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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Greasefire Finds Greasemonkey Scripts for the Site You're Visiting [Featured Firefox Extension]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/ml9b61xvFYE/greasefire-finds-greasemonkey-scripts-for-the-site-youre-visiting

Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): Greasefire is a companion extension to the popular Greasemonkey extension designed to help you customize your web browsing by finding user scripts for any page you're currently visiting.

Once installed, the extension automatically searches the popular Greasemonkey script repository Userscripts.org for scripts related to the site you're visiting; if a script is available, the Greasemonkey icon in your Firefox status bar will display a fiery background to indicate that it found matches. For Lifehacker, as you can see from the photo above, Greasefire found nine matching scripts.

From there, installing new scripts is simple. Just click the "X scripts available" entry, then browse and find a script you like in the pop-up window. Click the install button at the bottom of the window when you find something you like.

If you've never been able to get into Greasemonkey beyond our top 10 Greasemonkey scripts, Greasefire is a great tool to discover new user scripts and customize your web with Greasemonkey. Greasefire is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.

Greasefire [Firefox Add-ons via Download Squad]

UnChrome Anonymizes Your Google Chrome Installation [Featured Windows Download]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/TwBKL-sXMdo/unchrome-anonymizes-your-google-chrome-installation

Windows only: Free application UnChrome bolsters your browsing anonymity by removing the unique ID from Google Chrome that Google associates with your Chrome installation.

UnChrome isn't the first app to do this; we highlighted another program called Chrome Privacy Guard in our power user's guide to Google Chrome. But for the many who installed Chrome for the first time after Chrome officially left beta last week, it's worthwhile to highlight this kind of tool once more. UnChrome is a free download, Windows only.

UnChrome [via Download Squad]

Search Cloudlet Reveals Better Search Terms [Featured Firefox Extension]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/KsHsr5uzKLc/search-cloudlet-reveals-better-search-terms

Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Search Cloudlet adds a click-on tag cloud to your Google and Yahoo searches, helping you find deep-seated terms and phrases and refine your results, as you'll see below.

The free add-on, developed by the International Software and Productivity Engineering Institute, can adjust the number of keyword results you see below each search, and automatically re-searches as you click to add them in. Search Cloudlet ends up being pretty handy for searches where you don't quite know what you're looking for—because if you didn't, say, know what the big story about Macworld was, hitting the large-sized "Jobs" and then "Keynote" would deliver the goods in the search results.

Check out some of Search Cloudlet's additional features below:

When looking to narrow where your results are coming from—and, in some cases, exclude sites that spam up the findings—the Cloudlet's "Sites" button is quite handy:

Click over to Google News, and you'll get a different set of options, allowing you to refine by news source and locality. The same tools are also usable in Google's blog search.

Nothing a true Google hacker can't do in pure text in the search box, but definitely much handier, visual, and open-ended. Search Cloudlet is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.

Search Cloudlet [via! Webware]

Allrecipes Dinner Spinner Finds Last-Minute Meal Recipes [Featured IPhone Download]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/9-UjXCdzNWA/allrecipes-dinner-spinner-finds-last+minute-meal-recipes

iPhone/iPod touch only: Free application Dinner Spinner puts a slot machine of great meal ideas and recipes from popular recipe-sharing web site Allrecipes.com on your iPhone or iPod touch.

The idea behind Dinner Spinner is very similar to previously mentioned Urbanspoon, the iPhone app that suggest restaurants in your area with the spin of a wheel, but this time your categories are dish type, ingredients, and cook time. Just tap the Spin Categories button or shake your device to set Dinner Spinner a-spinning. If you actually know what you want, you can lock in individual categories or lock them all in and check out the results. The idea is fun, but an actual search bar somewhere—anywhere—in this app would be a huge improvement. After all, when you get the inspiration to cook a specific kind of meal when you're wondering through the grocery store, the whole spin concept is more than a little frustrating. The Allrecipes Dinner Spinner is a free download from the iTunes App Store, requires an iPhone or iPod touch.

Allrecipes.com Dinner Spinner [iTunes App Store]

What Are BlackBerry Apps Doing On This HTC Touch Pro? [BlackBerry]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/gLfmHj5zVo0/what-are-blackberry-apps-doing-on-this-htc-touch-pro

Pictures are convincing, but a video, as it goes, seals the deal: Blackberry apps appear to be running on WinMo. But how? And more importantly, why?

It turns out that this is probably a leak of an official RIM project, called BlackBerry Application Suite. CrackBerry dug up a year-and-a-half-old presser from the company describing its intentions:

[RIM plans to] expand its support for Windows Mobile®-based devices with a new software application suite that will enable devices from third-party manufacturers to benefit from the popular BlackBerry® software applications and services.

Well, considering that the pictures and video resemble the aforementioned concept, and that the programs were sighted running on a phone supported by AT&T, RIM's partner in the initiative, it looks like the BlackBerry Application Suite might be coming to fruition.

If carried out correctly, the appeal could be great; the BlackBerry OS core apps offer a substantially more user-friendly experience than Windows Mobile's, which haven't managed to curry much loyalty in nearly a decade of existence and revision. The suite also appears to offer an alternative home screen, which resembles the Storm's.

The success of this will come down to two factors: price and code. If the apps are free and native, then it'd be hard to justify not leaving WinMo's humdrum messaging, browsing and organizational apps behind. If the suite is either paid, exclusively bundled with select handsets or virtualized, it might be a non-starter. This leak is as vague as it is early, so expect a good deal more information to surface before too long. Warning: comically ! lazy gad get video below. [BerryReview via CrackBerry]