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21Feb Wider Weather Underground (CSS Mod)

I visited Weather Underground today to find a great, new, redesigned site. I always thought the old one looked cheesy and the new one is a huge improvement in my opinion. Like Lifehacker’s redesign, I was bothered with the extra white space so I used Stylish and Property Inspector in Chrome to widen it up and put the forecast module next to current conditions on the weather page.

There are still a few oddities when visiting other pages of the site, but this is designed for people who go straight to the weather page and don’t want to bother with scrolling down to find the 5 day. If anyone has some styles to prevent me from having to hide the large ad box, I’m open to suggestions.

11Feb Readable Lifehacker (CSS Mod)

Tired of the new, narrow, Lifehacker? Try these new CSS rules.

05Sep Runescape Hiscore API in JSON Format

Runescape offers an interface for fansites to grab hiscores info without having to load the entire hiscores page and use complicated scripts to pull out each piece. You can get the info by visiting this page: http://hiscore.runescape.com/index_lite.ws?player=yourusername

The page will feed back info in line break and comma separated form. Each skill is separated by a line break and rank/level/xp are seperated by commas. In its default form it’s not very usable, you’d need to write some sort of script to format it. I was bored and decided to make a PHP script that converts the page into JSON format, making it very easy to use with a Javascript front-end.

23Aug Getting access tokens – Facebook Graph API

The Graph API give you access to public information. If you need more you have to have an access token. There are a couple of ways of gaining one, but first you need to create an application and get an App ID & App Secret.

23Aug Introduction to the Facebook Graph API

This is the first post in a mini series about the Facebook Graph API.

About It
The Graph API offers information about users, groups, pages, applications, photos, videos, events and more. You submit a query to the API and it returns information in JSON format.