Clean up your facebook: FB Purity
by AndyMac
So you want to use Facebook to help your business out, but your customers are being drowned out by the constant game requests, polls, notifications of who friended who, and everything else?
Enter FaceBook Purity. This is one simple addon that lets you control what Facebook shows you and what it (FBPurity) hides. You can choose to hide many of the default (and annoying) options, and can even go so far to whitelist or blacklist certain applications in a much more convenient way than Facebook itself allows.
It installs in a second or two, then to use it, just look under your status message box. Click on the FBPurity link to open up the customization box, or click on the apps or extras if you want to see what it’s hidden for you currently.
Sweet Home! can’t find the share? Use the IP.
by AndyMac
I love my Droid phone, but certainly one hassle with it that hasn’t been perfected is the need to physically connect to the computer to sync up data.
There’s tons of apps that will help you sync music, but until recently I hadn’t seen many that worked for the pictures and films you take on the phone, and certainly hadn’t seen one that worked automatically and was free.
Enter Sweet Home! (Continue Reading...)
Google Chrome as a development tool
by AndyMac
Chrome, the semi-new browser developed by Google, is a pretty great browser.
- It’s compliant with web standards far more than IE or Safari
- It’s fast (page loads actually do seem faster)
- It’s got a small footprint (though that means some searching to learn how to do things like look at your history)
- The Omnibar (search, bookmarks, url, all in one!)
- Synchronize looks, bookmarks, etc across multiple systems
- It doesn’t crash (websites might bring down your tab, but not your browser)
- Incognito … you can browse sites anonymously much more easily
So you may not need a much better reason to use Chrome, but as a developer, there’s a bunch more reasons, and most of them are in the “Inspect Element” selection.
LibreOffice released!
by AndyMac
What is LibreOffice? Why, it’s the free office productivity suite built off of OpenOffice! What’s OpenOffice? Why, it’s a free productivity suite designed to replace MS Office!
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Windows 7 USB Headset Woes
by AndyMac
I got a USB headset this weekend and found, much to my dismay, that there isn’t a rapid switch capability in Windows 7. So to switch between my USB headset and my normal speakers (connected through the sound card), I right click on the volume control, select playback devices, select the device I want to use (headset or speakers), right click, and click set-default. (Continue Reading...)
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