Born Geek

Yet another new release of Googlebar Lite is available. Two regressions surfaced from changes that were made in 4.6.2. Here’s the change log:

• Bug Fix: An uncaught exception in the new URL parsing logic (added in 4.6.2) was causing the URL bar in Firefox to act incorrectly when a new tab was opened.
• Bug Fix: The new URL parsing was too strict. Because of this, search terms were not being updated appropriately on non-web searches (image searches, group searches, etc.).

A new release of Googlebar Lite is now available. Changes in this release:

• The "Google GMail" option in the Googlebar Lite main menu now points to the secure https:// address.
• Bug Fix: Searching country-specific pages often caused search terms to become corrupted in the Googlebar Lite search box. The URL parsing logic has been rewritten and should now work as expected.
• Bug Fix: Some translational errors in the Dutch (nl-NL) locale have been fixed.

A small update to Googlebar Lite has been posted. This release fixes two bugs:

• Bug Fix: Highlighting on pages that contained frames did not work as expected.
• Bug Fix: Strict JavaScript parsing error.

A brand new version of CoLT is now available for your downloading pleasure. This new release adds some exciting new features:

• CoLT now supports an unlimited number of custom formats for the ‘Copy Link Text and Location’ action.
• When only one format is available for the ‘Copy Link Text and Location’ action, it appears as a menu item, rather than an item in a sub-menu.
• Custom menu separators can now be added to the ‘Copy Link Text and Location’ sub-menu.
• Added a new Czech (cs-CZ) translation.
• Added a new Korean (ko-KR) translation.
• Added a new Lithuanian (lt-LT) translation.
• Added a new Chinese Simplified (zh-CN) translation.

You will note that I have migrated to a 3-digit versioning scheme (2.3.0). I intend to use this format from here on out for all Firefox extensions that I develop. This should help prevent an inflated version number, as has been the case with Googlebar Lite.

A brand new build of Paper Plus is now available, fixing the crash that I recently came across. Be sure to update to the latest version!

I just recently came across a crash in the latest release of Paper Plus. The issue crops up in the random wallpaper selection routine, so I’m not quite sure why I didn’t find this problem sooner (seeing as I use that functionality all the time).

A new release will be available in the coming day or two to correct this problem. As always, if you find other problems, please let me know. Thanks!

When I upgraded this site to Movable Type 3.34, I broke the FastSearch plugin (which gets used to power the site search here at Born Geek). Things should now be working again, but if you spot any more errors, please let me know about it. Thanks!

After two years of inactivity, a new build of Paper Plus is now available! A number of new features have been added:

• Paper Plus can now be minimized to the system tray.
• New option allows wallpaper to be changed at program startup.
• New option allows wallpaper to be changed on a time interval (up to 24 hours).
• New option allows application to start minimized.
• A number of other minor improvements.

As always, please let me know of any problems you may encounter. I hope you enjoy this new release!

A brand new build of Googlebar Lite is now available. This new build includes a number of new features:

• A new option that allows the user to select the Google site to use across all search types, providing better localized search results.
• A new optional toolbar button that toggles the visibility of the Googlebar Lite toolbar.
• The keyboard shortcut for setting search box focus is now semi-customizable (Ctrl + Shift + <desired letter>).
• New "Search This Site for Selected Text" context menu item.
• New "Search Videos for Selected Text" context menu item.
• A few bug fixes

Hopefully this build will work well for all localizations. Please let me know if you encounter any problems.

Welcome to the newly redesigned Born Geek website! We have shed our old clothes as well as our old habits. No longer are the pages at this site crafted by hand; we now use Movable Type instead. For those interested in how I was able to get Movable Type to run everything, a detailed article is available.

There are a number of new features to introduce:

Site Search

You’ll note a new website search box at the top of each page. Want to quickly locate something here at Born Geek? Just enter your search terms and let us do the rest.

Breadcrumb Trail

A breadcrumb trail is now available on every web page (just below the navigation bar), making it much clearer where you are in the site hierarchy. Moving up the site tree is now just a click away.

Comment on News Postings

Make yourself heard on Born Geek news postings by submitting your comments. Do you have feedback for me concerning a particular news item? Just let me know about it by posting to the appropriate entry. Moderation is turned off for now; depending on how nicely everyone plays, I may or may not have to turn it on.

RSS Feed

An RSS feed is now available for news stories. Subscribe to it and stay up to date with everything that goes on here at Born Geek.

Since this is my first foray into the world of Movable Type, I do not doubt that there may be a bug or two still lurking around. The print style sheet is not yet ready, and Internet Explorer users may run into the odd CSS anomaly. The overall style sheet will definitely be tweaked over the next several days, so some settling may occur. As always, please alert me to any problems that you may encounter.

Note also that some content has been permanently removed. The Firefox 1.0 toolbar tutorial has finally been replaced with the tutorial for Firefox 1.5 and later. All of the old news archives have also been removed. Other goodies (such as my wish list) have not yet been posted; these will appear in the near future.

Several new software releases are on the horizon here at Born Geek, so stay tuned. Happy New Year!