LiveJournal Niftiness

I'm happy to announce that LJ for WebOS, the first LiveJournal client for WebOS devices (as far as I'm aware), is now available on the Palm App Catalog! Features include:
- viewing friends posts and your own posts
- commenting on posts
- making posts with custom security, tags, userpic
- uploading images to imgur.com and including them in your posts
- caching posts for offline viewing

Here's the official Palm page. LJ for WebOS was formerly known as the homebrew app WebOSJournal. I'm more than happy to take feedback/feature requests. Thanks!

I built a GreaseMonkey script to allow basic users to post polls. (Other users already can, but LJ does not allow basic users to.) One caveat: since the poll and its results can't be stored on LiveJournal itself, they're stored on my server.

Here's how it works.

1. You'll need the GreaseMonkey add-on for Firefox.


2. Download/install the script here. (Or, you can read about it here.)


3. Once you install it, there'll be a new button in the HTML view when you post on LiveJournal called "Add Poll." Click on it.


4. You can now add any number of questions and any number of options for each question. Plus, you can make your options appear as either check-boxes or radio buttons.


5. When you're done, click on "Submit."


6. A bunch of HTML will get pasted into your post. It contains the poll you just created and the results of it.

Note that the results are shown as images using the Google Chart API, so they dynamically change even through the poll is all static HTML.

See it in action!

Sick of the new search engine? Firefox has your back.

Go here.

Click on "Livejournal Interest" (for interests) and "Livejournal User Info Search" (for usernames).

This will install those two features as Firefox search engines.

To use: go to the search engine box on Firefox -- it's in the upper right-hand corner -- and select either the LJ pencil (for interests) or the head-and-shoulders person icon (for usernames). Type it in, hit return, and watch the results pop up just like they're supposed to.

Posted here by suggestion of foxfirefey on the latest news post. I didn't make either of these engines; I just found them through the magic of Mycroft.

Enjoy!

I hacked the ljdump Python script someone else wrote to make an untagged entries list exporter:

http://code.google.com/p/ljuntagged/downloads/list

I tested it on Livejournal and Dreamwidth, and it seems to work, so hooray.  It mmmay work on other LJesque sites, but I don't have accounts on those, so...

NOTE: Always check to make sure you have the most recent version of the file.

If you have input on this, feel free to provide input.  I'm very new to Python, so I'm sure I missed something.

Yay!

Hi all!

I'd seen the rotating header image code before and it got me thinking what else you could do with a nice bit of php and livejournal.

So, I've made a PHP page that returns a different CSS depending on the weather in your current area!

It uses a Yahoo weather feed to figure out the current weather and picks from a list of stylesheets you can provide it with.

Well, I thought I'd share it with everyone!

instructions and code at my journal

I'm happy to answer any questions.

I'm not sure if anyone else has ever posted something like this. I have always been frustrated at being limited to one banner image to encompass all the things that interest me. Because of this, when I was revamping my LJ the other day, I decided to see if I could get it to randomly display a banner on each page load from a select group of banners I had created.

I found a way and have put it into a five step process for anyone to use.

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Click for a Five Step Process to Random Banner Selection

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Examples of this code in action can be seen by reloading the pages on my LJ, kaylashay. I currently have six different banners to rotate out on my LJ and I'm working on more.

Tired of typing ".livejournal.com" into your browser's address bar to open a journal?

I've written an XML file which allows you to use the browser's search box as a LiveJournal shortcut. Once installed, you can type only a journal name - "news" for example - into the search box to visit the journal.



If you check many journals by name, it's often faster than URL completion. The source code is available here and it is compatible with Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox. Opera users can modify their Preferences manually for the same effect.

You can install it by visiting this page.

To install, click the LiveJournal link on the installer page.



You can also see an orange highlight in your search box (browser dependent). This indicates a custom search is available.



Here you can try out the functionality within the page, or add the settings manually.



And now you can save some typing :D.

Hi, I want to present you QBee.
QBee is a simple Livejournal client written on C++ using Qt 4. Not it`s compiled under Linux, but you can compile it for Windows or Mac. QBee is free software distributed under terms of GNU Public License. Now QBee is only for enthusiasts, not for the most of users.
You can download QBee here (and there you can find all useful information about QBee).
The community for users is ru_qbee.

Soooo recently I slapped together a little Python library that can graph LJ relationships. It uses NetworkX which uses matplotlib. While fairly rudimentary, people have expressed enough interest in the output that I figured some of you might like to play around with it.

Basically, it makes a graph of people you've friended who have friended each other. The size of the dots is scaled to the number of mutual friends that person has. So, people with a BUNCH of friends will have a bigger circle than people with fewer.

( small example )

The functions in the package also provide some nice functionality for on the fly processing (ie, figuring out who do X and Y have friended in common). There's a fdata download and caching manager, and it rate limits its requests, so you don't have to be concerned about being hard on the servers when running it.

It can be found on BitBucket. I'm not too familiar with Python yet, though I have been enjoying it immensely, so anybody who Knows Better on how to do things is free to give me a guiding poke.

As of last Thursday, you can specify the exact height and width of the image you're looking for in Google's Advanced Image Search. This is a great way to quickly find 100x100 images on any topic you might want.

Hint: after the first search, you can do it without going to the "advanced" page by just typing a query of the form

kitten imagesize:100x100

Also, if you like, you can look for actual LJ icons like this:

snowflake imagesize:100x100 site:livejournal.com