10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know:

I figured that many people would benefit from a thorough overview on how to protect your privacy on Facebook. Below is a step by step process for protecting your privacy.

A friend of mine posted this link on Twitter and it's important enough for me to want to share. Not everyone does facebook, but honestly I like it a ton better than myspace as it has tighter controls as to what get's seen and how. This really is a good write up on how to protect what you have up.

When I finally managed to get my new iphone, the first thing tatianamik & internetbrain say is "You have to get Pandora Radio". At first I'm wondering why on earth would I want an internet radio station on my phone when I can use my entire iTunes Library at last.. but then rhast piped in and said I needed to check it out so I caved. So will you when you hear about all of this.

One of the difficult parts for me was having to wrap my head around what Pandora actually is. It really is like flipping through radio stations. Each 'station' will have themes, similarities, etc. How it obtains those 'seeds' are up to you. For better explanation, I'm going to take you through the process of getting setup. It's how my mind works, so bare with me.

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There are a lot more options and tons more information in the FAQ. I strongly suggest going through it sometime.

My only real wish is that I'd be able to listen to Pandora on my iphone in the background. But that's not Pandora's fault, that's an Apple decision.

Please please please see the updated version of the tutorial on my wordpress blog:

http://lethann.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/update-howto-make-your-own-custom-ringtones-for-iphone-20-3g/

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Replacing this with the better writeup I had over on my Wordpress blog.

Yesterday I purchased my new 16gig iphone and was very happy to wave goodbye to my old Treo 650 which had lived long beyond it’s mileage. It wasn’t until late last night when I was playing around with my custom settings that I found out I couldn’t add my own custom ringtones. My friend informed me that Apple had set it up that you had to pay double through the itunes store in order to get them which greatly upset me.

This morning I decided to do a bit of research. My friend linked me a nice program that did all the snipping and importing of the songs for you, but it was a paid program with only a small taste test of what you could do. This was not pleasing to me. I am a music and ringtone junky. I love to have my friends each have their own ringtone so I know who’s calling with out even looking.

Unable to find anywhere that explained a simple way to do your own ringtones without paying for it, I tried multiple ways to get the ringtone into itunes, all without success. Finally broke down and tried the paid software demo. My hunch paid off and I found out what I needed.

1) Pick out your Source – I’ve got a pretty extensive library, but I want to make sure that the song is loud enough to jar my attention when it’s ringing, as well as clear enough to make out.

2) Edit your clip – Most songs start out soft or have a blank second or so in the front. That is not good for a ringtone. Most of my ringtones are around 20 seconds long, but I think you can go longer. Since I’m a PC person, I just use the free Wavepad from NCH Software.

3) Save your clip in M4A format – Most audio editors should be able to do this, or you can use a file converter. Switch from NCH Software is perfect if you need to do bulk conversions. There are also multiple online file converters. A good list is over on MakeUseOf.

4) Change extension to M4R – I just open up the folder I saved my ringtones to and edit it straight in the OS. Don’t worry about any warnings you get about it being possibly unusable.

5) Drag the M4R into iTunes – M4R is a useable format for iTunes so all you have to do is drag it into iTunes and it will add it to the Ringtones library. I’ve read before that it’s a good idea to add only one ringtone at a time or you might get multiples of the same ringtone rather than all of your different ones.

6) Sync your iPhone – You can now choose the custom ringtone from your list. Your overall ringtone is in the Settings/Sounds menu. If you edit your contacts directly you can assign custom ringtones for each one.

Yes folks, it’s as simple as that. As far as I know this should work for both PC and MAC users. I don’t think there is a limit on how many or how large your ringtones can be, but I’m not exactly sure so be careful with your experiments. Remember that your phone rolls over to voicemail after a certain time period so it’s pointless to make anything longer than that. Typically shorter ones will loop, but I haven’t tried it out myself just yet.

Enjoy!

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UPDATE: After adding my other ringtones, the iphone itself is limited to carrying only 10 ringtones at once. Sad Leth. If someone finds out differently without jailbreaking their phone, please comment and let me know.

From this comic has come this: xkcd » Blog Archive » Growing Up
Once this was done, then this has come about: Last.fm – the Blog · Blogging from the Ballpit
Now we have this: xkcd » Blog Archive » Ball Pit, Phase II


Anyone else want one too? Wonder if we could convert the old "make out room" downstairs into a huge ballpit.

ZOMG.. I finally got hit with LJ comment spam!

Beware of anyone named: alihewd posting on your journal. If they do, don't just simply delete them, delete their comment as spam so it reports it to LJ.

How? View the entire entry while logged in. Next to that comment, you'll see a small checkbox, click it. Go to the bottom of the page and you'll see the "Mass Actions on selected comments" drop down menu. Select "Delete as Spam" then hit "Perform Action".

I know most people already understand how to deal with their LJ icons, but I know there are probably people out there who don't so I'm going to write this up and feel free to pass the URL on and so forth.

NOTE: This tutorial is not HOW TO MAKE ICONS.. it's how to add icons to LiveJournal, and make the most of the ones you already have by using the Keywords.
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Ok.. last time told you about Google Documents and Spreadsheets, right? Remember how I said it was the old "Writely" that google bought out? Well.. when I logged into the site, looked like ALL my documents were GONE.. it was EMPTY.

Then I notice this little "Browse Docs and Spreadsheets" button.. and it's like.. filled with tags and stuff I didn't put up (I had just started copying over all my stories so I could work on them online). So I click "Articles" and BOOM! There is all the stuff we'd been working on over for our Tech Made Easy blog.

WOOT!! ALL IS NOT LOST!

Now I can start back up on my articles. Maybe by keeping up with them I can get back into the swing of things, get used to having deadlines and so forth.

Now to finish "Basic HTML Made Easy".

Favicon - icon for webpage

Ever wanted to know what you had to do  to make your website have a favicon?

Little digging and find out you just need to add the following to your HTML page header:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">

That's all you need! For more details about what and how, just look at the page linked above.



I was looking through some of my icon communities and found a nifty tutorial posted by nike13 over in graphicseternal

http://community.livejournal.com/graphicseternal/13202.html

This gives me some great ideas on how to make blending layers for many of my icons!