Astrophotography

I've finally had a chance to connect two of my hobbies (photography and backyard astronomy) and managed to snag my first decent photograph of a deep-sky object.  I hope this to be the first of many photographs of the night sky I manage to take.  Unfortunately, my window of opportunity for taking such pictures will close in a couple of weeks when I travel back to school and away from my telescope for my last semester of classes.

Productivity Hacks for Google

Name: Slim iGoogle
URL: http://www.google.com/ig

This is a Greasemonkey script that removes the search box from iGoogle and slims up the header since it doesn't really have a point as it takes up valuable screen real estate and I use Firefox or Chromes search box.

 
// ==UserScript==
// @name           Slim iGoogle
// @namespace      http://greasemonkey.dev.justjohn.us/
// @description    Slims Google search/account bar
// @include        http://www.google.com/ig*
// ==/UserScript==

etc...

Install from UserScripts.org

I also have a couple of stylish scripts that clean up the iPhone optimized versions of iGoogle and Google Reader. The idea here is that you bookmark the two pages and then have them load in the firefox sidebar.

Name: Remove Search Box iGoogle for Sidebar
URL: http://www.google.com/ig/i

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url("http://www.google.com/ig/i") {
  #ipsf, #ipfooter, #iptabs {
    display:none;
  }
}

Install from Userstyles.org

Name: Optimize Google Reader iPhone Version for Sidebar
URL: http://www.google.com/reader/i

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.google.com/reader/i) {
  .logo {display:none !important;}
  * {font-size:0.97em !important; }
  span.item-snippet {display:none !important;}
  span.item-source-title{font-size:0.9em !important}

  .m-button,
  #mark-these-read,
  #show-new-items,
  #show-all-items,
  #mark-all-read,
  #show-all-subs,
  #show-new-subs {cursor: pointer !important;}

  .item-title,
  .item-source-title,
  .entry-author,
  .entry-date {cursor:default !important;}
}