javascript:(function(){
var t='weekday',d=new Date();
if(d.getDay()==0||d.getDay()==6){t='weekend'}else{
if(d.getHours()>17||d.getHours<8){t='evening'}};
window.location='http://callchecker.moneysavingexpert.com/\
ukcallchecker/mobile-numbers/'+t})()
javascript:(
function(){
var cmts=document.getElementsByTagName('TEXTAREA');
for(var ic=0;ic<cmts.length;ic++){
if(cmts[ic].name=='comment'){
cmts[ic].value+='I will send with reused or recycled packaging.'
}
}
}
)()
// ==UserScript==
// @name Website filter
// @namespace Filters
// @include http://mywebsite.com
/* Here I'm searching out items in a table that have been
highlighted in bold already. I'm then searching the bold
text and if it contains "William", I then hide the row
completely. I then go on to pick out items with "London"
in the text in dark green */
var allElements, thisElement;
allElements = document.evaluate(
'//tr/td/b',
document,
null,
XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
null);
for (var i = 0; i < allElements.snapshotLength; i++) {
thisElement = allElements.snapshotItem(i);
// Hide these rows
if(thisElement.innerHTML.search(/William/i)>=0) {
thisElement.parentNode.parentNode.style.display="none";
}
// Highlight these elements
if(thisElement.innerHTML.search(/London/i)>=0) {
thisElement.style.color="darkgreen";
}
}
/* In this section I'm searching for any table cell and
checking the text for certain postcodes and addresses.
If there is a match, the cell is highlighted in bold
blue text. */
allElements = document.evaluate(
'//td',
document,
null,
XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
null);
for (var i = 0; i < allElements.snapshotLength; i++) {
thisElement = allElements.snapshotItem(i);
// Highlight these addresses
if(thisElement.innerHTML.search(/SE(22|15|1\s)|London Bridge/i)>0) {
with(thisElement.style){
color="blue";
fontWeight="bold";
}
}
}
// ==/UserScript==
Footnotes:
- I'm unsure if there's a way to get the boot up to work straight from a USB drive, this doesn't seem to be part of the standard boot up routine.
- Parallels doesn't seem to let me share the Mac hard disk or USB drives with Puppy though I haven't spent any time researching a workaround.
- The benefit of taking virtual machine snapshots is a key bonus, I can install options and change settings on puppy with the confidence that I can roll back to a happy working state.
Many years ago I lent an old slightly damaged laptop to a friend (the laptop locking mechanism was broken and the screen slightly damaged). Last year he bought a cheap but highly functional laptop after my loaner, now nearly ten years old, stopped working and eventually returned it to me for possible repair and use.Footnotes
[1] The old Belkin wireless card is so out of date that it can't support an encrypted connection so security on this laptop is reliant on screening by MAC address. In the process of testing it out I found wicd is a neat free Linux graphical tool for sniffing out and managing your wireless connection. I have just bought a cheap 802.11g card off eBay to solve the security problem.
[2] The hardware side remains a puzzle. The E500's BIOS is dated 1999 and there's a new BIOS that helps to solve the problem of buttons being available to non-Windows OS's (see discussion). Having reformatted the disk I can't install the new BIOS to flash (using a .exe file that HP have available) or (for some reason I can't fathom) run DOS from a floppy even with it set as the first boot device.
Postscript
I have tried booting from CD using the latest Puppy Linux (Dingo). It runs well, possibly faster than Xubuntu but I haven't managed to map the keyboard touchpad correctly yet. If I get this working I'll give it good trial as Xubuntu tends to take a couple of seconds to change screen tabs when running Opera, while I haven't noticed any real performance problems with Puppy Linux so far. When you think about it, it's pretty impressive to be able to run the latest version of the Opera browser on such an old machine.
