Helvetireader is a userscript that gives you a ’stripped to the basics’ minimalistic look for Google Reader and has been primarily designed for those of us who read feeds in the extended view and use keyboard shortcuts.
It works with Firefox with Greasemonkey, Opera, Google Chrome (Nightly Build only) or any Webkit browser (Safari, Omniweb etc.) [...]

I love Twitter but, as with most things, there’s always room for improvement.
If you use Firefox you can use a add-on called Greasemonkey to customize just about any site using scripts.  One of the things I like about Greasemonkey scripts is you can install them and try them out without restarting Firefox.
Here are six Greasemonkey [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time on TED.com recently — six hours non-stop the other night!  One of the videos that I really enjoyed was this one by Sir Ken Robinson entitled Do schools kill creativity?

Firstly it’s a highly entertaining performance — better than many stand-up comedians.  Most importantly it carries an extremely important [...]

I’ve noticed that the WWW is starting to disappear.  Type www.twitter.com into your address bar and you’ll end-up at twitter.com – no dub dub dub.  The same applies to FriendFeed.
Is WWW an endangered species?  Is it destined to become the appendix of the internet? It’s there, but no-one uses it and you can remove it [...]

We are a stick based society rather than a carrot based one – that is we punish bad bad behaviour rather than rewarding good behaviour.
Of course, serious crimes should be punished. What about other aspects of our lives though?
The problem is people don’t like being told what to do or what not to do.  [...]

Like all bloggers I love comments (well the non-spammy ones anyway) and I’d like to encourage visitors to leave more of them. To that end I’ve been spending the day making El Struthio’s Stuff ‘Link Love Friendly’. Here’s what I’ve done:
Added the CommentLuv Wordpress plugin – When you leave a comment, CommentLuv queries your web [...]

As quickly as it appeared Google SearchWiki has disappeared.
There’s nothing on the official Google Blog to throw any light on what has happened to it.
There’s a few possibilities here:

Google have quietly euthanised it because people didn’t like it as much as they thought they would.
It was an experiment and now Google are busy analysing [...]

Google SearchWiki has been with us for a very short time and some people have taken and instant dislike to it.
One of the biggest complaints seems to be that SearchWiki is that you have no choice whether you want to use it or not. It’s automatically enabled and there’s no option to turn it [...]

A Google Search for CoolIris reveals that everything has been discovered:

Google have launched SearchWiki which allows you to customise the way you see Google search results.
You can move sites to the top of the results, add comments, add sites and remove sites you don’t want to see. Any changes you make are only viewable when you’re logged into your Google account and do not [...]