Do you use any tools while you browse DU?

[hootinholler]

I mean things like browser extensions, screen shot software or other things that you find helpful. I like fireshot when I want to capture something I think might go away.

What would your perfect DU browsing browser extension do?

[northoftheborder]

1. Ignorant here: "browser extension"?

[hootinholler]

3. WHat browser do you use?

In firefox, it's under the orange tab that says firefox on the upper left and then click ad-ons.

They are pieces of software that do things while browsing. Some block ads, others do other stuff.

[northoftheborder]

13. Usually Safari. I can turn on "no ad pop up" but that is in the preferences, not something I can

do while browsing.

[hootinholler]

36. Sorry, I don't know safari very well at all.

Maybe someone who does will come along and let us konw if there's something similar. It wouldn't surprise me.

[Art_from_Ark]

50. You can get AdBlock for Safari

It seems to work pretty well.

[SheilaT]

51. I use firefox and I don't see an orange tab.

(some days I can't spell)

[hootinholler]

60. Hmmm, a couple of versions ago firefox put the menu unter an orange box

or drop down tab in the upper left corner. I think it's in the menu under help in previous versions.

[SheilaT]

61. Thanks. I can click on their help and it directs me to their website.

And that would probably let me fiddle with add-ons.

I always feel a bit suspicious about add-ons. Plus, a couple of years ago someone here posted a cool one for earthquakes, and I just loved it. Then, newer additions of Firefox refuse to allow it. So my attitude is, why bother.

[1000words]

2. I got a belt sander going right now

[hootinholler]

4. DUzy!

Illegitimi non carborundum!

[Fumesucker]

15. Eh, sometimes I surf the web on this computer that runs our milling machine

[1000words]

18. Is that a bookmark for porn?

[Fumesucker]

21. Depends on your definition of porn

Ferinstance..

[1000words]

25. ...

[hootinholler]

35. OMG That's soo hot!

I see what you mean.

[pangaia]

27. Love Bridgeport...

Mine's old, really old.. not CNC..

BTW, given the cost of that thing, I see you can only afford the same $5.95 shop lights I can with 4 cent light stands.

[House of Roberts]

41. The last time I ran one of those was a Model E

using Boss 8 software, in 1985. Mostly use Haas or Mazaks now, and sometimes a Fanuc control.

[Fumesucker]

48. Yeah, it's an antique, made in 1982

If it was new with a new price tag we couldn't afford to let it sit idle as much as it does, we have a small, unique niche market and machining is only a fairly limited portion of the work which is somewhat sporadic anyway.

The mill had been stored in a barn for about a decade with broken electronics and was destined for the scrap yard when we got it, I cleaned actual rat nests out of the knee and dirt dauber nests out of nearly every hole during the restoration process.

[dlwickham]

19. I only use an electric screwdriver

[House of Roberts]

39. Not up to sonic screwdriver proficiency?

Oh well.

[dlwickham]

49. I'm not even a companion

[JaneyVee]

5. Not so much for DU, but while browsing the World Wide Web I often use

Apple-shift-3 for screenshots, apple-F to search for keywords on an open browser page, right click save image to library to post saved images on social media. For DU I like to use the bookmark & search feature at top of page.

[hootinholler]

8. I like fireshot because it lets you capture the complete page

Not just the bits that you can see.

[JaneyVee]

14. Sounds good. Apple shift 3 captures only what you can see. Apple shift 4 gives you a

Rectangle you can size to capture selected areas.

[pangaia]

12. World Wide Web?

What the heck is that?
Does it have something to do with Al-Qaida?

[JaneyVee]

17. Ha! I like using the silly long form name.

[Art_from_Ark]

53. I thought I knew all the Apple shortcuts

but this is the first time I had ever heard of using the Apple-shift-3 shortcut for taking screenshots. So I tried it and it saved the screenshot automatically onto my desktop.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Right now I use and ad blocker and "DoNotTrackMe" addon or extension.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/donottrackplus/

My perfect browser wouldn't send BACK any data.

