When you have a movie in your queue that is also for sale, Netflix links to it. While I don't object to this in principle, the manner in which they go about it his very distracting. Here's a fix, until they come up with something more unobtrusive (like a tiny dollar sign icon next to the title):

• Use Firefox, not IE.
• Install the Greasemonkey extension and restart Firefox.
• Click here to install my "Remove Sales From Netflix Queue" Greasemonkey script.

Should do the trick, unless Netflix changes the CSS definitions out from under me.

P.S. You might also like my script for queue reordering.

If you've ever wished you could deselect a radio button this hack is for you. Here's the way radio buttons usually behave:

See how once you select one, there's no way to get back to a state where no radio buttons are selected? Well, here's how to fix that:

• Use Firefox, not IE.
• Install the Greasemonkey extension and restart Firefox.
• Click here to install my "Clear Radio Button" Greasemonkey script.
• Try the radio buttons above again to observe the revised behavior (select a radio button, then click it again to deselect it).

I wanted to be able to easily count up my Netflix returns (630 over the past 5+ years), so whipped up a quick solution. Here's what you do:

• Use Firefox, not IE.
• Install the Greasemonkey extension and restart Firefox.
• Click here to install my "Number Netflix History Rows" Greasemonkey script.
• Visit your "Returned Rentals" page at Netflix and enjoy the newly numbered rows.

If you buy used stuff at Amazon, this script alone makes Greasemonkey worth installing. Amazon TotalUsed tacks the shipping price onto the lowest used price so you can see how much savings you'll really be getting (it assumes, of course, that you always boost your Amazon orders of new items to $25 or more to take advantage of free shipping):

Especially handy for me, as I always tend to look at the pre-shipping used price and think "what a bargain!" before being ultimately deflated upon purchase.

Y'know how when you want to paste an Amazon URL to somebody, it's really long, it wraps, and it's ugly? Well, it's possible to greatly shorten such URLs. For example:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E6EK3S/
ref=amb_center-9_160116401_1/104-0734288-7167943?
n=130

...becomes:

http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/B000E6EK3S

I had a bookmarklet for doing this conversion with a single click, but in the ultimate display of laziness, I wanted to do it automatically instead. Hence my new "Short Amazon Permalinks" Greasemonkey script. What it does is this: when viewing an Amazon product, it converts the big title text to a link which points to the shortened version of the URL. Now all you have to do is right-click, "Copy Link Location", and you have the shortened version ready for pasting.

To use it you'll have to be running Firefox and Greasemonkey. If you are and want to give it a whirl, click the link to the script above and install it, then visit a worthy Amazon page. It should be all linkified.