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Added a close button, dug some drains
Due to overwhelming demand, I did a quick update to PeteSearch on Thursday night and added a button at the top of the split-screen preview to close it. I’ve got plans to offer a slightly more...
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A lot of usability fixes
I’ve just uploaded version 0.5 of PeteSearch to the site and CVS. I’ve focused on polishing the UI, based on everyone’s feedback. Here’s the quick list of changes: You can now turn the extension on...
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Exalead support and new demo
I did some tweaks to the site definitions to include Exalead, the European search engine that includes some neat features such as looking at recently-changed pages only. This also meant adding some...
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Highlighting search terms
I’ve just put up version 0.6 of PeteSearch, the biggest change is that your search terms are now highlighted in yellow when you load up a preview page, and you can move through the terms by pressing...
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PeteSearch and SEO
Search engine optimization is the art of making sure a site appears as prominently as possible in search results. There’s the respectable kind, which is all about tweaking pages users are likely to...
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Porting Firefox extensions to Internet Explorer
Compared to writing Firefox extensions, there isn’t a whole lot of information about writing add-ons for Internet Explorer, and almost nothing about porting from Firefox to IE. I’m converting...
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Porting Firefox extensions to Internet Explorer Part 2
In the first part, I showed how to set up the tools you need to build a BHO. I’ve now created a skeleton project that will compile into a very simple BHO, TinyBHO. I wasn’t able to find any good...
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Porting Firefox Extensions to Internet Explorer Part 3
In the first two parts I covered setting up our tools, and creating a code template to build on. The next big challenge is replacing some of the built-in facilities of Javascript, like string handling,...
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PeteSearch and the semantic web applied
PeteSearch is a semantic web application, it’s taking web pages designed to be read by humans and turning them into data that can be processed by software. It’s a pretty specialized application,...
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Search Tips for Firefox
Use PeteSearch! The hot-keys, link checking, split-screen preview and term highlighting will save you time. Use CustomizeGoogle. This add-on allows you to do a lot of handy stuff like excluding sites...
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