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September 22, 2011

Worst Facebook Update Ever? (And a Partial Solution)

Here's what I don't get. For at least two years, Facebook has been trying to tell us that it knows better than we do what information we're going to find interesting. Today's new "Recent Stories" function is simply a third (or possibly fourth) generation of similar attempts to read our minds—the previous version being two separate feeds: Top News and Most Recent. And, in my case, their selections have never been close to right.
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QuickTip: You Can Now Like Comments on Facebook

For a long time, you've been able to Like a status update or link or photo that your friends have posted. However, in a lot of cases, the comments that other friends made on the post were more interesting/funny than the original. Then you'd often see comments along the lines of, "I wish I could 'Like' your comment!" Well... now you can!

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First Thoughts on the Latest Facebook Redesign

I'd been reading various snippets about the latest redesign from my friends and on industry blogs but still wasn't really sure what to expect. So when I finally got it yesterday, my first thought was that it didn't seem too bad.

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Working with Tabs in Firefox

Tabs were one of the best features ever added to browsers (remember when you had to have multiple browsers open on your computer to have access to several websites at a time?). Here are just a few tips on ways to work with them in Firefox.

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Thesis: Where Do You Put the Code?

In an earlier post I described how to write a simple custom function that would add a small piece of content into a specific location on your web page. One point of confusion that occasionally comes up is where you actually put this code.

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New Year, New Look

In my series on starting a blog last year, I explained that, even though I was using TypePad as the platform for my blogs, I would recommend WordPress to anybody starting a new blog for a few different reasons. Well, after thinking about it, I figured I'd like to take advantage of the same benefits so made the decision to migrate Tech for Luddites to WordPress.

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T4L Redux: Managing Your Privacy on Facebook

Privacy is an important concern when it comes to any online service, especially social media, but I think it's even more so on Facebook.

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Weirdest Facebook Bug I’ve Seen to Date

And that's saying something!

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Twitter’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Retweet Changes

Sometimes I swear the geniuses at Facebook and Twitter are in competition to see who can be the most tone deaf to their users. Twitter has just taken a giant leap ahead with their new retweet feature.

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Three Things I Love About Facebook Lite

And one thing I hate.

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QuickTip: Find Jobs by City or State on LinkedIn

Anybody who follows this blog regularly knows that one of biggest pet peeves is Bad Interface Design, and social media sites are masters when it comes to this. One of the worst has to be the way LinkedIn lets people search for jobs based on geographic location.

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QuickTip: Make Quick Links to Your Favorite Commands in Office 2007

Even though I've been working in Office 2007 for two years now, I'm still not sold on the ribbon model Microsoft created for it.

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QuickTip: Override Migraine-Inducing Website Colors

I will never understand why anybody thinks that white text on a black background is a good idea.

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