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Ask.com search tips
Ask is one of the most interesting search engines, they’ve put a lot of thought into their UI. They have some cool features, especially after they introduced their new ‘Ask3D’ interface. Here’s how to...
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Writing a BHO installer
Conceptually, installing an Internet Explorer plugin is very simple. You just have to copy your DLL onto the user’s system, and then add some registry settings so IE will load it. In practice there’s a...
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Kanab and the Wave
The recent trip me and Liz took to Utah turned out to be incredible fun. The weather was over 110 most days, and not being 6am starters, we hiked in the heat of the day, but even that was fun in a Man...
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Wiki guide to writing BHOs
I’ve had a really good response to my series of articles covering the basics of writing an add-on for Internet Explorer. It led to some really interesting discussions with other people who are working...
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Flashback
This ZDNet article really reminded me why I started PeteSearch. It’s from 2004, and laments the lack of progress in searching, and not much has changed since then! Sure, there’s been iterative...
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Refresh and DISPID_DOCUMENTCOMPLETE
One of the great unsolved mysteries of BHOs is how to catch refresh events. When the user refreshes a page, DISPID_DOCUMENTCOMPLETE and DISPID_NAVIGATECOMPLETE are not sent, as they are with a normal...
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How to promote your add-on – External Blogs
So, you’ve written an IE or Firefox extension. Now, you need to tell people about it! In this new series, I’ll be covering what I’ve learnt going through that process. External blogs. A lot of my...
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How to promote your add-on – Distribution
Getting your extension distributed on sites such as addons.mozilla.org or Windows Marketplace will help you find an audience in several ways. Discovery. People who are interested in finding new...
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How to promote your add-on – The Message
The previous two posts were about the mechanics of how to contact potential users of your add-on. I’m now going to cover a much fuzzier problem, how to persuade them to consider using it once you are...
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Possible Possum
Actually, a probable possum. The cats alerted us to something sneaking around the woodpile last night, and it turned out to a giant-rat-like critter. After our initial hopes of an ROUS, some poking...
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