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Quick Enable And Disable Toggle Extensions From Chrome’s Address Bar

Chrome: Chrome has some nice quick-access icons on its extension bar, but it only works if extensions put icons there. If you want to toggle other extensions on or off, these Chrome add-ons will help you do it from the address bar.


February 25, 2011
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Give Your Mac A More Attention-Grabbing ‘Low Battery’ Warning

If you too easily ignore the tiny “low battery” warning on your Mac, weblog Mac OS X Hints shares a script to make it warn you repeatedly and out loud that your battery is getting low.


February 16, 2011
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Automatically Delete .DS_Store And Other Files From Thumb Drives

If you trade a USB thumb drive, hard drive or other portable storage between Mac and Windows systems, the .DS_Store, .Trashes, and other starts-with-a-dot files left behind by Macs can get annoying. This script automatically wipes away those left-behind files.


January 26, 2011
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Add A Google Calendar Sidebar To Firefox With A User Script

Firefox with Greasemonkey: We’ve shown you one way to display your Google Calendar in Firefox’s sidebar, but it took a lot of work. Here’s a user script that makes it a three step process.


January 12, 2011
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‘Try This Search On’ Searches Multiple Search Engines With A Few Clicks

Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Safari: Whether you’re searching for videos, images or torrents on the net, sometimes the first search engine you try doesn’t give the best results. Try This Search On lets quickly run your search terms through a number of similar engines.


January 9, 2011
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Better Grooveshark Adds Lyrics, Ad Removal To The Web-Based Music Service

Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Safari: Our favourite music streaming service Grooveshark has been running better than ever since it updated to a Flash-free interface, and now you can further improve your experience with this user script.


January 6, 2011
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Google Cache Continue Redux Lets You Browse Entire Websites

Chrome/Firefox/Opera/Safari: Viewing Google’s cached pages is nice for when a site goes down or updates, but you can only view a cached version of that one page. This user script will let you browse the cache of the entire site.


December 8, 2010
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Highlight Your Favourite Sites In Google Search Results

Most Browsers (Greasemonkey): If you find that certain sites on the internet are particularly useful, you can highlight whenever they appear in Google, Bing and Yahoo search results with a simple user script.


December 3, 2010
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Hide And Show Desktop Icons On OS X With An Automator Service

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/wLjccA8L21Y&hl=en&fs=1&hd=1","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":360,"ratio":0.615,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube","wrap":true,"agegate":false} );

We’ve featured a few ways to keep your Windows desktop neat, but if you want to temporarily hide your Mac’s desktop icons, you can do so with a simple AppleScript and Automator.


December 2, 2010
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Tweetfilter Is Like A Gmail Filter For Twitter

Firefox/Chrome/Internet Explorer: Tweetfilter is probably the most powerful filter you can find for your Twitter stream, unless you start decoding Twitter’s API yourself. You can block phrases, retweets of certain users, particular web sites and services and nearly anything else.