The best one I've found is Tozzle, which is a great tap-and-drag puzzle game. The full version has more than 40 puzzles and it's the only game my toddler consistently loves to play.

One of the puzzles in Tozzle. You click and drag the piece from the upper-right corner to the correct spot. After a few incorrect tries, the game helpfully suggests where the piece goes.

Not only does it help him practice fine motor skills, he loves identifying the animals, shapes, and colors in it.

But here's something you should know that I discovered after having had the game for a few months -- the settings are not found within the game. You have to go to your iPhone settings and open them up from there. This is common in non-game apps but not terribly common in games (in my experience).

I guess this is so the child doesn't accidentally (or deliberately) get into the Tozzle settings menu and change things, but for me (admittedly an iPhone newbie at the time) it meant I didn't realize there were settings for a while.

The settings menu for Tozzle

Why is this important?

Well, there are only a few settings. But one of them can make a big difference in the enjoyment of Tozzle for your young one -- Accuracy, which has three settings: Baby, Toddler and Child.

They control how close the child has to get the puzzle piece to its correct spot in order for the piece to "catch" and go in the hole.

If your toddler is having trouble with Tozzle, open up that setting and change it from Child to Toddler, or from Toddler to Baby. That can make all the difference between an enjoyable game and a frustrating experience.

If you have an opinion on Tozzle, or a suggestion for a good iPhone game for toddlers, let me know!

Footnote: Invariably, whenever a discussion comes up about toddlers playing iPhone/iPod games, someone starts up with, "Blah blah blah I would never let me child play video games so young, blah blah blah." Just to get this out of the way now: It's 2012. I don't care. Thank you. Back to top.

This script for Firefox (requires Greasemonkey) or Google Chrome adds a link in the Facebook Developers area back to the regular Facebook home page, www.facebook.com.

As of January 2012, Facebook has unveiled a layout change to the Developers area, adding your name and profile picture along with the triangle-topped menu found on the regular site. While minor, this change is incompatible with the original script (released June 2011) because it breaks the layout pretty badly.

The script has been updated on Userscripts.org and now puts the "FB Home" link under your personal menu.

Screenshot:

You can download the script, see the source code and even write a review, if you're so inclined, at the Userscripts.org page. Once there, click the "Install" button in the upper right.

Go to Userscripts.org to get the Facebook Developers Home Link script

The original script put the "FB Home" link next to the "Apps" link. But with the addition of the new profile link and triangle menu, the link added by the original script did not fit well.

However, if you are interested in seeing the previous version, it is available here.

By the way, if you moderate Facebook Comments for a website, you might like my Facebook Comment Moderation Tool Headlines script.

It's a minimalist, single-column layout similar to my Simply Readable style, but it uses a blue-and-white color scheme with the Arial font.

To install:

1. Right-click this link and save the CSS file
2. In Sage, go to Options -> Settings, check “Use custom stylesheet” and browse to where you have saved the file
3. Click on a feed to see the result

Here's a screenshot using the RSS feed from The Verge:

This way you can see them without having to click anything when scrolling through your comments.

One of the goals is to make it easier to see when comments are not approved.

For example, comments caught by Facebook's spam filter (whether erroneously or not) will not have a highlighted word like comments with profanities do.

But they will still be unapproved and ordinarily you cannot tell unless you click the "Moderate" menu and look for the "Approve Comment" option. At Newsadvance.com and other sites for which I manage comments, we have had a few comments that should have been approved end up staying hidden for a while because of this.

Requires Firefox with the Stylish add-on.

Google Chrome compatibility is on the to-do list.

Download the Facebook Comment Moderation Unhide Menu userstyle from UserStyles.org.

(You can see the CSS source at the link above.)

Screenshots

Before:

After:

If you like this, you might also like:

• Add headlines to Facebook Comment Moderation Tool
• Add home link to Facebook Developers menu
• See blacklisted words better in Facebook Comment Moderation

This CSS presents a clean, single-column layout using the Georgia and Verdana fonts, both of which are praised for their excellent readability.

To install:

1. Right-click this link and save the CSS file
2. In Sage, go to Options -> Settings, check "Use custom stylesheet" and browse to where you have saved the file
3. Click on a feed to see the result

Here is a screenshot using the Bad Astronomy blog as an example:

If you see any errors or if you have any suggestions, please email me at matt (at) mattbusse (dot) com or contact me on Twitter.

You already know about the @mentions column in Twitter that shows when people reply to your tweets or mention you.

However, that won't tell you when people are sharing links to pages on your website without mentioning you in a tweet.

You can set up a single search for both @mentions and links to your website. As an example, I'll use @BurgWeekly and the-burg.com, which are, respectively, the Twitter account and website for The Burg, a Lynchburg-area arts & entertainment publication.

Go to the Twitter search and enter your Twitter username and your website domain (I recommend leaving out the www), separated by OR:

And here are the results:

You can see a bunch of shared links to The-Burg.com that don't mention @BurgWeekly.

The best part is, even if the person uses a URL shortener like bit.ly or TinyURL, Twitter will check where the link goes and still include it if it goes to your website.

Now you can click "Save this search" in the upper right of the search results. Then you can pull it up at any time from your searches menu.

If you use HootSuite or Tweetdeck, you can set up a column with this search term to get the same thing. I even removed the default @replies column in my HootSuite and use this instead.

