Tag: Facebook

The Facebook Gift Shop Closes Its Doors, Focus Shifts to Improving Other Features

Topping the list of Facebook features I’ll never miss, the Facebook team removed the Gift Shop as of August 1st. No longer will you see the nagging option to give your friends images of cakes or puppies for their birthdays (I’m still baffled by the whole virtual item/currency thing). Jared Morgenstern, Facebook’s product manager for…

August 2, 2010
New Silverlight-based Facebook Client Impresses

I really don’t care for out-of-browser clients for my internet services. They are typically a sluggish waste of time, instead of an extension of what I like about its browser-based counterpart. Luckily, the Silverlight 4 Facebook Client is very useful and less of a pest (Silverlight is a Microsoft technology for creating interactive applications, similar…

June 29, 2010
How to Prevent Embarrassing Status Updates on Facebook with Alerts

As I rapidly learned in my fraternity days, you can never be too careful with your unattended computer. All it takes is for you to leave your door unlocked, forget to log out of a public computer, or leave your laptop somewhere, and a stranger can have complete access to your entire Facebook account. Even…

June 11, 2010
Google Chrome: Quickly View Larger Facebook Pictures with Facebook Photo Zoom

Lately, I’ve realized how little I like clicking on things. When opening programs, I’d rather type a command with my keyboard than open my Start menu. If I need to open a file in a folder, I type the first few letters of its name and press the enter key. So when I’m on Facebook,…

June 8, 2010
Security Tip: Deauthorize Old Facebook Applications to Protect Your Profile [Updated]

It’s no secret: Facebook hasn’t exactly won any awards for protecting your privacy lately. But Facebook’s privacy policies aren’t the only thing you need to be concerned about when using the popular social network – you also need to keep an eye on the apps that have access to your information. Whenever you use an…

May 20, 2010
How to discover what public information is available on your Facebook Profile

Facebook has made headlines recently with the company’s questionable approach to user privacy. Many of the new changes to Facebook allow more of your information to be shared without your knowledge. Unknown to most people, some of your Facebook information is available to anyone on the internet through the Facebook API. You can use a…

May 14, 2010
How to Filter Your Facebook News Feed with the New Version of Facebook

About a year ago, I wrote a guide to filtering the noise from your Facebook News Feed that worked for the old version of Facebook. The News Feed can get really messy when a lot of your friends are playing games like Farmville, Mob Wars, etc., and the old version of Facebook provided you with…

April 16, 2010
How to Add Facebook Chat To Your Desktop Instant Messaging Software

When Facebook Chat was first launched in early 2008, it added a powerful feature to the growing social network. Almost two years later Facebook Chat has received an upgrade – the ability to use Facebook Chat from your favorite desktop IM software. This new feature works by utilizing the XMPP messaging protocol (the same protocol…

February 11, 2010
Facebook Tip: Display Missing Status Updates in Facebook’s Live Feed

Facebook’s Live Feed shows a stream of your friends’ activity on Facebook in real-time. This feature was added after the updated News Feed was released, which only shows popular posts (tailored just for you) that occurred throughout the entire day. One thing I noticed when I compared my Facebook Live Feed to the feed displayed…

February 2, 2010
First 48 Hours with the Motorla Droid

My thoughts after the first 48 hours with the Motorola Droid.

January 29, 2010