Wednesday, October 26, 2011

MTG Finder Chrome (1.4.0) and Firefox Extension (1.0.0)

After some months without updates, MTG Finder has returned with some new features and surprises. First of all, we'll describe Chrome Extension version changes and later Firefox Addon's.



MTG Finder Chrome Extension 1.4 Changes:

  • Black Lotus Project search. Now you can perform searches through BLP, which is a famous project that gives you live price charts directly from Magic Online Trading Leage. MTG Finder will show up a list of matching cards if there are more than one or directly the chart from BLP if there are only one matching. If a card is not found, a link to TCGPlayer will be displayed.
    Check the screenshots below.
    Black Lotus Project search with multiple results

    Black Lotus Project search with single result
  • Frame width and height selection. Now you can insert your preferred frame width and height, note that Chrome actually has an approximate maximum width of 800 pixels and height 600 pixels. This dimension change won't be applied for context menu or keyboard shortcuts opening new tab or windows.
  • Single context menu item for MTG Finder. Now you can select if you want only to have your preferred search mode on the context menu (unchecking Extended context mode) or all available search modes on it (checking Extended context mode).
    Unchecked Extended Context Menu
  • Fixed a recent bug caused by Chrome update that did make new windows and tabs open in a smaller frame that didn't fit the windows size. Chrome suddenly unrecognized the 95% for the height value, so now the height is calculated runtime as a workaround, so window resize won't affect frame size. Thank all of you that noticed this on the webstore.
  • UPDATED 30 october, MTG Finder version 1.4.1: Partially fixed an issue with magiccards.info. Since magiccards.info doesn't allow to be included in a frame, it will be opened only for new tab/window search mode, so it won't work yet for MTG Finder popup. We apologize for the inconveniences, we're working to fix it.
  • New options page as shown below:
New options menu



Some weeks ago, MTG Finder 1.0.0 showed up on the Firefox Addon-Gallery after some compatibility problems with new Firefox versions and passing a full-review process. The new version includes these features already existing in the Chrome version:

  • Improved keyboard shortcuts
  • TCGPlayer search
  • Options pane menu
New TCGPlayer Search


We hope that you like these changes of MTG Finder. If you have any question or suggestion, this is your place to discuss it and if you liked them, score them with five stars on the stores!

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Include MTG autocard popup in websites for non .blogspot domains


Some months ago we explained how to include MTG autocard popup by including directly our script from Google Sites. This mode is actually used by some MTG sites like Magic no MolaThought Experiment or MTG Fiction.

Unfortunately, scripts hosted in Google Sites can be included directly in your website only if you're using Blogger or other Google's tools, for the other sites, the direct access it's protected. So if you've tried to include the script and no popups appeared, this is your post.

To have those great popups into your non-blogger site, you need to include the autocard script and gatherer helper, so download them and upload them into your server. You will need to change the reference to gatherer helper in autocard script, just in this line (48):



var GATHERER_HELPER = "https://sites.google.com/site/themunsonsapps/mtg/gatherer_helper.js";

Other way is to download the Standalone script, that doesn't need reference changes but won't be updated (you can perfectly do it).
If you don't have a server to host javascripts, you can use free javascript hosting services like Your Javascript, which allows you to host and free access to it. So to replace the bold url with your hosted script or just leave it like this, it will work even in no blogger servers:


<script type="text/javascript">
     URL_START = "http://xxxx.com"; 
</script>    

<script src="http://yourjavascript.com/31200217801/autocard_standalone.js" type="text/javascript">
  
</script>

For the linking rules, follow the lines described on the old post.

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Friday, October 14, 2011

Anime Chrome Theme: One Piece Monkey D. Luffy


Another Anime Theme has arrived: One Piece Monkey D. Luffy. This time we've included a new higher screen resolution, so now you can choose between  1366x768px,1920x1080px and 1920x1200px, make sure you get the right one depending on your screen resolution.

