EDIT: UPDATE IN LATER POST BELOW
Here's a modified homepage I did for Opera. Looks best at 75% zoom
Supports many* search engines with one elegant dropdown (ie javascript page) - enter keywords and select engine (else press enter for Google as default). Makes Opera a far more useful tool. See list below.
Bookmark areas divided (you can change headings)
Area for built-in opera functions (eg opera:cache) for which I'd love some additions
If anyone out there is good at javascript, else has a history of collecting Opera widgets/bookmarklets that work under JS, it'd be great to start collating bigger n better homepages in this thread.
To install
Backup original home.html if u r worried this will not be nice, else just extract the home.html as another name and change Opera's homepage
Simply extract the files to \Application Data\Opera\startpage
Edit the home.html to insert your own bookmarks (either as text file else in html editor - it's easy)
*Search engines covered: Google, googleZA, google Images, Dictionary, Thesaurus, Quotations, Law dict, Medical dict, Encarta, How Stuff Works, WorldAltas, NationMaster, FactMonster, Wikipedia, Mythica, Britanicca (crap), Amazon, Song Lyrics/artist/titles, IMDb, Jokes (down so not tested). Can add anything else to this script without screen clutter - but that's all the truly useful stuff I could think of. If u want more, post the search string for me (ie the URL)
Forgot to attach zip - sorry. Improved search engines whilst I was at it tho.
This is amazing! Thank you for taking the time to do this. I was even able to cut and create it into a page suitable for my PIE homepage!
wow! didn't think PIE would support such javascript - thought that was one of the things that made Opera so cool. Good news tho - perhaps ppl have other PIE homepages they can post here for us to benefit from.
THX
Just SuperDuper !
Many Thanks for this
Great.
Cheers
hrb
lulugirl896 said:
This is amazing! Thank you for taking the time to do this. I was even able to cut and create it into a page suitable for my PIE homepage!
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How did you do that ?
Cheers
hrb
fantastic job dude
i love the homepage
i was just wondering what the purpose is for secure bookmarks?
what is different about it? and how does it work?
Bartjan said:
fantastic job dude
i love the homepage
i was just wondering what the purpose is for secure bookmarks?
what is different about it? and how does it work?
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Cool - glad it's appreciated.
Actually the only clever part is the search engine, rest is a simple table with dividers for whatever headings you want (ie copy the divider as many times as you like). In my case I keep all my https bookmarks separate (webmail, 3 banks, server admin, etc etc). You may prefer "News", "PPC", "Personal" or some other structure.
another search engine
First of all, many thanks for this homepage, it's what I've been dreaming all along... almost
Now, to make it perfect, I would need to change/add some other search engines, such as the portuguese "yellow pages", wich url is www.pai.pt.
Also, I would like to know how to set the bookmarks in the homepage.
Can you explain how can I do that? I have no experience in programming, but I believe these tasks are simple enough, if someone can explain them step by step.
Thanks again
vmiguel
EDITED: Ok, I've managed to understand the bookmarks. Now I only need some assistance in geting the correct url to query a search engine, like the one I've mentioned above. Naturaly, the simple page url is not enough, but I can not find what's missing. Can someone help? TIA
Attached is an update with more search engines and links.
The update has a whole load of new ideas - largely set up for for SA but there's a guide below on modifying to your country. Let's add to this list please, and PLEASE post your country-specific pages in this thread:
Normal searches (google, google images, google maps)
SA searches (google ZA, DSTV guide, resturants/nightspots, Braby's maps (serious Java works in Opera 8.60! AWESOME!!!), postal codes, Braby's business lookup, Ananzi shopping
Reference searches (dictionary, thesaurus, quotations, law dict, medical dict)
Encyclopedia searches (several)
Entertainment searches (Amazon, Songs by lyric/artist/title, IMDb, Jokes 1/2 both work well)
Bookmarks PDA
Bookmarks South African (exchange rates table, MyBroadband, ACSA flight schedules and late arrivals (useful!), venue search, current local movie reviews, netflorist, Yellow and WHITE pages!, CIPRO company search, SARS VAT number search) Could not turn last few into search items for drop box I'm afraid
Place for personal bookmarks (banking, share trading, webmail, etc)
Opera internals (History, cache, about, Bookmarks as text file, PPC browsing) If anyone knows the javascript for opening a bookmarks page that would be great cos text page is crap - I only did it cos cut-n-paste may be useful!
