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How to create a Facebook Fan Page / Public Profile

2009-05-21T19:05:00.001-07:00

Social Network > Facebook > Facebook Public Profiles To create a Facebook public profile (ex fan page) just go to: http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php … and follow the instructions. Pay special attention to the page’s title, ‘cos you won’t be able to modify it in the future. A good title should: attract users’ attention: the more fans your public profile will get, the faster it

What is a Facebook Public Profile (fan page)? Definition and tutorial

2009-05-21T18:38:00.001-07:00

Social Network > Facebook Facebook Public profile (fan page) definition A Facebook Public Profile (also known as Facebook Fan Pages) are special profiles meant to promote a brand, a product, an artist, a web site, an organization. Everything public, of course. So, if you want to promote something, you should create a public profile instead of a personal profile. They’re very similar: like

LiveUpload: Invalid album id error while uploading a photo to Facebook

2009-03-27T12:42:00.001-07:00

LiveUpload is a plugin to upload your photos from Windows Live Photo Gallery to Facebook. If you’re getting this error… Failed with the following error: "Invalid album id" … maybe you’re trying to upload your photos to the "Profile pictures" album. Choose another album (or create a new one, directly via LiveUpload). :)

Windows Live Messenger: unlimited nudge hack (with A patch)

2009-03-26T20:00:00.001-07:00

Let me guess: you want to annoy those unlucky friends of yours with unlimited nudges, but Windows Live Messenger says, after the first nudge: You may not send a nudge that often. But don’t worry, you can send unlimited nudges with Windows Live Messenger thanks to the unlimited nudge hack (with A patch): Exit Windows Live Messenger; Go to A-Patch’s download page (http://apatch.org/

What is Blogger / Blogspot? Definition and Tutorial

2009-03-20T21:13:00.001-07:00

Blog > Blogger / Blogspot definition Blogger/Blogspot is a free blog publishing platform, by Google. It allows you to create immediately a blog in a subdomain (in the form yourname.blogspot.com), and to start publishing posts. Instead of Wordpress.com, it allows you to insert a lot of javascripts (such web counters, like Google Analytics), to redirect your feed to Feedburner, and to insert

What is a Blog (blogging)? Definition and Tutorial

2009-03-20T20:58:00.001-07:00

Versione italiana: Guida ai Blog. Cos'è un Blog? (Definizione)What is a blog? Blogging platforms definition A blog is a kind of web site where the main content consists of posts (or articles), web pages ordered in a reverse-chronological order, instead of a gerarchical one. The user (a blogger) can easily publish or edit these posts with a graphical editor (like Word), and he doesn't need to

Insert any HTML code in your Facebook profile (wall)

2009-03-19T20:32:00.001-07:00

Social Network > Facebook To insert any HTML code inside your Facebook profile (wall), follow these simple steps: go to “Profile HTML” Facebook application page (http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=6165549526); click on “Go to application” and then on "Allow"; insert your HTML code inside the “your code” text area; click on “submit” to save your HTML code; click on "

Blogger/Blogspot blocks image hotlinking?

2009-02-16T14:19:00.001-08:00

It seems that Blogger team just blocked image hotlinking for blogs hosted in blogspot.com. If you try to insert an image (coming from blogspot.com) in your website, you'll see that the image won't appear in your page. You have to upload it in your website. Is Blogger Team blocking image thieves? :)

Feed URL of a single Blogger/blogspot's label

2009-02-03T20:18:00.001-08:00

Blog > Blogger / BlogspotObtaining the URL of a Blogger/blogspot's label is simple. Retrieve the label's permalink from the label's URL. e.g.: for this blog's News About "My Computer Made Simple" label, the permalink is the string after "label":mycomputermadesimple.blogspot.com/search/label/News%20about%20%22My%20Computer%20Made%20Simple%22 Add the permalink at the end of this base

