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Category Archives: YouTube

User Feedback Still Driving the Development of My Greasemonkey Script for Embedded YouTube Videos

I have mentioned before that the software that I have written is written primarily for myself. However, I sometimes gradually lose interest in using the software that I wrote for myself. When this happens, I am not as likely to discover errors in what I wrote. Therefore, those who use what I wrote test my […]

Minor Updates to Software That I Wrote

Although I am not sure what kind of software I should write next, I am certain that I will maintain and update what I have already written. And I have recently found that I needed to update one of my Greasemonkey scripts as well as the Firefox extension that I wrote. The Greasemonkey script that […]

Making a Greasemonkey Script for Embedded YouTube Videos Work with More Embedded Videos

As I have mentioned a number of times here before, I always appreciate receiving feedback about the software that I write. I need feedback from the users of my software in order to ensure that my software works as it should, and to know how I can make improvements to what I write. And I […]

Adding the Titles of Videos to Embedded YouTube Videos

During and after the times that I have written each of my Greasemonkey scripts, I look for ways to improve on these scripts. I often have ideas in mind for adding features to them and for making them more efficient. And when I consider it a high enough priority to implement these improvements, these scripts […]

Do-It-Yourself Upgrades to the Better Gmail Extensions

There are times that an event occurs that makes it necessary for me to rewrite what I was in the process of writing here. And it was while I was writing this particular entry that three events occurred that made me need to rewrite what I wrote. I was going to write about Firefox extensions […]

Better YouTube: Coming Soon to a Browser Near You?

In the first few days after writing the previous blog entry here, I found myself uncertain of what to write here next. However, it seemed as if the decision regarding what I should write next was made for me after this previous blog entry was featured on Lifehacker. It was after this happened that I […]

Five More Useful Greasemonkey Scripts for YouTube

It was two blog posts ago that I released and wrote about a Greasemonkey script that adds links below embedded YouTube videos that, when clicked, take the user to the YouTube page on which the embedded video can be found. And it was during this time period that I describe as “two blog posts ago” […]

My Last Idea: Even Less Original Than I Thought It Was

As I mentioned in my last blog post, the last Greasemonkey script that I released was one that may or may not have been inspired by a script that already existed. My script, which adds a link to the YouTube page for a video below places where that video is embedded, was similar this one […]

Link to YouTube Video Pages from Embedded YouTube Videos

In my last blog entry, I mentioned that there were two Greasemonkey scripts that I was working on, both of which would be used with Digg.com. However, putting finishing touches on these scripts is taking longer than expected because of the recent redesign of Digg. Functionality-wise, the scripts are complete, and I have, in fact, […]

Simplifying Searching Specific Sites

With Google being the one of the most useful websites there are, and with the way it tends to be the place people tend to go to when looking for information online, many people set it to being the home page of their browsers. After opening a web browser, it is best to have it […]