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Greased Lightbox: Cool Greasemonkey script
Greased
Lightbox is a nifty Greasemonkey (and Creammonkey for Safari) script by Joe Lencioni that I came across yesterday.
When it finds links to image files, clicking those links causes the image to pop up with the suddenly-popular
"lightbox" effect rather than navigating away from the linking page. Not only is it a cool effect, it makes
browsing image galleries and Google Images a lot smoother. It also has extra support for sites like Flickr, Facebook,
and Gmail, which is a nice bonus. If I were to add anything to Greased Lightbox it would be some kind of slideshow
functionality, but it seems to be under active development so perhaps that's coming.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
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Joe Lencioni said 11:39PM on 3-15-2006
Thanks for the link. ALso, just a heads up -- I just released v0.04 which (among other things) adds some basic slideshow functionality with the arrow keys. Cheers!
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Bozer Designs said 11:07AM on 3-16-2006
This is also built off the original CSS modifications developed by Lokesh Dhakar:
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/
Which is also further expanded upon for customizing here at AlwaysBeta:
http://www.alwaysbeta.com/2006/02/08/building-ab-customizing-lightbox/
Additionally if you wish to see a site that uses this modification actively you can visit an example here (click on the pictures under the 'Stand Out' area:
http://www.bozerdesigns.com
All in all it's great stuff for Firefox users.
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