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Oct
20

This is a small extension that helps generate a download list for FlashGot.
Heres what it does. It adds a link to the “Par Viewer” called “FlashGot linklist”:


Pardon the ugly colors.. I hate white backgrounds.

Clicking this link, pops up a window where a “hidden” list of links is generated. Looks like this:

As i said, theres an invisible linklist inside the window. It contains links to all the files that arent “par2″ files and arent “autounrar”. Then it adds the first par2 file (the smallest one) to this list as well.

So you end up with a fine list containing eg. *.rar and 1 small par2 file to do verification (if youre into to that sorta stuff) :).

Rightclicking (as youre told) and clicking the “FlashGot all” starts your download manager. Mine is FDM. Like this:

Makes it a hell of a lot easier downloading large stuff.

Install script by clicking here.



  - Dan
Oct
20

Ive created this little Greasemonkey script for the MS Exchange OWA (Outlook Web Access) that does 2 things for your firefox experience:

  • Keeps your session alive
  • Shows you number of unread mails in Inbox

A script already exists1 that does this, however it simply refreshes the entire OWA page, and only as long as youre on the Inbox page. Thus while eg. writing a new mail, youre session isnt kept alive. In my script, it is :).

Visually, it doenst change that much:


number of unread emails in title bar, updates even though im composing a message


updates process bar while minimized

The cool thing is that there isnt any “refreshing” to see. Hence, the page doenst visually refresh. Its all done in the background, inside a hidden “iframe”. Here, the Inbox page is refreshed and re-read every 60 seconds so you dont get disconnected from the OWA and so we can update the “unread mails” counter. The iframe is hidden inside the menu-frame to the left (because that frame never reloads).

Click here to install (greasemonkey firefox plugin required)


1. MsExchangeRefresh by Jehiah Czebotar (which inspired me to make my script)



  - Dan