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Hacking 30 Boxes, Already!February 10th, 2006 by Narendra |
Hat tips to all the people in the forums giving great feedback. We appreciate it and it is making the product much better, even after only 5 days.
If you can believe it, you have already found ways of extending the features and usability of 30 Boxes in ways that we had no idea. Major props to the following folks:
1) Congrats Keith for creating a firefox plugin for the One Box available here. This grew out of the following discussion forum topic.
2) Mike has found a great piece of software that lets you subscribe to your 30 Boxes iCal feed (in My Settings > Sharing) in Microsoft Outlook! It is a plugin for outlook that lets your iCal subscription exist in your current calendar file or a new one for side by side. We haven’t tried it yet, but we assume this means syncing to your PDA or smartphone, and, the feeds are actually editable so you can set reminders/alarms in your Outlook.
Obviously, this is for power users, and the general steps are: download the RemoteCalendars (probably the .NET version), install it, and run Outlook. You will have a toolbar that lets you subscribe to a remote calendar.
3) Finally, Anthony posted the very first discovery on his blog: how to get international weather. Our form says U.S. only :-)
We hope to have more info about our API and themes soon so people can hack in earnest.
[Update: check the comments Chris has a great advanced bookmark for Firefox that lets you add new events in the address bar]
30 Boxes!
February 10th, 2006 at 11:53 am
In Firefox you can make a bookmarklet with the same functionality and give it a keyword and it is faster (at least to my mind, because I use the Google Mycroft all the time and its a pain to switch mycroft pluging frequently).
Steps:
1. Add a bookmark.
2. Set the name to something you will remember (for example, ‘Add to Cal’), but you won’t need to click on it.
3. Set the location to ‘http://30boxes.com/index.php?action=newEvent&input=%s’
4. Set the keyword to something like ‘cal’
5. Hit ‘Ok’
Now you can post an event whenever by hitting Ctrl-L to get you to the address bar and then typing in ‘cal my event today at 2pm’ or ‘cal check email weekly at 4am’.
Cheers!
February 10th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
Thanks for the shout about the firefox plugin, although you got my first name slightly wrong.. ;)
[Corrected! ]
February 10th, 2006 at 3:01 pm
Cool tool, you gotta get the dev API rolling though. Needs to sync to yahoo.
February 10th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
Brilliant software! Just have to tell you guys that you’ve done a fairly brilliant job.
February 11th, 2006 at 5:57 am
Chris - thanks. For me that is the best hack yet! Nothing could be more simple.
February 11th, 2006 at 7:23 pm
The bookmarklet works in Camino too. Thanks!
February 13th, 2006 at 1:32 pm
Chris, nice job with the bookmark instructions!
February 13th, 2006 at 11:18 pm
Great stuff, the firefox search one box and the bookmarklet are pure gold.
February 14th, 2006 at 12:25 am
Here’s another bookmarklet. With this one you don’t even have to leave the page you’re on to add an event to your calendar.
February 15th, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Great, but can anybody tell me how to remove the plug-ins added in the search engine list?
February 16th, 2006 at 1:32 am
Oh, I found it on mozila official site.
February 16th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
After doing such an awesome job with the mycroft firefox search plugin, Keith took on the challenge I posed in the same forum topic (http://30boxes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=429): build a custom 30boxes button for the new Google Toolbar 4 beta. Thanks to Keith, and I hope that the 83degrees staff picks up the XML file for the button and hosts it (and submits it to the Google Button Gallery.)
February 16th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
In case anybody’s looking for what cetamac was asking for:
You have to add an extension called SearchPluginHacks. Then you can simply right click any of the search plugins and you’ll get the option to delete.
March 6th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Update: 30boxes into Outlook
March 22nd, 2006 at 12:04 pm
YubNub (one my most used web 2.0 tools!) has some great 30boxes commands
May 15th, 2006 at 9:14 am
We’ve just started on 30boxes. It looks and handles really well!