Best of: eBay Greasemonkey Scripts

January 15th, 2008

Web Browsers

When we think of Greasemonkey scripts, many of us probably think of the popular social services, such as Del.icio.us, Digg, and even StumbleUpon.   What many people don’t realize is that the there are Graeasemonkey scripts out there for all sorts of websites we visit daily, such as eBay in this example.   
In this post I’ve managed [...]

eBay is Now Available on Your Desktop

October 2nd, 2007

Web Based Apps

Have you ever taken a look back, even for only a couple years, and seen how for the internet has come?  I like to do that every now and then with services I use regularly, including eBay. 
Back when I first started out on eBay (July 2003), they were a fairly well established auction and payment service, but was [...]

Surf eBay with Firefox 2.0: eBay Edition

July 6th, 2007

Web Browsers

Back when Internet Explorer 7.0 was released, Yahoo and Google quickly used that opportunity to create versions of the browser that were optimized for their respective services.   I was always surprised this wasn’t done more with Firefox, as the open source format seems to be optimal for this type of thing.  
Now it looks like it’s finally [...]

Firefox Extension: eBay Toolbar

May 8th, 2007

Web Based Apps, Web Browsers

I’ve been a frequent user of eBay since 2003, when I first created my count and tried buying something for the first time online. Later, eBay officially released a browser toolbar, but it was Internet Explorer only.
Since starting Firefox a couple of years ago, I was surprised at the lack of quality eBay extensions for [...]