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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Oct 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

Save Printer Ink With Printliminator Bookmarklet

Printing out articles or other information on a website has usually the effect that a lot of elements are included in the print out that are not necessarily needed. This waste of printer ink can be reduced by removing the unnecessary elements from the page layout before printing the relevant information.
The Printliminator bookmarklet offers an [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 27th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

PageZipper Makes Browsing Multiple Pages More Comfortable

Ever been to a website that likes to divide articles into multiple pages to artificially increase their pageviews and thus advertisement revenue? I remember websites that would display every item of a top 50 or top 100 list on individual pages with each page consisting of a few sentences and a screenshot.
The Firefox add-on [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 16th, 2009
  • Comments: None

Textarea++ Gives Firefox Users Control Over Textareas On Websites

Do you know a website that you like to participate in, e.g. a forum or a blog, only to be turned down by an abysmal small comment form textarea? Maybe one that is good for a small sentence which essentially means that it will only show a few lines of the text that has been [...]

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Categories: Browsing, firefox

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

PBTweet Enhances Twitter Experience

PBTweet is a bookmarklet and userscript that enhances several aspects of Twitter by changing or adding new functions to the popular social network. Before we start looking at the features a word about compatibility. The bookmarklet works with most Webkit based web browsers including Safari and Google Chrome. The userscripts are compatible with Greasemonkey [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 16th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

SiteFlow Bookmarklet Simplifies Website Navigation

Many websites on the Internet use pagination. This includes all major search engines like Google Search or Bing, blogs like Ghacks or websites that provide access to media like Youtube. Pagination is used to limit the time it takes to load a website and to well arrange it for the visitor.
The main problem with [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, firefox, opera

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Improve Online Reading With Readability Bookmarklet

Online reading is not the same as reading a newspaper, book or magazine. The main reason why it is not the same are the many options that webmasters have of displaying text on their websites. They can select different fonts, font sizes, font weight, colors and many more aspects. Newspaper and books on the other [...]

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Categories: Online Services

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Apr 18th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Toggle Em All Bookmarklet Makes Check Box Checking Comfortable

Ever came across a situation where you had to check multiple check boxes on a website? Webmasters encounter these type of check boxes fairly regular when editing comments on their websites or moderating forum posts. Some websites and scripts provide a check all button that can be pressed but what if there is none available? [...]

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Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, firefox, opera

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