Filed under: Design, Freeware, Browsers
Userscript makes Wikipedia pages look more encyclopedic
Wikipedia is a great resource, but the layout is a bit much if you're only there to do a little reading and learn some things that might, in reality, be actual facts. As is the case with most big-name sites, a userscript is available that cleans up the cluttered default layout and makes Wikipedia items look more like pages from a printed encyclopdeia.
Load an article, then install Simplepedia and reload. Gone are the logo, tabs, navigation sidebar, edit links, and just about everything else that isn't actual information related to your topic. The end result is a much tidier page layout that is free of unwanted distractions - except words like "hammer pants" in the article I captured.
To see how the result compares to the original article, just click the image. Contrary to what Hammer might tell you, you can, in fact, touch it.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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jccalhoun said 2:46PM on 2-17-2009
So it shows you the printer-friendly version?
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iGate said 4:52PM on 2-17-2009
looks like it lol. ill compare the normal, the greasemonkey and the normal printer friendly view. one sec, imm be back.
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iGate said 4:54PM on 2-17-2009
shame, i uninstalled greasemonkey!!!
it'll have to wait till next month to be re-downloaded.
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