Archive for the ‘Featured’ Category
The cream of the crop, these are the posts that were featured on our homepage at one point or another. It doesn’t get any better than this, folk. No, really. It doesn’t.
Hate Facebook Games? Turn Off the API
Posted on August 29, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
I spend a lot of time talking complaining about Facebook, and warning people about Facebook’s less-than-ethical privacy changes over the past year. While turning off the API altogether probably isn’t for everyone, it is possible.
Introducing FBMHell.Com
Posted on July 27, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Good news, everyone! My compulsive need to make websites and write content has struck again, this time resulting in my new site, FBMHell.Com, which I hope will evolve into a great resource for Facebook developers, whether you’re an app developer or fan page designer.
Share Your NES Haiku, Enter to Win an NES Controller iPhone 3G/3GS Ski
Posted on July 24, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Freebies, Geek Life
Sad you don’t have an iPhone4 yet? Don’t feel bad – write an NES-themed haiku, and you might win a super-cool NES iPhone 3G/3GS skin.
Backup Your Mac to AS3 with Arq
Posted on June 29, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Mac Downloads
There are about 900 different options available to automatically back up your Mac, none of which I have been in love with until now.
Review of the 17-inch BookBook
Posted on June 28, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life
I posted about the gorgeous BookBook laptop case for the 15″ Macbook Pro back in January on TehAwesome.Net, and have been impatiently waiting for a 17″ model. They’re finally available (first come, first serve!), and I received mine today.
Upgrading to WordPress 3.0 and Adding Multi-Site
Posted on June 19, 2010 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL
WordPress 3.0, code name “Thelonious”, has been released, and it brings multi-site functionality as part of the core. As someone with far too many blogs of my own, I thought this would be a great time to start switching them all over, and let you know what you’re in for if you choose to do [...]
Want to Set a Default Landing Tab on Your Facebook Fan Page? It’ll Cost You
Posted on May 19, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
You’re gonna love this. And by love I mean be filled with rage. I started receiving emails from people today, frustrated that they could no longer set a specific tab as their default landing tab in Facebook. Everyone assumed it was a bug. It’s not.
Taking Your Static FBML Microsite to the Next Level
Posted on May 19, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
In a previous tutorial, you learned how to Extend Facebook Static FBML Tabs with Dynamic Content, and now we’re back to show you how to take it even further by creating sub-nav tab navigation within your Static FBML microsite using only DynamicFBML.
Symphony of Science
Posted on May 18, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Music
Also known as “The only good thing Auto-Tune has ever been used for. Ever. Except maybe this.” This project isn’t particularly new, and I have been basking in the geekiness of this music for a while, but I just realized I neglected to share it with you. What a horrible, selfish whore I am.
Using Google Analytics on Facebook Fan Pages
Posted on April 10, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Can you use Google Analytics on Facebook fan pages and fan page walls? You betcher sweet ass you can.
Why I Hate Bloggers That Give Blogging Advice
Posted on April 7, 2010 by snipe in Featured, Web Development
Let me start off by saying that this blog post is not meant as advice. Because if it were advice, the sheer magnitude of my hypocrisy would create a tear in the space-time continuum, and we’d all die. And while I’m all for causing the downfall of humanity, it’s not the right time. Yet.
