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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: June 11, 2021, 12:52 PM »

@4wd - huge thank you for your enduring patience! 

Turns out to also be a Vivaldi bug in need of some fixin'.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: June 11, 2021, 08:07 AM »

Not satisfied with not being able to get Presearch to work with Vivaldi... decided to finally take my chance and posted issue over there.

Turns out, one person had same issue as me.
Worked fine with other browsers except Vivaldi. 

So, final response came in with a modified JS:
javascript:q=window.getSelection().toString();if(!q)q=prompt("Search%20terms");if(q!=null)location="https://engine.presearch.org/search?q="+q+"+site:"+location.hostname;


And it works fine now with Vivaldi!   

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: April 15, 2021, 07:48 AM »

Think i might start studying DuckDuckGo's ways of searching as it is a cross-browser option.

Ghacks just tickled my curiosity:
https://www.ghacks.n...and-precise-results/

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 30, 2021, 07:33 PM »

2.9.2218.49 here.

The odd thing is.
Tried on Brave browser with both Google and Presearch and neither worked.
Then went over to M$ Edge and both went well. 
Btw, both Brave and M$ Edge already have a functioning version of the "Google" script.
I'm just stymied about this incoherence.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 30, 2021, 06:30 PM »

@4wd - thanks again, you have been more than patient!!

First try was with Vivaldi (still doesn't work after third verification).

Just tested with Firefox and your script works just fine there. 

Wonder why initial Google script works with Vivaldi but not yours? 

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 30, 2021, 02:04 PM »

So basically, if Presearch is selected, then this is the part i would use
%22http://engine.presearch.org/search?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)
to replace Google's?

Did use 4wd's last script and it isn't responding.

(btw - thanks for the sweat out brushing up on the coding language 4wd!
Illustration is much appreciated too and hope other newbies will find it helpful).

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 29, 2021, 07:19 PM »

@4wd - would it be too much to illustrate Presearch as example? 

Re-read your post at least 4 times...

Wish i was a coder!

The little html i learned years ago, is long gone.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 29, 2021, 02:10 PM »

Did try to replace Google.com with Qwant.com and it doesn't work.

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Living Room / Re: Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 29, 2021, 12:39 PM »

Thought about after and then the day got going...

javascript:q=%22%22+(window.getSelection?window.getSelection():document.getSelection?document.getSelection():document.selection.createRange().text);if(!q)q=prompt(%22Search%20terms%20[leave%20selection%20and%20box%20blank%20to%20list%20all%20pages]%20...%22).replace(/\s\+/g,%22%252B%22);if(q!=null)location=%22http://www.google.com/search?q=%22+q.replace(/\s+/g,%22+%22)+%22+site:%22+location.hostname;void(0);

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Living Room / Looking for alternative script to search site

« on: March 29, 2021, 10:06 AM »

Have a script in my bookmarks to search a site, but it always uses Google.

Is there a way to have one that can use another search engine?

Startpage, DuckDuckGo, Presearch, Qwant are some of my favorite alternatives.

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo's is saying farewell - leaving behind a huge legacy!

« on: March 18, 2021, 09:07 AM »

Never noticed until uBlock Origin disabled.

Not nice for sure! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What Android Apps Do You Use?

« on: January 31, 2021, 08:20 AM »

Here's a list of most of the interesting Android apps I'm using. I didn't include some I use a lot because they are either too niche or local (country)-specific

These are the ones that I think will be of most interest to other forum members:

• Bromite: in their own words "Bromite is Chromium plus ad blocking and privacy enhancements". Not my default browser, though
  

-city_zen (January 06, 2020, 12:55 AM)

Bromite is no more?

Update: no more on Google Play but still downloadable from Bromites' website.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Youtube script to automatically translate with English subtitle

« on: January 25, 2021, 09:26 AM »

Found one! 

Short and simple enough i hope!
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=0Ng7TJ1esuk

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Youtube script to automatically translate with English subtitle

« on: January 25, 2021, 09:14 AM »

Come to think of it... think i might just make a short video tutorial.

Probably is one on the web too!

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General Software Discussion / Looking for Youtube script to automatically translate with English subtitle

« on: January 25, 2021, 09:12 AM »

From a users point of view...

Is there an installable script to make Youtube automatically translate and show in English subtitles?

Independent of any browser?

Would be handy for elderly who are often non-geeks and deaf.

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Living Room / Gizmo's is saying farewell - leaving behind a huge legacy!

« on: December 29, 2020, 01:52 PM »

Thought the good folks here would appreciate knowing:

https://www.techsupp...s.htm#comment-136001

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« on: July 09, 2020, 06:29 PM »

@Deozaan - thanks!

Appreciate your footwork! 

- - - - -

Testing Brave nightly (on Windows and MX KDE beta1) and it is fairly solid but not yet into that "conversation" piece.
Not many people i know use Brave. At most, they go into Firefox (instead of default Edge).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« on: July 09, 2020, 07:26 AM »

Then they'll do as in China and oblige all info to be handed over to the FED, NSA, DHS... 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was a great program that's now been forgotten?

« on: March 26, 2020, 08:39 PM »

Barca +1 email client (already mentioned) for sure!! 

Digsby IM client (could check most popular ones).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Avast sells user data: 'Every search. Every click. Every buy. On every site.'

« on: January 30, 2020, 01:27 PM »

"Typing Insights"? - O&O has you covered:
https://www.oo-softw...tup10/latest-version

Then again, if you keep things in your Google account, your Outlook account or surf the web... they will surely find things out about you (even if you don't have a Facebook account).

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Living Room / The Road to Coding

« on: January 12, 2020, 11:52 AM »

How one guy made his (heart wrenching) way to Python:
https://www.youtube....amp;feature=emb_logo

I'm not a coder, but similar stories will surely help some to appreciate and maybe eventually embrace this.
The above story i originally found at:
https://opensource.c...0/1/prison-to-python

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: January 09, 2020, 08:59 AM »

Kind of miss the ol' StumbleUpon site at times... 

Anyway, i stumbledupon this site today and couldn't help to laugh at things posted on their "about" page:

What is The Babylon Bee?
The Babylon Bee is the world’s best satire site, totally inerrant in all its truth claims. We write satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life.

The Babylon Bee was created ex nihilo on the eighth day of the creation week, exactly 6,000 years ago. We have been the premier news source through every major world event, from the Tower of Babel and the Exodus to the Reformation and the War of 1812. We focus on just the facts, leaving spin and bias to other news sites like CNN and Fox News.

If you would like to complain about something on our site, take it up with God.

Unlike other satire sites, everything we post is 100% verified by Snopes.com.

https://babylonbee.com/about

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Living Room / Re: Merry Christmas to All

« on: December 25, 2019, 09:04 AM »

Funny that you would mention that IainB!

Had (once upon a time) Tim's role in elementary school and was just as timid as he. 

Merry Christmas to you all and may God bless you too!   

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« on: November 21, 2019, 01:39 PM »

Hair freezing contest "only in Canada hé?"


https://www.buzznick.com/hair-freezing-contest/?fbclid=IwAR2xjZc6tvls6h_14MAMHLjAMycJaLDTKmMDdzKacopQfU45JVpZGy_R7-U

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Found Deals and Discounts / VoodooShield has its own new forum + one year free "pro" subscription contest

« on: October 23, 2019, 09:54 AM »

Have been using this security software at the free level for a while now and find it quite helpful.
Hope it can be of help to members here.

The details about a year's free subscription contest to the pro version:
https://voodooforums...to-voodooshield-pro/