1. YouTube video only: This is a very small script that eliminates everything on a YouTube page but the video itself.
2. Auto add to Google Reader: Bypass the page where you click "Add to Google Reader" or "Add to Google homepage" page and adds your desired feed right to your Google Reader.
3. Textarea Backup: Provides a backup of text you entered into text boxes in case of the event of a crash. Just go back to the page and the text will be there waiting for you. This one is great for bloggers or frequent commenters.
4. Googlenlarge: A great Greasemonkey script that allows you to hover over an image from a Google image search and an enlarged preview of the image will pop-up on the same page; Allowing you to preview any image search result without having to actually go to the page that contains the image.
5. Google Homepage Resizeable Columns: Pretty self explanatory; just click and drag in the white areas between the columns of your Google personal homepage and you can adjust the width of the columns.
6. Digg.com comment helper: A great digg script that highlights the most popular comments on a digg story. Perfect for finding those user-submitted links to mirrors or the extremely hilarious comments.
7. Digg.com washer: Another one for digg that allows you to add words that the script will then block the stories containing those words. Access the options for this one by clicking on the "Show Options" link on the digg front page right above the top story. You can also toggle the digg side bar on and off with this one.
8. Google Reader preview: This one will allow you to view the originating website for a story in one of your feeds. Just go on over to the "List View" and click on one of the stories.
9. Gmail macros: Adds some more keyboard shortcuts for gmail as well as allows you to create your own shortcuts.
10. Google Auto Pager: This is a great script that eliminates the need to keep hitting the "Next" button for some more Google search results. It automatically loads the next page's results at the end of your current page. It also works great with the Firefox extension Google Preview.

*Bonus script*
Pagerization: This one is just like the Google auto pager script, only it works on multiple search pages. It is a bit buggy still, however, but might be worth it to keep your eyes on this one.

Ten great Greasemonkey scripts originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Bowmaster Prelude: Time waster of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

As you might be able to tell, we are avid Firefox fanatics at Download Squad. However, there are still a lot of people who don't use the entire Mozilla suite and are using Outlook for all their stand-alone email needs at home and at the office. This is due to the fact that most companies use Outlook and, as such, people are familiar with it. At Download Squad we like to say, familiarity breeds contempt.

So, here's an alternative. What's the word? Thunderbird.

You might have a puzzled look on your face right now. Maybe you even use Thunderbird at home but, at work? That's nonsense you say. Your IT department configures your Outlook client to work with the Exchange server. Fear not! It is now possible to use Thunderbird at home and work and still get all of your exchange server email as well as your company's Global Address Book.

First up, download Thunderbird if you haven't already, version 2.0 beta 2 worked best for me and has an up-to-date user interface that resembles Firefox's UI.

Full instructions after the jump.

Continue reading HowTo: Thunderbird & MS Exchange Server

HowTo: Thunderbird & MS Exchange Server originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Today's time waster is a tail of death, money, death, weapons and death. In Andy's Death Quest you have the option to play in two different modes: Story mode or death match mode.

In death match mode, you start out with easy opponents, no cash and no weapons. Working your way through your choice of death match gets you more money. Which, in turn, gets you more cash, allowing you to buy different and better swords, guns and/or bombs. The more it costs, the more it will help you through the more difficult levels.

Story mode was a bit of a let down. After Andy made his way through the game unlocking all available death matches, he's able to bring in his own weapons (Shotgun and Laser Sword are Andy's favorites) and had his pick of whatever type of villain he wanted to fight. However, in story mode you have a very limited spread of bad guys to test your strength out on as well as a limit on the amount of money received. Death match mode was much more entertaining for Andy. That and the pool of blood after a glorious victory of a savage battle!

[via digg]

Andy's Death Quest: Time waster of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Red Interactive Agency, an internet website designing company, has seen the future and it's a whole new level of interactivity on the web.

On their little test site you're a randomly generated avatar with a generic username. From there, if you wish, you're able to choose an avatar of your choice as well as a username and your location. After all that, you can roam the site as you please. There is also a small chat window for you to talk to your fellow wanderers.

The true interactive fun is with the special keys that do other things. The home key makes your avatar do a little jig, and different avatars do different jigs. Press the up arrow key and you take off like a bat out of hell! Press the combo control along with shift and you break combo punches on nearby faces. Hold down the shift key while walking for a boost of speed, and page up/down to strafe up and down on the path. There are also built-in profanity filters to encourage others to be a bit more polite.

This level of interactivity could make visiting your usual sites much more fun. Just imaging flying around a tiny world, viewing pages within a site's structure!

Web 3.0? originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

CrossFTP: Firefox add-on of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Twitter hack: Site RSS to Twitter originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Today's add-on is a unique one for Firefox. Its actually an add-on that can install itself into Internet Explorer. FirefoxView will add a shortcut to the context menu of Internet Explorer, not Firefox, that will provide you the ability to view your current IE page in Firefox. This shortcut will also appear when you are in an IE Tab in Firefox. This one would be helpful for those of you that fix all your families computers out there. Just quickly tell your 80-year-old aunt to right-click and select "View This Page in Firefox" to quickly walk her through the problem.