Future bookmark ideas (largely ZA):
Taxi booking
Local car rental firms
Local airline schedules
Booking for local hotel groups
Local auction sites
Locla Lottery numbers search
Property search
School friends search
vmiguel: editing is easy as you are finding - open in an html editor or just a text editor. Text may actually be easier cos the html editor will probably not render the CSS correctly.
To add search engines, surf them in your PC and note the URL when you search for a word like 'MYSEARCH'. Somewhere in the URL you will see a bit that says &xxx=MYSEARCH where xxx is usually q or query or keyword or something similar. You'll get the plot. Make sure this bit is put at the end of the URL, and remove the MYSEARCH bit. So, the URL will be:
htttp://www.searchengine.com/search.html?a=1&b=2&query=
The script will ad the entered words at the end.
Some tips:
Ignore other &... items
Remove any keys or session ID's that have complex strings
Don't miss the & before query unless...
..after the page URL should be a ? - all parameters follow this. So if query is the only parameter, it will look like htttp://www.searchengine.com/search.html?query=
Thanks a lot, I'll try it, and get back with a portuguese homepage!
EDITED: sorry, no & or = symbols, the resulting url, after performing a search is http://www.pai.pt/search/mysearch.html
"Mysearch" is a false query, because there is no portuguese company with that name, but if I perform a search for a existing company, as "Norma Básica", the result is similar: http://www.pai.pt/search/norma_básica.html
Any ideas?
vmiguel said:
Thanks a lot, I'll try it, and get back with a portuguese homepage!
EDITED: sorry, no & or = symbols, the resulting url, after performing a search is http://www.pai.pt/search/mysearch.html
"Mysearch" is a false query, because there is no portuguese company with that name, but if I perform a search for a existing company, as "Norma Básica", the result is similar: http://www.pai.pt/search/norma_básica.html
Any ideas?
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Yep, it's a *****! Actually, it's a rather clever search page that remembers your recent inputs and allows you to select them from the drop box and a mouseover popup. Impressive. It works if you append .html to the string generated by the script, but I can't think of an elegant way to make the script do that for some sites and not for others. Think you'll have to do the same as I did for our SA yellow and white pages; just do a bookmark to that site rather than use the drop box. Sorry.
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How did you do that ?
Cheers
hrb
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Once I had my links all set up for Opera, I cut and pasted the links only and then used the instructions here: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2004/03/03/83349.aspx The javascript wont work, but at least you will end up with the same links in PIE and Opera, and you wont have to re-type!
Good enough for me. Thanks again, for such a great idea!
you are great !!! it makes opera much more useful now~~thanks a lot
Hi there!
I've started this project to make an application to track myself when i'm out walking with my lovely touch pro.
Now i would like to make it open source and free for all trekking amateurs, and i'm posting this here to get some advice and to see if someone is interested.
I would like to make a simple and beautiful application, that doesen't drain the battery and that allow to record and repeat trails, store waypoints, integrate some mappings and exchange data with google earth or others apps. It might include some geocaching features and online sharing stuffs as well...
The project is hosted on http://code.google.com/p/trailcompanion/
and i've set up a development blog here: trailcompanion.wordpress.com
I'm not releasing any cabs soon, just some source code to start and see what we can get...
however, if someone would like to be involved just show up here!
*Edit 2009-08-30:
I've posted some updates and sample screenshots on the devel blog:
http://trailcompanion.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/post-holydays-update/
You could take a look at TrackME.
They also have a web interface.
It's all good, except for the sql requirement.
For my part, for small data, I prefer flat files.
screenshots
Here the screenshots:
This may sound like a dumb question, but what site (other than Google Maps) supports photosphere?
I want to be able to upload my photosphere pics to share with friends, but what online photo sharing site supports it or what would I need to be able to do share it?
Is it even possible yet?
Google+ can view photospheres, i remember seeing a collection of demo photospheres up there when the announced it. But i doubt your friends actually use google+
Fouad1013 said:
Google+ can view photospheres, i remember seeing a collection of demo photospheres up there when the announced it. But i doubt your friends actually use google+
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Ah I think I found it. It's in the Photos section when you're logged in. I guess there's some use for G+ after all, lol. Thanks!
I don't really use G+, but would there be public links for the photospheres?
I started making a website for uploading photospheres.
If there really is an need for this I could buy a server to bring it online after some modifications.
m11kkaa said:
I started making a website for uploading photospheres.
If there really is an need for this I could buy a server to bring it online after some modifications.
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I'd be willing to host this server, we would need a domain though ($10/yr). Let me know if you have any updates on this. Did you snatch the code from G+ or 4.2 to view photospheres?
about the domain:
I thought about sphereshare.com but it's not available. maybe sphereshare.net or something different?
about the server:
it would be great if you can organize one.
