David Cancel’s Web Beacon Finder

(Via David’s blog)
David Cancel’s written a Greasemonkey script which alerts you to the various web beacons / tracking bugs used on the websites you visit.

Go here to get it.

Not sure I can surf with this enabled all the time, given the number of sites using these various services – but it is certainly interesting to try it out for a while and see how common they are.

Use your Long Tail Facebook Apps

Thanks to Dion Almaer using more than six apps on facebook is again possible.

Well, possible is an overstatement – but I tended to forget the ones which fell below the virtual fold imposed by Facebook showing only six by default.

Dion’s aptly named Greasemonkey script to expand Facebook left bar effectively clicks the “more” button under your applications in the leftmost column on Facebook, showing you all of your installed applications.

What gets pushed further down the page, of course, is advertising – in this case the “Facebook flyer” which I for one can do without.

Of course, you have to be running Firefox and have Greasemonkey installed, but you should have both of those things anyway.

Thanks Dion for a nifty quick hack.