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Rid yourself of app notifications in Facebook

Peter — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:41:41 +0000

A friend of mine kept asking me how the heck to remove or hide notifications from people who they’re friends with who play lots of Facebook games. I was stumped but also didn’t do much research aside from trial and error within Facebook’s notification settings. No luck. When I Googled it this morning, it led me to a post (will fill in URL later) that showed how do it.

To do it, you go to your notifications page and click the “x” all the way to the right of the notification. From there you edit that app’s settings (even though you don’t even have that app) and choose “Never” for how it notifies you.

Here is the two step process on how to do this:

Dropbox for Google Docs

Peter — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:02:32 +0000

So, on my way into work today, I was thinking, “Why isn’t there a desktop integration for Google Docs in the same way there is one for Dropbox?”

All it took was a 93ms search and the result was Insync! Not only is Insync the solution I was looking for: A desktop folder that is synced with Google Docs, but it can do this with multiple Google Accounts!

Taken from their site, here is some info about Insync:

Why should I use Insync over Dropbox?

Way cheaper storage — Google charges $0.25 per GB/year and Dropbox charges $2.00 per GB/year. That’s 8x difference. Plus you can get 20GB for $5/year.
Extensive sharing features…
- read/write + read-only sharing permissions
- nested sharing
- share recipients are not charged against their storage quota
- re-sharing permissions
- individual file sharing
Multiple Google account support (personal, work, school, org, etc.)
You can use Google Docs web to edit docs online

Insync is 100% free. How do you make money?

We plan on making money via premium features. Example: secure remote wipe of local GDocs.

What does “Perform these operations when I’m not using the application” mean?

It just means that if you are offline, Insync still has access to your GDocs to perform operations. It doesn’t mean Insync has forever access. By the way, you can revoke access to Insync at any time using your Google accounts page.

Why does Insync need access to my Google contacts?

We use your contacts to faciliate auto-completion when you are sharing.

What’s Insync’s favorite song?

That’s a no brainer.

Going Dark Today, SOPA and PIPA Strike Day!

Peter — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:47:35 +0000

This site will remain up, but Computerninja.com will be participating in the strike. This site remains up to help spread the word via this post and the previous post.

Oppose SOPA and PIPA (not her, and it’s Pippa)

Peter — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:45:26 +0000

Don’t let Congress censor the internet. A number of sites are “going dark” today to protest.

Google

WordPress

Watch this for more information:

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

More information is here: SOPA Strike.

Postbox/Thunderbird and profiles

Peter — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:11:46 +0000

So, I recently went through an exercise where I archived old mail in my GMail account. My inbox was ENORMOUS, like 80000+ emails. In doing this archiving, it seems that Postbox (an e-mail client based on Thunderbird that costs $29.95. Seems expensive when most e-mail clients are free (come with your OS), or webmail systems do what most people need. I got into Postbox early on, so I stuck with ‘em. Anyway, Postbox wouldn’ t get out of a Not Responding state after I did this archive, probably because the inbox was out of sync with what was on the server.

Nevertheless, I butchered my profile on the machine, at which point, Postbox wouldn’t even LAUNCH, saying that Postbox was already running. It seems that you shouldn’t go into your AppData/Roaming folder and delete your profile folder. Rather, you should use the Profile Manager to make these changes. So, I went into Postbox’s Profile Manager (same as Thunderbird) and deleted the default profile and created a new one. Right after that, Postbox didn’t complain about running already and all was well in the world of Peter’s e-mail.

Hilarious Sign at Packers Game

Peter — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:21:56 +0000

So I was watching the Packers game with my wife, Michelle, and I caught this hilarious sign held up by a fan that said: “My Cheating EX Boyfriend is Watching from Couch Instead”. I thought it was hilarious and I was happy to see it was caught by Yahoo!’s Shutdown Corner!

Beware IE7 Standalone on Windows 7!!

Peter — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:59:37 +0000

So, I wanted to test something at work using IE7 as a standalone app since you can’t have multiple versions of it running in Windows (we’ll get to this later). I had previously been using IE7 Standalone on Windows XP and loved it. I had no idea it would hose some file registrations in Windows 7.

Luckily for me, there was an exact post/article that led me to a fix. Thanks pyrocam.com!

I did run into a few hangups while running through the registration batch file, having to kill regsvr32.exe a few times, but who cares. I can now go back into explorer.exe and right-click Computer.

Amazing deal on Blu-rays

Peter — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:46:51 +0000

Hell, for under $10, Amazon.com has some great titles, even some new releases. For example, who wouldn’t want Point Break or Inception or Pulp Fiction or Goonies or Gremlins or Beetlejuice or Edward Scissorhands for this price?

Blu-rays under $10 at Amazon.com (too bad I don’t have an affiliate account set up).

Santa

Peter — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:33:41 +0000

My 4 year old son, Christopher, has taken our Santa from the living room and hid him under his bed. He’s hilarious.

11:11:11 on 11/11/11

Peter — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:11:36 +0000

Cute.