I love coming across fun little Greasemonkey scripts that just make my productivity skyrocket! This is one of those…

Let’s assume you’re doing a quick search using Google. Let’s assume you use the default 10 results per page.

You click the 2, and wait, uh oh, some type of hang up.

You click again.

You click 3

You click 2 again.

You reload Google.

Finally it kicks in and you’re on your way. Frustrated, but these things happen. So you decide to try the 25 results per page and realize that you’ve given up some of the speed. So you go back to 10.

The Google Autopager Greasemonkey script loads successive Google results pages as you scroll down, so it essentially feels like you’re scrolling endlessly! As you reach the end of the first ten, here come the next ten before you get to number ten.

It’s beautiful. No clicking through the different pages, just smooth sailing down the seemingly endless page.

Sweet.

Download of the Day: Google AutoPager (Greasemonkey) – Lifehacker

I can’t find the forum post right now, but credit goes to nlowell for bringing this to my attention.

At the bottom of the Write Post page of my self-hosted WordPress blog there is a button that looks like this…

I never quite knew what it did and never gave any thought to figuring it out. When I wanted to post to my blog, I would simply type in the direct address to the admin interface and then click Write. It took a few minutes but I wasn’t worried.

Then after reading nlowell’s posting on one of Steve Hargadon’s Ning sites, I figured it out. I dragged it up to my blog’s toolbar and now there’s a button that looks like this…

If I load up to a blank new tab in Firefox and click it, I get a blank new post to begin typing in…

If I am already on a page, I get a link to that page.

This might seem silly, but I’ve been blogging for almost a year and never paid it any mind, maybe you overlooked it too!

If you use Gmail, you have to check out Lifehacker’s new firefox extension. This is essentially a series of greasemonkey scripts that are compiled into one extension, and it is fantastic. My favorite is the attachment icons, which uses a pdf icon if it’s a pdf attached, for example. Thanks, Gina!

Lifehacker Code: Better Gmail (Firefox extension) – Lifehacker

Update: I just noticed that now my Gmail and Google Reader accounts are integrated! Just below the inbox link in Gmail it says Feeds (100+) and when I clicked it, it loaded Google Reader in the right frame, as though it were totally integrated! Wow..

Now if only I used google reader…

This is good news. Google announced on Tuesday that it is planning to add presentations to its suite of documents (formerly Writely) and Spreadsheets (formerly Excel – kidding)

I’ve been waiting for this for some time, and thrilled to hear about it!

I can’t wait to hear more! Thanks, Google!

It’s no secret I’m a big fan of Slideshare. A few weeks/months ago I had a chance to chat with the folks who run the show and they picked my brain about Slideshare use in education. One concern I had was the large amount of foul language and offensive content that is causing slideshare to get blocked by districts around me.

Well, I got an email from Rashmi saying that there is a new feature called groups, so I am testing it out. I created a group called k12education and the theory goes that anyone can add a slideshow into the group pool.

Maybe, just maybe, if the group stays clean, we can use it as a central meeting spot to swap presos teacher-to-teacher.

What’s going to be funny is if someone starts up another group, and decentralizes it.

Maybe districts would consider unblocking just one group page? Who knows, worth a shot!

I just happened across Slideshare to check out some of the new features they mentioned recently in a blog posting, like the ability to download presentations.

I saw this presentation and thought of you! I have no idea who he is, but wondered what you’d think…

For those of you checking this out in a feed reader, here is the link, or visit my blog to see it embedded.

http://www.slideshare.net/jessenfelix/3-types-of-teachers/1

Ok so I am not sure exactly what the purpose behind Twitter and Jaiku is, but I am going to give it a shot. For me, something like this has to be super easy, so I set up both accounts to work together.

crafty184 twitter page

crafty184 jaiku profile

I set up the Jaiku account to aggregate the feed from the twitter account, and then set up both IM (inside gmail) and mobile update.

So we’ll see if I actually use it or let it die. I think since it’s IM enabled via twitter I will be more likely to just IM an update since my gmail windows is always open.

So there you have it, my latest experimentation! Let me know what you think…