Author: Fai

Unfortunately named domains

How’s this for rather unfortunate domain names:

  • Welsh IT – www.welshit.co.uk
  • Speed of Art – www.speedofart.com
  • Morrison & Foerster – mofo.com (sounds like a good law firm to work in, more of a selling point to me!)
  • Therapist Finder – www.therapistfinder.com (is this therapy?)
  • Auctions Hit – www.auctionshit.com (Ebay competitor, lack of confidence there)

BBC iPlayer greasemonkey script

I use the BBC iPlayer. Every so often. It’s pretty good.

Only problem on my system is that the iPlayer does not like staying fullscreened on one monitor if I need to use the other screen (same issue with all other flash viewers it seems). Next best alternative is to view the video in the pop-out window; unfortunately, the window is rather small. Rather than try to fix the fullscreen issue, I found that adjusting the flash object dimensions manually did the trick. This does get rather tedious, but luckily, I have Greasemonkey installed.

Writing this was quite straightforward: this is a simple script which resizes the pop-out window to a nice size (HD-ready view of 1280×720), and allows you to resize the player by resizing the window (big criticism of the default behaviour).The bulk of the code is along these lines:


player.width = 1280;
player.height = 834;    // 720 + 114px of iPlayer chrome
resizeToPlayer(player);    //window.resizeTo(1286,916)
window.addEventListener('resize', function() { resizeToWindow(player); }, true);

Install Greasemonkey if not already (Firefox only), and install this script from the userscripts.org page.