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Add bookmark count label to Google on Safari

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I wrote another user script for GreaseKit working on Safari which is alternative of GreaseMonkey. I posted an article about my user scripts that customize the result page of Google, this script is new one though.

Add bookmark count label to Google search results

This user scripts add tiny labels to the Google search results. Blue label shows how many users posted the link into delicious, and Red label show how many users bookmarked it on Hatena Bookmark which is the most famous social bookmark service in Japan.

Download

google_results_with_bookmark_count-0.1.0.user.js (6Kbyte)

Usage

Install SIMBL to enable GreaseKit.
Follow this install instruction, install the GreaseKit plugin.
Download and drag and drop this user script into Safari or, just click the download link then install it.
Then, open Google.com. Enjoy!

Change Log

0.1.0
- First release

Vim.app Silver Square Icon

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Vim.app is one of the famous text editors in the world(Yes, I’m vim user!). I created a new icon for this Vim.app because as you know, original Vim has green and sliver icon for many platforms, but I feel any icons do not suit with the other icons like “delicious icons” on the MacOS X.

Download

vim_silver_square_icon-0.0.1.zip (219Kbyte)

How to use it?

Download the zip package and expand it. You got png file(for many use) and icns file(for MacOS X).
First of all, you’ve installed the Vim.app using many ways like MacPorts.
Revile Vim.app in Finder and right-click on the icon then select “Show Package Contents”.
Diving into Contents/Resources, then you might get app.icns or something.icns which shows the Vim.app icon.
Replace the file with vim.icns expanded from the zip file.
Log-off and Log-in or typing “killall Finder” on the Terminal.app so that Finder refresh the application icon.

Change Log

0.0.1
- First release

Sonar 2008

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

We have a stage performing “Takashi’s Seasons” at Sonar 2008, Barcelona Spain! You can get the details here.

Add previews, language selector to Google on Safari

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

There are cool tool which allows us to change the website to what you want to do, named: GreaseMonkey. Unfortunately, this tool could not work on Safari itself. But the genius guy developed the same tool for Safari named GreaseKit. This tool is commonly compatible with GreaseMonkey and some user scripts can work on it without any change. But some user scripts I found on userscripts.org do not work well on Safari with GreaseKit. Then, I scratched user scripts which work like these scripts with GreaseKit.

Add previews to Google search results

This user scripts add the thumbnail previews from google preview to the Google search results.

Download

googlethumbnails-0.1.1.user.js (1Kbyte)

Change Log

0.1.1
- Follow the changes on google
0.1.0
- First release

Add language selector to Google search field

This user scripts add the language selector (known as hl parameter) to the search filed of Google. Currently this script has only Japanese, English selection but you can add any other language code by changing the this user script code around the “var langs = {…”

Download

googlelanguagecodeselector-0.1.1.user.js (2Kbyte)

Change Log

0.1.1
- Follow the changes on google
0.1.0
- First release

How to use them?

First you should install SIMBL to enable GreaseKit.
Follow this install instruction, install the GreaseKit plugin.
Download these user scripts and drag and drop into Safari or, just click the download link then install it.
Then, open Google.com. Enjoy!

Synergy build for Mac OS X Leopard

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Do you know the Synergy? It is a tool to share a keyboard and mouse among many computers via network. And there is another project SynergyKM which is Synergy for MacOS with GUI that we can control in System Preferences. This is so nice but, the binary distribute seems to be stopped at winter of 2006.

I build a binary one from the edge(revision 94 I use) of SVN source with a little bit changes for the Mac OS X Leopard so that we can use is more easy and comfortable.

Enjoy it!

How to install?

Download it
Double click dmg and mount it
Drag SynergyKM.prefpane(the left one) into Library/PreferencePanes
Open System Preferences and Click Synergy icon added

Download

SynergyKM-rev94_leopard.dmg (1Mbyte)

Patch what i changed

Patch diff for SVN rev.94 (4Kbyte)

Leopard and Printings

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

MacOS X 10.5 Leopard also use the cups for printing documents, of course cups are managed by Apple now. But the GUI was a little bit changed, and it makes me unhappy. This documents are small how to about printing on Leopard.

How to use Canon LIPS LX printer with Leopard?

I use the Canon ImageRUNNER iRC 2880F which use Canon LIPS LX protocol(?) over the IP for printing. Unfortunately Canon which some times ago provides us Macintosh in Japan, now does not provide the driver for Leopard yet. The next is an instruction to use the current driver on the Leopard.

Download the latest driver from canon.jp
Mount the dmg and install their driver using the installer
Add the printer on the system preferences like: System Preferences - Print & FAX - Plus button - More Printers - Canon IP (LIPSLX) then, put IP of the printer.
It looks like well, but we could not print yet. The error log shows that something wrong was happen related ColorSync.
When you print the document you have to change the color settings in the printing dialog: Select Quality in the drop-down list - Color Settings - Matching - Change the Matching Mode from Driver Matching Mode(Default) to Printer Matching Mode or something the others.

Create the PDF Writer which print out the PDF file

Of course we can create PDF from the printing dialog but, I use the PDF Writer printer from the Windows working on the virtual machine(Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion) as shared printer. This technique is presented on the parallels blog and the free PDF printer is presented on macosxhints.com. The bonjour works fine with Leopard but, the way to create the PDF printer must be changed a little but.

