James Hall

I’ve finally launched a working version of Googlepedia for Chrome. The last version I built was before they had finalised how extensions were going to work and was a little rough around the edges.

Here’s the development build for you to try out before I submit to Google Chrome Extensions. Enjoy :)

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You can help out with development by writing code at:
http://github.com/MrRio/googlepedia-chrome

or by sending me money to live :)

On two occasions I have been asked, – “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?” In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

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—	Charles Babbage, 1864

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Generating PDF files in Javascript

A Firefox extension I am writing needs PDF export. One way of making this work cross-platform would be to implement it in Javascript. So, that’s what I did..

It’s called jsPDF and can generate simple PDF documents using nothing but Javascript. No server-side needed. I’ve also got a few ideas for workarounds in browsers that do not support Data URIs well (I’m looking at you IE).

At the moment, it only does text. I’ve got some hacky code together that puts images into the mix, but I want to experiment a bit first to get it right. You can expect a new version next week. Subscribe to my blog or follow me on twitter and I’ll let you know :)

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Mario takes the Metropolis

You’re right, no human being would stack books like this.

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—	Dr. Venkman - Ghostbusters

Googlepedia for Chrome Released!

Googlepedia for Chrome is now here! The installation is still rough round the edges since Chrome doesn’t yet have proper extension management features. It should be fairly straightforward though.

How to install:

Download Chrome Channel Switcher
Change your channel to ‘Dev’
Click wrench menu in Chrome, click ‘About’ then ‘Check for updates’, wait for the update to install
Restart Chrome
Download Googlepedia for Chrome
Open the file (it appears like nothing happens)
Close chrome, then open it again with the command-line parameter ’ —enable-extensions’ (you can do this by right-clicking the Chrome icon, clicking properties and adding it to the end of the ‘Target’ field, without the quotes, but with the space at the start)
Do a search on Google, Wikipedia should be on the right! :)

If you have issues - please report them. Thanks! :)

Please come back soon to get new versions and bug fixes, Chrome should have an auto-update feature soon. Oh, and also please support development by donating! Thanks. :D

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—	Mark Twain

(via Wikipedia Commons Featured Pictures)