I finally got around to updat­ing my favorite user­script: Keep­ass Auto­type Enhancer. There were a few things that needed iron­ing out but I think I finally nailed it. In short, the script adds the domain to title bar if it’s not already there and puts the focus on the user­name input field so that you can speed up insert­ing your cre­den­tials via KeeP­ass. It has a few options that can be changed by edit­ing the first lines of the JavaScript code.

This time around I only did some fine­tun­ing but it still may not work on all sites. For instance, there is a known issue with pages like the Miranda IM Forums. They use an INPUT tag of type text to dis­play a pass­word hint so the user­script will fail the first time. On these sites man­u­ally run­ning the script a sec­ond time via CTRL+ALT+S will put the focus on the user­name field.

Future plans include some clean-up and opti­miza­tions as well as cre­at­ing a nice graph­i­cal user inter­face to change the set­tings. I don’t know when I’m going to find the time to do all that, though. In the mean­time, enjoy the updated ver­sion of a use­ful Grease­mon­key user­script. BTW, I’m not sure about it but I think this script just might work with Opera too.

Hooray! Almighty Caine – one of the most polar­iz­ing, ruth­less, bru­tal, single-minded pro­tag­o­nists ever con­ceived by a fel­low Earth­ling from this dimen­sion – is going on-line. If you don’t know about Hari Kha­pur Michael­son – also known as Caine, Blade of Tyshalle, Prince of Chaos, and Caine Black Knife – I’d humbly sug­gest to get your hands on Heroes Die, the first of the Acts of Caine.  Matthew Woodring Stover did very, very well when he cre­ated Caine. Def­i­nitely rec­om­mended! If you don’t like wad­ing through blood and shit or if you are aller­gic to swear­ing, you may want to stay clear. Any­way, this post isn’t about the books. If you want to know more, head over to Wikipedia or get the Heroes Die and make up your mind.

Matt man­aged to get some peo­ple together and they threw up OverWorld.tv, a place for all things Caine. It’s not fin­ished yet but the team is work­ing hard on putting things together and it’s shap­ing up quite nicely. Mainly, the site was cre­ated to pro­mote the adven­tures of Caine and – can you believe it? – the upcom­ing comic. Hell, yeah! There’s also talk about some mer­chan­dis­ing good­ies and guess what: I’m gonna get some! Until everything’s ready get your­self acquainted with Caine. I think, I’ll be doing a short review of the Acts of Caine series so far.

Exactly ten days ago I released a Grease­mon­key user­script that makes Kon­gre­gate a nicer place to be. Dubbed NicerKon­gre­gate the script will cre­ate short page titles and it will add dif­fi­culty icons to the badges. It also removes a few ads and white­space, and re-arrange a few ele­ments. On Novem­ber 24 I added a the abil­ity to check whether a game as badges or not. When mov­ing the mouse­pointer over these game thumb­nails it checks for badges.

Cur­rently, I’m not plan­ning on adding other stuff because in its cur­rent iter­a­tion – v1.1.1 – the script does exactly what I want it to do. If you do have sug­ges­tions though, don’t hes­i­tate to con­tact me and I’ll see what I can do.

Almost exactly one year ago I last updated my user­script for KeeP­ass. Dubbed KeeP­ass Auto­Type Enhancer it does a few things to make using KeeP­ass eas­ier. Firstly, the script injects the host­name in the title if it’s not already there. I changed the algo­rithm so that if the site already places its name in the title the script will only add the top level domain in the appro­pri­ate place. I did this to save some space. The title bar always looks pretty crowded to me nowadays.

Sec­ondly, the script tries to locate INPUT tags of the type pass­word on the site it’s exe­cuted. It then looks for the first INPUT tag of the type text that comes before the pass­word input field which usu­ally accepts the user­name and tries to set the focus on this input field. This way you only have to press your KeeP­ass short­cut (CTRL+ALT+A by default) to insert your cre­den­tials auto­mat­i­cally. The new ver­sion of the script will also detect login fields if they’re placed in IFRAMES. So now the script should work on sites like techreport.com as well.

Of course, the script will not set the focus on the login fields if the input box isn’t vis­i­ble in the view­port. To force the script to always set the focus on the user­name input field, sim­ply press CTRL+ALT+S, which will set the focus on the first user­name field it finds – even if it is out­side of the view­port. In this case, the browser will scroll as needed to make the input field visible.

Back in March I started look­ing for a new mail user agent, com­monly referred to as email client. Dur­ing the last few days I had a lit­tle time at my hands and I tried Claws Mail, eM Client, Post­box and Sylpheed. Regard­ing Post­box I went for the 30-days trial of the full ver­sion after I’ve com­pared the two edi­tions (Post­box and Post­box Express). I set up a few IMAP and POP3 accounts and then I just used each client for a short time.

Once again, I’ll stay true to Thun­der­bird. To be hon­est, I liked Post­box a lot but it’s not that much supe­rior to Thun­der­bird espe­cially if you con­sider the add-ons sit­u­a­tion. What I liked best about Post­box was the way they orga­nized the accounts. That’s where Post­box really shines. So, instead of wast­ing more time with other clients I just went ahead and did what I wanted to do for a few years – I finally cre­ated a nice User.js to store some help­ful pref­er­ences. I thought I’d share a few of the most impor­tant set­tings that I found with you:

// Thunderbird 3 adds a disk cache. Activate it to cache any remote content.
// Messages and attachments are now cached for IMAP accounts as well.
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.enable", true);
// Grant 50 megabytes of storage
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.capacity", 51200);

Now, let’s move on to the IMAP set­tings. Read more…

With the debut of a short Mor­tal Kom­bat film titled Rebirth spec­u­la­tion has run ram­pant on the inter­net yes­ter­day. The nearly eight-minute clip fea­tured a very inter­est­ing and dark and gritty take on the fight­ing fran­chise. The short is directed by Kevin Tan­charoen and fea­tures a cast that includes Ian Anthony Dale (Scor­pion), Lateef Crow­der (Baraka), Mat Mullins (Johnny Cage), Jeri Ryan (Sonya Blade) and Michael jai White (Jax). Accord­ing to Jeri Ryan’s twit­ter­ing Rebirth isn’t a live-action trailer for the next Mor­tal Kom­bat game and it’s not a trailer for a new MK movie. Looks like an inde­pen­dent pro­duc­tion to sell Warner Broth­ers Tancharoen’s reimag­in­ing of the franchise.

So, there’s no guar­an­tee that there will be a reimag­in­ing or if there is that the same actors will play the char­ac­ters in a fea­ture film ver­sion. Despite all that, the ‘teaser’ looks like a huge suc­cess online. Lots of talk here and there and I have to admit, I like Tancharoen’s vision more than the first two films and I def­i­nitely like it more than that sorry excuse for a series titled Mor­tal Kom­bat: Con­quest. Any­way, enjoy the trailer: