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How to remove Facebook Quizzes from your home stream
Tired of seeing those quiz notification your friends published? If you’re a facebook quiz lover, do yourself a favor, STOP PUBLISHING THE RESULT. It’s annoying!
To hide the quiz, you can either click the hide button and select hide yadayada quiz or simply hide the person, I prefer the latter. But if you don’t want to hide the friend but still want to hide the quizzes, facebook Purity saves your day.
Tweaking Safari 4’s Hidden Preferences
Okay, who else thinks Safari 4 is cute and all that, and that it looks like Google Chrome? New look and spanking great new features. Safari 4 has the tab bar on top, fancy URL completion, circular progress bar (instead of the bluish progress bar on the address bar we used to have in the previous version) and many more.
Some people are excited about the changes, some don’t. I personally can’t get used to the tab bar relocation so I looked for a solution to revert it back. There is the hard way, typing this and that into Terminal app but hey, let’s cheat and use the easier way.
GreaseKit – Use GreaseMonkey’s User Scripts in Safari
GreaseMonkey is a very powerful Firefox add-on that lets us make changes to the website we visit on-the-fly by installing user scripts. In human language, that means we have more control over the websites we visit. For example, we can add a ‘download’ link to Youtube video pages and remove annoying quizzes from our Facebook homepage.
Neat innit? The problem is: GreaseMonkey cannot be installed in Safari, Mac OSX’s default browser (and by far my favorite one). Solution: GreaseKit. Here’s how.
Installing Multiple Versions of Firefox and Internet Explorer
Now you might think why the heck would I want to install different versions of web browsers to my computer? Here’s why: you’re a web developer.
That being said, you need to check your website/web app in popular browsers: Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 1, 2, 3, Chrome, Safari and Opera. Installing Chrome, Safari and Opera is a no-brainer, but those multiple versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox can be tricky. Here’s how we can do it.