Showing posts with label fwittook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fwittook. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Downloading Facebook posts to document a trip

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During a recent trip to Seoul South Korea I did a travelogue through Facebook posts about the odd sorts of things that interest me. I wanted...
Sunday, April 02, 2023

Mastodon wishes: topic tags that actually work

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The mastodon social network (I'm https://appdot.net/@jgordon) lets me follow people at any Mastodon community (instance). Mastodon is pe...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Using IFTTT Webhooks to post RSS feed data to Mastodon (requires pro account)

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Update 2/19/2024 : I did this using my free IFTT account but per IFTT "Starting February 15th, 2024, webhooks Applets will be disconnec...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

How do Facebook Messenger (and Instagram Message) Link scams work?

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Every day large numbers of Facebook users receive a message that appears to be from a friend that invites them to click a link. If they clic...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Facebook still has RSS (iCal) feed for Calendar Events but it is insanely obscure

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I thought Facebook had removed the link we used to have to see the feed URL for a Facebook "calendar". (A Facebook calendar is the...
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Saturday, December 02, 2017

Facebook's disappearing Pages feed

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I remember when you could get an RSS feed for a Facebook wall. Years after that when away there was an RSS feed for Page posts, but I think ...
Saturday, October 21, 2017

My latest attempt to reclaim my wife's stolen email address from Facebook

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You cannot reclaim a personal email address used by a stranger’s Facebook account . Facebook’s procedures do nothing.  Today I tried someth...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Facebook won't let you use the email '+' extension as a new email address

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Gmail, and some other systems, support a very old email standard that needs a name. Gmail will treat myname+123@gmail.com as though it were ...
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Saturday, March 18, 2017

pnut.io - an app.net heir

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There are several heirs to app.net — I know of 10Centuries.org , pnut.io and Manton Reece’s micro.blog kickstarter. Each of these efforts ...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Facebook: what to do when you receive a Friend request from someone who is already a friend (impersonation scam).

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There are a lot of scams on Facebook. Heck, at one time their revenue came largely from shady games and the covert sale of personal informat...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

You cannot reclaim a personal email address used by a stranger's Facebook account.

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I think Facebook knows this very well. They closed a discussion thread on this that’s over a year old , and you can’t start a new thread — F...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

Bandwidth use over 5 min video call: FaceTime << Facebook Messenger < Skype

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As part of my  Father longterm care iPad videoconferencing project  I compared cellular data use during an approximately 5 minute videoconfe...
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Facebook won't use iPhone settings account? A fix.

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After a Facebook password change, especially if it forces logout from other devices, you may find that Facebook.app on iOS no longer reads a...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Mac - how do I share images to Facebook?

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There should be a word for AmITheLastPersonOnEarthToKnowThis? It’s a weird feeling.  For years I’ve been puzzled by a lack of Mac tools fo...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Facebook event sharing - July 2015

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Facebook Events (calendar items) exist in some sort of Facebook twilight zone. Neither completely abandoned, nor entirely useful. You can, f...
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Facebook still has RSS feed for Pages. For the moment.

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Once upon a time Facebook had RSS support for personal Newsfeeds. That died years ago. I don't know if Facebook ever had RSS support f...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

Subscription to Facebook Events calendar now possible, including Google Calendar - for the moment

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I just added a subscription to my Facebook calendar to my Google Calendar. Is this new? I can't say, but knowing how it works I foun...
Saturday, August 30, 2014

MarsEdit feature request: backlink to a social network share ...

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Red Sweater’s MarsEdit  (Mac) owns the world of WordPress, Tumbler and Blogger personal publishing. It’s a small world — the major publisher...

Facebook: The differences between Pages and Groups

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This is short, but it took me a while to figure out and I’ve not seen it elsewhere. Facebook offers both Pages and Groups for use by busines...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

Aperture to Facebook: making images visible to Friends by default

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I’d long wondered why, when I shared to Facebook from Aperture, my images were shared as ‘Only Me’. Looks like one can change that from Face...