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Facebook Purity – FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions

What is Facebook Purity?
Facebook Purity is a Greasemonkey script that helps you to take control of the News Feeds on your Facebook home page. It does this by filtering out the application spam, such as quizzes etc, and also the messages such as “x became a fan of y”, “x joined group y”, “x became [...]

Ive Created a page on the Flickr App Garden

I just read about the flickr app garden that was released quite recently and have created a page there, for my flickr “apps”. You can go to my flickr apps page here: http://bit.ly/flickrapps. If you like my flickr apps, please add the page as a favourite. thanks!

Ho Ho Ho Hats and Beards all year round on Flickr

During the Christmas period Flickr enable an ‘Easter Egg’ on the site, allowing people to add Father Christmas hats and beards to photos by way of leaving a note on a photo with the text “Ho ho ho hat” for a hat, or “Ho ho ho beard” for a beard. The notes are resizable which [...]

Facebook style user tagging for Flickr

Theres a new way to tag your photos to indicate flickr users are appearing in them.
Quite a few users have already started doing it. The way it works is to use the following “machine tag” notation, for each flickr user in the photo
“flickr:userid=[flickr-userid]“
(replacing [flickr-userid] with the userid of the person in the photo)
the userid is [...]

Tweet this Flickr photo – using the new Flic.kr URL shortening service

Flickr have started their own URL shortening service, specific to their own domain.
The service uses the http://flic.kr domain name. So far I have noticed that individual photo pages each have a short URL that look like so http://flic.kr/p/EKD8 at present you can find the short url for a photo by viewing the source code of [...]

Stopping the comment spam on a WordPress blog

I cleaned out all the spam that was in this blogs moderation queue, and decided to do something about preventing it.  Since my host has disabled outgoing net connections, my akismet spam protection plugin has stopped working, so the spam queue filled up a lot.
I decided to try and find a new spam prevention plugin [...]

Facebook Purity removes annoying quiz messages etc from your Facebook Homepage

 

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face-book-purity on Facebook
FB Purity Script Updated 12th November 2009 See below for more info :
If you are like me and are sick to death of seeing messages about quiz results and other silly facebook applications, then you have come to the right place! I wrote a greasemonkey script that removes all the annoying quiz [...]

How to Get Google Chrome working in Windows 2000

Well Google Chrome came out of beta today,  this is great news. Though as most win 2000 users will know by now, google chrome doesnt work on your operating system. But a clever Japanese guy known as BlackWingCat has created an installer program that lets you install it to your system relatively easily. Unfortunately the [...]

Linkoder (QRCode) – Cool Greasemonkey Script adds Barcodes for each link on a web page

I just found a cool greasemonkey script on userscripts.org by a person called Vorn. The script is called Linkoder (QRCode) – it can basically add Barcodes for each link on any web page. Its really useful for mobile phone users, with barcode reader applications on their phones, such as the N95 which comes with a [...]

New Greasemonkey script – Export your Picasaweb photos to Flickr

I wrote a new Greasemonkey script that lets you import your photos from your account on the picasaweb website to your Flickr account.
In order to run the script, you need to be usin gthe Firefox web browser, which you can get from here: http://mozilla.org/firefox
You also need to have the Greasemonkey extension installed, which you can [...]