at the left. It is too limited for what I need, but it works very well for what is meant for, and is also very well-documented, by Mark Pilgrim with his usual "Dive Into" excellence. It is comprehensive, accurate, well-illustrated and to-the-point, and great as documentation goes; it just happens that the API doesn't provide what I need.

Some observations
Back to what I'm trying to do. Currently, the actions in the menu next to "Reply", namely "Reply to all", "Forward", "Filter messages like this", ... "Show original" etc., do not actually appear in the DOM multiple times once attached to each message. Instead each of these actions corresponds to exactly one node (each) in the DOM, like these:

<div act="27" style="padding-left: 19px;" class="SAQJzb" id=":t6">Filter messages like this</div>
<div id=":t8" class="R10Zdd" act="29" style="padding-left: 19px;">Add to Contacts list</div>
<div id=":tc" class="SAQJzb" act="32" style="padding-left: 19px;">Show original</div>

etc. The IDs change, and the class name also seems to randomly change between "SAQJzb" and "R10Zdd"; the only constant between the action and the node is the "act" attribute. "Show original" is always act=32. So when you click on the down-arrow button next to Reply, this menu comes up, and when you click on something in the menu, it somehow uses the information about where this menu came up and what you clicked, to find out which message to act on.

This means that simply simulating a click on the node (initMouseEvent, etc...) does not work; we also have to somehow give it the information on what message to act on. How to do this is one thing I'm trying to find out.

The other way involves the fact that Gmail also has its own "ID" for each message. When you are looking at a thread ("conversation") that contains a single message, it is the same as what is in the URL, e.g. if the URL is something like https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/11c177beaf88ffe6, Gmail's ID of the message is 11c177beaf88ffe6. But when you're looking at a thread containing more than one message, the ID in the URL is just that of any of the messages in the thread (usually the first one, but you can use the ID of a different message in the URL and it will show the same thread). And when you click on the "Show original" link, the URL is something like https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=1234567890&view=om&th=11c177beaf88ffe6 where 1234567890 is a constant (probably depending on the user) and "om" probably stands for "original message", and the "th" parameter is the ID of the message. So if I can somehow find a way of getting the ID of messages (like the trap-patching P() method, except that it should work for the current version), then it is possible to get the Message-ID headers of messages too.

Neither has worked out yet, but I'm trying...
(And I have more to say, but will post when things actually work.)

Flickr is a nice, popular online photo sharing tool. Here is a collection of tools and scripts that will enhance your flickr experience.
Enjoy these collection and feel free to suggest any useful script or additional tool that I might have missed.

Scripts to enhance Flickr browsing experience:

Tip: To install these scripts, you must get Firefox browser and Greasemonkey extension [Read a 30 sec description on GM]. Once you install the Greasemonkey, you will see a smiling monkey icon on the right-bottom corner of your browser. These scripts need to be automatically installed when you select install option.

(continue reading at 25 Useful scripts for Flickr users)

FilmAffinityPlus v1.2.0

Aquí está la lista de cambios completa desde la versión anterior:

versión 1.2.0, 26 de agosto de 2008)

• Añadida la opción para abrir los enlaces en nueva ventana (muy solicitado).
• Ahora se utiliza la versión en castellano de IMDb.
• Cambio de imagen del panel de configuración.
• Añadido el sitio de información general Rotten Tomatoes (petición de Jerry Lucas).
• Añadidos los siguientes sitios de descargas: aRGENTeaM, titles.box.sk y fileheaven (petición de aixa-impaciente).
• Añadido el sitio de descarga directa Taringa!.
• Arreglada la búsqueda en CINeol.
• Se indica cuáles de los sitios web a los que enlaza el script requieren registro.
• En el log se muestra la versión del script, útil para buscar y corregir errores.
• Se puede acceder fácilmente a la información de depurado pulsando en el título de la barra de FilmAffinityPlus.

Heute freue ich mich, das nächste Update online zu stellen:

• Infinite Scrolling
  Es gibt nicht mehr mehrere Seiten - die nächsten Postings werden einfach nachgeladen, wenn man weit genug nach unten scrollt.
• Login Detection
  Es wird jetzt geprüft (und erkannt), ob man überhaupt online ist.
• dieStandard.at
  Ganz einfach: Diese Seite war bisher nicht in den Domains dabei, auf die das Greasemonkey-Script angewendet wird. Jetzt ist das auch der Fall. Juchee!

Die bisherigen Funktionen sind:

• Instant Rating
  Sofortiges Bewerten von Beiträgen, ohne dafür erst ein neues Fenster öffnen zu müssen.
• Instant Replys
  Sofortiges Schreiben von Beiträgen, ohne dafür ein neues Fenster öffnen zu müssen. (Formular wird direkt unter dem zu beantwortenden Beitrag geöffnet.)

I use wordpress.com to host my site.  I looked around the admin console for something pertaining to post templates but didn't find anything.  I googled a little to see whether such a feature exists, but I didn't find anything.

Then it occurred to me.  Matt Malone, you handsome devil, aren't you a professional software developer?  And don't you have the gall to write a blog proclaiming yourself such?  Why don't you write something yourself.  So I did.  I wrote a very simple greasemonkey script.  Here it is below.  Feel free to install the script if you use wordpress and think it would be useful.

[sourcecode language="javascript"]
// ==UserScript==
// @name           WordPress Post Template
// @namespace      oldfashionedsoftware.com
// @description    Inserts some template text in new blog posts
// @include        http://matthewmalone.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php
// ==/UserScript==
var postTextAreaList, postTextArea;
postTextAreaList = document.evaluate( "//textarea[@name='content']",
    document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
postTextArea = postTextAreaList.snapshotItem(0);
postTextArea.value = "Your template text here";
[/sourcecode]

Copyright © 2008 Matthew Jason Malone

Flickr, are you listening? The "Comments You've Made" page sucks hard. (Otherwise, I love Flickr to death, and everything else is somewhere in the range of pretty good to awesome.) :-)

This post on Useful Flickr Userscripts has been submitted by Martin Gommel. You can see his work at his is a Flickr account and his blog KWERFELDEIN.

Userscripts are add-ons for the Firefox web browser, which dynamically enhance the communication and visualization of certain websites.

To be able to use these scripts you need to have installed greasemonkey on Firefox - this enables and manages the userscripts. If you have greasemonkey in Firefox you can install and use these userscripts instantly.

(via 10 Really Useful Flickr Greasemonkey Userscripts)

Step 1: Get a Friendfeed account already

Step 2: Start using Firefox as your browser

Step 3: Add the Greasemonkey Plugin

Step 4: Install these Greasemonkey Scripts (the install button is in the top right after the jump)

Facebook on Friendfeed

Better Friendfeed (adds a bunch of useful tabs like Google Reader, etc.)

Friendfeed Read Later

Friendfeed Filters (by friends and groups)

Friendfeed Twitter (if you use it)

Note: If you have no idea what Greasemonkey is or what the scripts would even do then Wikipedia it.

Update: Facebook and Google Calendar don't scale to the screen as well as I would like.

I've made a userscript that offers me a way to bind a key combination to a clickable element chosen by a xpath expression. It still misses a way to easy edit previous bindings but I'll provide it later, I promise!

You can still edit the bindings (well, more likely remove them) via about:config (the 'greasemonkey.scriptvals.ShortcutBinder/Shortcut Binder.bindings' setting).

Grab the script from here.

For a quick overview (bunch of screenshots) check this: http://code.google.com/p/webmonkey-userscripts/wiki/ShortcutBinder

Ah heck, here's one quick and dirty:

The technique we used is to apply client scripting (user scripts), powered by GreaseMonkey, to inject our demo into existing web sites. We do this to generate a mock-up unlike anything people have seen before. To see the result, you can check out these videos:

In this video, I demonstrate how to make a site with existing users social... pretty much instantly (okay it took me a whole day to build the app and integrate it into the foodnetwork.com web site using this technique):

Also check out Rich Friedman demo'ing "Go Ringside", a way to make pretty much any web site into an instance social network.

There are a ton of features that it includes, you can find out about all of them at the Lifehacker site linked below.