Don't you want to have Luffy and a lot of skulls on your browser? Install it going to the Chrome Webstore (links below) and clicking on the install button. Don't forget to leave your feedback at the webstore!



We'd like to remember that we're open to any suggestions (for themes and apps), so you're welcome to write us.

What kind of theme would you like to have?

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Starcraft Chrome Theme: Kerrigan Purple



When we released the Kerrigan's Theme, most of you asked for a dark purple version...so here it is!
While the other theme color was based on Kerrigan's skin, this "new Chrome Theme" is based in the creep's purple look and feel. Once again, this theme comes in two versions: 1366x768px and 1920x1080px resolution.
To use it, you only need to install it directly from the Crhome Webstore (see links below).

Let's go!, change your browser's look and feel by putting this purple Kerrigan and the swarm on it:




Next Starcraft theme may be a Terran one: how would you like it?



Don't forget to leave your feedback at the Chrome Webstore and like us on facebook!



Starcraft is copyrighted by Blizzard Entertainment.
This theme is not produced, affiliated or supported by Blizzard (http://www.blizzard.com).

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Friday, September 30, 2011

Starcraft Chrome Theme: Zeratul


After Kerrigan's Chrome theme, we've received several requests about a Zeratul's theme so here we are. Now you can turn your browser's skin into a dark templar atmosphere. Your toolbar will hold the protoss symbol in a blue-pylon style.

To install the Chrome Theme, you only need to go to the Chrome Webstore (links below) and click on the "install button". Select the right resolution version for your screen resolution (1366x768px or 1920x1080px).

What are you waiting for? Leave the spirit of Aiur enter on your browser!:




Don't forget to leave your feedback at the Chrome Webstore. Follow us on facebook to stay tuned!






Starcraft is copyrighted by Blizzard Entertainment.
This theme is not produced, affiliated or supported by Blizzard (http://www.blizzard.com).

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

MTG Wishlist 2.3: Now with Innistrad


As you probably know, every time a new magic the gathering expansion set gets out MTG Wishlist needs to be updated. This is the time for the innistrad update.

MTG Wishlist 2.3.1 version changes:

  • Innistrad available as an expansion set for your desired cards. Notice that card images are taken directly from wizards database, so new pictures (Innistrad in this case) will be automatically available on your wishlist when wizards will upload them.
  • Thanks to the new HTML5 features, export with readable filename are now possible. So you will get these default file names:
    • wishlist_export_data.wishlist for your export data. Use this file only to import from mtg wishlist (non-human readable list).
    • wishlist_export_workstation.mwDeck for Magic workstation. Use this file as a magic workstation's deck base
    • wishlist.txt for "save data into file". Use this file as a human readable list.
  • tumblr link has been aded to the footer. Now you can follow us from a different platform!
  • New facebook page link.
I hope that you like these changes. Next version will bring you a great new feature, stay tuned!

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Munson's Apps is also in tumblr


From today, The Munson's Apps is also in tumblr. Here we'll annouce our apps in a different way, sharing photos and more.

If you're a tumblr user, now you can be updated with all our news and apps. What are you waiting for? Follow us on tumblr! Click the botton below or go to the "Follow us" section.


Of course, we'll continue updating our twitter, facebook and other pages:








Let us know if you like it!


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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Starcraft Chrome Theme: Kerrigan



We're happy to announce a new Chrome Theme, but this time is not a MTG Theme, but a Starcraft one. Once again, this theme comes in two versions: 1366x768px and 1920x1080px resolution.

To use it, you only need to install it directly from the Crhome Webstore (see links below).

Let's go!, put Kerrigan and the swarm in your browser:





Don't forget to leave your feedback at the Crhome Webstore and like us on facebook!:






Starcraft is copyrighted by Blizzard Entertainment.
This theme is not produced, affiliated or supported by Blizzard (http://www.blizzard.com).

