Facebook – Increasing Privacy with Friend Lists

Are you tired of chat messages from all you friends whenever you logon to Facebook? And who can see your pictures/photos, status and other privat information? Then this tutorial is for you.

In this tutorial you will learn how to increase your privacy using friends lists. Friend Lists can specifically be used to take control of who you can see in the News Feed and Chat. Friends Lists can also be used to take control of what others can see about you. This will enable you to control which friends can see what about you. (more…)

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Tutorial on how to: Download YouTube and Flash movies

Sometimes I come across a movie clip from youtube that I want to download to my mac, so that I could load it on to my iPhone. I tried several solutions both shareware and freeware. Final I came across a solution that was already build into my browser Safari that made it possible for me to download videos from youtube. Now Im not sure this works for windows as well though it should do. Here is what you do.

Open Safari and navigate to the webpage containing the flash movie that you want to download (for example youtube). In the menu bar you need to locate the Window menu. Here you will find a function called Activity. Clicking this will bring up a new window called Activity. Now the next part is a bit tricky, however, it helps if you only have one webpage open. Now you need to navigate to the webpage, in the Activity window, from which you want to download a flash movie.

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Tags: Download, Flash, flv, media, Safari, Tutorial
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HowTo: Convert flv to mp4 iPhone for free!

For a while now I have been searching the web for a free application for Mac OS X that would allow me to convert a movie in flv format from YouTube to my iPhone. I came across a wide variety of applications like iSquint, VisualHub and FilmRedux, these were free applications that should have allowed me to convert my movie. Unfortunately both iSquint and VisualHub has gone out of production, and I was unable to download them from their creators Techspansion.

As I don’t quit I had to find another solution, that was free to use. I have used Handbreak for converting other things before, although I couldn’t find any information about their support of flv, I had to try it out.

Success! Handbrake now supports universal input and therefor converts flv to any other format that is supported by Handbrak. The creators have tapped into the power of the FFmpeg project and have had a massive achievement by this.

You can download it at http://www.handbrake.fr

I used version 0.9.3, which at this time is the current version.

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Tags: Convert, flv, handbrak, iphone, mp4, Tutorial, video
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HowTo: Get a blank title in kubrick default theme

I have been asked if I knew how to stop the title showing up on top of the kubrick header, while it still maintains the title and description of the site. So here goes I hope it will help you.

First, get this plugin All-in-one-SEO 
Configuring this plugin should allow you the option of having a site title name, but without it showing up on top of the kubrick image header.

Secondly, remove the title from the kubrick image header.
In the WordPress admin site, you need to go to Design>Theme Editor>header.php
Here you will need to remove or comment out the code that looks like this: 

<div id=”header”>
<div id=”headerimg”>
<h1><a href=”<?php echo get_option(‘home’); ?>/”>
<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></a></h1>
<div class=”description”><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></div>
</div>
</div>

This is the code that generates the Title and blog description of your WordPress site.

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iPhoto edit problem

So I had a problem with iPhoto. Problem: Whenever I tried to edit a picture in iPhoto it didn’t work. Im currently running iPhoto 7.1.3, just so you know wether this will help you or not. I have my iPhoto dir located at an external hdd, though I don’t think it matters if it is on your hdd or an external hdd.

Problem description:
When trying to apply effect or edit with iPhoto, the changes didn’t affect the picture once I applied the changes. I figured it had something to do with my permissions to change the pictures that I couldn’t apply changes to. Though I couldn’t see any difference using Finder.

Solution
When you open iPhoto, press and hold down alt+option-key. This will bring up a dialog that looks like this

Rebuild Photo Library

I chose Examine and repair Iphoto Library file permissions, and the dialog said that some permissions needed to be repaired. So thats what I did, and it worked out.

It is recommended to do a backup of your archive. I didn’t do it, and nothing is missing. I won’t recommend anyone doing the same, as worst case scenario would be to have all my pictures erased.

Anyway, this solution worked out for me, I hope it will help you too =)

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