I thought of writing this post because I was frustrated of syncing the styles between home and work PC. By keeping this post updated, at least I will always know which Stylish style I’ve forgotten to install at one place (home/work).
There should have been a proper way to sync scripts like Stylish and Greasemonkey on multiple PCs. Until till, I will need to keep a log on the scripts I like on a blog like this.
Stylish extension can be installed from here.
Stylish scripts
- AwesomeBar Results Sized Down [userstyles.org]
Thanks to this, now the AwesomeBar suggestions don’t cover up top-half of the screen.
- Bold the Options Menu Item [userstyles.org]
You don’t need to hunt for ‘Options’, the most used thing in Tools menu.
- Change Text Highlighting Selector Color [userstyles.org]
The new brown-green combination is cooler, just check it out.
- Dim the annoyingly bright RSS and bookmark buttons [userstyles.org]
- Display ‘Keyword’ field in the Bookmark dialog [userstyles.org]
This is, probably, my most frequently used feature of these listed.
- Firefox 3 Tab Colors [userstyles.org]
- Hide Back/Forward Buttons when not needed [userstyles.org]
- Italicize unread tabs [userstyles.org]
- Remove the Edit Main toolbar menu [userstyles.org]
Who doesn’t know copy/paste shortcuts?
- Remove the Help Main toolbar menu [userstyles.org]
Who needs to access Firefox help?
- Remove the Bookmarks Main toolbar menu [userstyles.org]
Use Ctrl+Shift+b.
- Remove the File Main toolbar menu [userstyles.org]
Who doesn’t know the shortcuts to open new tab/window, print, …?
- Remove the History (Go) Main toolbar menu [userstyles.org]
Use Ctrl+h.
- Remove the Home button [userstyles.org]
Use Alt+Home. This is one of my most used Firefox shortcuts.
- Remove the RSS Feed Icon button from Firefox 3 & 2 [userstyles.org]
It removes this icon when the page you are viewing does not have RSS feed to subscribe to.
- Smartly show Stop & Reload buttons [userstyles.org]
- Yellow https bar [userstyles.org]
Many thanks to the developers of these scripts!
Categorised in Tech
Tags: Firefox, extension, stylish, scripts, userstyles.org, style, firefox 3, add-on, favorite, shortcuts
Today I was browsing casually through lifehacker.com and read this post on 2009 Compact Calendar by David Seah. This wasn’t new… I have been a fan of David Seah and have known of his productivity tools since a year or so.
I got inspired by the calendar designed by David which you can obtain from this link. The only thing that bugged me was that his calendars run from Jan to Dec. I required a Fiscal calendar that ran from Nov to Oct. I adapted the ideas from David’s work like:
- Using the Date functions inbuilt in Excel.
- Using Conditional Formatting in Excel.
- Making the calendar user-customizable i.e. the user can change the calendar year as well as the days when there should be holidays.
In this process of reverse engineering, I learned quite a few new-for-me cool features of Excel using Google and Excel Help.
The result… I am able to churn out my own custom Fiscal Calendar :)
Click to download this calendar [FiscalCalendar.xlsx]. Check Update 3 below. Excel 2007 is required to use this file.
Fiscal Calendar in Excel 2007
Instructions:
- The file has 3 worksheets/tabs: Calendar, Holidays, Calculations.
- Calendar tab is where you’ll see the calendar and you can print the selection of calendar you like. Make sure you don’t print the whole worksheet else it will also print the link to this page and the small note at the bottom.
- You can change the Fiscal year by changing the year in cell A1, which you can see selected in the screenshot above.
- Currently, the calendar can show up to 20 holidays. You can enter the dates for holidays in the Holidays tab. Just to avoid any buggy behavior, enter the dates in mm/dd/yyyy fashion in column A only in the green-shaded area in this tab.
- Calculations tab is used by the Calendar tab to automate the display of month abbreviations in proper rows and to calculate the day of the week for November 1 of the set fiscal year.
- The calendar should function properly is nothing is modified in the Calculations tab :)
Any suggestions for improvement are welcome!
I’d like to thank David Seah for this idea.
Update 1:
Fonts shrunk so that the whole calendar fits on a single letter-sized page. .xlsx file in the download link above updated accordingly.
Update 2:
In case you cannot open the .xlsx (Excel 2007) file, you can download the PDF version below.
Download FiscalCalendar_2008-2009.pdf
Update 3:
This one’s a good update. Earlier the user was able to specify which year calendar he wanted. Now the user can also specify from which month he wants his 12-month calendar to start. It could be Jan-Dec, Nov-Oct, Aug-Jul,… whatever the user wants :) Also the Calculations worksheet described above is eliminated… I just made the formulae more complicated to remove that redundant worksheet.
Instructions: Use cell A1 to enter starting year, cell B1 to enter starting month.
Download here. (.xlsx file, Excel 2007 required.)
Here’s what the updated file looks like.
Calendar in Excel 2007
… This was a quick update. Let me know if there are any bugs.
Enjoy!
Categorised in Productivity
Tags: 2007, 2008, 2009, academic, calendar, custom, David Seah, download, excel, Excel 2007, fiscal, free, holidays, modifiable, month, pdf, Productivity, year
Hey folks,
Here I am back again, happy with a solution for a problem. This problem bugged me since last few weeks. The RTM task pane just would not appear in Gmail.
Here’s what I use:
So today I seek help from the awesome RTM support page and figure out that the source of this problem is Gmail Labs. If I disabled the Google Labs temporarily, the problem did get solved. You too can try that by clicking here. Don’t worry, this won’t mess with any of your Gmail settings, it will just disable Labs temporarily. But I could not give up on Labs totally, and started testing which Lab features messed up RTM for Gmail… Here are my test results, the following Labs features if enabled, won’t allow the RTM task pane to appear:
- Fixed width font
- Signature tweaks
- Go to label
Comment below if any other Labs feature is disabling the RTM task pane.
Currently I am using only the following Labs features:
- Superstars
- Forgotten Attachment Detector
The only feature I miss after disabling it is Signature tweaks… but yeah, making RTM Gmail work again is worth that. :)
Update:
Try doing Ctrl+F5 (shortcut in Firefox for refresh+cache flush) once you save the Labs settings… or if occasionally the task pane does not appear again.
Update 2:
That wasn’t the sure-shot solution to the problem :( I have emailed RTM for help to solve this. If you happen to have a solution, please post it.
Categorised in Tech
Tags: Firefox, extension, Google, RTM, Remember The Milk, Gmail, task pane, not working, Labs, Fixed width font, Signature tweaks, Go to label, disable, 3.0.1
