Daniel ([info]notnormalikeyou) wrote in [info]lj_nifty,
2005-06-22 10:32:00
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The LiveJournal Toolbar (updated, working again)

Do you use LiveJournal a lot? Then the LiveJournal Toolbar is for you.

I have edited the heck out of this post, and it may not be 100% accurate, but I have updated the URLs for the LJ Toolbar, and I think it's working again.



This is a toolbar that you can put on your taskbar, any edge of your monitor, or a standalone window. It's the same kind of toolbar as Quick Launch is, except it's HTML.

It has a username field and a drop-down select field. You simply type the username in question, select an action to perform, and click "Go." In a new window which opens is the information you requested.

DEMO: (works the same/looks about the same except does not open a new window, and the real toolbar uses Javascript to auto-submit the blue menu.)
 LJ: 


The actions as of now are:

Display user's LiveJournal
User Info
Text Message
User Pictures
Friends
Calendar View
Memories
To Do List
Joule (Who's Friended)
LJ_connect (degrees of separation)
View User's Public Styles
Buy User A Paid Account
Add Friend

I can add any functions anyone would like that can be accessed by some kind of URL constructed with a username in it. For example, http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=USER&mode=full (already implemented).

Requirements:
-Windows 95*, 95 OSR2* 98, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP Home, XP Pro
* = You must have Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher installed.
-Windows will open in Internet Explorer, not another default browser. Sorry.
-You must be connected to the Internet for the toolbar to show up. Dial-up users should probably not bother unless they usually stay dialed-up.
How to get it:

Right-click on your taskbar, select Toolbars -> New Toolbar.
Ignore the list of folders. Instead, type/paste in one of these:
http://www.danpritchard.com/cgi-bin/ljtoolbar-enhanced.pl?you=YOURUSERNAMEHERE&fr=yes
http://www.danpritchard.com/cgi-bin/ljtoolbar-enhanced.pl?you=YOURUSERNAMEHERE&fr=no
fr=yes if you have a paid account, and fr=no if you don't. "yes" enables a scrolling marquee of your friends' most recent entries. "no" disables it.

Click "OK." You'll see an entry called "LiveJournal Toolbar" on your taskbar. Unlock your taskbar if necessary (Right-click, uncheck "Lock Taskbar") and drag it to where you want it, on or off the taskbar. If you dock it to any edge of the screen it'll be much more compact than if you leave it freestanding. Right-clicking the title of the toolbar will get you some options. I like mine not always on top, not auto hide, at the top of the screen. If you have a lot of screen real-estate you might want it always on top.

Try this out; let me know all your feedback.
-Daniel

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[info]nonnas

February 23 2003, 02:47:29 UTC 9 years ago

THAT IS AWESOME!!

Thank you so much for sharing that!

[info]notnormalikeyou

February 23 2003, 03:35:02 UTC 9 years ago

You're welcome! I'm glad you like it.

[info]a_green_macaw

February 23 2003, 02:56:49 UTC 9 years ago

Very cool, I will give it a try.

[info]ladyhelen

February 23 2003, 02:57:45 UTC 9 years ago

Fabulous!

Thank you :o)

[info]asciident

February 23 2003, 02:59:34 UTC 9 years ago

Cool.

[info]oralelk

February 23 2003, 03:00:55 UTC 9 years ago

That looks really nifty. But your instructions are for Internet Explorer, right? Is there a straightforward way to make it work e.g. in Mozilla?

[info]draxil

February 23 2003, 16:59:12 UTC 9 years ago

This isn't relivent to mainstream mozilla, but for phoenix it's fairly trivial to write lj search boxes like the one in the lj toolbar. If you haven't seen phoenix yet then it's worth a try, it's basically a lightweight mozilla based browser with some added functionality.

My lj search things for phoenix are available from here. Just unzip the archive in the "searchplugins" subdirectory of phoenix and restart the browser, and the lj searches will be availible in the search toolbar.

[info]sorciere

February 23 2003, 03:22:33 UTC 9 years ago

Thank you! This is awesome! ^^ *worships Daniel*

[info]notnormalikeyou

February 23 2003, 03:33:17 UTC 9 years ago

No problem!

