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When To Tag Your Friends in Facebook Photos

braincontour — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:02:22 +0000

I have been following the Facebook blog and loving the new series of videos about Facebook etiquettes. First in line is the Tagging Etiquette. When will you tag someone in your photo?

Watch the video after the jump.

Facebook – Add Friends and Know Them Well

braincontour — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:20:07 +0000

From just over 100 friends last year, my list of Facebook friends has now reached over 1000. It is amazing to know how everyone seems to own a Facebook account these days. Met someone in a bar? Ask for his/her FB account and you’d be on your way to knowing him or her more. Add all your friends from church. Find your long-lost high school friends and add them in. In a matter of days, you will have a number of followers who will sneak into your every wall post.

When you add someone you have not seen for many years, what do you usually do afterward – say, few seconds after adding?

1. Do you check the profile to see if she or he is already married? (if both of you are still single at an age perfect for tying the knot, who knows, something might spark between you two)

2. Do you look at the photos to see how the person have changed over the years? (Oh, she has become horizontally-challenged! What happened to the curves?!)

3. Do you check the person’s present residence? (others may have moved out of the country or maybe even traveled in space)

4. Do you check the person’s accomplishments from those years you have lost touch? (most often people change career paths – from engineering to nursing, from medical field to theater)

5. Do you open the person’s list of friends to see who are in there that you might have known too and not on your list yet? (friends find friends from friends, you know)

6. Do you leave the person a message on the wall with a note “how happy I am to find you here”? (I usually do this for very close friends)

What about if you will add someone you’ve just met or known? Do you check and read the full profile of the person? Or do you ever bother?

I have encountered so many instances when friends ask me questions that are already in my profile. Most of the time, I don’t care when friends inquire stuff that I already laid out for them and for the public to read. But there are just times that I wish they could have taken a quick peek first.

I made quite a number of friends in Facebook and the list will continue to grow for sure. It might double next year or maybe even triple in number. I will be happy whatever the number is. The more friends is on my list, the merrier will my FB wall become.

“Quick Find (Links Only)” Search Bar – How to Stop From Appearing

braincontour — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:17:42 +0000

This “Quick Find (Links Only)” search bar (aka Quick Find bar) that constantly appears at the bottom of the screen each time I type an apostrophe inside a text box is annoying to the max! It will not allow me to type, for instance, “won’t” or “I’m” or anything that has an apostrophe. Quick googling revealed the culprit – the Mozilla Firefox browser. Mozilla is actually aware of the browser issue and acknowledged users’ complaints by offering some quick solutions/fixes.

Solution 1: Fix the problem by updating your Firefox version. Most of the causes of this issue are fixed in the latest version of Firefox.

Solution 2. If you have the most recent version of Firefox, but are still having this problem, here are some things you can try to avoid the problem:

1. At the top of the Firefox window, click on the ‘Tools’ menu, and select ‘Options’.
2. Select the ‘Advanced’ panel. The ‘General’ tab should be displayed, if not, click on it to select it.
3. In the ‘Accessibility’ section, make sure ‘Search for text when I start typing’ is unchecked.

This setting is unchecked by default. If this setting is checked, any character you type in a text field can trigger this issue. In some cases disabling this setting will prevent this issue from reoccurring. If you’re having this issue, make sure this setting is unchecked.

Solution 3. Open and close a dialog window. For many people there is no need to restart Firefox to be able to type in text fields again.

1. Open any Firefox dialog window
* e.g. Click Tools then Downloads
2. Close the window right away, there’s no need to click on anything first

You should be able to type in the text field now.

Leave a comment if any of these fixes work for you.

Entrecard Credit into Cash

braincontour — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:50:48 +0000

I asked Entrecard this: How can I convert my credits into cash? If non-convertible, how will these credits be used?

Entrecard’s answer: You can not convert the credits to cash. You can use your credits to advertise on other blogs.

I used to get traffic from Entrecard before, but for the past few months traffic is so little. Entrecard seems to be dying.

Damn! I would have wanted to earn few bucks from Entrecard!

Mediacom Internet Service Outage – Sue Mediacom!

braincontour — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 02:38:39 +0000

Mediacom Internet Service sucks! It was just few months ago when I complained about the sudden interruption of Mediacom’s Cable TV service without any notice. Today, it is Mediacom’s Internet Service that has completely malfunctioned!

According to Mediacom, network problems are responsible for a widespread loss of internet service that began Tuesday night and continue Thursday. The company said that the loss of internet service is not related to the ice storm. Mediacom further said that their network engineers are still troubleshooting the cause of the outage.

What the heck Mediacom! I have lost few hundred dollars of earnings because of your below standard, intermittent internet connectivity. Should you refund me for those days that you did not provide my home any service? What about the income that I should have earned in those days that I don’t have the connection? Will you pay me for that? Because I tell you, I pay my bills without fail. Not getting what I paid for boils my blood!

Is this customer service for you? My gully Mediacom!

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