Copy and paste the latest posted script on this post.
Follow the instruction, place the script into /usr/libexec/cupsd/backend and chmod to 755 then sudo killall -HUP cupsd
But next step is not available on Leopard. So we use cups web interface alternatively. Open http://localhost:631/ on Safari.
Push Add Printer, input the name like: PDF_Writer(don’t include the while space) then click continue.
Select PDF Writing, click continue, then input pdf:///tmp into Device URI and click continue.
Select Generic, click continue, select Generic PostScript Printer… then click the Add Printer.
You will get the dialog to input your account(or administrative account) name and password.
Print the document using PDF_Writer. the output will placed into /tmp

Change Terminal.app ANSI Color on Leopard

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Introducing TerminalColoreopard!

Terminal.app on Leopard supports full ANSI color and multi color profile and many encodings and treat japanese correctly but, one thing – the changing the ANSI color is missing. When we use the Tiger, we can change the ANSI colors on Terminal.app using Terminal Colors Plugin. But this nice plugin cannot work with Leopard one. I tried to write same one for Leopard and now, I present it as beta version.

Download and Install

TerminalColoreopard-0.2.1.dmg (63Kbyte)

Download the package
Double click to mount one.
If you have never install the SIMBL which TerminalColoreopard need to work, double click SIMBL.pkg to install it.
You confirm the Terminal.app does not work now. If not, you should quit one.
Copy the TerminalColoreopard.bundle into (Your Home)/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins. If there are no destination, you should create one.

Defects

Currently the color settings are shared any color profile.
Even if you change the color using the palette, it will not affect the screen quickly. You currently refresh the screen manually.

Road to 1.0

Fix the defects
Add the installer.pkg
Add the preset of color set like Tango Colors or something

Source code

Now I open the source code at Codereops which is a movement to share the personal source code repository in Japan. You can get the whole codes from follow SVN repository and if you want to commit your code to this branch, you should create an account of Coderepos by sending the htpasswd file to the proposer of Coderepos (the details are given on the Corerepos web site).

SVN repository: http://svn.coderepos.org/share/lang/objective-c/TerminalColoreopard
Browse the source

Donation

If you would like to help the TerminalColoreopard project, please feel free to donate via PayPal using the following form.

Thank you for your donation!

Change Log

0.2.1
- Support MacOS X 10.5.2 software update
0.2.0
- Fix missing dmg background
- Remove black and white color settings because we cannot change these color, it seems be depended on the configuration of Terminal.app itself.
- Change the way to hack and overwrite the methods in Terminal.app
- Adjust color configuration panel GUI
- Open the source
- TerminalColoreopard-0.2.0.dmg (63Kbyte)
0.1.0
- First release
- TerminalColoreopard-0.1.0.dmg (100Kbyte)

Enable hidden "International" settings on iPhone

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This content is obsolete.

Don’t update to 1.1.2 firmware if you want to use Japanese keyboard. 1.1.2 firmware seems to be disabled Japanese keyboard feature although it has “International” settings enabled.

I try to enable japanese keyboard on iPhone with 1.1.1 firmware last night, and continue to find how to enable international settings. At last, I found how to enable international settings on iPhone which enable you to toggle international keyboard, and region formats etc.

Instruction to enable “International” settings

com.apple.preferences.plist (69byte)

Download com.apple.preference.plist from the link.
Place it into ~/Library/Preferences on iPhone via ssh. Of course, it require to jailbreak your iPhone. You can find how to jailbreak using Google.
Enjoy international settings.

The applications on iPhone have no international resources. I’ve never try to this, You can copy these resources from iPod touch firmware and got internationalized UI. Without copying resources, you can see only english even if you select the other language on this international settings.

iPhone with Japanese Keyboard

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT

This content is obsolete.

This summer I got iPhone and took it back to Japan. As you know, Japan is not GSM country(only 3G WDCMA and original CDMA waves) I just use iphone as like iPod touch with WiFi. The most important things for us, iPhone has no Japanese keyboard. Someone who use Japanese developed input method with Ajax but it is only work on Safari. Last month apple released new firmware 1.1.1 and this week, some guy found how to jailbreak it. (If you cannot what I mean, you just google!)

The firmware 1.1.1 is not so different from iPod touch firmware 1.1.1, obviously includes japanese keyboard. So I try to compare these ram-disk(Thank you for niccy to provide me ipod configuration!) and I found the difference between them.

How to enable Japanese keyboard system widely on iPhone with firmware 1.1.1?

You need the way to access ~/Library/Preferences on iPhone. the easy? way is to jailbbreak it and install sshd. The directory ~/Library/Preferences is placed into /var and it was mounted as Read/Write. So I’ve never tried to do, you may access this directory without jailbreak using something like iPHUC.
Get ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences
Add follow section to .GlobalPrefernces and write back it into iPhone.
Let’s show keyboard on application like notepad. You can get international icon on keyboard(earth icon) and tap it to switch Japanese keyboard and English keyboard.

    <dict>
        <key>AppleKeyboards</key>
        <array>
            <string>en</string>
            <string>ja</string>
        </array>

SIGGRAPH 2007

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

We have a stage perfoming “Takashi’s Seasons” at ACM SIGGRAPH 2007, San Diego, CA on Aug. 4 and 6, 2007.

Program Details

Please refer the official site!