John Childs
The Backcountry Unicyclist
UNICON 11 Muni Fun Rides
UNICON 11 Muni Fun Rides
The Megalist of Unicycling Bookmarks
Megalist of Unicycling Bookmarks
Megalist of Cycling Bookmarks
Unicycle Links - The bookmark lists are a standard bookmark files exported
from IE. They can be imported to IE, Mozilla, or most any other browser.
If I missed a link in there somewhere you can send it to me and I'll add it in.
Last updated December 9, 2005.
New Kewl System Skill Level Rating
NKS
Unicycle Skills Rating spreadsheet
See the thread
whats your NKS rating? for info on the system. The spreadsheet
download is a zip file containing an
OpenOffice.org
spreadsheet file and an Excel spreadsheet file. The spreadsheet was
created using OpenOffice.org Calc and the Excel version was exported from Calc.
Gallery Downloader Bookmarklet
A bookmarklet that downloads videos from the unicyclist.com gallery:
gallery downloader
Right-click on the gallery downloader link and save it as a bookmark or favorite.
The bookmarklet will display a page
with a download link and will also initiate a download of the file.
There is a problem though in that the browser will likely want to
display the file inline rather than prompting for a download. That
is because the HTTP response headers for the file say to display the
file inline rather than as an attachment. The browser will do as it
is told and display the video inline. That's not what we want it to
do if we want to save the file. The solution is to fiddle with the
MIME types that the browser uses to figure out how to display inline
content. Fortunately that is easy to change in Firefox and Opera.
Unfortunately not so easy to change in IE. The suggested solution in
IE is to right-click on the download link that the bookmarklet creates
and do a "Save Target As..." to save the file.
To use the bookmarklet first navigate to a gallery page that plays a video then
run the bookmarklet by selecting it from your Favorites / Bookmark list. The bookmarklet
will run and initiate the download of the video.
To modify the MIME type behavior in Firefox:
- Tools >> Options >>
Downloads
- Download Actions: View & Edit
Actions... button
- For each video file content type /
extension choose Change Action...
- Change the default action to "Save
them on my Computer"
- The common video video extensions
are: WMV, AVI, MPEG, MPG, MOV, MP4, RM
To modify the MIME type behavior in
Opera:
- Tools >> Preferences...
- Advanced tab >> Downloads
- For each video file MIME content
type choose Edit...
- Change the default action to "Save
to disk"
- Alternatively you can choose
Delete to delete the entire MIME type
The bookmarklet should now prompt to
save the file to disk instead of trying to display the file inline.
A couple of notes for anyone looking at the code or considering writing a bookmarklet:
IE 6 limits bookmarkeltes to 508 characters which is why the code for my
bookmarklet is a bit terse and not as fancy as I would like.
The Bookmarklet Editor
is a handy little editor for working with bookmarklet code.
Bad Dell LCD Monitor
Picture of Dell LCD monitor with bad B/W color (387 KB)
Smaller picture of Dell LCD monitors (61 KB)
Monitor on the left is bad. Monitor on the right is good.