Add a second Gmail Inbox with Greasemonkey

Gmail user Tyler Hall, started forwarding all his work email to his personal Gmail account and wanted an easy way to view his work inbox and sent mail. So he whipped up a useful Greasemonkey user script called Work Buttons to do just that.

Basically the script adds a link to your second addresses' "inbox" and sent mail in the upper bar of the Gmail interface. When clicked, you can see a search of all messages to and from the specified alternate address. To get this working yourself you have to download the script, and add your second address and label. I set it up for Lifehacker's tips email and my personal address and it worked like a charm. The Work Buttons user script is a free download which requires Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension to run and a little of JavaScript.

The goal was to add two new buttons to the top of my Gmail inbox. One to view my Sitening inbox and another to view my outbox. I won’t go into all the gory details of how I accomplished this (you can view the source if you’d like), but I will give a high level overview:
- Create two buttons and insert them into the HTML where appropriate
- Attach a click event to each one that
- Fills in the Gmail search box
- “Click” the search button
It worked great. Here are a few screenshots showing my new inbox in action. >>Read Full Story

Secret of Firefox Success

TechNewsWorld has an article today explaining some of the factors that recently helped Mozilla Firefox gain ground on IE.

"The browser was designed to be easily understood by the average online user, but Ross admits the average user might not realize the software exists or even what the term "browser" means. So Mozilla is working to spread the word through a grass-roots push, encouraging users to "tell their dentist, tell their family members, tell people they wouldn't normally tell about this product."

The article ends with a very interesting bit from Blake Ross, Firefox's co-creator, about a new project that his team should soon start working upon.

"If Firefox is a response to Internet Explorer, then what we're doing now is a response to Windows.A response to Windows? My my, isn't this interesting? Anyone here knows more about this project? As always, the comment section is open." >> Read more

Moving your 'IE7 Menu Bar' Back to the Top

Those of you with IE7 are bugged with its menubar asI am. May be guys are "Geeks are Sexy" were even more annoyed because they put together a great tutorial on how to get it back to where it belongs.

The first thing I noticed when I installed IE7 on my Windows box was the very inconvenient location of the address bar. Why the heck is it located above the menu bar? (File, edit, view, etc.) I don't know what the folks at Microsoft thought when they designed IE7 that way, but this must be one of the most idiotic design decision they've ever made (For me at least).

For those who think that the address bar should be back at the bottom of IE7's menu section, do not despair! There is a simple registry tweak that will let you put it back as it was in IE6. All you need to do to set thing right again is add a simple key to your XP registry. Here's how to do it:

(Warning: Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall your operating system. Microsoft or WE cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.)

- Close all IE browsers before doing anything
- Start your registry editor [Start -> Run > regedit >OK]. Your see your registry editor.
- On the left hand pane, browse to
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ InternetExplorer \ Toolbar \ WebBrowser" and be sure that the WebBrowser key is selected.
- Right-click the right pane of the registry editor;
select New>DWORD Value, and name it "ITBar7Position"
- Double click that new value, and assign it with a decimal value of 1
- Restart IE7

Bingo ! You're done it.