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Monthly Archives: January 2019

Added to JURN

29 Tuesday Jan 2019

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Journal of the International Colour Association and Proceedings

Color Culture and Science | Cultura e Scienza del Colore

Colour Turn

YouTube: always force “sort by date” on keyword searches

25 Friday Jan 2019

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A new UserScript for Tampermonkey (or whatever UserScript addon your browser uses). YouTube: Auto-sort search results by upload date. It works! Superb.

Update: No longer works in 2022, needs a fix.

Blogroll checked by hand

24 Thursday Jan 2019

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All sidebar Web links on this blog have been checked by hand, and deleted / repaired as needed.

Classic Editor plugin for WordPress

24 Thursday Jan 2019

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There’s an increasingly infernal ‘makeover mania’ trend, which seeks to radically change perfectly good User Interfaces which people have spent years learning. Rescue your self-hosted WordPress install from that, at least, with the fine new Classic Editor plugin. Works with the latest version of WordPress, and is an official supported WordPress plugin.

You will not get the ‘center’ code on the old UI, which you do on the fancy one. This is replaced by a right-click addon such as ‘Paste email’ which you set to paste…

No need to add the end p tag. Here there are also Italics tags. I’m assuming you want a centred picture-title, in italics to clearly distinguish it from the body text.

Fixed moved links

23 Wednesday Jan 2019

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Fixed moved links for…

Journals of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Catalonia, the articles seemingly not picked up by Catalonian OA aggregators)

Journals of the Universite Toulouse – Jean Jaures / University of Toulouse

Paperwork – free desktop OCR and search, in open source

22 Tuesday Jan 2019

Posted by David Haden in JURN tips and tricks, Spotted in the news

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Paperwork, a new addition to my A quick guide to desktop search software post…

Paperwork, free open-source software to help a scholar get to grips with their PDF pile, without hooking into some online service that wants to gouge your data — it OCR’s all your PDFs and other documents and then searches across them quickly.

You need a big chunk of spare disk space, it seems, because if you have 25Gb of stuffed-full folders, Paperwork will want to copy all of them over to its own C:\Users\YOURNAME\papers\ folder to OCR them. That makes sense, I guess, so you keep a copy of the original non OCR’d file. But at the cost of using significant disk space for duplicated files.

It comes with optional OCR interpreters for the world’s current languages, but so far as I can see it won’t do German ‘black letter’ (for which you need this).

Under “Settings” there is a “Send anonymous usage statistics” check-box, but this is turned off by default.

It looks good, but suffers from a non-standard Windows user interface which doesn’t appeal. But one could theoretically use it only as the software that watches your “Papers” folder and auto-OCRs any new PDF placed there (for which there seems no other free non-cloud competitor with a GUI). Then you’d point dtSearch at C:\Users\YOURNAME\papers\ for indexing, and use the powerful dtSearch interface for your actual searches.

Added to JURN

17 Thursday Jan 2019

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Fashion Studies

Open Access journals and monographs from All’Insegna del Giglio (Italy), such as A Monastery by the Sea: Archaeological Research at San Quirico di Populonia and Arimnestos

Browser addons: Scriptsafe to NoScript / uMatrix

12 Saturday Jan 2019

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I’ve un-installed the Scriptsafe browser addon, which had been my Opera browser’s main script-blocker since I switched to Opera. A service, seemingly hardwired into this addon, has overstepped the line and caused the addon to become a nannying URL blocker rather than a simple script blocker. Specifically, it appears to have an agenda about which bona fide affiliate links it will and will not accept. One cannot even whitelist some of these perfectly genuine and useful URLs, as they are actively refused in the addon’s interface.

I suspect the problem is upstream, rather than with the maker of the addon. Since Scriptsafe includes by default…

block unwanted content (MVPS HOSTS, hpHOSTS (ad/tracking servers only), Peter Lowe’s HOSTS Project, MalwareDomainList.com, and DNS-BH – Malware Domain Blocklist are integrated!)

These lists are ‘hardwired’ into the addon… and are thus impossible to inspect or turn off, it appears.

Thus I went looking for an alternative. Naturally I took a look at the respected TOR browser — they use NoScript 10.2 by default. Well, if it’s good enough for the world’s best hardened browser then it’s good enough for me. I installed it, in the form of the Opera browser fork NoScript Suite Lite. That addon was simple to use and gave me no nonsense when I clicked on the links in question at my friend’s site. I was sent straight through to my intended destination, as used to be the case.

It’s obviously not Lowe’s list or MalwareDomainList which is causing Scriptsafe to be so nannying, in this instance. Because my uBlock Origin also uses that same blocklist. Therefore it must be one of the other lists that actively blacklists entire domains. I also considered uMatrix 1.3 extension from the makers of the leading adblocker uBlock Origin. Installing uMatrix and then comparing the blocklists suggests to me the hardwired inclusion of the DNS-BH list in Scriptsafe was causing my initial problem.

This sort of ‘The Browser Says NO’ attitude is why I moved from Firefox… which increasingly gave the user no choice about exactly what one let through from the Web. I, ‘the user’, should be the one who always ultimately gets to decide that.

Anyway, for those following my occasional browser tutorials and similar at JURN, I’d now recommend the easy NoScript Suite Lite and uBlock Origin as the core blocker duo for ordinary users of the Opera browser. But, in the end, I personally opted for the more sophisticated uMatrix as a fine-grained personal blocker (which is what I had mostly used Scriptsafe as).


So… advanced users may prefer the far more complex uMatrix 1.3 addon / extension rather than the simpler NoScript Suite Lite.

Basic initial configuration of uMatrix is to:

i) click on the tiny grey cog-wheel in the top-left corner | Host Files tab | there un-check any lists also used by uBlock Origin, so they’re not both trying to do the same thing at once. You may also want to ensure that you are only following the ‘Malware domains’ lists and uncheck the nannying lists that are over-reaching themselves in terms of ad-blocking.

ii) get used to the simple routine of switching it to ‘permissive mode’ and fiddle with per-item blocking later. Giving permission to a site is a one-time four click operation per newly visited URL: Whitelist the ‘all’ cell by clicking on it so it turns from red to green | Un-blacklist the ‘frame’ cell, ditto | then ‘save’ by clicking on the padlock). Then reload the page. You soon pick up the routine.

Then, when you have time, you can take another look at what’s loading up when you visit a site, and start blocking useless fluff from regularly visited sites.

The uMatrix whitelisting of a URL takes the form of two lines in an editable list, for instance:

github.com * * allow
github.com * frame inherit

These first go into the My rules | ‘Temporary rules’ list, and then after testing you can “Commit” these to the list of ‘Permanent rules’. To manually edit either list, click on the Edit button under the ‘Temporary rules’ header.

uMatrix looks fiendishly complex at first, due to scary screenshots of its big blocking tables. But spend 30 minutes with it and you’re soon used to it, and can see how easy it is to block stuff in a fine-grained way.

Added to JURN

10 Thursday Jan 2019

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Fragmentology : a Journal for the Study of Medieval Manuscript Fragments

Codex Studies (Italian)

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Reports and briefing papers archived at APO, Australia’s online archive for policy research.

At the Opera

03 Thursday Jan 2019

Posted by David Haden in JURN tips and tricks, Spotted in the news

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Ah, finally! The latest version of my Opera Web browser (57.03.x) now supports pretty page-like display of raw .XML news feeds, when you encounter them via search or bookmarks. They don’t also offer an .MP3 button, but you just right-click on the tile and “Save linked content as…” to get the .MP3 or similar media downloading.

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