http://www.markovic.com/blog Clever eBay search and other stuff by Drasko Markovic Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:26:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Google Blog is reporting that the Google Toolbar v2 for Firefox now is available. It is so. And it will easily install. http://www.markovic.com/blog/2006/04/07/google-toolbar-v2-for-firefox/ I have not been covering security much. But I ran into this Internet Explorer security issue on www.spyber.com. It turns out that that you can read the Clipboard from javascript. You could some pretty nasty stuff with it. Sorry only browser with Iframe support … http://www.markovic.com/blog/2006/03/16/internet-explorer-exploit/ There is speculation of a April 1st launch of Google Calendar aka CL2. There are a couple things that are certain, it will be based on Ajax and it will be integrated with Gmail. What will be crucial is possibility to sync with cell phones and pda’s. That will be tricky ... http://www.markovic.com/blog/2006/03/03/april-1st-launch-of-google-calendar/ A while back I wrote that Google should stick to web based apps. A step in the right direction is the Gmail-based chat client. It does not require any software, but is maybe too basic. The hottest thing right now are Ajax desktops. The plan is that create a personal dynamic ... http://www.markovic.com/blog/2006/02/20/google-gmail-chat-client/ Google has innovated the computer world more than any company in recent years. It has been through simple web application. They have a few attempts at making non-web applications such as Google Earth and Google Talk. Those applications have not been as successful as the web applications such as Google Maps/Local ... http://www.markovic.com/blog/2006/02/08/google-should-stick-to-web-only-apps/ Apparently I was not the only one having problems installing Google Toolbar 4 on Firefox. There is a new Firefox out that will install the Google Toolbar 4. http://www.markovic.com/blog/2006/02/01/updated-versions-of-google-toolbar-4-and-firefox/ Matt Cutts is writing in his blog that Google Toolbar 4 beta available. Main feaures: Suggestions as you type Send web pages via email (or blog, or SMS) Server-side bookmarks For some reason I was not able to install it on Firefox 1.5. Google Toolbar 4 beta http://www.markovic.com/blog/2006/01/30/google-toolbar-4-beta-available/ I just made some improvements to the eBay Google Mashup. When changing the country in the form it will reset categories and postal codes. This is done to prevent the eBay API from complaining about unvalid postal codes and categories. I have also made hyperlinks for the cities. The links ... http://www.markovic.com/blog/2005/12/19/improvements-to-ebay-google-mashup/ I just completed my Amazon Ajax Categories interface. It is almost identical to my eBay Categories Ajax interface. I have a cache of 3923 categories. I am not sure all are there, since the structure is a bit weird. http://www.markovic.com/blog/2005/12/09/amazon-ajax-categories-interface/ I have started working on the Amazon API. My plan is to make it possible to compare prices with eBay with a simple click. The first step is to make a little Ajax-based browser for the Amazon categories. The Amazon API is very straight forward BUT, the categories or browsenodes as ... http://www.markovic.com/blog/2005/12/08/browse-amazon-nodes-with-ajax/