Scripts For Ads, Statuses, Photos and Hiding Apps

Scripts, for those who are not already initiated, are snippets of code that can be added to webpages to make them more useable to you, and only you - think of it like using a highlighter on a magazine; it only affects your copy. Tools like Greasemonkey help to insert scripts into the web pages as they are loaded in your browser.

Hide Your Friends Apps from View: If you’re sick of the newest Zygna offering cluttering up the pages you visit, then try out this Grease Monkey script  which lets you view profiles without the applications crowding up the view. This script is currently only available for Firefox fans.

Display FB Statuses on Your Wordpress Blog (or vice versa): Incorporate FB onto your Wordpress blog via a plugin called StatusPress. Also compatible with Twitter and Last.FM, this widget allows your blog to be one of Facebooks many tentacles but also allows your blog fans to easily interact with  your blog. If you’re looking to do the exact opposite (have your blog posts show up on your Facebook profile) then use the Wordbook plug-in which will funnel your most recent blog posts into a tab on your profile.

Ditch Ads and Pointless Updates: Another Greaskmonkey script, Facebook: Cleaner will remove most of the ads and updates that ruin your view of your friends pages.

View All Photos: Although we certainly don’t advocate violating another person’s privacy, there are times when you can't tell if you know someone from their profile picture alone. Using this script  you can view the photos of any user. Or, if you prefer to do the work manually, there’s a quick tutorial here. We hope it goes without saying, but don't abuse the system and be a creeper.

Best User Tips from Maximum PC's Facebook Fan Page

We didn't just scour high and low trying to find worthy Facebook tips - we went ahead and asked some of the smartest people we know: our readers. The fans on our Maximum PC Facebook page were gracious enough to oblige and offer us up 13 more ways to improve your Facebook experience.

• If the chat craps out I just hit ctrl+F5 and that usually fixes it. Some times it takes a couple tries - Ryan Hansard

• Folks should friend Sophos Security and stay up on all the scams out there. Best thing I ever did.

• F5 to view photos like you used to - Jesse Nolen

• I just right click on the image and click on Open New Tab. Theater mode won't show up, in Chrome that is. - Caleb Snell

• At work or school, depends on your admin, but https will access facebook if denied...

• Greasemonkey to remove the theater mode

• If you're blind like me, and use Command prompt a lot, then Pressing Alt+Enter in the Command Prompt gets you a full screen window instead of a the normal box.

• If you start a game and then right click on home and select open in new tab you can play and check what's going on without reloading the game!!!!

• Use Quickbooks internal CSS styling and recode the images of FB with Quickbooks images and look like youre working in FB

• Use the Better Facebook! Firefox extension to automatically open the Most Recent tab, mark stories as read, enlarge pictures just by mousing over them and a host of other useful things.

• Fluff Busting Purity v4.3.1 - Jim Walsh - Check out this demo video

• Ctrl+f5 is a browser shortcut to reload without using local cache - Kiran Patel

• Use the Better Facebook plugin for your browser... Lots of really awesome enhancements. Alternately, SocialSafe is a nice backup utility, too and it supports Twitter, too.- George Jaros