Raise Your Marketing IQRaise Your Marketing IQ

The nightly builds of Google Chrome’s open-source foundation, Chromium, includes a feature that might mean great things for Greasemonkey fans. Click on a user script file, such as at UserScripts.org, and Chromium asks to install it as a working extension.

Judging from the developers’ discussions at the Chromium wiki, Greasemonkey, or at least some kind of user script support beyond the current, very geeky installation method has been a hot topic. The latest builds tackle user script support by re-mapping them into extensions, automatically activated at their relevant sites. You can give it a test by installing the latest Chromium build in Windows. We’ll assume this feature will make its way very soon to those keeping updated on Chromium builds for Mac and Linux.

Before you get too amped, though, it must be said that support is still rudimentary. Scripts that mostly replace one thing on a page with another seem to work fine, but those that pull off custom themes and page manipulations are touch and go. In other words, the more Greasemonkey-specific functions appear in a script, the less likely it is to work in Chromium. That said, it’s reassuring to see some of the great Grease realm opened up to the up-and-coming browser.

Continue reading Video: PSP Go hacked, says ‘hello world!’

Filed under: Gaming

Video: PSP Go hacked, says ‘hello world!’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

Yahoo’s board of directors is meeting tonight over Microsoft search partnership — The Wall Street Journal reports that another meeting over a potential search advertising partnership happened today.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for erasing customers’ e-books — Last week, the company remotely deleted copies of George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 from the Kindles of customers to whom Amazon had accidentally sold copies to which Amazon didn’t have e-rights. Bezos said at the start of the company’s earnings call, “Our solution to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles.” TechCrunch has more context on the story.

The Associated Press creates a news registry to protect its content — The AP has struggled to find a way to prevent its oh-so-usable reporting from being run for free by websites. “The system will register key identifying information about each piece of content that AP distributes as well as the terms of use of that content, and employ a built-in beacon to notify AP about how the content is used,” says the AP’s report on itself.

Autodesk offers free training for unemployed potential designers — The Autodesk Assistance Program offers free training in Autodesks’s AutoCAD, Revit, AutoDesk Inventor Professional, and AutoCAD Civil 3D software, all of which are industry standard tools for 2D and 3D design professionals. There’s also a discount on these pricey programs for employers who hire people who’ve completed the . Autodesk’s website explains the details.

Google announces comics-based custom themes — Peanuts, Batman, Iron Man, Superman, Transmetropolitan, Garfield, Popeye, Renee French, Hellboy, Ziggy, TOKYOPOP, and another 40 themes for Google are now available for iGoogle members. The company licensed the images so that users can have them for free, but it’s a clever hook to get users to login as iGoogle users. Google search princess Marissa Mayer blogs about the new themes.

The New York Times swept Knight-Batten awards for innovations in journalism — The Gray Lady’s quaterly profits dropped 42 percent from last year, but the paper dominate this year’s prestigious Knight-Battens. A half dozen NYT newsroom and technology department projects, from the Times’ Document Reader for posting documents that go with a story, to Living with Less, a series of video and audio portraits of how the current recession has affected people, were deemed “excellent, innovative journalism, news and information” by the Knight Foundation.