Everyone's favorite photo-sharing web application, Flickr, has had tons of ancillary applications and user scripts developed for it to tweak, mod and add to its functionality. Dozens of Greasemonkey user scripts have popped up that make Flickr better; so in the spirit of Better Gmail I've rolled a few of my favorites into a new Firefox extension called Better Flickr. After the jump, check out Better Flickr's features and grab the download.

Better Flickr Firefox extension

Version: 0.3
Updated: July 1, 2008
Released: May 29, 2007
Compiled by: Gina Trapani, using Greasemonkey scripts by several authors, compiled using a modified version of Anthony Lieuallen's Greasemonkey Compiler.

(via Upgrade Flickr with the Better Flickr Firefox extension)

I just thought I'd have a prune of the various Firefox browser add-ons to weed out the ones I may not be using or may not have updates since the shift to Firefox 3 (or in my case Flock 2.0). Here's the current state of play. Any suggestions as to what add-ons you find indispensable are most welcome.

Aging Tabs 0.7 - My partner often calls me a tab princess and it's true I often have an excessive number of tabbed pages open in my browser.Ageing tabs fades the appearance of the least accessed tabs, reminding me that i really should have closed these by now.

BetterSearch 1.20 - The jury's out on this one as to whether I'll retain this long term. Enhances searching by adding thumbnails of sites and various related enhancements.

BlueOrganizer 3.4.2 - Certainly in my top 3 of most used add-ons. Saves my bookmarks centrally on-line and allows metadata keywords. Also allows easy bookmarking to various other online sites such a del.icio.us. Also takes a tentative step down a pseudo semantic web search by cross referencing your current search across various on-line sources

British English Dictionary 1.19 - I have to have this to override the US centric Internet experience and sites with built in US-centric spell checkers. Grrr

ChromaTabs Plus 2.1 - A 3rd party  update to a much loved previous add-on that wasn't updated for Firefox 3. Groups browser tabs and colours them for easy reference.

CustomizeGoogle 0.73 - Forces secure options for various Google apps and blocks advertising and some data collection if required.

feedly 1.0b4 -Changes the layout of Google reader into a more magazine style which I admit makes going through my RSS feeds less fatiguing.Firefox 3 sourced browser required.

FireFTP 1.0.1 - FTP client

Gmail Manager 0.5.5 - Gives me notification across various Gmail accounts

Google Notebook 1.0.0.20 - Makes quick notes

Greasemonkey 0.8.20080609.0 - Provides all manor of modifications to various applications via greasemonkey scripts.

Me.dium 4.2.0.8227 - I'll admit that I just don't use this social networking service.
meebo 1.1 - Web based multi-platform Instant messenger.Supports Googletalk, Yahoo, Icq, AIM, MSN, Jabber etc.

MR Tech Toolkit (formerly Local Install) 6.0.1 - Default rogue installation safeguard

OPML Support 1.5.2 - For native OPML support

PicLens 1.7.1.3900 - Provides 3D browsing  of images in search engines and Flickr. I've found this very useful and not just an eye candy enhancement.

StumbleUpon 3.26 - I've been on Stumbleupon for ages though probably hold it a little more at arms length after eBay acquired them.

User Agent Switcher 0.6.11 -I hardly have occaision to use this these days but fakes Internet explorer on Windows for any sites that demand IE.

VeriSign's OpenID SeatBelt 1.0.0.3705 - Used with verisign's ultra secure OpenID service. Now if only we in Britain could use the affordable PayPal USB key with this but as usual we are 2nd class citizens. helps me control my open ID.

Zemanta 0.2.6 - A blogging aid. Lets me quickly insert related links and creative commons images.

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Alle, die die Instant Reply-Funktionalität von derStandard.at 2.0 schon verwendet haben, sollten das beim ersten Post mit der geänderten Version neu einstellen, da wie gesagt alle Optionen deaktiviert wurden.

Welche Funktionen wünscht ihr euch sonst noch für derStandard.at 2.0?

Ich finde es sehr nützlich und wie gesagt, bin jetzt viel aktiver geworden. Es wundert mich, dass derStandard.at das nicht selbst macht, aber vielleicht werden sie ja davon überzeugt.

Weitere Informationen gibt's hier: http://blog.sebmos.com/derstandardat-20/