July 2012 – Timothy Tocci Tinker Shop

2012-07-31

Share-it A Google Chrome Extension for Sharing a Page on Multiple Websites

manifest.json app.js Source Code Add-on Add-on (Chrome Web Store) This one is a little more full featured as far as sharing is concerned. I may just give this one out so I added my site graphics so it looks a bit more professional. Demonstrates using a parent ‘folder’ for (sub) context menu items. Its pretty…

2012-07-30

Look-it-up A Google Chrome Extension that Looks Up Selected Text on dictionary.com

manifest.json app.js Sourcc Code Add-on Simple Google Chrome Extension that looks up selected text on dictionary.com. Obviously you should only select one word as dictionary.com will not define more than one. Same as Google-Translate-it, demonstrates getting selected text and processing it in a GET request.

2012-07-29

Plurk-it A Simple Google Chrome Extension for using Plurk.com

manifest.json app.js Source Code Add-on Another simple add-on that makes using Plurk.com easier. Demonstrates getting tab info (title and url) passed to the context menu click handler function. In case you didn’t know, Plurk was the first to timeline user posts (long before facebook did).

2012-07-27

Google-Translate-it A Google Chrome Extension in Five Elegant Lines Of Javascript

manifest.json app.js Source Code Add-on Yeah, I know, I could have used an anonymous function which would have made it four lines of javascript. The extra line is there for beauty.