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The Problem

Sometimes we want to copy some text/code from a website, but find out that it disables copy text or even completely disables right click, right context menu. It’s annoying, but we can fix it easily.

Using Proxy Sites

hidester
- javascript is disabled by default.
hideme

Specific Chrome Extensions

We can use the following Specific Chrome extensions to make us able to copy text.

Reader View Chrome Extensions

If we don’t want to install the above specific Chrome extensions, then we can use the more general reader view chrome extension which can also make us able to copy text.

Read here for more must-have google chrome extensions

Reader View

This opens the page in chrome-extension:// and we have to wait until (at least) the main content of the page is loaded.
The greatest thing is it reduces the memory usage a LOT for pages that load a lot of flashes, ads.
- e.g. reduces this page from around 450+ mb to 87mb.
This also works well together with The Great Suspender: the page in reader view will not be suspended as it runs in extension mode.
Assign shortcut Ctrl+Shift+R to Toggle the Reader View
Print and save the reader mode version, show or hide image.
Able to change the speed of text-to-speech
The Cron is it doesn’t work with other extensions, e.g., Chrome Vimium
- as It opens the page in chrome-extension.

Tips

Before Ctrl+Shift+R to enter reader view:
- Copy the url Ctrl+l then Ctrl+c or yy from Chrome Vimium
- Cmd+down to scroll to the end of page first to make sure the page load completes.
It adds the page url to the first line from there we can copy the page url

Just Read

Able to change theme(dark or light), width, font size and save the config.
Assign Ctrl+Shift+L to Open the Just Read format for the current page
Assign Ctrl+Shift+K to Enable user text selection mode using Just Read, then choose which part you want to select then enter (it will automatically try best to choose), it will show the section in read mode.
When it doesn’t work(e.g. in quip), use View this selection in Just Read.
Works with Chrome Vimium

Clearly

Assign shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C to Toggle Clearly
Make not easy to copy text easier to copy
Support outline, different themes, fullscreen, text-to-voice
Cron: Can’t change the width
Distill Page from Chrome
the result is not that good, and hard to run the command.

Mercury Reader

can’t change width

Summary

Use Reader View when the page(website) is slow: load lots of ads, flash, uses a lot of memory and you will take time(2+ mins) to read it.
Use Just Read in other case.
Use Clearly to check the outline.

User Scripts to Change Html5 Video Player Speed

The Goal

I Would like to change the speed of HTML5 video player at pan.baidu.com, so I can spend less time on the video and finish it sooner.

The Implementation

I found some user script at greasyfork for Chrome with tampermonkey extension

Based on these 2 script, I made the following simple user script that can change video speed to 1.5, 1.75, 2.0.

// ==UserScript==
// @name         Change speed at pan.baidu
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1.0
// @description  Add button to change to 1.5, 1.76, 2X speed
// @author       Jeffery Yuan
// @match        *://*.pan.baidu.com/*
// @require      https://cdn.bootcss.com/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';
    var $ = $ || window.$;

    function addSpeedButton(parentNode, speed){
      var cb = document.createElement("a");
      cb.innerHTML='<a class="g-button" href="javascript:;" title="' + speed + '">'+
      '<span class="g-button-right">'+
          '<em class="icon icon-appeal" title="' + speed +'"></em>'+
          '<span id="fps" class="text" style="width: auto;">' + speed + '</span></span></a>'
      cb.onclick=function(){
             videojs.getPlayers("video-player").html5player.tech_.setPlaybackRate(speed);
      };

      parentNode.after(cb);
    }
    // var tb = document.getElementsByClassName("g-button")[1];
    var elms = document.getElementsByClassName("g-button");
    var toolbar = elms[0].parentNode;
    toolbar.removeChild(elms[1]);
    toolbar.removeChild(elms[1]);
    toolbar.removeChild(elms[1]);
    var tb = elms[0];

    addSpeedButton(tb, 2.0)
    addSpeedButton(tb, 1.75)
    addSpeedButton(tb, 1.5)
    addSpeedButton(tb, 1)
})();

Other Ideas

Able to resume playback of a video at the point in time it was left.

LinkedIn Tips and Tricks

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Settings

How to view other people’s LinkedIn profiles anonymously

Go to Settings & Privacy -> How others see your LinkedIn activity -> Profile viewing options -> Change to Anonymous LinkedIn Member

Changing Active Status

Go to Settings & Privacy -> How others see your LinkedIn activity -> Manage active status -> change to None

Urls

Recent activity: /in/the_user_name/detail/recent-activity/shares/
in/the_user/detail/recent-activity/posts(or shares)

Add People

Sometimes we want to add people, such as managers from same company.

Search

engineer manager at the_company hiring
Explore People Also Viewed
Check the user’s connection
in/the_user/detail/recent-activity/

Add a note

Add a note when we send an invitation, include why you want to add him/her: looking for a job and interested in your team, you experience etc.

The problem: Upgrade to Premium to continue searching

Sometimes when we are looking for new opportunities, we may use Linkedin a lot in a short time. You may reach its limit for free user, and ask us to upgrade to Premium to continue searching.

Use Google search
- site:linkedin.com/in engineer manager at the_company

The free trial allows you to send 5 InMail

Articles vs. Posts

“Start a post” vs “Write an article”

Tools

Linked Helper: automate work with LinkedIn
- Add thousands targeted contacts