Kiran Upadhyay

Facebook  Wall is a powerful tool: it lets you stay in touch with hundreds of people all over the world and keep up-to-date with what they are up to and what they share. With it being such an important tool, it is quite clear why it has been tweaked so many times throughout the life of the social network. You can see lots of things at a glance once you enter your Facebook dashboard: your friends’ current mood and thoughts, your friends’ new friends, your friends’ photos, etc; as well as your new potential friends, your friends’ upcoming events and lots of other things. With so much information stuffed into one page, it is easy to get lost. With Facebook  killing default wall filters  while quietly introducing  new wall settings , seeing what you actually want becomes almost impossible. Would you like to have more power over your wall? The following user scripts will help you to tweak your Facebook wall to de-clutter and simplify it! Note: All the three user scri...

If you use Ubuntu, you may have faced the frustration of trying to find a native way to annotate your PDF files, like say, any of the  MakeUseOf PDF manuals  you know you can download for free. Unless you run some Windows program via Wine, wait for Evince’s annotation features, or learn to use the incredibly user-unfriendly  PDFEdit , you’re pretty much out of luck. That’s when you can be thankful that there are developers focused on making web-based PDF tools. There are plenty of PDF tools, many that are  document-viewing sites , such as  Scribd, Issuu, DocStoc , etc. that beautifully display PDF files neatly on your browser, but not many of these let you do much other than admire the document. Few web-based PDF tools actually offer annotation features, like the ones you can find in  Foxit  (whose Linux version doesn’t actually have annotation tools) or  PDF-XChange , my favorite reader with customizable keyboard shortcuts. Perhaps, you occas...