I'm sure you often find yourself in a situation where you're reading an article, and then come across a word that you want to lookup. Maybe you jump over to Wikipedia or an online dictionary to get a definition, but the LookItUp2 Greasemonkey script can save you a lot of time.

The screenshot above sums up everything that the script is capable of doing. When you highlight a ...

 
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Google OS came across an extremely powerful Greasemonkey script that many Google Reader users will appreciate. The script is called Google Reader Filter, and with it you're able to highlight or gray out feed items depending on whether they match the criteria that you specify.

The screenshot above shows that when you click on the Filter Settings button in Google Reader ...

Web Browser Wednesday

As you may have noticed by now we've been trying to cover a variety of Greasemonkey scripts on the site with our Best Greasemonkey Scripts series, and today we're going to put it into overdrive. Below we've taken five extremely popular sites that have dozens (or hundreds) of Greasemonkey scripts available, and grabbed only the ones we've found useful.

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I know that a lot of our readers are stat freaks, and if you're one of those people you're absolutely going to love the Greasemonkey script that we have for you today!  What the Google Reader Subscribers Count script does is show the number of feed subscribers that each website has. The numbers show up in a very small bar in the bottom-right ...

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I really wish that Google would integrate a bunch of their services into a single interface, but it doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon. Some of their services, such as Google Notebook and Google Reader, would feel pretty natural if they were part of the Gmail interface.

A good example of how it would work can be found in this ...

When reading emails in Gmail there are typically some ads and other things located alongside the email for quick access. There are plenty of scripts and tools available to remove those ads, but many don't make use of the unusually large empty space that despairingly sits there.

The Gmail Sidebar Remover script for Greasemonkey is the perfect solution. Once enabled it will completely remove ...

Lifehacker just released a new version of their Better GReader Firefox extension. It brings all of the best Greasemonkey scripts for Google Reader under one roof, and by installing the extension you can enable up to 8 of scripts that will all enhance either the look or usability of Google Reader.

One script in particular that they included really caught my eye. It's called Google Reader Preview Enhanced, and what it does is ...