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• Use YubNub commands without :

  Found this on the comments page for the extension, seems to be something that a few users would be interested in:

  This works great. I couldn’t get it to work out of the box with the YubNub commands. I did, however, get it to work by changing the default search to “http://www.yubnub.org/parser/parse?command=” (no quotes). That’s actually all I wanted it to do: run YubNub commands in a overlay box instead of using it from the address/search bar. Keep up the great work!

   

• Create a default selector for your site

  Welcome gleeBox users to your site by defining a default ESP vision for them. Just add the following META tag to your page’s HTML:

  <meta name="gleebox-default-selector" content="Your Selector" />

  For an example, view the source code of this page to see the META tag, and open gleeBox to see it in action. If the user already has a vision for the page, it will override the site-defined vision.

  If you end up adding this to your site, do let us know via twitter or as a comment to this tip.

  Thanks Keith for this very cool idea.

   

• Translate any page to your language

  One of my favorite bookmarklets is Google Translate. First, get the bookmarklet for your language from http://translate.google.com/translate_tools

  Then, when on a page written in another language, hit ![language name] to translate the page to your language. Works like a charm.

   

• Lifehacker

  http://lifehacker.com : div.content>h1:not(div.menubar-bg)

  Taken from the Lifehacker post at http://lifehacker.com/5477722/

   

• HyperGlee

  Enter:
  !set hyper=on
  to turn HyperGlee on. gleeBox will now open as soon as the page loads without you having to press ‘g’.

  To turn the feature off,
  !set hyper=off

  This is an undocumented, partially-working feature; so try it at your own risk.

   

• TUAW.com

  tuaw.com : h2.posttitle

   

• Engadget posts

  http://www.engadget.com/ : h4.post_title

  Navigates posts on the engadget homepage.

   

• Twitter shared links

  ?t : a.web

  Selects links shared in tweets. Works on all twitter.com stream pages, but not the search results page. I use it to quickly navigate through the links shared by people on twitter (And to open them in tabs using SHIFT+ENTER).

   

• Smooth scrolling using arrow keys

  This isn’t highlighted in the documentation, but you can open gleeBox and then use the UP and DOWN arrow keys for jQuery based smooth (and fast) scrolling instead of the regular step-based browser scrolling.

   

• Wolfram Alpha

  This is fairly obvious, but I use it so much, it deserves a mention. The YubNub command for Wolfram Alpha is wa. So to compare stock indices, I do
  :wa MSFT YHOO

  And to find the calories in my snacks, I do
  :wa 1 apple

   

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