Two Firefox extensions, Stylish and Greasemonkey, let you take back the web by tweaking pages to your own needs. Stylish lets you apply your own stylesheets and Greasemonkey runs your own Javascript. They’re great for sites with minor annoyances, or those at work that your IT department is too lazy to fix, which is actually what inspired my first script.
At home, my prime target is the dating site eHarmony, where some tweaks allow you to keep better track of your matches’ information, act faster, and bolster your geography by mapping their locations. (I also recommend someone else’s that shows additional pictures.)
The other site I tackled tonight was digg, which is a popular scripting target. My particular focus was their top 10 list, and eliminating the double-hop it takes to go through digg’s comments page on the story to get to the original.
My scripts page also revealed how much Google-karma userscripts.org has. Within a week of creating my account there, it was the number 5 search result for “Matthew Botos” on Google, right behind my own heavily search-optimized pages.
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