I found an opensource-project to show photospheres:
https://github.com/kennydude/photosphere
My progress so far:
- Upload-Form with validation of images(incl. if it is an photosphere)
- photosphere viewer with fullscreen-feature
Important things todo:
- a layout/design(I'm not good at it maybe someone wants to help)
- impressum etc
Additional things todo:
- registration to allow users to make gallery's etc
- feature to make images public and show them in an public gallery/search
- an app which adds upload to this page via android share-functionality
There is already a new Photo Sphere Community!
Hello,
I've already started a new photosphere site (on 15th November 2012). The page contains the following features:
viewer / fullscreen viewer (in the future: flash viewer)
Upload with validation of images
modern bootstrap layout
android app with upload and sharing (h t t p : / / play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=appmaker.merq.NetsE)
easy registration with google - login
map which shows photo spheres
Image Details (Camera, GPS ...)
embed images in other sites
User could comment and rate images
discover images (diverent categories, search, user profiles...)
You could find the community here: h t t p : / / photo.merq.org
@m11kkaa, @all
Could someone help me with the flash viewer? Please look at this example: h t t p : / / goo.gl/AvEPA
You could have asked me for code so u hadn't to start from scratch(I think the grammar of this sentence is crap xd).
However I would really like that if u would use the HTML5-viewer.
m11kkaa said:
You could have asked me for code so u hadn't to start from scratch(I think the grammar of this sentence is crap xd).
However I would really like that if u would use the HTML5-viewer.
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Thanks for the fast reply! On the past few weeks I didn't know that you are there
I like the HTML5-viewer, too! But there are many browser didn't support this viewer (Android, Mac, older IEs...). I like a build-in fallback for these browsers.
You could have a look here: h t t p : / / github.com/kennydude/photosphere/issues/4
What do you think about the young community?
1) There is an html5 compatibility-lib for some IE's as far as I know
2) as fallback you could use flash(btw I can't use flash on my kubuntu with hybrid-graphics because cpu is at 100% then)
3) I made some usage-improvements to the viewer: https://github.com/M1cha/photosphere
I would rewrite the viewer for jQuery but I don't think this would improve compatibility because "three.js" still uses the native functions.
BTW: how did you write the page? I used Zend-Framework because there already exists everything(image-tools etc) and it follows MVC.
The compatibility-lib for IE's aren't working for this project :/
Zend-Framework = good hint But I used only PHP...
Could you send me your mail? And do you also speak german?
refda said:
The compatibility-lib for IE's aren't working for this project :/
Zend-Framework = good hint But I used only PHP...
Could you send me your mail? And do you also speak german?
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So... did anything every happen with this?
I'd really like to be able to share my photospheres with people not in my network, and I'd like to use a non-google relate service to do that.
Does anyone have any suggestions here?
Hello,
Constantly-on speech recognition listening for just one keyword.
I am trying to do is making my app constantly listen for one keyword that will fire an intent whenever the keyword is recognized.
I know that this will use a lot of battery. and I don't want to use google's speech recognition.
For example - you are talking with a person. Normal conversation. The phone is actively listening and recognizing every single said word and listening for the keyword.
Let's say the keyword is "cheese" in this instance.
Whenever you say "cheese," the application fires an intent that starts up another part of the app.
I tried to record myself saying "cheese" into wav file
And then comparing it to every word that was spoken..
my problem is finding the right tool that can help me perform this signal comparison in the simplest way so it can work on any device..
tried musicg library with fingerprint function but it does not work so well..
tried some other fft/cross-corelation/ect.. functions but I didn't get the result I expected..
any help (examples or some library would be best) that you can give me will be very appreciated ..
Thanks.
It looks like Java has its own speech recognition API (basic info about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Speech_API).
I also found the official FAQ with instructions on how to download and use it etc. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jsapifaq-135248.html
Hopefully, it's pretty high quality and works well. Good luck!
marwan.kallal said:
It looks like Java has its own speech recognition API (basic info about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Speech_API).
I also found the official FAQ with instructions on how to download and use it etc. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jsapifaq-135248.html
Hopefully, it's pretty high quality and works well. Good luck!
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Thank you!!! I'll try it
Wow fantastic question,how about refering the sourse codes of google voice?So u can know what they have done....:thumbup:
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Just FYI, speech recognition is some complex stuff. I believe that Google uses some really advanced techniques such as deep neural networks for their speech recognition.
Here are some links if anyone's interested:
Wired Article
Google Research (Theory Based)