However, one slight modification to their original test, which has been annoying me a bit as of late, is the addition of the plus symbol “+” as an acceptable character in the middle of the username section.

A terrific tool to test Regular Expressions is available at http://www.cuneytyilmaz.com/prog/jrx/. Well worth a visit.

The reason I have been using the “+” symbol and been running into lesser validators, is because GMail allows you to tack on tags behind your username to help you sort and manage your email inbox.

So I can subscribe to a newsletter with the address “lucanos+newsletter@gmail.com” (as “lucanos” is my GMail username) and then setup my GMail inbox rules so those emails are handled in a specific way.

It’s also a good way to identify sites which are selling your address, or spamming/ all you do, if required to provide an email address, is create one in the format “GMailUsername+SiteDomain@gmail.com“. Then, if I get spam to that specific email address I know where they got it from, as the culprit’s name will be included in the destination address.

Pretty tricky, hey?

This GreaseMonkey userscript changes all links inside DeviantART.com and DeviouslyArtistic.com so that they point at the full-resolution image, rather than at the smaller preview page. Very handy when you are looking through alot of deviantions, as it cuts your clicks down by up to 50%! I created this userscript in August 2005. It was my first userscript, and, as such, started with a very simple, very clunky, very… inefficient way to perform the required actions. This script has been updated a number of times since then, fixing little glitches here and there.

UPDATE (2006/05/26):

Version History:

• v0.5 – 25 March 2006 Resolved a glitch which was preventing the “Move to Scraps” button from working. (It only seems to like links with “*/deviation/*” in them.)
• v0.4 – 22 January 2006 Resolved a long-term bug, restoring expected operations to the “Zoom Out” button.
• v0.3.2 – 05 November 2005 (Failed) Attempt to resolve a long-term bug affecting the operations of the “Zoom Out” button.
• v0.3.1 – 05 November 2005 (Failed) Attempt to resolve a long-term bug affecting the operations of the “Zoom Out” button.
• v0.2 – 05 November 2005 Removed a section of the script which changed the link title. (Was part of initial debugging.)
• v0.1 – 05 August 2005 Initial release.

How It Does What It Does:

1. Create an array of all links on the page, using XPath.
2. Identify the “Zoom Out” button, if present on the page
3. Evaluate each of the links in turn.
4. If the following conditions are matched, a replace is done changing “/deviation/” to “/view/” within the link’s href attribute.
   • If there is no “Zoom Out” button OR the current link is not the “Zoom Out” button.
   • If the current link does not end with “/scrap”

Enjoy!

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This script adds buttons directing the user to A Random Deviant and/or a A Random Deviation to the main toolbar at the top of the screen (just beside the Shop button).

Version History:

• v0.1 – 16 January 2006
  Initial release.

How It Does What It Does:

1. Finds the Toolbar (using an XPath).
2. Creates the Random Buttons (including Base64 encoded icons – they’re embedded in the script)
3. Inserts them after the Shop Icon
4. Changes their titles (A workaround, still figuring the cause there…)

Enjoy!

After enduring the less-than-perfect interface provided by the Yahoo! Widgets Repository, (which involves a redirecting page to download the widget file, which invariably redirects you to the begining of the collection after each download) for more than I could handle (5 minutes), I decided that a GreaseMonkey solution was warranted.

Version History:

• v0.1 – 16 December 2005
  Initial release.

How It Does What It Does:

This script reads each of the links on any page within the Yahoo! Widgets galleryand, upon finding a link to the despised redirect page, changes it to point to the actual download page which the redirect page fires off.

Enjoy!

This GreaseMonkey userscript adds a link to your deviations (only visible to you – the deviation owner) allowing for the quick and easy, well, easier, uploading of deviations into the deviantART Store.

Version History:

• v0.1 – 11 November 2005
  Initial release.

How It Does What It Does:

1. Looks for the “Send To Scraps” Button (which indicates that the shown Deviation is both yours and not (yet) a Scrap, as such it is eligible to offer via the store.
2. Checks whether the “Buy Prints” button is shown. If not then it can be assumed that you haven’t yet uploaded prints.
3. Locates the relevant section of the source code.
4. Inserts the required code to produce the button and associated “div”s.
5. Profit!

Enjoy!

Version History:

• v0.1 – 08 November 2005
  Initial release.

Configuration:

1. In Firefox go to “Tools“.
2. Select “Manage User Scripts“.
3. Select “Photobucket.com Thumbnail Resizer“.
4. Click the “Edit” Button.
   Your computer will open the Userscript file using your default HTML editor.
5. In the coding find the line:
   “var RequestedLongestEdge = “320“; // in pixels“
6. Modify the number in this line (in this case 320) to reflect your desired length for the longest edge (this measure is in pixels).
7. Save the file.
8. Reload your Photobucket page.

How It Does What It Does:

1. Access the Array of Images
2. Loop through them looking for images with filenames starting “th_” (which appears to be what Photobucket does to designate thumbnails
3. Remove the “th_” if present (makes the thumbnail the original file)
4. Determine the orientation of the image
5. Make the longest side (width if landscape, height if portrait) the specified length

Enjoy!