Display HTML code in Blogger

2009-02-03T20:03:00.001-08:00

Blog > Blogger / BlogspotIf you want to display a HTML code inside your Blogger/Blogspot post (for coding examples), Blogger will strip it, even if you write it inside the RTF editor. To avoid that, simply wrap your HTML with textarea tags:

<div id="test">div content</div>   This code will be displayed as   <div id="test">div content</div>   If you want to change textarea's width and
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<h1>Gmail changes discussion buttons: "Move to" and auto-complete</h1>
<p>2009-02-03T19:43:00.001-08:00</p>
While I was checking my e-mail, a few minutes ago, I found that Gmail changed the buttons above the emails (or emails threads list).  These are the new buttons:     Archive;     Report Spam;     Delete;     Move to (dropdown);     Labels (dropdown);     More actions (dropdown);             Mark as read / unread;         Add star         Remove star         Create event         Filter messages
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<h1>Blogger/Blogspot table: removing the big blank space</h1>
<p>2009-02-03T19:01:00.000-08:00</p>
Blog > Blogger / BlogspotBlogger has an ugly bug: if you insert an HTML table, it will convert every line break in a blank white space... resulting in a big blank space above the table.Thanks to Peter ("Avoid large white space above table in Blogger Part 2") I've found the simple solution.Just wrap your table HTML code with this:.nobrtable br { display: none }... your table code...This code will
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<h1>Facebook smileys: chat emoticons list</h1>
<p>2009-02-03T18:26:00.000-08:00</p>
Social Network > FacebookHere is the complete Facebook Smileys (emoticons) list:.nobrtable br { display: none }SmileyDescriptionKeyboard shortcut 1Shortcut 2Smile :-)  :) Big Smile :-D  :D Wink ;-)  ;) Manga eyes^_^Smiling eyes>:oCat:3grumpy>:-(Sad emoticon :-(  :( Crying:'(Shock :-o  :o Nerd Glasses 8-)  8) Sunglasses8-|Tongue :-P  :P What?O.oNerd-_-Uncertain:/:\Devilish3:)AngelO:)Kissing
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<h1>Lists with a quiz square (Tick the box symbol) in OpenOffice Writer</h1>
<p>2009-02-01T15:36:00.000-08:00</p>
Word processor > OpenOffice.org WriterDo you want to create a list with empty square as bullets with OpenOffice Writer? (e.g. for a class test, or a quiz) ?If you want to create such a list (with the "tick the box" symbol) follow these steps:Create a bullet list (also known as unordered list);Right click on your list and click on "Numbering/Bullets...";Go to "Options" tab;Click on the level whose
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<h1>Flash on iPhone: "as soon as possible"</h1>
<p>2009-02-01T12:28:00.000-08:00</p>
Until now, Apple refused to put Flash Lite on its iPhone, 'since it wasn't good enough - and the computer version of the flash plugin was too slow for Apple's smartphone.But that situation will change: Apple gave Adobe the iPhone development kit, and the approval to develop an iPhone version of the Flash Player.When will it be ready? As soon as possible, Adobe said. For the joy of all iPhone
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<h1>Facebook Tag Privacy: preventing friends tagging you in Photos/Videos</h1>
<p>2009-01-30T19:58:00.001-08:00</p>
Social Network > Facebook  By default, everyone in you contact list can see your photos in Facebook, if a friend of yours uploads a stupid photo and adds a tag with your name.  This is quite annoying. Even if you can't prevent people tagging your photos in Facebook, you can prevent that everyone else reads, in their news feed: "<Put your name here> has been tagged in this photo".  Go to Settings
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<h1>What is Facebook? Definition and Tutorial</h1>
<p>2009-01-30T19:33:00.001-08:00</p>
Social Network >  Facebook definition  Facebook is a social network that lets you add your friend and communicate with them.  You can:     send direct messages to friends;     notify all your friends about your status;     sharing informations with them;    Facebook tutorial (index)     Using Facebook chat with Pidgin.     Facebook smileys: chat emoticons list     Preventing friends tagging you
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<h1>What is a Social Network? Definition and tutorials</h1>