[via Scot's Newsletter]

FirefoxView: Firefox add-on of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Recently we complained that the number of Firefox add-ons we use were causing grief with pop-up windows. We recommended ResizeIT to ensure that everything in the a pop-up window is visible. Now, we've found a different solution: StatusBars.

Stackable status bars add a ton of flexibility to the way you work. If you're in a Google mood, you can have a Google status bar that contains things such as Google Notebook and Gmail Notifier. Or, create a status bar for when you're doing normal browsing, with add-ons like No Script, Adblock, and FasterFox.

StatusBars isn't the easiest add-on to configure but, it does scratch a particular itch; Creating different status bars with different combinations of add-on icons.

StatusBars: Firefox add-on of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Still not satisfied with the new Google Image search page? This Greasemonkey script should make things a bit easier. With GoogleNlarge, you just need to do your Google image search as you normally would. Only now you only need to hover your mouse over the google thumbnail image and leave the rest up to the Greasemonkey script.

Hovering over the thumbnails will make the full sized image appear on the side of the screen. The only thing you need for this script is Firefox and Greasemonkey... and obviously Google image search results, too.

[via Google Blogoscoped]

GoogIenlarge: Greasemonkey script of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Flash Tron - Time-Waster of The Day originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Buttons: Thunderbird add-on of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Time to protect your desktop, with Desktop Tower Defense! Set up your weapons in a gauntlet formation for your enemies, or creeps as the game calls them, to walk. Pictured above is easy mode, where the creeps walk from the left of the screen to the right. For every creep that makes it through the other side you will loose one life. As time progresses the creeps get more health, so you have to continually upgrade your weapons in order to increase their damage, range and speed (speed is usually decreased as the weapons level increases). If the game is going too slow for you, there is also a "Send next level" button that you can press to immediately send in the next group of creeps.

Once you have mastered easy mode, there are other challenging modes that you can attempt. In these modes, however, there are two streams of creeps coming in; one from the top of the screen, that will go to the bottom, and the same from the left of the screen. No matter where they come from they will always want to go to where they are supposed to go. And the one main rule is that you cannot block any paths. The more creeps you wipe out, the more gold you get, the more you can upgrade your weapons. How many bosses can you kill? I managed to take out the first 3 or 4 of them.

[via digg]

Desktop Tower Defense: Time waster of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Its purpose might be easy to guess after reading the title; it removes the delay that you see when you install any Firefox extension. Now you might be asking yourself "Why does the delay exist in the first place?" It is part of a security measure that prevents websites installing anything into your browser without your knowledge. This add-on just disables the delay of the XPI install so, you'll still get a pop-up asking you to install now or cancel; In the interest of internet safety we should remind you, if you have XPI install delay turned off using this plug-in and aren't expecting a plug-in install... you should still click cancel. XPI Install Delay only removes the three seconds you have to think about not doing something stupid. It doesn't indemnify you from the idiocy of blindly clicking "Install".

Disable XPI Install Delay: Firefox add-on of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Test your knowledge on where things are, with this Geography Knowledge quiz. You can test yourself on everything from bodies of water to states or even continents. You get three chances to guess the correct answer, and the more questions you answer correctly the higher your score gets. It even gives you the maximum possible score that you can get next to your score, so you can figure out how well you did.

Where do you live? Can you correctly guess the places surrounding you? There are a lot of places in this world, good luck getting them right!

[Via Digg]

Geography Knowledge: Time waster of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Normally I always have two tabs open in Firefox; one for Pandora and the other for Google reader. I would always have to go back and forth between both tabs in order to refresh reader, sort of an obsessive compulsive thing. But now, with Google Reader Notifier, I can just camp out on the Pandora tab until I get some new stories.

The reason I no longer need to go to my reader tab is because a built in function lets you click on the Google Reader Notifier icon to refresh the number of unread stories. A slick feature of this notifier is that you can customize your mouse buttons to do different things, such as update your count as well as open Google reader in a new tab. You also have the option of customizing how often it refreshes. Another great feature is that the count will give the exact number, even if it is above 100.

Thanks Ben!

Google Reader Notifer: Firefox add-on of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, kitties and puppies, I bring to you today a time waster that puts all past time wasters to shame. I bring to you... Mojo the monkey.

The only other time waster that I know of that can possibly come close to this would be one that watches paint dry or grass grow; I haven't seen them yet. The point of this time waster is similar, however. The monkey, Mojo, is practicing his typing and you must watch every word he types.

If you're lucky, you will witness Mojo type a word that is a member of the English language. When, or if, this happens you are to highlight it and tag the word with your name. You will then be the owner of that word for all eternity! But you must act quickly, because someone else might tag that word before you, if it hasn't been tagged already that is. When Mojo's page fills up click new page and you will have a fresh new page for Mojo to continue practicing on. The more English words you tag with your name, the more points you get. Good luck!

[via Digital Inspiration]

Mojo The Monkey: Today's Time-Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

SPEEDcluster: Time Waster of the Day originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

• About:config- to be taken to your settings page in a new tab with just one single click
  
• Bottom/Top- to go directly to the bottom or top of the current site you are viewing
• Rename Tab
• Hide Images
• Print preview

Toolbar Buttons : Firefox add-on of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

• If gray, there were no links converted on your current page.
• If green/yellow, there were text url's that were converted into valid clickable links.

Linkification: Firefox add-on of the day originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.