Ehsan Nourbakhsh’s Blog

It usually happens that while I am reading an e-mail or viewing a stat report online, I want to quickly check the IP address information of sender. For instance just to see if the IP of sender is actually from the city the claimed person is in. This is not a big deal, I can copy and paste the IP too. But well that would not be me

For this I had written a greasemonkey script at least a year and half ago, which surprisingly still works! It converts the IP format numbers in the page to links to www.dnsstuff.com IP information page. Only install greasemonkey using link #1, and then click on the link #2. Firefox will prompt to install this.

• Greasemonkey homepage
• My IPify greasemonkey script

It is very exciting to see real world applications of computer related technologies. It gives me hope that this field is actually doing work, as other fields of science do. One branch of such real world applications is “assisted driving. What I mean by assistance in here is providing information, such as current speed and location, as well as the path to go and the directions to follow at any moment.

Also, it might include information about road construction and traffic. Providing address and phone information about restaurants and hotels, as well as national parks and theme parks, close to current location is a plus.

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