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Tool for adding Facebook app tabs to your page.
On February 1st, Facebook officially killed all app profile pages. However, what they left behind was a confusing and difficult way for users to add their app tabs to their pages.
What use to be a simple click is now, create a new HTML page with specific code and then format your URL a specific way replacing the variables with your pages’ information. Yea, a little bit more complicated.
So, I created a tool that will do all the hard work for you. All you need to do is provide the application ID and the URL to your servers where you’re hosting the page.
How to update your Facebook status so only some of your friends see it.
It seems like everyone is on Facebook these days. I have high school friends, co-workers, relatives and even my mother in-law follows my updates. However, I don’t always want to share everything with everyone. That’s why there are Facebook lists.
Lists are a way of organizing your friends into groups; or circles if anyone uses Google+. You can then select that list and see only updates from those friends.
You can also post updates only to a list. That way you can say “Man I totally got wasted last night” and not share it with your boss or mom. 
How to shrink your Facebook tabs iFrame when AutoGrow fails you.
When building a Facebook application tab, Facebook gives you a great function called FB.Canvas.setAutoGrow (formally FB.Canvas.setAutoResize) that allows for the Facebook iFrame to automatically figure out how tall it should be to incorporate all your content. As you switch between pages in your app, it continues to grow as needed.
The downside is that it doesn’t shrink. If your first page is 2000 pixels tall, and your second is only 800, the iFrame remains at 2000 pixels and you get a bunch of empty white space at the bottom.
This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. FB.Canvas.setAutoGrow grows. And when you grow, you don’t get smaller; ever.
Facebook’s Like number is more than just people clicking Like.
It seems that every site now has a Facebook Like button on it, but did you know that the number of Likes is made up of more than just people clicking Like?
The number shown on a Like button is the sum of:
- The number of likes for the URL
- The number of shares for the URL – This includes copy/pasting a link back to Facebook.
- The number of likes and comments on stories on Facebook about the URL
- The number of inbox messages containing the URL as an attachment
Easily increase your HTC Droid Incredible battery life
My wife and I have HTC Droid Incredibles and the battery life is far from great. With nearly nothing on my wife’s phone, it wouldn’t last an entire day. Even with minimal use.
After a lot of searching and testing, it turns out that the Facebook for HTC Sense app is the main problem. It’s constantly syncing with Facebooks servers and the phone never gets the chance to sleep.
Sadly, you can not un-install it without rooting your phone and you can’t even stop it from running! However by removing all your accounts from the app, you’ll give it nothing to do. And when it has nothing to do, your battery life will increase quite a bit.
Fix the HTC/Droid Null Error in Facebook
When I got my Droid Incredible a few weeks back, it came with Facebook pre-installed. So I just started using it.
Then I started getting null errors when I tried to refresh or load content. There was no rhyme or reason either and it didn’t happen all the time.
AN ERROR HAS OCCURRED WHILE FETCHING DATA (NULL)
Turns out, HTC doesn’t have the latest version of Facebook installed on their phones. To make it worse, it doesn’t auto-update either.
To fix, just go into the Android Market, search for Facebook and install it. It’ll then update your Facebook app and fix the issue. Not to mention it’ll look nicer.
Friendly is a Multi-User Facebook iPad App
Chances are, if you have an iPad, it’s used by more than one person in your household. And those other people probably have Facebook accounts too.
Instead of logging in and out, download Friendly.
Friendly is an iPad Facebook app that allows for multiple accounts. When you startup the app, it’ll ask you which account you want to use. It also has user switching built into the app if you need to switch while using the app.
There are other features too like an iPad optimized interface, full screen photo presentation, Facebook chat and all the Facebook features.
Facebook on a Stick
Are you on Facebook? Want to follow my blog, Blog on a Stick, on Facebook? Now you can!
I’ve created a Blog on a Stick Facebook page and it’d be great if you could LIKE it.
I’m going to be posting information from here, of course, along with tips and articles that I find useful as I come across them.
There will probably be a lot of geeky stuff, but I’ll be tossing in some parenting topics as well as anything I find useful, informative and/or fun.
Hope to see you there!
Change Your Password Before Someone Else Does
I recently got an email from a friend of mine who was vacationing in London. They were writing to tell me that they were mugged at gunpoint and their wallet, cell phone and all their money was taken. Now they were stuck in London with no way to pay the hotel bill and no way to get home.
I was shocked and felt bad for them. What could I do to help? If they had asked, I’d donate money to get them back home as I knew I’d get paid back.
16 Mac Apps That I Can’t Live Without
The other day I bit the bullet and erased my iMac. I wanted to combine my partitioned drive into one and I wanted to clean out the crud.
Now my iMac is neat and clean again. I’m being very cautious of what apps I put back on as I don’t want to add a bunch of stuff that just ends up slowing down my machine again.
So far, here are the 16 Mac apps that I realized I can’t live without.
1Password – Most of my passwords and serial numbers are organized in 1Password. Without it, I’d be lost. I’ve tried LastPass but found 1Password much nicer on the Mac.
