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Reply #15 – November 28, 2005, 02:39:35 PM

Hey bird, How did you set up your hotkeys and everything. It's annoying scrolling through the page to find the pictures. I've noticed that a lot of them are just tree shots or the back of buildings. Good way to make some money though if you get good at it. Thanks for the link.

-Chris

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Reply #16 – November 28, 2005, 02:47:48 PM

OK, first of all, I updated to Firefox 1.5.. picked up an extension called GreaseMonkey that worked with FF. (0.6.3.. I'll link to this stuff later) Then I found a script for GM and FF that allows me to set up a bunch of different options. I can tile them horizontally so they set up in a 3x3 (with one missing, since there's 8 pics) grid.

I use a 50% zoom on each image, on a 1280x1024 monitor, so they'll all fit. There's another setting for zoom size, to where you can highlight or mouse-over a shrunken picture and have it enlarge. I have that setting set to 125% for a little added help reading the images. Anyway, I set up some hotkeys with that GM script.. the 1 key on the keyboard (not the keypad) is previous, 2 is next. (did it 'cause I'm left-handed.. you might pick different keys)

Also got a FF extension called SwiftTabs that allows for binding a hotkey to switch between one FF tab and another. Bound that to the Tab key. The GM script auto-accepts any picture-HIT I view, and either Enter while selecting an image or clicking on an image submits that image.

I took things further and used the software for my Logitech gamepad to bind gamepad keys to the keyboard hotkeys, so I can use my gamepad to submit HITs. Between that and running at least 3 Firefox tabs at once all with a different HIT, I can do 600 an hour consistently now. I think I can improve that speed to 800-1000 HITs per hour in time.

Sorry if this is a bit rambling and incoherent.. took a vicodin for back pain a little while ago. :wtf: I'll follow up with links in a little while. Was just about to do something to the new PC.

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Reply #17 – November 28, 2005, 08:50:55 PM

Hmmm... I prefer the music ones, lol. I'm a music freak so that might have something to do with it.

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Reply #18 – November 28, 2005, 09:04:27 PM

Well then you're all set. If you have FireFox 1.5 and that GreaseMonkey 0.6.3 extension for it, there are a few music-HIT scripts being formed in some "turking" forums. If you're willing to sign up for another forum to get one, go to Turking.com and sign up so you can access their forums. Once in there, there's a script called TurkOp in the "Hints, Tips, and Scripts" section.. I think that works for both music and picture HITs. If not, there's another thread or two on it in that same section.

On a sort of unrelated note: This is the script I use for the A9 image HITs. Said I would toss out some links, earlier. Here is GreaseMonkey 0.6.3, if you have FireFox 1.5.

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Reply #19 – December 01, 2005, 11:14:35 AM

Update:

The music HITs seem to be the only thing left, lately. Unfortunately they're only 2 cents a HIT. However, you can get programs like Mturk Wrapper to blow through them in record time. I haven't timed myself in the past couple days, but I'm pretty sure I'm still making at least 10 bucks an hour at this, (and could probably do much better if I tried) when I focus on cranking out the music HITs.

The site I mentioned in the previous post has a blurb about Mturk Wrapper on their main page.

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Reply #20 – December 01, 2005, 01:12:46 PM

Wow that made a huge difference. xD Thanks for the tips and links... again.

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Reply #21 – December 03, 2005, 07:23:28 PM

Got my first order from Amazon, using $50 diverted from Mturk into an Amazon gift certificate:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000U19F0/sr=1-3/qid=1133349639/ref=pd_bbs_3/102-9453255-4406555?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Thing is, I used the free saver shipping, and expected it might take the full time they predicted. (about 7 days) In fact, it got here 2 days after I ordered it. Bitchin'. Also got 70 cents knocked off the final price, since I have that A9 search engine discount on Amazon now. Not a big deal to get a 1.57% discount most of the time, but when you're making that money 2 cents at a time, it's not insignificant.

Headphones are decent so far. Need to pick up some AAA rechargeables, though.. the noise cancelling only lasts 25-50 hours on one battery.

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Reply #22 – December 04, 2005, 07:52:39 PM

Man, I downloaded that mturk wrapper program and all I can really say about it is that it sucks. I don't know if I was using it wrong or what but I had it set on auto accept, and it would still make me hit "accept HIT" to work on one, plus after I did one it would not give me another one for at least 20 seconds. Not very efficient

am I doing something wrong?

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Reply #23 – December 05, 2005, 11:27:38 PM

Thanks for the info man. I Downloaded firefox, greasemonkey, and turkOps. There's only been music hits whenever I've been on but I've been pounding away at 'em. A couple of minutes here, a couple of minutes there, it adds up quick. I'm up to 29 bucks so far! Woohoo!

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Reply #24 – December 05, 2005, 11:43:11 PM

Yes, it sounds like something is wrong with Mturk Wrapper if you're having those problems.

It's probably best to sign up for the forums on that turking site, and talk to the author of the program. I got him to add one feature and might possibly add another one in the future based on my suggestion.. so I'd say he's open to feedback.

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Reply #25 – December 06, 2005, 12:02:43 AM

Ok, this sucks.

Just on the regular website, I just went through 10 HITs before I got to one that wasn't assigned to somebody else. That's not even worth my time to mess with it. I don't know if I'm at a disadvantage because I'm on dialup or what.

Also, I think that may be the reason the mturk wrapper isn't running for , is because it has to skip so many HITs. But, I could be wrong...it won't even do anything the majority of the time.

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Reply #26 – December 06, 2005, 12:20:00 AM

Maybe you should try TurkOp and Firefox. When I use TurkOp, I open 3 browser tabs. I do one in the first tab and submit it, then switch to the second tab and do it, then switch to the third tab. While I do the third tab, the first two are submitting and reloading. I use a browser extension called SwiftTabs that allows me to bind a key to the next-tab function in Firefox.

Your slow connection could be why Mturk Wrapper sux for ya. I have a 5 megabit DSL connection and sometimes stuff doesn't even load fast enough for me. Dialup would be murder for me.

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Reply #27 – December 06, 2005, 12:23:57 AM

Yikes. Dialup is most certainly your bottleneck. Perhaps you could bust out the music ones faster? I know even on cable it takes me quite a while for a page of images to load. (Even though it's been a few days since I've seen any image HITs). I too have had some success with it. I've made about $25 just g around when I had nothing else to do, probably a total of 5 or 6 hours of work. Gotta realize, too, that I'm still sort of a n00b at this so I have a high rejection rate, somewhere around 35%

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Reply #28 – December 06, 2005, 04:55:20 PM

I did a few at school today (on the network) while I had some spare time. Man, that was definitely better. I got almost every one I clicked "accept" for. I guess my dialup really is what's killing me. Sigh :(

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Reply #29 – December 06, 2005, 06:14:23 PM

Uh, is anyone still getting suggested names for the music HITs?