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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

MTG Chrome Theme: Jace, memory adept



A new Chrome Extension has arrived to Chrome Webstore: MTG Jace Memory Adept Theme.

As we saw for Jace, The Mind Sculptor Theme, you can customize your browser with another form of your favourite planeswalker. To do it, you'll only need to download and install it directly from Chrome Webstore.
This theme is available in two versions: 1366x768px and 1920x1080px resolution. Don't scare if your screen resolution isn't between them, just choose the most similar to yours, it will works too.

What are you waiting for? Come on and make your browser look like this:



Don't forget to leave your feedback at the Chrome Webstore and Like us on Facebook!



Original Jace artwork by D. Alexander Gregory.
Magic: The Gathering is copyrighted by Wizards of the Coast.This theme is not produced, affiliated or supported by Wizards of the Coast (http://www.wizards.com).

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

MTG Chrome Theme: Jace, the mind sculptor

A new Chrome Extension is available in the Chrome Webstore: MTG Jace Theme.

Customize your browser with your favorite planeswalker has never been so easy, you'll only need to download and install our brand new theme. To cover most ranges of screen resolutions, MTG Jace Theme is available in two versions: 1366x768px and 1920x1080px. Don't scare if your screen resolution isn't between them, just choose the most similar to yours, it will works too.

Here you have a little sample of how can your browser looks:



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Original Jace artworks by Aleksi Briclot for Jace Beleren and Jason Chan for Jace, The Mind Sculptor.
Magic: The Gathering is copyrighted by Wizards of the Coast.This theme is not produced, affiliated or supported by Wizards of the Coast (http://www.wizards.com).

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Sunday, July 24, 2011

MTG Finder now available as a Firefox Addon


MTG Finder is now available for Firefox as an addon (version 0.9.3). MTG Finder allows you to search into several websites selecting a card name while browsing and clicking the Addon toolbar icon, right-clicking or the preferred keyboard shortcut. Keyboard shortcuts are default and cant't be changed, but it will be configurable soon in the options menu.

MTG Finder right click menu


Like in Chrome version, MTG Finder can perform searches in these websites:

  • Magiccards.info. Allows card names in every several languages, displays card data such card image, oracle text and much more. It also has an input text to type card names.

    magiccards.info search
  • Blackborder. Selected card names must be in english. It shows card image, card text and card price comparison table.
    Blackborder.com search
  • Gatherer. This search shows card data from the official wizards database.
    Gatherer search
  • Wizards. If you select an english card name, you'll get the card image.
    wizards search
  • Apathy House. Card price looker-upper with graphs will be shown for you.
    Apathy house search
  • Mtg.ru. A light frame with basic data and card image is shown for russian and english card names.
    mtg.ru search
  • Tapped Out. Card prices, card image, updated text and decks using selected card in the tapped out community.
    Tapped out search
Firefox version is still an experimental version, your help testing it in all OS is needed!

You can download, see full description and leave your feedback for MTG Finder for firefox directly from the Addons site.
If you prefer the Chrome version, visit the webstore site.

I hope all this can be useful for you. Don't forget to leave your feedback and like us on facebook!

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Sunday, July 17, 2011

MTG Wishlist 2.2 Chrome Extension with TCGPlayer

MTG Wishlist new version is here with new features that we'll describe below, but first, we'd like also to introduce our new partner: tcgplayer.com. As we said in the MTG Finder 1.3 announcement, TCG Player is a famous webstore that includes several prices from other stores. If you don't know it, what are you waiting to visit it?


