Because I have so many things I need to do right now, I figured I'd waste a few more hours by learning how to make Google Chrome extensions. After I read through Google's little tutorial on this stuff, I thought to myself "this is fun, but what's the point?" Well, remember that post notifier tool SirCmpwn made a few months (over a year) back? I figured that since not everyone is on a Windows computer with C# runtime installed, and since Chrome is quickly becoming the most popular web browser out there, I'd make that sort of thing into an extension.

It currently checks for new posts on Omnimaga and Cemetech every thirty seconds, but I can easily add more forums, as long as they have an RSS2 feed. Click on the tabs to switch between the two feeds, and click on the topic titles to open the link. There's an occasional problem with Cemetech's feed sometimes randomly generating only one recent post (instead of five), but that's something I can't deal with.

Download version 1.4

It now has a lot of other stuff too, not just feeds!

One thing it adds is context-menu items for special characters. Right-click in any text box to quickly insert a character like theta or the store symbol.

It also adds a custom address-bar function for instant information on TI-BASIC commands—just type "basic" in the URL bar, press Tab, and start typing a command name, and it'll show you syntax and description for that command!

By the way, the only quick fix I've found to the Cemetech issue is to go to http://www.cemetech.net/forum/rss.php?c=5 and refresh a couple dozen times until the scrollbar becomes smaller. Then wait half a minute for the notifier to reload

Seems nice. I wonder if it could be uploaded direclty in your post or the server so it can be added on Omni's front page, along with the SirCmpwn's notifier already there?

The file is just a download—all extensions are saved in your local Chrome folder. Anyone can upload the CRX file to Omni for me, but I might update it often and I need to go to bed now.

This is so cool!  Excellent work, Deep!  It seems to work very well for me.

A suggestion I got would be to make it so it's possible to disable certain sub-forums. For example I don't check the spam section very much and on Cemetech I rarely ever check the Blockland/Minecraft stuff, so it would be nice if we could disable those.

This is giving me a reason to download Chrome.

Or wait for a Firefox version.

Glad to see more feeds added.

Back then we had the post notifier bot do that in #omnimaga channel including UTI and Cemetech, but some feeds were buggy and both Cemetech and Omni combined averaged at so many posts a day that it made the channel pretty much unuseable for regular chatting. Not to mention the fact it was kinda one-way, as #cemetech didn't have Omnimaga notifications for example (except for a few weeks, but some ppl complained non-stop).