None, nada, unless I specifically tell it to.

[Fumesucker]

9. DoNotTrackMe pretty much kills ads by itself I've found, at least on DU anyway

That's the only one I use right now for here although I like the Download Helper for stuff like saving Youtube videos to my HD.

[NYC_SKP]

11. Yes, that youtube saving feature is nice, too. nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

7. I use an elaborate network of trusses.

[msanthrope]

44. Girding your loins, eh? nt

[A-Schwarzenegger]

45. It's a line from Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute,

a Dan Ackroyd SNL character.

Mrs. Potter: [ notices something ] Hey, wait a minute..

Fred Garvin: What?

Mrs. Potter: What is all that stuff?

Fred Garvin: Oh, uh.. that's my rather elaborate network of trusses. I will need your help with a couple of these. I got the old hernia truss here.. and I got a spleen truss, it opens up with a couple of snaps here in the back..

Mrs. Potter: No, I don't think so.. you know, I.. I.. I think this is a little too much for me, I, uh..

Fred Garvin: No, no.. it's just a couple of snaps in the back. You know, you just gotta make sure you don't touch the rupture, that's all..

[msanthrope]

47. Oh shit....I'm old enough to remember that!! Live!! nt

[Loudly]

10. A large vibrating egg.

[pinboy3niner]

16. I find a blender usually comes in handy

[Katashi_itto]

37. My Chainsaw

[MineralMan]

20. I always have a 3/8" drive air ratchet

Close at hand, to loosen or tighten nuts on threads.

[Fumesucker]

23. Careful with that

You can strip the threads if you overdo tightening the nuts.

[MineralMan]

26. I have lots of experience with threads and nuts.

I use all due caution.

[Fumesucker]

30. I've found it helpful to know if the threads are right or left handed in advance

Ran into that problem just yesterday in fact, couldn't get the thread to budge and finally realized it was a lefty one.

[MineralMan]

33. 50s Chrysler products lug nuts

have left hand threads on one side of the car. I learned that after twisting off a wheel stud.

[House of Roberts]

40. How late did they still use that?

I haven't encountered those since a 1969 'Cuda.

[MineralMan]

42. I looked it up.

Discontinued in 1971, completely. Apparently, Jeep and International Harvester also used them. Look for the L stamped on the end of the stud. Driver's side only.

[pintobean]

22. Be careful Hoot

I had a post hidden for posting a screenshot of a post that was self deleted.

[Tx4obama]

24. Sometimes I use a pen or pencil to write down stuff

[pacalo]

38. I use WordPad a lot for that...

it helps me keep track of Skinner's ATA comments about GD-related issues.

[quinnox]

28. I would like a quote button

I always found it strange and puzzling that Du does not have a quote button. It would come in handy to stop shenanigans, and also be good when responding to long posts.

[mockmonkey]

29. I started using Gif Delayer for Firefox

I hate when a Gif loads slowly and I have to try to figure out what it's supposed to be. Now it loads quickly and starts from the beginning.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

31. Tools, not so much

On the other hand, Toys are always within reach.
















I have some fantasy miniatures that I'm working on. There is also a little Tachikoma figure (not a fancy one, it was a freebie)



and Critical Hit LED D20 die http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/deaa/

What kind of toys did you think I was talking about?

[hootinholler]

34. Those are some cool lookin critters in that pic

I won't pick on your toys iffin you don't pick on mine, lol.

[kentauros]

56. The critters are from the wonderful anime series Ghost in the Shell.

I highly recommend watching if you like excellent science fiction with a strong dose of political intrigue. Yes, it's anime. But it's of the highest quality for writing and animation as you'll see on TV.

And the Tachikomas are fun to watch and listen to their discussions/arguments among themselves. They are, indeed, a hoot!

[yourout]

32. Adblock Plus...

All though it's more for other sites.