However, the highlighting is a pale yellow that can be very difficult to pick out when you are looking quickly through the comments.

I always like to know when a word is caught by the filter because sometimes the post should be approved anyway if the word was actually not bad in the context it was used. Also sometimes readers complain that their posts don't show up, so it's good to know if the language is the reason why.

Here is a custom style that will make the caught words much easier to see. It requires Firefox or Chrome.

Before:

Notice the pale yellow background with a slightly darker, but still pretty hard to see, bottom border. It's very easy to miss when you're scrolling through lots of comments.

After:

Ah! Much more noticeable!

Interested?

Click here to get the style from Userstyles.org.

If you are on Firefox you will need to install the Stylish add-on.

If you are on Chrome you can install it as a user script from the first link above.

Technical notes

Facebook wraps each blacklisted word in a span tag with the "highlight" class, so this just modifies that CSS class.

I like it a lot and so far our readers' reaction is mostly positive.

As a member of the team that moderates comments, though, one thing I don't like is that in Facebook's Comment Moderation Tool, the Admin/Moderator View has "Visit Website" links below each comment — but it doesn't tell you the headlines of the articles the links point to.

You can hover your mouse over the link to see the URL, but in our case it uses our own internal short URLs that have nothing more revealing than an ID number for the article.

I made a script for Firefox and Google Chrome to add article headlines to the "Visit Website" links in the Facebook Comment Moderation Tool.

You can see the added headlines in the screenshot below.

Screenshot:

Get the script:

For Firefox users, the Greasemonkey add-on is required.

For Google Chrome users, the Tampermonkey add-on is required (it will not work if installed as a native Chrome user script).

Once you have your browser of choice set up...

Download the Facebook Comment Moderation Tool Headlines script

After you've got it, go to Facebook's Comment Moderation Tool and click over to Admin/Moderator View.

You must be in Admin/Moderator View, not Public Comments view, to see the headlines.

After the page loads, the headlines should appear. There may be a delay of a few seconds because the script runs after the page loads, and it has to follow each "Visit Website" link and grab its HTML content.

Source:

// Released under the MIT license
// http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
// ==UserScript==
// @name    Facebook Comment Moderation Tool Headlines
// @namespace   http://mattbusse.com
// @description   Appends story headlines to Facebook Comment Moderation "Visit Website" links
// @include   http*://developers.facebook.com/tools/*
// @version   1.0
// ==/UserScript==

var allLinks, visitWebsiteLink, expr, visitWebsiteLinkURL,
  visitWebsiteLinkPage, pageTitle, pageContent, title;

// grabbing URLs
function fetchPage(visitWebsiteLinkPage, targetLink) {
  GM_xmlhttpRequest({
    method: 'GET',
    url: visitWebsiteLinkPage,
    onload: function(response){

      // get the HTML content of the page
      pageContent = response.responseText;

      // use regex to extract its h1 tag
      pageTitle = pageContent.match(/(.*?)/g)[0];

      // strip html tags from the result
      pageTitle = pageTitle.replace(//g, '');

      // little bit of cleanup - ampersands and apostrophes
      pageTitle = pageTitle.replace(/&/g, '&');
      pageTitle = pageTitle.replace(/'/g, "'");

      // append headline to Visit Website link
      title = document.createElement('div');
      title.style.backgroundColor = "yellow";
      title.style.color = "#000";
      title.style.display = "inline";
      title.appendChild(document.createTextNode(" - " + pageTitle));
      targetLink.parentNode.insertBefore(title, targetLink.nextSibling);  

    }
  });
}

function processLinks() {

  // define which links to look for
  expr = "//a[contains (string(), 'Visit Website')]";
  allLinks = document.evaluate(
    expr,
    document,
    null,
    XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,
    null);

  // loop through the links
  for (var i = 0; i < allLinks.snapshotLength; i++) {
    visitWebsiteLink = allLinks.snapshotItem(i);
    visitWebsiteLinkURL = visitWebsiteLink.getAttribute('href');

  // follow Visit Website link and attach corresponding headline
  fetchPage(visitWebsiteLinkURL, visitWebsiteLink);
  }
}

// get the ball rolling
processLinks();

Technical notes, if you're interested:

• The script works by following each "Visit Website" link and grabbing the corresponding page's first h1 tag. If you are moderating a site where the article's headline is not in its first h1 tag, you should be aware of two things:
  1. The script might show you something other than the article's headline
  2. You need to talk to your site's SEO staff
• The script works on "Visit Website" links on Facebook's Comment Moderation Tool but not "View Full Thread" links. This is because the former point to websites the script can follow and grab headlines from; the latter point to Facebook AJAX functions that pop up boxes with more comments in them.
• The script doesn't work with Google Chrome because, while Chrome supports userscripts, it does not support the Greasemonkey function that allows the browser to grab pages from another website domain. That feature is on the developers' list to be implemented but for now this script is Firefox-only, unless you research your own workaround. Update, January 2012: Works in Google Chrome with Tampermonkey!
• Thanks go to Hellion at the terrific Stack Overflow community of programmers for help working out a problem that came up while writing this script.

If you have any questions or comments about this script, or — since this is my first public Greasemonkey script — if you'd like to report a bug, please contact me!