last.fmCode: Firefox extension to manage last.fm’s boards code easily

or, How I Got to Become a Firefox Extension Developer. 🙂

What’s that ?

Getting tired of typing [-a-r-t-i-s-t-] etc… on last.fm‘s journals & forums for the nth time, I quickly hacked another Firefox extension I was using, BBCodeXtra, to make last.fmCode.

It allows you select a type & select a string (“mll” for instance) and right-click>last.fmCode>User and you get “[user]mll[/user]”. Idem for an artist name, a tag name etc… You can play with the clipboard submenu too, and also the eXtra one.

I left the BBCode there, so bolding, making links, changing colors, etc. just need a few clicks.

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Some nice picture in this blog of geekery. 🙂


Some Greasemonkey scripts for Last.fm

OK, I just took the time to try Greasemonkey, and it’s cool as I expected. I started fiddling whith some scripts downloaded at the -well made- central greasemonkey scripts repository, and made the following:

  1. Last.fm with Google
  2. Last.fm with Amazon
  3. Last.fm with Allmusic
  4. Last.fm titles with Google
  5. Last.fm titles with Allmusic

You may download them on userscripts.org.

I’m quite happy with them now (though Amazon clutters the charts a tad too much IMHO).

Many thanks to kepp for his help in tracking the glitches & providing solutions.

Splee’s Fuzzy DateTime WordPress plugin in French

Splee’s Fuzzy DateTime WordPress plugin is cool, but even if it’s configurable, I suits only english wording, and I wanted it in french; so I adapted the code and here’s the result.

The plugin is now hosted at WordPress.org. Check it out :

Le plugin WordPress Fuzzy DateTime de Splee est cool, mais même s’il est configurable, il ne collait qu’à une syntaxe anglaise, et je le voulais en français; j’ai donc adapté le code, et voici le résultat.

Le plugin est désormais hébergé par WordPress.org. Allez le voir :

Enjoy ! Profitez-en bien !

Blogged !

OK, i succumbed to the temptation and switched to a blog-like CMS. I chose WordPress, because.

Hope you’ll find the site has a better look, and that you’ll find thinks more easily.

Bon, j’ai succombé à la tentation et basculé sur un CMS de type blog. J’ai choisi WordPress, parce que.

J’espère que vous trouverez que le site a meilleure allure, et que vous trouverez les choses plus facilement.

Clean duplicates in Outlook

This little VBA programme removes duplicate mails, or contacts, or appointments in Microsoft Outlook.
Great for pop3 servers going awry, or PDA synch that screws up.
This removes duplicates in the current folder, if it contains either e-mails, contacts (and distributionlists) or appointments.
The user can choose to either simulate (no deletion), send to deleted items or a subfolder, or permanently remove.
He can also choose to process only unread items.
The way the app does items comparison is explained in the comments of the ItemsSimilar procedure.

Please note that I recently discovered Anti-Dupe that seems to do the same job in a fine manner too. Give it a try!

Latest version from now on available at

Ce petit programme en VBA supprime les doublons de mails, contacts ou rendez-vous dans Microsoft Outlook.
Parfait pour des cas de serveurs pop3 qui partent en vrille, ou des synchros de PDA qui flanchent.
Ce programme élimine les doublons dans le dossier en cours, s’il contient des e-mails, des contacts (et listes de distribution) ou des rendez-vous.
L’utilisateur peut choisir soit de simuler (pas de destruction), d’envoyer dans les éléments supprimés ou un sous-dossier, ou de supprimer définitivement.
Il peut aussi choisir de traiter seulement les éléments non lus.
La manière dont l’appli compare les éléments est expliquée en détails dans les commentaires de la procédure ItemsSimilar.

Notez aussi que j’ai récemment découvert Anti-Dupe qui semble faire la même chose de belle manière aussi. A essayer, donc.

Dernière version à présent disponible à

Changelog:
‘V1.18 2010-09-21
‘- Par MLL’
‘- Assouplissement du critère de définition d’un doublon pour les contacts

‘V1.17 2008-03-13
‘- by OLIV’
‘- Add DOEVENTS for the progress bar display
‘- more verbose confirmation message
‘- create dupes subfolder only if necessary
‘V1.16 2006-02-14
‘- “only unread items” checked by default only if active folder is a mail foder
‘- user may chose to avoid comparing company names for contact items

‘V1.15 2006-02-03
‘- new function “relocate item to subfolder”

‘V1.14 2006-01-31
‘- algorithm enhancements to detect even more duplicate contacts
‘- cosmetic changes

‘V1.13 2005-09-15
‘- In case of dupe appointments, we keep the heaviest one