Calvin & Hobbes RSS Feed

I like to read my comics online via an RSS reader. Comics.com provides some of the good ones, while others you have to get from paid or unofficial sources. I found the entire run of Calvin and Hobbes online Here and decided that the collection was organized enough to create an RSS feed. The feed provides one week worth every day in your RSS reader, 1985 to 1995 included (smart feed link starts your collection today): Week-A-Day RSS Link Here's another feed that updates hourly: Hourly comic RSS Link

Keyword Search in Firefox, Improved

Keyword search bookmarks are all the rage in Firefox, and they're not just for searches of course. Do you have two bookmarks for a single site? One for the home page, and one to search the site? This script uses simple javascript to create a dual-mode bookmark. "keyword searchstring" gives you the search, and "keyword" without a search string attached takes you to a different page. I stole the idea from Lifehacker, but this script creates the bookmark for you.

Here's the quick and dirty of what you want:

javascript:if('%s') location.href='SEARCH_URL';else location.href='DEFAULT_URL';

You create the search url by right-clicking inside a site's search box and selecting "Add a keyword for this search". In the prompt choose your relevant keyword like lh for lifehacker choose the name and folder for this bookmark. After you've created the bookmark, find it and look at its properties. Where it says "Location", that is your search keyword URL. Cut and paste that in the first box below. Paste the home page URL or whatever default you wish in the second box below. Click Get Bookmark and replace the Location field of your stored bookmark with the resulting string. That's it. Test and enjoy.

Here are some fixed 3.5 compatible versions of some Firefox Extensions:

NextPlease - Keyboard shortcuts to progress to the next page in a multi-page forum, etc. download
Check4Change - Highlight some text on a page and get an alert when the page updates. download
FasterFox - A deprecated extension that pre-caches links for faster browsing. download

Javascript Bookmarklets

Auto-enter the CVC field and submit in the checkout at Woot
Create a bookmark with the following text but replace the word CODE with your cvc value in the ".value='CODE' part of the string (leave the quotes):

javascript: document.getElementById('ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolderMainContent_ContentPlaceHolderSecondaryContent_SecurityCodeTextBox').value='CODE';document.getElementById('ctl00_ctl00_ContentPlaceHolderMainContent_ContentPlaceHolderSecondaryContent_BuyButton').click()

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