Gamer, geek, Israeli gay teenager, high school student, C#/Java developer and poet.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
In preparation for tomorrow’s Doctor Who Series 5 premiere, here are the first moments from the episode, kindly provided by the BBC. It’s true, the video’s a little short (0:43 with titles?!), and it doesn’t really reveal anything if you saw the last David Tennant special, but it’s still nice and it serves its purpose of being a quarter-bite-sized Doctor Who featurette well.
Get ready for tomorrow night, people! It’s gonna be awesome.
Hello again, World!
Well, I guess the move was successful! After sticking with WordPress for a while, I finally decided to move to Tumblr. Mostly because of its kick-ass design, though. :-D
But unlike when I moved to wordpress.com, this time I’m starting over. Meaning, except for a few recent posts none of my old, pre-teen posts will be available here. I’ll keep smileybarry.wordpress.com open for archiving purposes, showing my older posts, (or maybe just move them to a dedicated Tumblr blog instead?) but those posts won’t be here, on the new blog. I’ve matured a lot over the years, and if I had my old-old blog’s content (I accidentally deleted the wrong database back then and had no backup. AHH!) I could showcase my progress. This new blog will be a little less “lol” and a little more serious than my previous one, but it won’t be a Negative Nancy. Or a Serious Samuel. (Serious Sam series unrelated) :-P
But in conclusion, what I wanted to say from the start is: Hello again, World. :-)
New bookmarklet: Inspect website with Mcafee Site Advisor
Earlier, I was browsing the web and I discovered this site called “Zaazu”. It was something like a new “Smiley Central”, a program you install to get free smileys for your emails, IMs, social networking sites, etc. I got suspicious. So I opened the Mcafee Site Advisor website since I don’t have the extension anymore (Last time I used it was with Firefox, when I had a little automatic checker), and typed in the address. I discovered it had the same good effects (well, except the “I-installed-a-toolbar-in-your-IE-and-changed-your-search-engine-and-home-page-lol” part) which basically were allowing easy insertion of smileys, as advertised. No hot keystroke action.
Then I realized something: why should I go through the big trouble of looking it up manually every time? Why not just have a little, easy-to-use button to do it?
So, I started coding a new bookmarklet. And in a minute or two, I had a working Javascript bookmarklet which got your current site’s top directory (E.g.: Using it on “http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en” would return “www.google.com”), connected it with the Site Advisor website URL (the previous example would become “http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/www.google.com”) and browsed to it, showing you Mcafee’s professional inspection detailing how safe that website and its downloads are. All in one simple click! :-D
To install it, go here and drag the link to your bookmarks bar or bookmarks menu. (Or button, if you’re using Firefox 3.)
