Posts tagged Twitter

Greasemonkey Scripts

By on December 11, 2009

Greasemonkey is a useful extension for Firefox, however this week, I saw that Mitchell McKenna (@MitchellMckenna) mentioned that Chrome now installs Greasemonkey scripts.  If you aren’t fully aware of the power of Greasemonkey take a look here (link here).

First off, the best place I’ve found to get GM scripts is userscripts.org, a (mostly) free and open-source community.

  • YouTube Auto Buffer & Auto HD & Remove Ads (link here) – this delivers what it’s name promises.
  • Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon (link here) – I’ve used this for YEARS with Gina Trapani (@ginatrapani) ’s Better GMail FireFox extension too, however it works great in Chrome without Better GMail.
  • PDF/PPT/TIF view in Google Docs (link here) – This is THE plugin I can’t live without for Windows; I use my laptop as a sidekick to my desktop and don’t want to mess it up with Adobe Reader and files on the hard disk.  This script opens PDF links that you click on in Google Docs viewer.
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Twitter Tools problem –No links!

By on November 29, 2009

As you’ve seen on my Twitter feed, there are some posts from my blog which are prefixed with “New Blog Post: “. These are tweeted with the Twitter Tools WordPress Extension. This extension interfaces your WordPress powered blog to Twitter by creating digests (daily or weekly) or individual posts for each of your tweets, and can post tweets to link to your blog posts. However, for the last few days I’ve had an issue where it posts a tweet with the title of my post, but excludes a link to the post.

I searched for the answer for almost an hour this morning, but never found anything valuable. However by trial-and-error discovered that if you disable the Twitter Tools -Bit.ly URLs plugin, it suddenly worked! This does mean that you can’t use short URLs from Twitter tools, but it solved my problem nonetheless.

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TwitterFon renamed Echofon, new features to come

By on September 14, 2009

I presume that you’re familiar with the long-time iPhone Twitter client TwitterFon (App Store link: TwitterFon free (now called Echofon) and the paid $4.99 TwitterFon Pro (now called Echofon Pro)) and was interested to find that the developers are moving from their current name base to a new product that at first will be exactly the same, however as discussed in the developers’ blog post, some interesting new sync features between the iPhone client and TwitterFox (Firefox extension).

Echofon, coming soon
This is from echofon.com

I have not regularly used the TwitterFon app for iPhone, but will be interested to see what they release in the near future.

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