Newspeak

I have been getting quite into making GreaseMonkey scripts. If you don’t know what GreaseMonkey is it’s a firefox extension that allows you to use javascript to modify any website you like. I have been reading an excellent online book ‘Dive Into Greasemonkey‘ by Mark Pilgrim in order to learn how to make decent scripts. I have since been uploading the scripts to my userscripts.org profile.

So far I have only put two scripts on, but I think they’re pretty nifty for a beginner :). First is ‘Google Media Search‘ which adds links to google that quickly add the search terms neccesary for finding media directories online.

The other is a modification to an existing script that adds text links to The Pirate Bay and Torrent Reactor from Last.fm to allow single clicking to search for an artist. I changed it to use icons instead of text links and to open the links in a new firefox tab.