Not many of my ideas are converted to a project, this one has seen its light last week. Though I haven’t completed all the UI and features of my original vision, it is better to have one working idea than nothing.

One of my long time wish to write a Chrome extension completed last week. It all started when my answer was down-voted at apple.stackexchange.com, the original answer was based on my experience sometime ago I was searching to migrate my links between my Instapaper accounts.

Recently I was in need of generating sample images for no. of products in my db. I really hate to create a copy of image for each products in my db.

Update: Check the extension and more information @ Idea to action: Tile this 

I was recently hunting images for a sample design. I was trying to find a pattern that can be tiled/repeated to fill.

It is unfortunate to know that Yahoo is going to shutdown/transfer the awesome Delicious bookmarking service.

Evernote does not support direct import of bookmarks from delicious as it does with Google notebook.  I wrote this script to move my delicious bookmarks to evernote for my use.

I guess like me there will be many people often confuse appointments/client calls due to timezone differences.

I am not talking about people who send/receive schedules from Outlook (or similar apps).

Finally decided to copy all my published userscripts.org codes here.

AnchorFree banner killer

Remove Banner from the top when you use Anchor Free Hotspot shield / Please deactivate the script after disconnecting Hotspot shield

I love the theme of the Pure Reader for Safari (http://nadesign.net/safari/). I’ve ported the CSS as a userscript to use it with Google Chrome. Firefox need some css modification pls find the css here.

A colleague told me that I should be a QA Engineer in a random conversation few months ago. Though I did not consider it but he stands by it even now. So I thought why don’t I start a photo blog to share the random screens I capture in my daily routine.

Disclaimer: There is no alternative to real Mac, if you like Mac go and buy it. If buying a real Mac is too much, you can at least buy a license for Mac OS X Snow Leopard which costs $29 only. This post is to test the Snow Leopard compatibility with Lenovo 3000 N100.

How to batch/bulk rename files with automatic sequence number? Try the following shell script from your terminal (OSX/*nix)

1. Create a new directory
2. Run the following command (you can replace newdir with the your directory name and some_prefix with your prefix the same applicable for extension as well. My eg., rename only the png files of the directory (there were no other extensions available).

i=0; for x in *.png; do cp \"$x\" "newdir/some_prefix_$i.png"; i=$(($i+1)); done

Are you someone like me who is looking for an SVN command that exports the files updated between two revisions? Until now, I used to say that there is no such command available in SVN by default, or maybe now they have a feature to build in the next release.

In one of our recent project, we were looking for an automated script that update the working copy of our dev server as soon as someone commit the changes to the SVN.

Script speaks louder than words. Please go through the following links

PHP Gd based Sticky script

Jquery UI based Sticky page

Not working anymore, but you are free to explore the code. Updates are welcome.

I have completed alternative way to view YouTube videos with FLV player of your choice (JW FLV player in this case). The flv files will not be download to the server, it streams directly from YouTube .

Atlast, I finished my first verison of English to Tamil unicode convertor(Transliterater). What I planned to do was bit different than the one which is available now. Hope I will get the time to upgrade my unicode convertor( or Transliterater) to unique tool within a month.

Today, I have uploaded my second Greasemonkey scripts to userscripts, Yahoo webmail++ . This will remove (hide) the advertisements in your yahoo webmail, the one at the top and the small ads on the left side. Initially I was trying to do something similar to Gmail Airskin, but unfortunately yahoo uses lot of tables, which I find difficult to finish the script, at this stage it will remove only the advertisements and I will try to update the script soon.

Ok. My first Greasemonkey script is available from userscripts.org (http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/show/9740)

I have been using Greasemonkey for more than a year. Recently I downloaded 2 userscript, GMail superclean and Gmail air, which inspired me to write a script.

Requirements:

1. Storefront Id - Exactly 13 char string
2. HSBC Hash files - Executable files by HSBC
3. CPI hash key - Exactly 32 char string