A large list of Greasemonkey scripts to modify the way you use sites like Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Delicious, Flickr and more. The one that really kicks ass is the script that auto-deletes all your direct messages from your Twitter account. Hoo-hah.

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If you’ve been a subscriber to this blog for any length of time, you’ll have noticed that sometimes you will get a post with my recent del.icio.us links in it (courtesy of an automated service by Feedburner). In the past couple of days, that post has suddenly got bigger.

This is all due to a brilliant Greasemonkey script that I have found called Delicious Stumbles. It basically adds a button to your standard Del.icio.us submission box which allows you to submit the same link, along with the same description and keywords, to Stumbleupon at the same time.

This is an absolute God-send for me. I love using Del.icio.us and Stumbleupon but at heart I am a bit lazy and I like things to be simple. If I bookmark one site on one bookmarking site, I am normally not inclined to start the process to submit it to the other site.  It’s too much time and too much clicking around. So as a result, I go through a big del.icio.us phase then a big Stumbleupon phase, then back to del.icio.us again…..this makes being a member of these sites rather haphazard as no-one knows when my next contribution will be. This has meant I have never been able to gain any traction or momentum on these sites.

But the Delicious Stumbles script means I can now submit to both sites simultaneously and it works PERFECTLY!

If you use Firefox and Del.icio.us / Stumbleupon, I highly recommend you use this script!

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There are some bloggers out there who are just downright saviours. Whenever I have a big computer irritant, I can normally go online and find a blogger who knows the answer to my problem. Therein lies the beauty of bloggers or blogging. If you don’t know something, you can quickly find someone who does.

The How-To Geek is my latest hero.

I am a big fan of the Firefox extension, Greasemonkey, but I was getting extremely hacked off with the fact that if I wanted to edit a Greasemonkey script, it automatically opened in Microsoft Word. I am slowly going off MS Word as my preferred word processing app as it is slow, clunky and unwieldy. In fact I am seriously considering installing Open Office which gives you a good indicator of MS Word’s high positioning on my shit-list.

Anyway, I wanted to find a way to change Firefox’s default editing program for Greasemonkey scripts. I much prefer lighter faster programs such as MS Notepad but I had no idea until now that the solution lay in Firefox’s “about : config” options page. Thanks to the How-To Geek, I have now changed the default editing program and I am one happy chappie.

I strongly recommend you subscribe to the How-To Geek. I only wish we could get him to write for Make Use Of.

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