If you try and sign up for a Facebook account, Facebook will require you to enter in a phone number to verify you are a human. Then they will text you a verification number. This is all fine and dandy if you have a cellphone and texting plan.
If you are using Google Voice or Pinger you won’t be able to verify your account though as those services don’t support short code texting; which is what Facebook uses to verify.
However, you can verify via a phone call.
If you’ve got Drobox, then you know that you can get 500 MB of free space by referring friends; up to 16 GB. The problem is that all your friends probably already know about Dropbox. So what can you do? Reach out to strangers via Google AdWords.
Using AdWords to get free Dropbox space has been around for a while, but I never tried it until now and it works perfectly! Check out Lifehacker for a step by step guide. It’s a bit out of date, but still works well.
Every day there are three things I have to check out. First, what’s up on Twitter. So many tidbits of information, links and pictures. Then I head over to Facebook to see how those kids are doing. And no day is complete without posting something to one of my many WordPress blogs.
Since Facebook, Twitter and WordPress are a key part of my day, I think it’s Internet FTW! What would I do without you guys?
In my quest to make my Android perform better I decided to try uninstalling both the official Facebook and Twitter apps from my phone.
My Droid Incredible only has 412 MBs of memory with about 80 free MBs. I really don’t understand where it’s all going. Most of it goes to the system, I think, and when I open up the task manager, Facebook is often using up more than 40 MBs and that just wasn’t worth it.
Instagram is one of those applications that has made it big but it kind of makes you wonder why. All it does is take a picture, put a filter on it and share it. It’s not a camera, it’s not a photo editor, all it does is put filters on photos. But it’s worth a billion dollars!
The more I think about it, the more I don’t quite get it. First off, it’s not even a full size picture, it’s cropped to be square. Then you put a filter on that screws with the color or the quality. What you’re left with is something that’s kind of cool and I’m not sure why.
Seems I was a bit behind on uploading my videos to YouTube. I’ve just uploaded 10 new videos.
You can see the rest on YouTube.
The Overnight Website Challenge was a week ago and I still feel like I’m catching up on sleep. It was a long day, but short at the same time. A ton of work was completed and we built a sweet site for a great non-profit.
It all kicked off at 9am as that’s when we got our non profits name and started the planning. What you often don’t realize is how much work needs to be done on a site before you start coding it. Brainstorming, planning, wire framing and designs takes time. There are a lot of details that needed to get worked out before a development plan can be put into place and the coding started.
Starting tomorrow morning (March 24th) I’m going to be competing in my first Overnight Website Challenge. It’ll be 24 hours straight of coding which ends with a great new site for a deserving non-profit.
This is my first time doing the Overnight Website Challenge and I’m a bit nervous. I’m not exactly sure what I’ve gotten myself into. First off, I’m going to be up for like 28 hours. If I’m lucky, I’ll get a short nap or two, but that’s not a sure thing. I’m also not sure how my body will react come Sunday when I want to sleep or Monday when I have to go to work. That’ll be interesting.
I’ve been using iTunes Mach for about a week now and it is well worth the $25 dollars. Here’s why.
iCloud Storage
All your music gets added to iCloud. Unlike other services, you don’t have to upload it all. iTunes only uploads what it can’t find a match for on their servers. This significantly cut down on the time it would have taken for all my music to upload. I think it was more like days with Google or Amazon’s cloud sites and only hours for iTunes Match.
So you want to create a Facebook application? Well the good news is it’s relatively simple.
What I’m going to show you here is the very basics. I’m not going to go into APIs or anything like that.
This is also how you go about converting your FBML tabs to Facebook iFames. Since Facebook is killing off FBML tabs soon, you’ll want to get these converted ASAP.
You can use this tutorial as a starting point for something bigger or as a way of adding some basic HTML to a tab on your Facebook page; like a ‘Like us on Facebook’ page for example.
