We all have webapps and services that we love, but that doesn't make them perfect. If you want to do more with Gmail, remove annoying parts of Facebook, connect two webapps you love, automate tedious actions, and more, you can do all this with a few clever scripts, extensions, and services. Here are our 10 favorites.

10. Fix Your Biggest YouTube Annoyances

YouTube is a great place to find tons of video content, but it's far from perfect. You may be annoyed by automatic video plays, the player choosing the wrong resolution, the ugliness of the comments, and the multitude of intrusive ads. The easiest way to fix these problems is with a Chrome extension called YouTube Options, but users of other browsers can implement a few userscripts to get the same clever fixes as well.

9. Add a Custom Style with a Userstyle Sheet

Userstyles are simply CSS stylesheets used to override the existing code on a web site. This is great because you can use them to customize the look of just about any site. You can add custom backgrounds and images to Facebook, make Google Reader look like a desktop app, give YouTube a darker interface for more vibrant viewing, and even add a Super Mario Bros. theme to Tumblr. For help on finding great userstyles and learning how to implement them, check out our complete guide.

8. Improve Google Reader with Extensions and Userscripts

Google Reader is a great webapp on its own, but you can supercharge its capabilities and change its look with the help of some extensions and/or userscripts. You can overhaul the interface any way you want, get notifications on updated feeds, remove junk without removing any feeds, and easily subscribe to new feeds directly from your toolbar. That's just a sample. For a comprehensive look at everything you can do to supercharge Google Reader, check out our guide.

7. Manage Your Social Media Accounts Better with FellowUp

Between your Google apps and Facebook and LinkedIn, you've probably racked up quite a few contacts and calendar events. It can be hard to manage them all when they're in different places, and that's assuming you can even remember who your contacts are in the first place. FellowUp is a web and mobile app that helps you keep track of it all from pretty much anywhere. It keeps you abreast of what's on tap for the day, helps remind you of who all your contacts are in case you forget, and makes it easy to find who or what you're looking for. It's a really helpful tool if you're overwhelmed by your social media accounts. Read more about it here or just check it out.

6. Create Site-Specific Browsers (or Use a Webapp-Centric Browser)

Webapps are great, but desktop versions are often more reliable. You also may prefer a desktop app to always have a persistent window that contains the webapp you want to use. Site-Specific Browsers, or SSBs, can do this for you. OS X has an excellent option called Fluid. Windows users should check out Bubbles (although the site appears to be down at the moment) or Site Specific Browser (which is currently available). These SSBs often add additional features to your web apps. For example, Fluid adds Growl support and makes it very easy to add userscripts and styles.

Alternatively, OS X users can check out Robin, which is an app that collects your favorite apps into one interface. You can switch between them with big app tabs and the interface keeps things super simple.

5. Keep Your Webapps In Sync With Your Desktop Using Social Folders

Social Folders is a handy web service that keeps your webapps in sync with your desktop. You can kind of think of it like Dropbox for Facebook, Flickr, Google Docs, SoundCloud, YouTube, Twitter, and more. You just drop want you want to upload to that web service into its respective folder and Social Folders takes care of the rest. If you add something to any of your synchronized webapps via the web (or anywhere else), Social Folders will download it to your computer(s). It's not only a great way to upload files to various services, but it provides a backup on your computer as well. The service is free for 1,000 file transfers per month, and you can gain more free transfers by referring friends to the service. Alternatively, you can just get unlimited transfers by paying $2 per month or $10 per year. Check it out here.

4. Clean Up and Improve Gmail with Gmelius and Minimalist for Everything

Google's latest design upgrades definitely look nice, but they're not necessarily is utilitarian, or even as simple, as they could be. You can't fit as much on screen as you once could and, as always, ads get in the way. The solution comes in two forms: Gmelius and Minimalist for Everything. Both are extensions that boost Gmail's capabilities, hide ads, and remove interface elements you don't want cluttering up your window. Gmelius works cross-browser—for Chrome, Firefox, and Opera—but Minimalist for everything is Chrome-only.

3. Power Up Your Dropbox or Google Drive with Wappwolf

Your Dropbox and Google Drive pretty much just sit there and sync stuff for you. That's awesome on its own, but there is so much more you can do with a cool webapp called Wappwolf. It can watch any folder in your GDrive/Dropbox and perform an action when it finds what it's looking for. It can convert books and send them to your Kindle, downsize images and upload them to your favorite image sharing sites, batch-convert audio files to various formats, and even sign PDF documents. Sign up at Wappwolf.com and read our guide to get started.

