This is a project idea of mine. Many tasks could be done with php, depending on uses of home computer. Ability to install plugins through interface. Allow others to submit plugins. Widget library and app interface.
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Wouldn’t it be great to have a good sized chunk of land to run and play on? Maybe start a small farm and be self sufficient. It would be great to be able to build some of the things I dream up! I’d love to play around with alternative energies, but a rental property isn’t exactly the place to be digging a well, building a windmill, or constructing solar concentrators. Plant some quick growing trees and you would have renewable heat. So many thoughts I need to get organized…
Anyway, here’s where that dream took me.
http://www.cheaplandinamerica.com/
So the choices are Wyoming, South Dakota, or Texas. I had quite a few dreams of moving to Wyoming before the Free State Project chose New Hampshire as the destination. Alaska would have been neat, but not for life.
But how do I, temporarily a simple factory worker by choice, afford such a dream. Well, it sure as hell isn’t going to happen on my paycheck. So, I decided to ask for money. Not that I’m some self important prick who thinks he deserves it, but because I simply am tired of working. It’s such a huge waste of time. I want to study things that interest me. I love to program, but it’s a very long process and there isn’t time left in my day.
There is 2 main projects I’ve been working on.
Omniscient – userJS to enhance Astroempires, a wargame I enjoy
DungeonExplorer – a browser based RPG styled as an 8bit nes RPG
So I’m asking you to give just a little bit to my freedom, either financially or by completing the offers posted here on the site. I’ll try to offer as many options as possible, without being overwhelming.
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As described on Jesse’s Bookmarklet Site
Bookmarklets are free tools to help with repetitive or otherwise impossible tasks in your web browser. To use a bookmarklet from this site on another web page:
1. Drag the bookmarklet to your Bookmarks Toolbar or Links Bar.
2. While viewing a page you want to use the bookmarklet on, click the bookmarklet from your Bookmarks Toolbar.
Personally I like to bookmark the link, and place my whole collection in one folder. For each bookmarklet I set a convenient nickname, which helps greatly when editing menus. I’ll try to discuss menu editing in another post though. You can also type the nickname into your address bar and access it that way.
My absolute favorite bookmarklet is “Post to Del.icio.us”. If you don’t know, Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages. When you add the convenience of a bookmarklet, it’s just as easy as using regular bookmarks. Enough talk though, here is the bookmarklet. If your not already a Delicious user, you will be able to sign up for an account on first usage.
Another great bookmarklet is Google Search this domain. If you know a piece of information will be found on a website, but don’t feel like searching through it by hand, you can use this bookmarklet. One example is searching my bank’s website for the routing number.
If your big on sharing pages via twitter, digg, or facebook, here are some bookmarklets for that.
But wait, There’s more! Go to AddThis for many more sharing options.
You can also check What links to this page. If you come across a page with terrible color combinations, you can Zap Colors.
And here are some handy developer tools
And I have one last bookmarklet for you. It’s called Youtube Saver. That one allows you to save Youtube videos onto your hard drive as mp4 files.
I hope you find some of these bookmarklets useful. I use them on a daily basis. They add many great features that are hard to live without. Here is a couple bookmarklet sites.
100 Fantastic Bookmarklets to Organize Your Academic Research
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I wanted to start out with a fresh install of Opera 10 to make sure everything I write from here on out will apply to everyone else’s installations. Here is a list of modifications I do right away.
1. Move the tab bar. I like to have many tabs open at once. By moving the tab bar to the right side of the screen, I can easily fit 25-30 tabs.
- Right click on the tab bar, go to customize, and choose appearance.
- About half way down the dialog box you’ll see placement, change that from top to right.
- I’m also not a fan of the thumbnails, so I’ll uncheck those from here. I also choose “Text only” from the style menu, but that’s just because I’m a minimalist.
2. Turning on mouse gestures. Why take the time to aim for the navigation bar when you can do nearly everything from the document area!
- Hold your right mouse button, pull the cursor down, and release.
- Opera will ask if you want to use mouse gestures, choose yes.
- Now it’s time to make them react how I want them to. Click tools on the menu bar, and choose preferences. Click advanced along the top of the dialog that pops up. Down towards the bottom, on the left side, you’ll pick shortcuts. Now click Edit. In the second screen shot you can see my settings.
3.Turning on UserJS. UserJS is the same thing as GreaseMonkey for Firefox, only it’s built in from the start.
- Click tools on the menu bar, and choose preferences. Click advanced along the top of the dialog that pops up. On the left side choose Content, and then pick “JavaScript options” on the right side. Set the directory to save your UserJS files and your all set.
4. Install flash. What would the web be without Flash!? Get it Here
That’s it for my basics. You may want to change the skin of your Opera, that can be done under Tools..Appearance.
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