MTG Wishlist 2.2 Changes:
  • TCG Player column inserted. It contains 3 values corresponding to card prices: minimum price, average price and maximum price. Those prices are taken from all the webstores included in tcgplayer. To check the card you'll only need to click one of these values.
    Card prices are in US dollars and depend on the current expansion set. If no expansion set is selected or it doesn't match with tcgplayer's sets (maybe because tcgplayer doesn't support them, like some special sets), the field will link the tcgplayer homepage. To use this service, card names must be in english.
    If you want to checkout your wishlist in tcgplayer, you can do it only by clicking the column header "Price TCGP".
    Global TCG Player data are loaded every 24 hours, when the browser starts or clicking the refresh button (maybe you suffer some wait delay if you want to see your wishlist when it's loading TCG Player or Blackborder data).

    New Price TCGP column

  • Card images now depends on the selected expansion set. If no expansion set is selected, the default card image will be shown. Not every expansion set is supported, like special sets or promo decks.
    Card images are displayed directly from the wizards database, so it's possible to not see some expansion sets until wizards uploads them (at this moment, commander and m12 pictures are not available). I've done the request to wizards, I'm sure that they'll fix it soon.
  • Card prices auto-change if expansion set is changed and prices are different.
  • Key shortcuts have been included. Now you can open MTG Wishlist in a new window instead of a popup only with shortcuts. Set the combination in the options page.
  • Loading times have been decreased. Editing a card will no longer reload the app unless you want to delete it.
New options page


Known issue: when the last card image popups, it won't be visible unless the scrollbar is present (to see the scrollbar, you must have a few of cards inserted in order to cover frame height).

MTG Wishlist can be downloaded from the Chrome Webstore.

I hope that you like the new features. Of course, you're welcome to post here any suggestion, comment or complain.

Don't forget to like us on facebook and leave your feedback at the webstore.

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Friday, July 8, 2011

Include Social Network buttons in your Blogger posts

Social networks are actually the most important traffic source in the web. Including buttons is a good way to socialize your blog. Here we'll show some tips to include buttons in your website, particularly in Blogger.



AddThis


The first tool you must know is AddThis. It integrates a lot of social network buttons (349 at the moment) in several languages in one widget with a few code lines. It also provides analytics services and trend statistics. To include AddThis in your website, you only need to follow the instructions of the following link: Get AddThis (select the blogger option to see blogger's instructions).

For example, here's the code used in this blog:

<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
 <div class='addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style' expr:addthis:title='data:post.title' expr:addthis:url='data:post.url'>
  <a class='addthis_button_compact' href='http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;username=yourusername'>Share</a>
  <a class='addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style'/>
  <span class='addthis_separator'>|</span>
  <a class='addthis_button_preferred_1'/>
  <a class='addthis_button_preferred_2'/>
  <a class='addthis_button_preferred_3'/>
  <a class='addthis_button_preferred_4'/>
  <a class='addthis_button_stumbleupon'/>
  <a class='addthis_button_delicious'/>
  <a class='addthis_button_digg'/>
  <a class='addthis_button_google_plusone' g:plusone:size='small'/>
 </div>
 <div class='addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style' expr:addthis:title='data:post.title' expr:addthis:url='data:post.url'>
  <a class='addthis_button_facebook_like'/>
  <a class='addthis_button_tweet' tw:via='themunsonsapps'/>
  <!-- Reddit button start -->
  <script>reddit_url=&#39;<data:post.url/>&#39;</script><script>reddit_title=&#39;<data:post.title/>&#39;</script><script language='javascript' src='http://reddit.com/button.js?t=1'/>
  <!-- Reddit button end -->
 </div>
 <script type='text/javascript'>var addthis_config = {&quot;data_track_clickback&quot;:true};</script>
 <script src='http://s7.addthis.com/js/250/addthis_widget.js#username=yourusername' type='text/javascript'/>
 <!-- AddThis Button END -->

That looks like this:





Remember to include it before the <div class='post-footer'> tag if you're using Blogger.

Although it allows full customization using its API, it has some display limitations. Maybe you want the button to have a different layout or to display counters that AddThis not implements. This is the case of social networks buttons with counters like reddit, digg, stumbleupon and much more.

