In this article, we'll list our top five – you'll be shocked at how much of a difference they can make. Read on for more. Bear in mind that these scripts have been configured to work with Greasemonkey, a scripting add-on for Mozilla Firefox. They might work in Safari, Chrome and IE – google for tips for your particular browser.
5. Know more than the average Twitter user
User Stats Box adds a textarea (HTML5 element) below user profiles on Twitter, filled with all sorts of interesting information about them. You’ll be able to see the user registration date, the average number of tweets they make a day, their Twitter ID, favourite tweets, and so on. Might be useful for someone conducting a bit of analysis on top celebrities – or just being extremely nosey about their friends.4. Join the digital literati for free
Google Books is a tremendously useful tool, it’s got hundreds of millions of book sections from all across the printed world. However, downloading them for offline viewing is...tricky. No longer, thanks to Google Book Downloader – our second script, and your ticket to a well-read personality, free of charge.
3. Step apart from Facebook’s ‘well-meaning’ redesigns
If you fancy giving Facebook a lick of proverbial paint and smartening up the UI, FFixer might be right up your street. On the other hand, if Facebook’s continual UI update stream is leaving you dizzy, FFixer is a great way to guarantee things will stay pretty much as they are for the foreseeable future.
2. Your ten seconds are precious
YouTube’s advertising spree might well be credited with saving the company from going the way of Google Gears, but it’s becoming a pain for the 800 million unique visitors YouTube welcomes to its curated video kingdom each month. Ads Skipper descends in a halo of additional productivity – up to two-and-a-bit million hours’ worth of productivity, if our back-of-the-envelope sketches are correct. It gets rid of all ads from all over the web, too. Handy.1. Make it yours
While stripping ads from the Internet will no doubt leave you with a more tranquil web experience, there’s nothing quite like owning the content locked away on others’ servers. Well, now you can. Keep Tube is a script for downloading any video – and any audio – from pretty much any website, without sacrificing on HD quality (if your video supports that).You can even convert the audio stream from a video to MP3, great for catching up on lectures, listening in on Podcasts and, of course, grabbing entire albums that have been uploaded to YouTube with the blessing of their respective content authors.
