Top 10 Greasemonkey scripts to improve your productivity
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1) So instead of a left-click you're using a right-click. Not much more productive. Isn't Google Labs' right-click gestures a lot more productive, and built-in?
2) I hate ads as much as everybody (actually, I don't care about ads whatsoever), but blocking ads is not making you more productive. It's letting you brag to your coworkers about how sophisticated you are for using Firefox.
3) It's a lot more productive to use desktop software, because then you get little sounds to alert you when you have new messages, mail and feeds alike. Plus, it runs faster than AJAX applications would.
4) Not bad, not bad.
5) Again, something that desktop software can do already. And I was fairly certain that Gmail has this built in already.
6) So you're saving one click while searching for images. Unless your job is "online image plagiarist," you're not saving that much.
7) You can also bookmark your searches, since Gmail supports saving searches as URLs.
8) This helps essentially nobody. Who uses two separate Gmail accounts for anything legitimate? The argument the article makes is for a couple, which implies you're using a computer for personal issues rather than matters of productivity.
9) This is beating a dead horse, but this saves one click when you add feeds, which means that in your life you're saving perhaps 70 clicks, and that if you're an above average feed reader. And, you know, desktop software does it already.
10) That's nice, but again: it's such a small improvement, it's hardly worth mentioning.
Not to mention: "Top 10" is a BS phrase to use. Can't you just say 10? That way you can be a bit less smarmy and desperate-sounding?
As a former Lifehack.org writer, I have to say: I'm terribly disappointed with how standards have fallen. Just reading this article wasted more productivity than a person would save with this application.