'Greasemonkey' Articles
In the last few weeks I've become increasingly obsessed with the evil genius that is Swoopo.com. Swoopo is a penny-auction site - users buy bids for $0.60, and each bid placed on an item increases the price by $0.12. The cost of bids and the amount they increase the price of the item vary depending on the type of auction and the country you're in. Swoopo does a lot to make it harder to win, though. For example, if the bid is placed within 10 seconds of the end of an auction, the closing time of the auction is extended by 10 seconds or so, so people can have last-second-sniping wars for as long as they want. They also offer a “BidButler” service that will automatically bid for you, and of course if two users in an auction are using it, the BidButlers just fight until they've used up all the money they were given. Swoopo's operation is like cold fusion for money - they make insane amounts of cash off their users, and they only have to drop-ship the item to one user so there's theoretically...
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Some time ago I came across the RIAA Radar site, which uses Amazon's E-Commerce Web Service to cross-reference the labels musical albums are published under with known RIAA members. The idea is that you can use the service to help restrict your music...
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I've taken another crack at my Collapsible Amazon Greasemonkey script, and I think it's pretty complete now. Once you've installed the script, you'll be able to click on the orange title of any section of an Amazon product detail page to collapse...
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Last night I hammered out a quick Greasemonkey script (poetically called “No Xbox Live Arcade Demos”) to solve one of my pet peeves in the otherwise awesome Xbox.com website. The problem is that while you can check out the list of games you've played...
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Just a quick heads up that I've uploaded a new version of Collapsible Amazon. It's a Greasemonkey script that lets you collapse any section of the standard Amazon detail page. This update makes it work on a lot more sections - the only one it can't...
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I just release my newest Greasemonkey script: Amazon Super Saver Snooper. If you're cheap like me, you always go for the free Super Saver shipping at Amazon.com (free shipping on orders over $25). It gets even better when you've got Amazon Prime (I...
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