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Today I’m going to show you something different.

Qwertee the popular tshirt markeplace is on sale with prices as low as 4 euros.  The thing is, it is very annoying to check their prices since they force you to hover each and every tshirt image to reveal the price.

Checking the DOM it was pretty clear what needed to be done to see all the prices at once. So I thought to myself, why not do it in an easy way that more people can enjoy it?

And that’s how I created a tiny chrome extension to check the prices.

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How does it work?

The workflow is pretty simple:

  1. Use javascript to create a new <style> element.
  2. Add three rules to override the display mode of three classes ( price, hover-info and product-price )
  3. Inject the new style element into <head>

 

Feel free to check out the code on github and perhaps improve it. It’s free and open source! 🙂

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I love to travel.

Because of this, I can spend lots of time searching for the best deal I can find on a given destination. Fortunately there are several web ninjas that simplify this hard task for you. Some of these ninjas, are the guys from Fly4Free.

Checking on their website on a regular basis is quite trivial and they do have everything categorized, but I wanted to take it one step further to the ultimate lazy level 🙂

Actually, I was also looking for an excuse to learn how to create Chrome extensions and this sounded like the perfect one.

 

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The workflow is pretty simple:

a) Download the RSS feed.

b) Look for interesting keywords ( you can customize which ones ) such as destinations.

c) Create a notification with this information.

d) Store the current information for later presentation.

 

 

The chrome extension is open source, so feel free to improve it or just check it out either on the chrome store or on github