=if(
len(A3)<11,
concatenate(
"978",
mid(A3,1,9),
mod(
mid(A3,1,1)*3+
mid(A3,2,1)+
mid(A3,3,1)*3+
mid(A3,4,1)+
mid(A3,5,1)*3+
mid(A3,6,1)+
mid(A3,7,1)*3+
mid(A3,8,1)+
mid(A3,9,1)*3,
10
)
),
A3
)=if(
len(A3)>10,
concatenate(
mid(A3,4,9),
if(A6=10,"X",A6)
),
A3
)=if(
len(A3)>10,
mod(
mid(A3,4,1)+
mid(A3,5,1)*2+
mid(A3,6,1)*3+
mid(A3,7,1)*4+
mid(A3,8,1)*5+
mid(A3,9,1)*6+
mid(A3,10,1)*7+
mid(A3,11,1)*8+
mid(A3,12,1)*9,
11
),
""
)
| User Guide | This script keeps a running log (every time you execute it), by updating a discussion message and/or saving a snapshot of group memberships. For the running log you have to create a message in each Flickr group you are an administrator for (or specifically declare), called "Member count". This log keeps a historical record of "date, membership total, total number of items". Before adding a new log entry it checks if the last entry (and the one before that) was less than a fortnight ago and updates it semi-intelligently. |
| Why? | I created this script as there is no easy alternative for keeping a history of membership for restricted groups in Flickr. |
| Notes | I'm an administrator for 9 Flickr groups and maintain membership logs in 4 other groups. Watching the macro chug along updating the logs is quite satisfying. It takes 10 seconds per group (loading 3 to 4 web pages each time and added waiting time, to avoid possible page freezes, composes most of that time) but this can increase up to three-fold depending on Flickr traffic. For a macro that I only need to run once every one or two weeks that doesn't seem too shabby. |
| iMacro setup | iMacro installs itself with some example JavaScript files (.js) which are visible in the folders that iMacro shows you in Firefox. If you find the location of these folders on your hard disk (on the Mac these are under /<your_username>/iMacros/Macros/) and then save the script in this location with a ".js" extension you should be able to see the file when you refresh the iMacro folder list in Firefox. You should then be able to play the script from within iMacro (you have to already be logged in to your Flickr account and have created "Member count" discussion topics for groups you want to log). In the first instance I suggest you try the test test version which will run fully and show you the intended changes in the detailed change log but will not actually commit them. See wiki.imacros.net for further help. |
/*[JavaScript source code END]
Description:
JavaScript for iMacro to create a block invite for all your
friends (but not family or other contacts) to join a Flickr group.
For more information see http://useroffline.blogspot.com
Assumptions:
- You have iMacro installed.
- You have your group's main page currently displayed.
Why:
There is no block invite facility built into Flickr.
*/
// Get friends list
var friendArr=new Array();
iimPlay("CODE:\
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Invite\n\
TAG POS=1 TYPE=A ATTR=TXT:Choose<SP>from<SP>your<SP>contacts?\n\
TAG POS=5 TYPE=TR EXTRACT=HTM\
");
// Tidy up extracted data
friendArr=iimGetLastExtract(1).split("name=\"");
friendArr.splice(0,1);
for(i in friendArr){
friendArr[i]=friendArr[i].split("\"")[0];
friendArr[i]="TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:CHECKBOX ATTR=NAME:"+friendArr[i]+" CONTENT=YES";
}
iimPlay("CODE:"+
"' Total no. of friends = "+friendArr.length+"\n"+
friendArr.join("\n"));
// Send the message
iimPlay("CODE:\
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT ATTR=NAME:Submit&&VALUE:PREVIEW* \n\
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:SUBMIT ATTR=NAME:done_send&&VALUE:SEND*\
");
| User Guide | This script imports my Google spreadsheet of books and then pastes them to sell on Amazon books. It takes about 20 seconds to list each book but you only process those in your spreadsheet marked to be re-listed. Example Google Spreadsheet. |
