I like the fact that it is possible to switch off/on individual parts of the website (link in the upper-right corner). It would be cool if someone came up with a general solution applicable to all websites.
YouTube would be nice. I'm using a Greasemonkey script ( http://pastie.org/674946 ) but it requires some management to keep up with changes.
Minimalist Gmail by Matt Constantine
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#14great link/look, just wish it was available in a more general-purpose form (ie not a firefox tool)
My minimalist gmail interface is called "pine", which I believe is still considered to be the reference IMAP client implementation. If I were have to make this decision today, I might use something more powerful and extensible like "mutt", but for me pine is just fine. I started using it again a year back or so when Mail.app became too slow for me to use on some giant mailboxes I have. Deleting 5k messages from an IM…
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YouTube would be nice. I'm using a Greasemonkey script ( http://pastie.org/674946 ) but it requires some management to keep up with changes.
Quietube? http://quietube.com/
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#16Maybe I just need to start tinkering...
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#17I like the fact that it is possible to switch off/on individual parts of the website (link in the upper-right corner). It would be cool if someone came up with a general solution applicable to all websites.
For a case-by-case basis, check out the Printliminator -- really neat use of JS & CSS to hide pesky elements http://css-tricks.com/examples/ThePrintliminator/ Now if this could be scripted with greasemonkey! Imagine getting rid of a few elements, then hitting 'save' in the plugin -- any subsequent visits to the page would apply the relevant css.
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#19Just a heads up, for some reason it didn't work too too well in Firefox 3.0.x; I didn't investigate further. It's fine in the latest 3.5 though.
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#20Has anyone seen this same work applied to Google Reader? There's quite a large header that takes up a lot of space on my netbook screen. I didn't see anything on the zenhabits.com site after a quick search either. Maybe I just need to start tinkering...