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The following extension adds a menu item to the right-click menu that enable you to search for the selected text. The words in the selected text is checked against a list of stop words.
Subsequently, a configurable maximum number of limit words are chosen for Instagram hashtag search.
Create a folder named search_instagram and add the following manifest.json and search_instagram.js files to this folder.
Go to about:debugging in Firefox and click Load Temporary Add-on and load the manifest.json file. Then right-click on the selected text on a webpage to do a hashtag search on Instagram.
The command afplay in MacOS lets you play audio files in command line. Simply passing the file name to the command plays the entire audio file:
afplay song.mp3
You can check the available command line options to the command by looking at the man page (man afplay) or by entering the command only without any parameters (afplay). It is possible to change the volume, play duration, quality, etc.
Suppose you want to play an audio file with specified interval, say 10 seconds:
while true; do afplay song.mp3; sleep 10; done
Suppose you want to play an audio file at Random intervals:
while true; do afplay song.mp3; sleep $RANDOM; done
Here, $RANDOM is a uniform random number generator in the range 0 to 32767.
The following extension adds a menu item to the right-click menu that enables you to search for the selected text with specified sort criteria - Relevance, Upload Date, View Count, Rating.
Create a folder named search_youtube_sort and add the following manifest.json and search_youtube_sort.js files to this folder.
Go to about:debugging in Firefox and click Load Temporary Add-on and load the manifest.json file. Then right-click on the selected text on a webpage and choose the sort criteria to search in Youtube.
The following extension adds a menu item to the right-click menu that enabled you to search for the selected text.
Create a folder named search_youtube and add the following manifest.json and search_youtube.js files to this folder.
Go to about:debugging in Firefox and click Load Temporary Add-on and load the manifest.json file. Then right-click on the selected text on a webpage to search in Youtube.
The following extension adds a link to the eBay search page on the Amazon product page for the product being viewed for comparison. Clicking on the link opens a new tab with eBay search results for the Amazon product.
Create a folder named amazon_ebay and add the following manifest.json and amazon_ebay.js files to this folder.
Go to about:debugging in Firefox and click Load Temporary Add-on and load the manifest.json file.
Then visit a product page on Amazon (amazon.com) and there will be a link 'eBay', just below the product title, pointing to the corresponding search results in eBay (ebay.com). By making appropriate changes to the manifest.json and amazon_ebay.js files you can get this extension to work on Amazon/eBay of different countries.
"I take the money I make out of those 7 movies, and I would like to create a production house that will make the kind of movies that I would like to make"
"Don't stay poor and hungry, you owe it to your life, you owe it to your parents"
"When you get into a position of choice, don't misuse it"
Shahrukh Khan although hates the highly uncreative bits of work he does, he continues to do that to get into a position of choice, at which he can make the choices he would like to make. Being creative doesn't justify staying hungry and poor. First make sure that you meet your basic needs and once you do that, you get into a position of choice. When you get into a position of choice don't cheat with your choices.
