Sometime, I think maybe last year, I decided to take a break from social media. Well, not a complete break but a radical reduction in my usage. Facebook in particular. What once upon a time had been a bit of … Continue reading
Both Chrome and Safari allow the execution of javascript via AppleScript. I have no idea about Firefox or any others, I didn’t bother to check. Anyway, it would be great if I could just bop the PowerMate whenever I have something I win to pin / save / tweet / share, etc. So I created a PowerMate trigger with a custom AppleScript. Continue reading
A lot of friends and family on Facebook seem to take an all or nothing approach to sharing some of their more personal information. Some people, even the most casual friends, have their address, telephone number, birthday, visible while others that I’m close to provide none of this information. And it occurs to me that maybe both groups of people are unaware of the amount of control Facebook provides in determining who can and can not see this information. Continue reading
Saw this in my Facebook feed this morning. Pretty sure this isn’t what, YML host, @ShawnKing intended (read from bottom to top).
It’s pretty simple to let Twitter set your Facebook status, so why not just do that instead? I tried that for a time and, in my case, many of my Twitter followers are more tech savvy than some of my friends and family that use Facebook, and so some of the, geekier topics let’s say, aren’t going to be of any interest to many of them. Continue reading
