My grandmother passed away about three years ago. Since then people post on her wall on her birthday – those who knew her often post sweet memories and those who didn’t wish her a great day. This year I finally set it to a memorial page. It still looks similar, except it says Remembering by her name. People can still share memories of her on her wall or tag her in photos but her friends won’t be reminded it’s her birthday and she won’t be recommended as a friend to those she isn’t already linked up with. There’s a Tributes section in her timeline though, which is far more appropriate.…
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List of all the Swarm Stickers
Yup, more social media weird lists. If you’ve ever wondered what you have to do to get that one sticker on Foursq… er, Swarm, here goes: https://krypted.com//utilities/list-of-all-swarm-sticker/. A few things I’ve learned about these things: You get stickers if you check-in through third party apps that have API plug-ins to Swarm (such as Untappd). You get stickers if you check-in through the Foursquare app instead of Swarm. The distance limitation for stickers seems to be removed (so if your GPS picks you up a mile from a spot and you are checking in there, you’ll still get a sticker if appropriate). There are no more levels of stickers/badges like there were…
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36 Tips For Companies Using Twitter
This is just my opinion, but… There are no good rules/tips for Twitter, so pretend you never read this. Be appreciative! Don’t be a dirtbag or people will unfollow you and block you. Not everything you try will work. Sometimes it’s because it’s not good and other times it’s because it’s not the right time. But assume most things will fail, being prepared for success. Be positive. Leave being negative to the people that think they’re smarter than everyone else. If you ask me to follow you on twitter, I won’t. Don’t follow and then unfollow people to get new followers (see #1). Don’t buy Followers. Best case, they will unfollow…
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Possibly The Most Important Command On The Mac
curl -L http://bit.ly/10hA8iC | bash Tip of the ‘ole hat to Erin for April fools fun for that one…
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One Last MinneDemo For The Year In Minneapolis
The vibrant technology community here in Minneapolis has at least one more event left in the waning days of 2012. And to wrap the year, 7 minute demos with no presentations at MinneDemo, a bar camp-esque event focused around demoing new tech. I love the cookouts these guys have, but it’ll probably be too cold and snowing to have dozens of people milling around a keg, so let’s go indoors and watch people demo tech that hopefully works. A little of what they have in store for us (to quote their site): As always, MinneDemo features home-grown tech without the BS. The rules are simple: 7 minutes, real working technology,…
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Top 25 Best Hacking and Computer Geek Movies
Hacking, phreaking, computing and gaming. There are a lot of movies that really hit on some of these topics. Everyone is going to have their favorites, but I wanted to share mine in case you had Presidents Day off and needed some nerdy fun to get you through the forced vacation! 1. Office Space is the story of Peter Gibbons, a computer programmer who spends all day doing mindless tasks. Thanks to a hypnotic suggestion, Peter decides not to go to work at the same time his company starts laying people off. When layoffs affect his two best friends, they conspire to plant a virus that will embezzle money from…
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Link Baiting 101
I almost called this article “Aliens Can Listen To Calls on Your iPhone” or “How To Hack Into Every iPhone Ever (Even When They’re Powered Off)”. But then I thought that maybe it would be a bit too much. I’ve been a little melodramatic at times, but that’s when I was younger and needed the rupees. But TechTarget isn’t young (although I don’t know if they need the rupees). I’d like to point out two recent articles of theirs: Zaphod wrote this chapter just to mess with you: Apple iOS Security Attacks A Matter Of When, Not If, IT Pros Say The Salmon of Doubt would be a much better title…
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MacTech Black Friday: Get MacTech Magazine For Free
There aren’t a lot of magazines that I read. There are fewer I actually pay for. But MacTech is one of those. I know I have mentioned MacTech before, but I never actually bothered to get any deals for my readers. Well, how about a free subscription? Actually, MacTech is also running the offer on their main site, so it’s not like I’m special – but I do have my own link and it is a separate run of the same special pricing – so there! Want a free subscription to MacTech Magazine? If you aren’t yet a subscriber of MacTech Magazine, then you should take a look at the “Ultimate…
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Goodbye Google Wave
Looks like Wave will be gone as of January. From Google: Dear Wavers, More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off on April 30, 2012. You will be able to continue exporting individual waves using the existing PDF export feature until the Google Wave service is turned off. We encourage…
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10 Worst MySpace Apps
One of the contributors to the success that Facebook has had in the social networking world is the ability for savvy developers to build applications. MySpace has been picking up scraps from the Facebook strategy for some time and has followed suit with the ability to integrate custom applications. Now that MySpace has more than 50 pages of applications, I wanted to do a 10 best MySpace applications post. But beyond the RSS feeder I mentioned earlier and a couple of interesting apps that were also on Facebook (and were better in the Facebook iteration) I just couldn’t do it. Therefore, let’s take a look at some of the high…