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How to Remove an App on Facebook

jim — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:45:02 +0000

How many times have you given an App access to your Facebook account only to realize that you don’t want to subject your friends to an endless stream of what you’re listening to, reading, viewing, or doing online? Fortunately, Facebook makes it easy for you to remove Apps with the click of the button, finding the page is the hard part.

Go to https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications to view your App Settings and remove, or edit, anything you no longer want.

How to Remove an App on Facebook is a post from: wangarific

Should I Keep Text Links in Footer of My Theme?

jim — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:29:05 +0000

Or anywhere on the theme?

My gut reaction is no. Definitely no if you paid money for the theme. While I don’t begrudge a designer who is trying to get a little extra SEO benefit, or any other type of advertising, from a text link in the footer, or sidebar or whatever, I think the site owner is 100% within their rights to remove that text link.

That said, if you agreed to leave the text links as a condition of getting the theme, then I think it’s dishonest to remove it. If that wasn’t part of the deal, as is the case with many free themes, you shouldn’t feel guilty removing it.

There are plenty of linkbuilding companies out there who create free themes with those footer links as a way to build links for their clients.

Links are the currency of the web.

Should I Keep Text Links in Footer of My Theme? is a post from: wangarific

How to Find Your WordPress Version Number

jim — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:17:25 +0000

Back in the days of old, you could look for your WordPress version number by looking at the source HTML of any page – it was a meta tag named “generator.” Then someone realized you could look for vulnerable WordPress blogs using older versions just by searching so they took that away.

Then, the next way to find out which WordPress version you had was by looking at the footer on the admin pages… until they took that away (not sure when, or why, but now it just tells you to get the latest version).

So, if you want to find your exact version number, look in your version.php file, located in the /wp-includes/ directory. That file has a bunch of other version related information, like the DB version, but usually the WordPress version is all you need.

How to Find Your WordPress Version Number is a post from: wangarific

Hulu Experience Problems Loading Advertisements

jim — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:20:35 +0000

A few days ago I starting having a problem with Hulu. Apparently it was having problems loading the commercials before the start of a TV show and so I wasn’t able to watch the shows. No matter what I thought to change, the problem persisted.

Imagine my surprised when I realized that it was my ad blocking plugin, Adblock Plus. Something changed in how Hulu was serving up ads in the last week and now Adblock was blocking those ads, which meant no TV shows.

So, the next time you’re having problems with Hulu, or any other site, try disabling your adblockers.

Hulu Experience Problems Loading Advertisements is a post from: wangarific

How to Delete Your GMail Account

jim — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:02:12 +0000

Let’s say you’re doing some spring cleaning and decide that you have a GMail account you no longer want, you can let it languish, never to log in ever again… or you can delete your account. If you delete your account, it’s gone forever in a matter of weeks. You won’t free up your username and you won’t be able to use that username ever again in the future. If you delete your account, it’s gone.

So how do you delete your GMail account? It’s actually quite easy.

You’ll need to look in your Mail Settings, which is the little gear icon in the upper right. Then go to the Accounts and Import tab at the top. On that menu, click on Other Google Account settings link and then Edit under My products. That’s where you’ll find some choices under Services. From here, you have two options:

Delete profile and remove associated Google+ features
Close entire account and delete all services and info associated with it

Clicking on “Close entire account and delete all services and info associated with it” will delete your account.

If you do change your mind, you have a couple weeks before they delete it forever. They tell you that it may take up to 60 days to be deleted but if you do want it recovered, the best they can do is recover the username.

So, if you want to delete it, you can… but there’s almost no going back.

How to Delete Your GMail Account is a post from: wangarific

Gmail Error 400 Using Google Chrome

jim — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:11:20 +0000

I don’t know what causes the Error 400 when I try to load up Gmail in Google Chrome but I do know the solution – clear your browsing history. The Error 400 is typically returned by a server when it thinks the client, in this case me and Google Chrome, has made a bad request. Since I was able to get into GMail using Mozilla Firefox, I knew it was a Google Chrome specific problem. If it were a problem with my computer, I’d get it across multiple browsers.