| Why? | Unless you pay £28.75 per month to Amazon Books to become a professional seller, you don't get the facility to import from a spreadsheet. This iMacro code does exactly that, for free, though it is of course intended for smallish quantities (in practice I'm normally adding less than 6 books at a time and have less than 20 books up for sale). Having recently realized that the handful of books I was trying to sell had not only all expired but had also permanently gone from my closed listings so I had to put them in from scratch, I had the incentive to spend a few hours playing with JavaScript and iMacro to find a decent work around. |
| Known Bugs | When I have more than 20 books the last ones on the list are ignored as already listed, probably due to export limitations with iMacro. My work around is to list new books at the top of the spreadsheet and it will work fine. You could also cut and paste previously listed books into a second page of the spreadsheet and keep the front page for new books to be listed. |
| =importXML( concatenate( "http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/", A1), "//span[@id='btAsinTitle']") |
Results for London to Nottingham
[click to show longer example]
Searched on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:44:50 GMT
Saturday 3 May 2008
Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st
09:00 | 08:55 | £ 15.00 | 08:55 | £ 18.00
11:00 | 12:55 | £ 15.00 | 11:55 | £ 18.00
Sunday 4 May 2008
Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st
09:00 | 09:00 | £ 15.00 | 09:00 | £ 18.00
11:00 | 11:00 | £ 15.00 | 11:00 | £ 18.00
Monday 5 May 2008
Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st
09:00 | 08:55 | £ 11.00 | 08:55 | £ 18.00
11:00 | 10:55 | £ 11.00 | 10:55 | £ 18.00
| Thursday 1 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:55 | £ 30.00 | 09:55 | £ 30.00 |
| 10 | 09:55 | £ 30.00 | 09:55 | £ 30.00 |
| 12 | 11:55 | £ 49.00 | 11:55 | £ 86.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 49.00 | 13:55 | £ 86.00 |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 49.00 | 15:55 | £ 86.00 |
| 18 | 19:30 | £ 49.00 | 17:55 | £ 86.00 |
| Friday 2 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 | 09:55 | £ 29.00 |
| 10 | 10:55 | £ 18.00 | 10:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 12 | 11:55 | £ 18.00 | 11:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 22.00 | 13:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 16 | 17:00 | £ 45.00 | 17:00 | £ 45.00 |
| 18 | 17:55 | £ 45.00 | 17:55 | £ 45.00 |
| Saturday 3 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 07:55 | £ 18.00 | 07:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 10 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 12 | 12:55 | £ 15.00 | 12:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 14 | 14:55 | £ 15.00 | 13:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 15.00 | 15:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 18 | 17:55 | £ 18.00 | 17:55 | £ 22.00 |
| Sunday 4 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:00 | £ 18.00 | 09:00 | £ 18.00 |
| 10 | 10:00 | £ 18.00 | 10:00 | £ 18.00 |
| 12 | 12:00 | £ 18.00 | 12:00 | £ 22.00 |
| 14 | 14:00 | £ 22.00 | 14:00 | £ 22.00 |
| 16 | 16:00 | £ 22.00 | 16:00 | £ 22.00 |
| 18 | 21:00 | £ 18.00 | 20:00 | £ 22.00 |
| Monday 5 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 07:55 | £ 11.00 | 07:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 10 | 09:55 | £ 15.00 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 12 | 12:55 | £ 18.00 | 12:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 22.00 | 13:55 | £ 29.00 |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 22.00 | 17:45 | £ 22.00 |
| 18 | 17:55 | £ 22.00 | 19:30 | £ 22.00 |
| Tuesday 6 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:55 | £ 15.00 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 10 | 09:55 | £ 15.00 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 12 | 11:55 | £ 15.00 | 11:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 18.00 | £ | |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 49.00 | 15:55 | £ 86.00 |
| 18 | 19:55 | £ 22.00 | 19:55 | £ 29.00 |
| Wednesday 7 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:55 | £ 15.00 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 10 | 09:55 | £ 15.00 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 12 | 11:55 | £ 15.00 | 11:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 18.00 | 13:55 | £ 29.00 |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 49.00 | 15:55 | £ 86.00 |
