Add-Art 0.8 for Firefox 3

Replace ads with art better than ever! Add-Art version 0.8 is out! Click here to install

Ayah Bdeir doing a show about Arab culture. Stewing up plans to allow anyone to host a gallery, check out dev.eyebeam.org

Also exciting new Add-Art screencast by Ol’ Slambert... now with hip-hop!

Firefox extension to fix the new Facebook design

I had a few issues with the new Facebook design, so I created a Firefox extension to make it more readable (and remove all the ads). See the before and after screenshots below.

» Click to install ‘Fix New Facebook’
(hassle-free!)

Before

The changes…

After

The extension is simply a compiled Greasemonkey userscript that adds a few CSS styles → fix-new-facebook.user.js

Add-Art is out! Replace online ads with art

Add-Art is a new Firefox extension which replaces online advertising with art. A new show is released every 2 weeks.

Our first show are Hiroshige prints selected by the Asian art curators at the Brooklyn Museum, here’s a sample:

• Click here to install Add-Art!
• more info: add-art.org.

If you like the project please show some support! Vote for us on Digg or Reddit, or consider volunteering to curate a show.

The code-inclined should check out the project page on dev.eyebeam.org and sign up for the mailing list. The team is really great and we’re looking forward to future development!

My Firefox Extensions (web hacker edition)

Pushing the meme along with Oliver Thylmann and following my last extension-tagged post is my sizable Firefox Add-ons list!

• Web Developer — essential; I <3 realtime CSS editing
• Firebug — essential; the only way to debug; also see FlashBug for watching your traces() and FirePHP for eliminating error_log()‘s
• Mouse Gestures — Hold middle click and motion the mouse right to go back, left to go forward, down & left/right to switch tabs, etc. ( also check out the QuickSilver mouse gestures module)
• MeasureIt — get screen distances
• ColorZilla — get screen colors
• Live HTTP Headers — debug all forms/requests, great for reverse engineering
• tabinta — essential for wiki editing!
• Greasemonkey — hack the gibson! The only way one can even look at MySpace: script link
• RealCosts — adds environmental costs to many eCommerce sites (from Michael Mandiberg at Eyebeam)
• Torbutton — instant anonymization (FoxyProxy is also good for those who switch proxies a lot)
• Adblock Plus — always funny to see fullpage ads on Salon et al that are just blank pages saying “skip this ad”.
• and of course, del.icio.us bookmarks

Thanks to Oli I installed Live PageRank — I’ve also used SearchStatus which does Alexa too.

• Default Firefox theme :)

New del.icio.us Firefox extension rocks

I’ve always used the Firefox del.icio.us extension to manage my social bookmarks, but the extension’s latest release is making my life tastier than ever.

The new version completely subjugates Firefox’s crappy bookmark system to its awesome del.icio.us will, pushing it well into the coveted zone of ‘totally awesome.’

Hot new features

cmd-b = list all bookmarks, sortable, searchable, very speedy.

cmd-d = tag w/ delicious, with slick interface.

Keywords: like a host alias. Type it in the location bar and go go go!

This also means no more Google Browser Sync to manage bookmarks across multiple machines.