James Hall

I’ve finally launched a working version of Googlepedia for...

Sun, 09 May 2010 18:40:00 +0100

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..."

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:39:46 +0100

“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.”

- Charles Babbage, 1864

"Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep."

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:19:47 +0100

“Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.”

- Fran Lebowitz

Generating PDF files in Javascript

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:13:06 +0100

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 :)

"We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies."

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:49:48 +0000

“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”

- Walt Disney

Mario takes the Metropolis

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:53:06 +0000

Mario takes the Metropolis

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

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:00:55 +0000

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

- Dr. Venkman - Ghostbusters

Googlepedia for Chrome Released!

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:47:00 +0000

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

"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:38:47 +0000

“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”

- Mark Twain

(via Wikipedia Commons Featured Pictures)

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:38:48 +0000

(via Wikipedia Commons Featured Pictures)

iPhone Library 'Three20' by Joe Hewitt

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:00:14 +0000

iPhone Library 'Three20' by Joe Hewitt:

From the chap that brought us Firebug and the Facebook iPhone application. Expect good things. :D

Googlepedia for Chrome (Alpha)

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:00:06 +0000

Disclaimer: This is very rough and full of bugs!

I’ve finished writing a very experimental Google Chrome version of Googlepedia. This is still very rough. There’s no update mechanism for extensions (or any kind of management for that matter) built into Chrome yet. If you do install it, make sure you come back here for less buggy and faster versions when I manage to hack them together. You’ll need to update to Google Chrome 2.0

How to install:

Download Chrome Channel Switcher
Change your channel to ‘Dev’
Click wrench menu in Chrome, click ‘About’ then ‘Check for updates’
Restart Chrome
Download Googlepedia for Chrome (alpha)
Open the file (it appears like nothing happens)
Restart
Check the url chrome-ui://extensions/
Do a search on Google *fingers crossed*

If you have issues - please report them. There are quite a few bugs with this rough version.

Googlepedia for Google Chrome - First prototype working!!

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:41:30 +0000

Googlepedia for Google Chrome - First prototype working!!

"The Internet isn’t free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism."

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:46:20 +0000

“The Internet isn’t free. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism.”

- Brad Shapcott

Firefox support for CSS3 multiple backgrounds

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:50:00 +0000

Firefox support for CSS3 multiple backgrounds:

Firefox will support multiple backgrounds :) Grab a nightly, this is a pretty sweet feature. Safari already does this.

Here’s a test page.

Streamy - Discover and Share

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:41:59 +0000

Streamy - Discover and Share:

This looks interesting. Keep an eye on this.

Got my development environment setup. Running XP on my MacBook...

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:01:00 +0000

Got my development environment setup. Running XP on my MacBook Pro using VMware Fusion. The Unity mode really is impressive. Mounted a shared folder as a virtual drive so I can continue using Aptana on OSX and check into Subversion from there.

The Google Chrome port should be well on the way soon as long as I don’t run into any major snags *fingers crossed*.

Google Chrome on OSX

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:18:00 +0000

Can’t find a working build of Chromium on OSX yet. The Crossover Chromium is fairly buggy and doesn’t seem to have any extension support. Looks like I’ll be doing the development on a Windows XP Virtual Machine.

Yay.

iPhone 3.0 Screenshot Tour

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:05:48 +0000

iPhone 3.0 Screenshot Tour:

I’m looking forward to this…

New version of Googlepedia out. Now has external links icons.

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:46:00 +0000

New version of Googlepedia out. Now has external links icons.