2. Make Facebook Infinitely Better with One Browser Extension

Nowadays, Facebook can't make an update without several groups and petitions cropping up, asking them to change things back to the old ways. Whether you find these complaints legitimate or not, you don't have to beg to make Facebook bend to your desires. All you need is Social Fixer, a browser extension and userscript that works with pretty much any web browser you've got. It'll help you get rid of annoying interface elements you don't like, make your second inbox bigger (you probably didn't even know you had two), filter out posts you don't want to see without unfriending anybody, and a whole lot more. To get started, check out our complete guide.

1. Supercharge Almost Any Webapp With ifttt

If This Then That, or ifttt for short, is an incredible service that can create new functionality from your webapps and even connect them together. For example, you can automatically take articles starred in Google Reader and send them to your Instapaper account, download photos you were tagged in on Facebook to your Dropbox, or even automate your job search. These are just a few of many great examples. We've detailed many more here, and you can sign up for the service for free by visiting ifttt.com.

Most people (hopefully) know by now to keep their social networks clean, in case anyone from a potential employer to a Google-happy family member stumbles on your profile. However, your Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn profile can actually be an asset in helping you stand out when you apply for a job, and sprucing it up a bit with a new photo, updated skills, and recent accomplishments can go a long way. Besides, you know the hiring manager is going to look at your profile before calling you anyway.

At this point we should expect potential employers to search for us at Facebook and LinkedIn before they contact us for an interview. It's not news that a hiring manager will review a candidate's resume and then try to dig them up on Facebook to see what kind of person they are before deciding whether they want to interview them. You can boost your odds of standing out in a positive way by sprucing up your profiles as well as your resume before you apply.

Wise Bread suggests, among other things, uploading a good-looking recent photo, tidying up personal details and making sure your privacy settings are the way you want them, and—especially at LinkedIn—editing your career goals, personal description, and any other old or out of date information. Request and offer recommendations from old coworkers if you can, and make sure your recent achievements and projects are included in your profile. Wise Bread has a number of other great suggestions, like researching the company culture and the interviewers specifically, so the whole list is worth a look.

Do you keep your social network profiles in shape for public viewing at all times, or does your LinkedIn profile need a brush-up? Perhaps you just lock yours down so it's not searchable and not public? Whatever you do, share your thoughts in the comments below.

6 Crucial Job Searching Steps Most People Skip | Wise Bread

If you find you have trouble keeping in touch with coworkers that you used to work with or an old manager you'd love to use as a reference, Mingly is a new webapp that makes it easy for you to stay in touch and up to date with your personal and professional network as major events take place in their lives. It doesn't replace your social networks, but it does help you use them more efficiently.

Mingly is completely free, and available as a webapp, a Gmail plug-in, and an email digest that all serve to keep you up to date on what's going on in the lives of the people you really want to stay in touch with. Sure, you could just log in to Facebook and look to see who has a birthday coming up, or head to LinkedIn and see who's been promoted recently or who'll be in your town on a business trip, but Mingly combines all of that data into a single place that's easy to check—or in the case of the email digest and Gmail plugins, comes right to you instead of forcing you to go looking for it.

To use Mingly, you'll have to sign in with a Google account. Then you can connect the webapp to Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter—whichever networks you'd like to use Mingly with. Once you're set up, you can interact with people right in the Mingly webapp, or go to your networks individually to talk to friends with major events coming up. Best of all, you can customize which people and types of events you want to be notified about. If you'd prefer to use it to stay in touch with your professional network, you can omit birthdays and other personal events, for example. Do you think there's room for social aggregators and assistants like Mingly, or is the access they require to provide their services too high a price for what you get? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Finding a job, we're often told, is more about who you know rather than what you know. Glassdoor, the site that gives you an insider look into companies' interview questions and salaries, now wants to add personal insider connections to give you an edge in your job search—via your Facebook friends.

When you connect Glassdoor to Facebook and click on a company, now in addition to seeing job listings, reviews, salaries, and interview details, you'll see which Facebook friends (or friends of friends) are connected to that company—which means you might have an ally in your job application if you're interested in applying.

While professional networking site LinkedIn might seem a more obvious network to turn to for job searching, there's no reason you can't use both services. Some or many of your friends might not be using LinkedIn or might be more active on Facebook, and when you're looking for a job, it makes sense to try every avenue.

Glassdoor Inside Connections | via Mashable