But upon clearing my browsing history, the error disappeared.

Gmail Error 400 Using Google Chrome is a post from: wangarific

How to Turn Off Private Registration for Domains on GoDaddy

jim — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:47:01 +0000

When I went to renew some expiring domains on my account, I noticed several had Private Registration, a service I no longer needed for those domains (a relic from a more paranoid time). The problem is you can’t simply “uncheck” Private Registration when you renew your domains on GoDaddy. If you try to do that, it simply ignores your choice. GoDaddy is pretty sly like that!

Instead, you’ll have to go to the Domains By Proxy site, log in, and cancel private registration from that side. If you don’t have your login credentials you can request it but it will add a few more steps, and headache to the process. I think it’s a little ridiculous that you are forced to manage private registration through another interface, especially since the two companies are owned by GoDaddy, but I suppose they do get a few customers each year willing to pay for private registration instead of figuring out how to turn it off.

Now wait… eventually it’ll percolate to GoDaddy and you won’t have to pay for Private Registration when you renew.

If you have a bunch of domains and want to do a “poor man’s” private registration, open up a PO Box and use that as your physical address. Depending on how many domains you may have, a PO Box could be a more economic solution… plus you get use of a PO Box.

How to Turn Off Private Registration for Domains on GoDaddy is a post from: wangarific

How To Stop Google+ Notifications

jim — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:03:02 +0000

Did you just sign up for Google+ and are now getting a million notifications of who has added you? Tired of it?

Change your settings here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/settings/plus

Enjoy!

How To Stop Google+ Notifications is a post from: wangarific

How to Send Free Faxes

jim — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:00:57 +0000

For years, a sense of dread always fell over me whenever someone I worked with requested a fax of something. I work out of a home office and since I have a cell phone, I don’t have a land line. I also don’t have a fax machine, a relic of the past. So whenever someone asks for a fax, I feel like it’s inefficient for me to drive to some fax place, send over a couple pages, and drive home. Most of the time I can simply scan the document and email it, but every so often someone will ask that I actually send a fax. Fortunately, there’s now a simple solution to my problem – Faxzero.com.

With Faxzero.com, you can send two 3 page faxes a day, which is more than I’ve ever needed, for free. If you need to send a larger document, they can send it for $1.99. They pay for the free fax by adding an advertisement on the cover page. (the paid version has no ad on the cover page)

It’s a great way to save yourself a trip.

How to Send Free Faxes is a post from: wangarific

How To Format an Xbox 360 Hard Drive

jim — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:38:35 +0000

My last XBox 360 just experienced a fabled E74 error and, very fortunately, I was just a few days from warranty expiration. While I was able to get that one repaired free of charge (they sent a replacement, a much quieter replacement), I realized that I still had my very dead, very E74′d five year old XBox sitting in a box. Since I had done quite a bit of research to find out how much it would cost to repair it, I thought I might get that fixed and then resold on Craigslist. There was only one hitch – I had a hard drive with a bunch of data on it (I’d long since migrated that data over to the new hard drive).

Fortunately, it’s easy to format an XBox 360 hard drive… or any storage device attached to the XBox.

Write down your console serial number, located on the back of the unit. You’ll need this to confirm the format, this is so you don’t accidentally format something.
Start the XBox without a disc so it goes to the XBox Dashboard.
Select My XBox, then System Settings. Then select Memory.
Select the storage device you want to format and then hit “Y.”
This will give you the option to Format the drive, which deletes everything. Accept the confirmation message.
It’ll ask you for that serial number, aren’t you glad you got that ahead of time?
Wait.

That’s pretty much it. It’s best to do this before you sell your console so you don’t pass along any information you don’t want to.

How To Format an Xbox 360 Hard Drive is a post from: wangarific