Facebook



There's a form to include facebook buttons in your website, you only need to insert the URL to like, facebook account and layout params like font, color or width.
You can choose the kind of button:

And much more. Once again, to include them in in Blooger, insert the code just after <div class='post-footer'> tag in your template.

Twitter


Twitter API is available here. There are several kinds of button, languages and customization.

For example:

<a href="http://twitter.com/share" class="twitter-share-button" data-url="http://themunsonsapps.blogspot.com" data-count="vertical" data-via="themunsonsapps">Tweet</a><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>

Try this button:



You can also set the predefined text, account to suggest, url to tweet and more. Visit the full dev API for Tweet Button. See also how to add Twitter button to Blogger.

Google +1


Google plus one is the new Google's social network. To include a button in your website, you only need to fill some form fields from the official +1 button site and paste the code where you want. To include it in blogger you can follow these tips.

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
<g:plusone size="tall" href="http://themunsonsapps.blogspot.com"></g:plusone>

Check the generated button:



Reddit


Check the different reddit buttons and them customizations here: Reddit Buttons.

<script type="text/javascript">
  reddit_url = "http://themunsonsapps.blogspot.com";
  reddit_title = "Reddit Buttons!";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/static/button/button3.js"></script>

Reddit this sample:




To include it in every Blogger post, search once again for the <div class='post-footer'> tag and insert the code after it, but in this case, set the url parameter to: <data:post.url/> (see how to add reddit button to every Blogger post).

For example:

<script type="text/javascript">
  reddit_url = "<data:post.url/>";
  reddit_title = "Reddit Buttons 2!";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.reddit.com/static/button/button3.js"></script>

Delicious

The official website for inserting delicious buttons can be found here. Here there is a sample of what will you get:

Bookmark this sample button in delicious:
Delicious Bookmark this awesome website on Delicious

<img src="http://l.yimg.com/hr/img/delicious.small.gif" height="10" width="10" alt="Delicious" /><a href="http://www.delicious.com/save" onclick="window.open('http://www.delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(document.title), 'delicious','toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;"> Bookmark this awesome website on Delicious</a>

To include it in every Blogger post, you will need to make other changes, check them at add delicious button to Blogger post.

Digg 


Just like delicious, you can insert a digg button with counter in your website following the official guidelines.

Digg this sample button:
<script type="text/javascript">
(function() {
var s = document.createElement('SCRIPT'), s1 = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT')[0];
s.type = 'text/javascript';
s.async = true;
s.src = 'http://widgets.digg.com/buttons.js';
s1.parentNode.insertBefore(s, s1);
})();
</script>
<!-- Wide Button -->
<a class="DiggThisButton DiggWide" href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http%3A//themunsonsapps.blogspot.com"></a>





Check the blogging tips about how to add digg button to Blogger post.

StumbleUpon 


SumbleUpon buttons are named badges. You can consult the official badge setup here. It also includes guidelines for blogger, feedburner, wordpress and more. You can choose the button layout and style, including a default url or getting it from the actual website, for example this:

<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5&r=http://themunsonsapps.blogspot.com"></script>



I hope this can be useful for you! Enjoy it!

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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

MTG Finder 1.3.0 Chrome Extension



MTG Finder brings you a new type of search: TCG Player.com. This search allows you to see card prices among several online stores, based in the card condition. There also be displayed a "People who bought this card also purchased..." section, a graphic price/time and more. If card is not found (usually because card name is wrong or another language), tcgplayer homepage will be displayed.


TCG Player search

TCG Player Store price comparison and graphic


MTG Finder also fixes a bug that came with 1.2.0 version: starting and ending spaces in selected words are now ignored.

We hope that this can be useful to you, all suggestions in order to improve MTG Finder are welcome. Firefox version is coming soon, is there any Mac user who want to test it?

Don't forget to leave your feedback in the Chrome Webstore and like us on facebook!

Download MTG Finder here!

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