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ingus · Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 58

Hello there, I guess this is my first post on the forums.

I've spent there a lot of hours reading these forums and learning from others. Photography is a hobby for me, not a source of income. From time to time I upload some of my photos in hope somebody will find them useful.

I don't have many downloads, so most of the times I check my stats page there are no changes. As I'm a programmer, I created a simple Firefox extension that shows the latest download statistics in the status bar of my browser:

I guess there are at least some stats maniacs like me that always want to be up to date on their current Shutterstock downloads statistics and would like to use an extension like this. I've got a gift for you:

http://webtech.lv/firefox/extensions/shutterstockbar/ [link has changed]

The extension has been updated to work with the Firefox 2.0

The extension just checks the Shutterstock stats page once in 15 minutes (it's not worth to check more often, as shutterstock itself updates the stats page once in every 15 minutes).
In order for the extension to work, you should be logged in Shutterstock. As of me - I'm always logged in Shutterstock, so whenever I open my browser, I see the latest stats.

I've tested this extension on Firefox 1.5 only, so if there are any problems with it, feel free to contact me. This is my first Firefox extension ever, so there might be some glitches (don't hit me too hard for them).

As you might imagine I would like to hear your opinion about this extension, whether you think it's useful (and most importantly, whether it works for you) or maybe it should be done a bit different way.

Best wishes to everybody and thanks in advance to those trying it out!

P.S I would like to hear the opinions of Shutterstock crew as well.

berryspun · Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 214

Thank you Ingus! I just installed it.

So easy and practical...

ctesti · Joined: 15 Jan 2006 Posts: 1344 Location: California

Awesome! Just what I was looking for.

Thanks,
-Christophe

shatteredlens · Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 1208 Location: New York, NY

I think you might have just helped me with my addiction ;-)

This is very neat. Thanks for coming up with this and sharing!

shiffman · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 3:09 pm

Thanks. I don't know that I'd call it useful exactly, but it's much appreciated.

angieh · Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 380

Thanks Ingus! I have it installed. No problems so far :)

fncdigital · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:40 pm

i like this - now i have no reason to come back to shutterstock ;) except to upload. :p

cwlawrence · Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 5:43 pm

Thank you ingus. It is tougher to say easy than it was to dl and install your plug-in. You should check out pbase, they could use a handy dev like yourself.

razipix · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 29 Location: Saint Paul, US

Wow! Thanks a billion..Its working cool..

Thanks again.

My website
Razipix.com

mainemadness · Joined: 31 Mar 2006 Posts: 27

OK, this is pretty cool! I am fairly addicted to checking the number of downloads I have whenever I'm on the computer so this is pretty neat to not have to change pages.

Thank you for sharing this with us!
Casie

andydesign · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 80

And in these days he created the plugin ... what a wonderful world - 10x

ingus · Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 58

Thanks for the good words - I'm glad you like it!

Actually I'm a bit surprised, that nobody has any problems with it :)

jackierae1 · Joined: 25 Aug 2005 Posts: 1103 Location: Canada

You should be ashamed of yourself. Fuelling our addiction.

Hehe, no really thats AWESOME! Thanks!

swimpuppy · Joined: 05 Apr 2006 Posts: 286 Location: Oakland, CA, USA

Wow! This sounds really cool and I wanna try it. But I'm using Internet Explorer and don't wanna download Firefox just to check downloads as of right now. Has anyone used the extension with IE (if it's even possible)?

ingus · Joined: 20 Jul 2005 Posts: 58