April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
15h 52m
English
Content preview from Google Apps Hacks
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
230 GOOGLE APPS HACKS
HaCK 95:
Sing along with music videos!
YouTube hosts a lot of music videos, as a search for your favorite singer or band will probably reveal.
Some of them include subtitles within the video, but what if you want to sing along a video that
doesn’t include lyrics? A Greasemonkey script for Firefox comes to the rescue (with a tip of the hat
to the Google Operating System blog at http://googlesystem.blogspot.com).
First, install Greasemonkey from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/refox/addon/748
. Make sure that the monkey in the bottom right of Firefox is smiling, which means that
Greasemonkey is activated (click the icon if that’s not the case). Now jump to http://userscripts.
org/scripts/show/22569, click the “Install this script” button, and follow the installation process;
note that because user scripts can execute their own commands, you should install only scripts
you trust.
Next, locate a video clip at YouTube.com. There won’t be lyrics available for all videos, but
for some; to get this to work, it seems to be crucial that the artist’s name as well as the song
name are included in the title of the video. For instance, the URL http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=tAtcJ954TjQ—titled “Badly drawn boy – Once around the block”—will do.
Now check the righthand sidebar on the video page. If all went well, an arrow and the word Lyrics ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.