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Nick Cristino, Aka "Nick the Barber". Nick is also a real Barber and owns and operates a Barber shop located in greater Cleveland Ohio Area. 

Nick is also an advid Amateur Radio Operator..

Radio has been his passion since a child. taking radios apart, putting them back together and sometimes making them recieve stuff that they where not designed to..

Some more suggested tools

All of the following tools should be inserted into your vector.js

  • Extra Edit Buttons. This tool is an expansion of the tools you use during the edit function, and greatly improves editing capability.
    • To use, do {{subst:js|User:MarkS/extraeditbuttons.js}}
  • View Source - This tool adds a "view source" button next to the "edit this page" tab which is ideal for playing around with code, but not being able to accidentally save the changes
    • To use, do {{subst:User:Misza13/Scripts/View source}}

Many scripts are now made available as "gadgets"

Many scripts can be added to your account from Special:Preferences/Gadgets#preftab-9, such as:

  • wikEd - replaces your edit window, and adds lots of editing features, like search and replace, local show changes and preview (i.e., they bypass the server), etc. I've been using it for about a week, and have found its search/replace features very useful. There are some annoying bugs, but the script places a convenient activation/deactivation button at the top of your userpage, so you can switch back and forth between using it and the default edit window. I prefer to use WikEd for search and replace operations, but I still rely on Firefox's default edit window for cutting and pasting (WikEd's bugs make cutting and pasting difficult).
  • Navigational Popups - This turns your mouse pointer into a crystal ball: whenever you hover the mouse over an internal link, a box will popup giving you a peek into that page (showing the topmost part of that page). And this function is recursive, in that you can do it again to a link inside the box, and inside the next box that pops from inside that box, and so on. There is also a powerful menu provided of things you can do to the page in the popup.

These can still be added to your account the old-fashioned way on your vector.js page, but installing them in My preferences takes just checking a box for each.

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