<p>2009-01-30T19:21:00.001-08:00</p>
A social network is a website with the purpouse to host an online community: a group of people that can be real life or online friends, or that share common interests.  The main feature of a social network is the ability to share informations to your friends (notes, images, videos, links, ...). After that, your friends could reshare your information to their friends, and so on...  Social Networks
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<h1>Using Facebook Chat With Pidgin</h1>
<p>2009-01-30T19:05:00.001-08:00</p>
Social Network > Facebook  If you don't want to connect to Facebook website every time you want to chat with your friends, Pidgin is the program for you.  Pidgin is a multi platform (it runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X) and a multi protocol (Gtalk, MSN, Jabber, IRC, ...) instant messaging client; by default it doesn't support the face book, but you can chat thanks to a Facebook plugin.  Go to
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<h1>Turn off automatic First capital letter in OpenOffice Writer</h1>
<p>2009-01-30T05:12:00.000-08:00</p>
Word processor > OpenOffice.org WriterThe OpenOffice Writer automatic capitalization of the first letter of a sentence may be useful, sometimes, but, at other times, can really be frustrating. How to turn off the automatic first capital letter?It's easy. Just go to Tools > AutoCorrect, go to the Options tab, and turn off Capitalize first word of every sentences (remove both the thick boxes, since
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<h1>What is OpenOffice.org Writer? Definition and Tutorial</h1>
<p>2009-01-30T04:41:00.000-08:00</p>
Word processor >OpenOffice.org Writer definitionOpenOffice.org Writer is a Word Processor, as Microsoft Word, but with an Open Source licence. That means that it's free!OpenOffice.org Writer is a component of the OpenOffice.org suite. It's a multiplatform software: it runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.OpenOffice.org Writer tutorialTurn off automatic first capital letterLists with an empty
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<h1>What is a Word processor? Definition and Tutorials</h1>
<p>2009-01-30T04:27:00.000-08:00</p>
Word processor definitionA word processor is a software to create documents, that lets you choose characters formatting, paragraphs and page layouts and, sometimes, lets you perform some batch operations (for example, creating mailing lists).The most notorious word processor is Microsoft Word; but also an Open Source alternative, OpenOffice Writer, is used, too.Word Processor
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<h1>eMule High ID: solving Low ID / KAD Firewalled</h1>
<p>2009-01-29T19:50:00.001-08:00</p>
P2P > eMule  To download files faster with eMule, you must have a high ID. That means that you have to be directly connected to Internet (with an USB modem, for example), and you have to open your firewall's ports (just answer "allow eMule" when Windows Firewall asks you).  Indirect Internet connection (a router) means Low ID and Kad Firewalled!  That's right: if you're using a router, you can't
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<h1>nodes.dat for eMule/aMule Kad</h1>
<p>2009-01-29T19:17:00.001-08:00</p>
P2P > eMule Versione italiana: nodes.dat URL per il kad di eMule e aMuleThe nodes.dat file (nodes list) is very important if you want to do the first eMule bootstrap without using servers; but the one packaged with eMule or aMule doesn't work very well.  So, you have to download the nodes.dat manually. Here's the nodes.dat address:  http://download.tuxfamily.org/technosalad/utils/nodes.dat  If
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<h1>What is eMule? (Definition and Tutorial)</h1>
<p>2009-01-29T19:01:00.001-08:00</p>
Versione italiana: Guida eMule - Cos'è eMule? (definizione)P2P >  eMule is a P2P software for Windows that connects to ed2k and kademlia (kad) networks at the same time. Thanks to a credit system, the more you upload to others, the faster you'll receive the files you're downloading.  eMule tutorials (index)     Kademlia network          nodes.dat for eMule's Kad bootstrap;       eMule problems
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