This post will show you how to subscribe to your facebook friends birthdays using ical on your mac 1) login to your facebook account 2) goto events (in the left hand bar) 3) click on the maginifying glass in the top right 4) pick ‘birthdays’ 5) click on the maginifying Read more…
This will show you how to talk to your friends who use yahoo messenger using your ichat this one is pretty easy. open ichat goto preferences goto accounts hit the + in the bottom left account type: yahoo account name: username@yahoo.com open server options done. log in and talk to Read more…
This one is pretty cool, you can find your friends location using siri on your iPhone! make sure you are logged in to your ‘find my friends’ app (get it from the app store if you dont already have it) ask siri ‘where is contactname’ and it will look them Read more…
This will show you how to talk to your friends who use google talk / gtalk using your ichat this one is pretty easy. open ichat goto preferences goto accounts hit the + in the bottom left account type: google talk account name: username@gmail.com / username@googlemail.com open server options server: Read more…
This is my list of 100 places to get free legal music downloads online www.largeheartedboy.com have a list with lots on it itunes is good for free music itsfreedownloads.com have a list of the latest free tracks on iTunes Amazon mp3 store has a lot of free stuff too last.fm Read more…
Linux! Slackware floppies! zip-slack! Redhat 5.2! Tomsrtbt! Downloading zip-slack over modem for a week. Getting a shell and thinking ‘wtf’ trying dos commands. Having to reboot to read documentation! Trying random commands. Learning that xemacs needs x to run. Wtf is x? I was now at university. it was 1998. Read more…
Win 98 era; netscape, a 586 and the internet! By this time I had two computers. I had my own network. I still had the laptop. I had the null modem cable as my friend was disinterested by now, and my mums dad had given me a computer to help Read more…
Social media experiments monthly report. as part of my year tracking social media things I am going to provide some monthly stats. this way if I make a breakthrough then it will be obvious =) i also get to play with graphs on google docs. This month I posted 8 Read more…
Automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social Read more…
Myspace has been dead for a long time. for everyone except bands. whenever you go to a local gig, or see a flyer for a local gig you will see the bands myspace. Is myspace still dead? myspace isnt being used to network, its being used as a glorified mailing list Read more…
This year I have a plan. i am undertaking ‘a year in social media’ i have some aims. 1) get more friends i need to get more real friends. the more people I have that are interested in my website the more exposure I can get from it. 2) document Read more…
Automatic facebook and twitter status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to facebook and twitter every time you make a post. what you need: a wordpress blog social network accounts the first Read more…
This will show you how to talk to your friends using Facebook chat in iMessages on your mac. Facebook chat uses the xmpp protocol. This means that you can connect to Facebook chat using third party chat applications. This makes Facebook chat comparable to the way you used to connect Read more…
Update: ping.fm is pretty much dead. use the twitterfeed method here instead automatic facebook twitter myspace linkedin and other status updates from wordpress blog posts using your rss feed This will teach you how to setup your wordpress blog to send automatic status updates to all your social networks every Read more…
Migrating from hotmail to gmail. I’ve written before about how I like to keep everything in the one place – contacts, IM people, and email. Up until now I have been using various ways of checking my various email accounts – outlook, windows live mail desktop and thunderbird to name Read more…
Gigs inside your itunes. I’ve been using songkick for a while, infact, I have it integrated into my google calendar. but this is better. it goes in to your itunes. install it and then go to view – visualisers – ical you put in your city, and it brings up Read more…
Syncing photos between social networks is hard to do. i think I might just make a crude little app that bruteforces its way to do it, but I dont really have the time. though with all the API’s out there I could sell it for a fiver a time and Read more…
I have accounts on Facebook, bebo and myspace, but I organise all my stuff from outlook, always have, always will. I’m trying to work on a way that when I update one service that it updates all of them, like uploading photo’s to my flickr account and having it automatically Read more…
Well, ive had this on my mind for a few weeks now http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options nine inch nails have released a 4 cd set, the first of which you can download for free, from their site (see above link) this is another of the free legal downloads, im getting it right now, Read more…