[davidpdx]

43. I use a large sledge hammer

It cuts down my posts by 100%

[Jesus Malverde]

46. I use a bookmarklet,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet

It searches to see if an article has already been posted.

Bookmarklet - Search before post

Keyword searches filtered to the last 24 hours on google news topic wise...

[defacto7]

52. For a screen shot I simply press..

Alt-Cont-Shift-Tab-F6-F11-Home-Delete-PageUp-PrintScreen-CapsLock

Voila!

In Firefox I really like Quick Java. It puts toggle icons at the bottom of the browser that enables/disables anything I don't want to run in the browser like Java, Java script, animated pix, flash, silverlight, cookies, images, CSS, proxies from toolbar.. all just as needed. It's fast and efficient. One regular use I have is to get around that quantserve hang. I just hit the JS button turning off java script and the page comes right up, then turn it back on again if I want. Lots of useful.... uses.

on edit: I actually use Iceweasel not Firefox. It's an open version of FF.

[Blue_In_AK]

54. No

[kentauros]

55. I'm using my new Wacom Intuos Pro tablet right now :)

It's great! Plus, it's wireless, and has touch control, though I don't use that much. Accuracy is much better with the stylus anyway.

http://www.wacom.com/en/us/creative/intuos-pro-m

[Make7]

57. Quite a few.

I use FireFox and employ the following 'tools' primarily for the functions listed:

userContent.css file to hide signatures, hide the icons and post counts by usernames in posts, change the edit text from red to grey and move it to the right side of the post, change the new reply indicator on the My Posts tab to just be underlined text instead of coloring the tab yellow, hide the no-avatar grey avatar, add a rounded border and drop shadow to excerpt boxes, and more stuff I can't even remember.

GreaseMonkey to change the My Subscriptions tab into a My Bookmarks tab, change the username in posts to link to profile pages instead of journals and also open them in a new tab, ignore threads by author, create checkboxes on DU mail pages to delete multiple PM's without having to open them, and probably a couple other things I've forgotten.

Adblock Plus to hide large image files in signatures (pretty much anything over 1/2 Mb).

Paste Email Plus for pasting code in posts - mainly just to add a rounded border and inset drop shadow to my excerpt boxes.

I have the userContent.css and GreaseMonkey stuff set up to work only on the www.democraticunderground.com domain, I set a custom user agent in FireFox to display the mobile view when I use election.democraticunderground.com, and I use sync.democraticunderground.com to see what it looks like without any of my customizations.

When I want to save something (which is not too often) I usually just save the whole page as an HTML file - it normally doesn't take up much space and then I know I'm not missing anything.

[hootinholler]

59. That greasemonkey script sounds handy

A few on MIRT have asked for the checkbox delete PM feature.

Glad you checked in! Do you still have the formatting guide that you posted in meta? It's gone.

[Make7]

67. The 'Unofficial DU3 Basic HTML Reference Lookup Table' is pinned in W&H.

Unofficial DU3 Basic HTML Reference Lookup Table

The GreaseMonkey mail delete and ignore by author are posted in the Welcome & Help forum as well...

DU3 Mail multi-select delete GreaseMonkey script

Ignore Threads by Author

[Jesus Malverde]

63. I got a CSS thread going in the computer group...

post your css there...pls...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1098584

[Recursion]

58. A lathe. And occasionally a spanner (nt)

[PasadenaTrudy]

62. Adblock and DNT n/t

[RebelOne]

64. I only use Firefox or Safari, whichever is working faster.

Sometimes one or the other will slow down, so I switch browsers.

[ScreamingMeemie]

65. No. I forget to use DU bookmarks for things I like to read later half the time.

And I don't keep notes on my fellow posters, so I don't have a need for them. I use my (rapidly unreliable) memory or nothing at all.

[MicaelS]

66. Adblock Plus, and Do Not Track Me

For Firefox.