ORIGINAL: safeTwire
If you use a cotton swab, or any other tool, to eliminate the triangular shape of the fillet, you are defeating the purpose of the fillet.
Actually, the liquid glue left will form a small fillet with the typical curved surface. Too many people make the glue fillet much too large. It doesn't take much. If you're going to make them, the ones pictured a couple of posts up are perfect, as Minn said.