| 18 | 19:55 | £ 18.00 | 19:55 | £ 29.00 |
| Thursday 8 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:55 | £ 15.00 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 10 | 09:55 | £ 15.00 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 12 | 11:55 | £ 15.00 | 11:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 18.00 | 13:55 | £ 29.00 |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 49.00 | 15:55 | £ 86.00 |
| 18 | 19:55 | £ 22.00 | 19:55 | £ 29.00 |
| Friday 9 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:55 | £ 18.00 | 09:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 10 | 11:55 | £ 11.00 | 11:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 12 | 11:55 | £ 11.00 | 11:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 18.00 | 13:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 16 | 17:00 | £ 45.00 | 17:00 | £ 45.00 |
| 18 | 19:55 | £ 40.00 | 17:55 | £ 45.00 |
| Saturday 10 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 07:55 | £ 9.00 | 07:55 | £ 14.00 |
| 10 | 11:55 | £ 14.00 | 11:55 | £ 14.00 |
| 12 | 12:55 | £ 11.00 | 11:55 | £ 14.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 11.00 | 13:55 | £ 14.00 |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 15.00 | 15:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 18 | 17:55 | £ 18.00 | 17:55 | £ 18.00 |
| Sunday 11 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:00 | £ 11.00 | 09:00 | £ 14.00 |
| 10 | 10:00 | £ 11.00 | 10:00 | £ 14.00 |
| 12 | 12:00 | £ 18.00 | 12:00 | £ 22.00 |
| 14 | 14:00 | £ 18.00 | 14:00 | £ 22.00 |
| 16 | 16:00 | £ 22.00 | 16:00 | £ 22.00 |
| 18 | 21:00 | £ 15.00 | 21:00 | £ 18.00 |
| Monday 12 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:55 | £ 9.00 | 09:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 10 | 09:55 | £ 9.00 | 09:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 12 | 11:55 | £ 49.00 | 11:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 15.00 | 13:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 40.00 | 15:55 | £ 64.00 |
| 18 | 19:55 | £ 18.00 | 19:55 | £ 29.00 |
| Tuesday 13 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:55 | £ 9.00 | 09:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 10 | 09:55 | £ 9.00 | 09:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 12 | 11:55 | £ 9.00 | 11:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 15.00 | 13:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 40.00 | 15:55 | £ 64.00 |
| 18 | 19:55 | £ 18.00 | 19:55 | £ 29.00 |
| Wednesday 14 May 2008 | ||||
| Slot | Time | Std | Time | 1st |
| 08 | 09:55 | £ 9.00 | 09:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 10 | 09:55 | £ 9.00 | 09:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 12 | 11:55 | £ 9.00 | 11:55 | £ 18.00 |
| 14 | 13:55 | £ 15.00 | 13:55 | £ 22.00 |
| 16 | 15:55 | £ 40.00 | 15:55 | £ 64.00 |
| 18 | 19:55 | £ 18.00 | 19:55 | £ 22.00 |
Search time 142 minutes 27 seconds
I have tested with very long queries taking more than an hour to run and the only problem may be time-outs from the website. In these cases iMacro appears to lock but by pressing the Pause/Resume button will continue without losing data. Note it is best not to use the browser when running an iMacro script but I have successfully used a different browser (Safari) at the same time without any problems.
This afternoon Talktalk Technical Support phoned me to apologise for giving out my password! Over Christmas my email had stopped working and I called to check why and they "reset" my account somehow and I agreed a new default password. I tried logging in afterwards to the online account manager but had lost the password they send you in the post to set up your account and after hanging on the 0870 number for a couple of minutes I gave up and left the password as their default random looking one. It turns out that a new customer in January had been given my email account details and the password as their account. Consequently that customer has been logging into my email account over the last few weeks, probably thinking that email to me was spam and sending email from my address!