You are very welcome. Feel free to make demands on me to fix and improve it :-)

[info]henningz

February 23 2003, 03:58:37 UTC 9 years ago

great idea and working fine :)
thank you

[info]braindrain

February 23 2003, 06:54:50 UTC 9 years ago

One of the niftier things posted recently. :) Good job!

[info]ex_shannon301

February 23 2003, 07:37:36 UTC 9 years ago

Wow! Thank you so much, this is very helpful!

[info]jenny_rambles

February 23 2003, 08:06:07 UTC 9 years ago

I love it! Thanks!

[info]tigery

February 23 2003, 08:16:36 UTC 9 years ago

this rocks my socks! many kudos to you!

[info]dramatis

February 23 2003, 08:31:10 UTC 9 years ago

Awesome idea! Too bad, because I can't use it, but awesome idea!

[info]pussfuck

February 23 2003, 15:05:45 UTC 9 years ago

i LOVE IT!
love love love it.

thank you from all the LJ adicts.

[info]dpaul007

February 24 2003, 03:21:33 UTC 9 years ago

Too cool for words.

[info]keithylishus

February 25 2003, 06:50:58 UTC 9 years ago

Excellent! I'm using the DeadJournal version. Very handy.

[info]bella_teresi

September 2 2004, 23:39:06 UTC 7 years ago

doesnt work ;(

[info]notnormalikeyou

June 26 2005, 16:12:29 UTC 6 years ago

I fixed it.

I fixed it. Just thought you'd like to know, in case you want to try this again. Sorry it was down, it happened when I changed hosts.

[info]fyre

June 22 2005, 09:58:30 UTC 6 years ago

drat. what happened to this? Great idea.

[info]notnormalikeyou

June 22 2005, 17:54:19 UTC 6 years ago

Fixed.

After a few site updates, I inadvertently broke the toolbar. I've updated this post with correct URLS.

-Dan

PS: I'd really like to see someone implement this in a Firefox extension. Maybe in a couple months when I have time I'll look into that.

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[info]adamwar

August 12 2005, 08:16:49 UTC 6 years ago

its not working for me.. :(

[info]notnormalikeyou

August 13 2005, 19:06:26 UTC 6 years ago

sorry, switched hosts. i'll comment again when i've re-fixed it. :-)

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[info]closingxtime

August 25 2005, 09:11:03 UTC 6 years ago

I've got XP and it's not giving me the option of creating a new toolbar. Is there any other way to add a toolbar?

[info]notnormalikeyou

August 25 2005, 19:46:00 UTC 6 years ago

Should work on XP.

Are you sure you're using the Taskbar? This is the bar that contains your Start Menu and a Clock. Try this:

Right-click on your clock (typically this is at the right bottom of the screen)

Menu options should be:
______________________
Toolbars >
--
Adjust Date/Time
Customize Notifications
--
Cascade Windows
Tile Windows Horizontally
Tile Windows Vertically
Show the Desktop
--
Task Manager
--
Lock the Taskbar
Properties
______________________

When you hover your mouse on Toolbars, another menu should pop out. It has a lot of items, but it looks about like this:

______________________
Address
Windows Media Player
...others...
Quick Launch
--
New Toolbar...
______________________


Hitting New Toolbar will take you to the part where you enter the URL.

Try this again and post again if it still doesn't work for you.

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[info]johnmann

October 22 2005, 16:07:03 UTC 6 years ago

Okay, I stumbled upon this when I was searching for a certain utility...

Now, I have to say that this is a really nice, and i'm going to use it - but there is one thing missing that I was performing the search *for* lol.

The feature I want is a text box which you can type whatever into, and a button on the form which submits the post to LJ. This shouldn't be too hard: it could even be done via javascript and a frame, if I'm thinking right... Then it could just refresh back to the LJ toolbar.

I'm currently looking for either a windows toolbar or a firefox toolbar which will let me type a post on a single-line edit box and submit it, and that google search came up with this lol.

Great job, and I hope you offer more options and so on for this thing.

[info]notnormalikeyou

October 23 2005, 07:37:15 UTC 6 years ago

interesting idea...

Hmm. That is very interesting indeed!

Would you like me to get to work on adding that functionality to this project? It wouldn't be hard, I think. It would depend on the sophistication of the LJ posting facility (I'm thinking about cookies, sessions, etc). I'll go check it out now.

(I love a project, that's why I'm offering to do this--it'd make a project for me!)

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