Making The Web More Readable For Everyone

January 18th, 2010

In a recent Reddit thread, one commenter made a casual remark : There needs to be a way to link to a page on Reddit and automatically apply Readability. That seemed like an excellent idea to me. In case you haven’t heard about it yet, Readability is a bookmarklet that can take an article or […]

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How To Disable Google Realtime Search

December 14th, 2009

A week ago, Google introduced real-time search – a new feature that displays live updates from sites like Twitter and FriendFeed as part of the normal search results. Reactions were generally positive, but, as multiple users noted, there was one thing missing – an “off” button. You could pause the live updates, but not get […]

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Deframe – Greasemonkey Script That Removes Frames & Toolbars

December 10th, 2009

Deframe is a Greasemonkey script that can remove frames and toolbars from (almost) any website. For example, it can remove the StumbleUpon toolbar that’s displayed on all su.pr links, get rid of the Ow.ly bar, bust the frames that some link sharing sites use on outgoing links, and so on. Deframe supports most frame-based websites […]

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Auto-Highlight New Items With The Newslight UserScript

October 12th, 2009

Newslight is a Greasemonkey script that you can use to automatically highlight new posts, new blog comments, recent product listings or any other kind of new content that has been added to your favourite website(s) since you last visited. The way it works is simple : when you see a web page you’d like to […]

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How To Make WordPress Check For Updates Immediately

October 1st, 2009

WordPress automatically checks for plugin, theme and core updates once every 12 hours. This is normally fine, but it can become annoying when you know there’s an important update or bugfix available yet it won’t show up in your Dashboard until the next time WP gets around to checking for it. Of course, you can […]

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