New Grazr based plugins

For those of you that do not yet know what a Grazr is, visit Grazr.com. Basically, Grazr is an online feed browser/scanner supporting all the known formats, and even capable of displaying OPML output. This widget is an incredibly useful tool and it makes it extremely easy to browse a feed and scan for feeds in the page you are visiting. Because it is so useful I have created several Maxthon plugins with it.

TagJag Grazr - Search the TagJag engine and get your OPML results displayed in a grazr sidebar.

Auto Feed Grazr - Another sidebar plugin which scans the currently visited page for feeds and displays a list of the found feed(s) for you to browse.

Graze This Page - A toolbar plugin that will either scan the current page for feeds, or converts an accidentally clicked feed link to a more readable format

Maxthon Forum Search button for the Google Toolbar V4

In anticipation of the release of the Google Toolbar supporting version of Maxthon, I have created a custom toolbar button that will allow you to search the Maxthon forum from anywhere. Additionally, it also will show the Forum's latest Posts RSS feed on a drop down menu.

Search ALL of the forum

Search only in the Chinese section of the forum
(the text parts of this one still need translating, will appreciate any help in that area

Search only in the English section of the forum

You can search by entering keywords or selected text on a page.

New version of Maxthon 1.x about to be released

Great news. A new version of the Maxthon 1.5.x browser is soon to be released. It has a number of fixes and new features, among which the long awaited support for the Google Toolbar.

Some of the changes are

+ New start page
+ Mouse trail with user defined color
+ "Restore IE as Default browser to Start" option
+ Support most of the IE toolbars
+ New "standard" plugins for GMail, Yahoo and Hotmail
* Fixed a bug in "setting the default browser" feature
* Browser context menu problem under Vista
* Fixed RSS detection with relative URL problem

So be on the lookout as this one might hit the public real soon now.

Guide to create Maxthon Plugins

Finally, they just released a long waited for Guide to create Maxthon Plugins (PDF 534Kb). Get it while it's hot!

This Guide gives you a clear overview on how to create:

• Sidebar Plugins


• Toolbar Plugins


• COM Plugins

It's free to pass around and send to anyone or any service you'd like to have create plugins for this wonderful browser. It's a first version though, so there's sure to be things you'd like to see added or changed. Give'm a call at their forum

Lot of things been happening

Pfew, it's been a hectic week. Not only did I started moderating the Dutch Maxthon forum, but I also got invited to moderate the Maxthon 2.0 Preview section on the official Maxthon forum. The 'job' itself isn't that demanding, but nevertheless you get drawn into it and find yourself spending more time than you planned on.

I also started on a Dutch translation for Maxthon 2.0, which is coming along nicely, but it is also surfacing some language related bugs, so there's still more work to be done in that area. Hope to have the translation finished for the end of this week, time permitting.

And ofcourse in the in between moments I'm still testdriving the latest Maxthon 2.0 builds.