Click View Live Feed to make Facebook show ALL content in order (the way it was before).
The Facebook developers recently changed the default homepage so that the stream of recent updates only shows select information (“News Feed”) instead of a more comprehensive stream (“Live Feed”). Someone, (probably well intentioned) started spreading this advice:
If you dont like the new FB here is how you can change it back to the old. Look to the top left menu and click on MORE. Then drag STATUS UPDATES to the top. After dragging to top, click on it. That becomes your default and it is like before. Pass it ……on!
Thinking this to be a good solution, people have been spreading this paragraph like wildfire through Facebook. The problem is, it is incorrect. This does not return Facebook to what it was “like before.” It actually makes what you see much more limited. Facebook only considers something a “Status Update” if it is only text. If you add a photo, link, event, or a video to a status update, it is no longer considered a status update. Instead it becomes a “Shared” item. So if you follow the advice above, you will only see updates that are text-only. This may appear to fix the problem at first, but over time I think people will realize they aren’t getting photos, videos, and links like they did before. For some people that may be fine — maybe they don’t mind missing out on photos in order to get a version of Facebook that is much more succinct (and like Twitter come to think of it).
So if you want to get back to the old Facebook, your best bet (in my opinion) is to click the “View Live Feed” link at the top of your homepage to make Facebook show ALL content in order (the way it was before). And yes, this does include more information than before, such as who friended who, but that is how the old old facebook was that everyone wanted back last time wasn’t it? I’ve found that when I log out and log back in Facebook even “remembers” how I set this to Live Feed, but your mileage may vary as they say.
Also: If you have more than 250 friends, you will need to scroll to the bottom of the Live Feed, click the Edit Options link, and increase the number of friends to include from 250 to a higher number, otherwise Facebook picks 250 friends for you and excludes updates from those not on this list.
Click Edit Options at the bottom of the Live News Feed to set the number of friends whose updates will show on your Live Feed.
If this number is lower than your number of friends, Facebook will pick whose updates to show you using its own logic.
So I am working along in Word 2007 and I click new, and this option to create a blog entry appears. What the heck, I think. So I register my wordpress.com blog and type a bit and here goes! We’ll see if this actually posts.
I’ll even try adding a little mull-tah-mee-ja
UPDATE: Well, whadyknow, it actually works without a hitch!
I have a PicasaWeb (or Picasa Web Album) account where I upload photos and video clips for my family. (It is easy to upload photos to PicasaWeb, but you have to have Picasa, Google’s free photo/video manager, to upload video clips to your PicasaWeb site.) I like PicasaWeb because the videos stream just as well as YouTube, but with PicasaWeb you can opt out of being searchable and it just feels less commercialized and more classy and private than a site like YouTube.
Now that Google owns Blogger (blogspot), I think they use the same format as PicasaWeb for video. So blogspot users can upload videos directly to their blogs. In either case you are dealing with the Google Video format.So here is the dilemma: What if I want to embed my Google Video on some other web page? For example, say I am a PicasaWeb user and want to embed a video in my blog? Or maybe I am a Blogspot user and want to embed my video in a family website? Here’s how:
Set up your browser
Open the Firefox web browser. (If you don’t have Firefox, you’ll need to have someone help install it)
Make sure you have “Download Embedded” installed. It is a Firefox add-on. You can install it here. If you install it, make sure to restart your browser.
Get the address of your video file
In Firefox, open the page or blog posting that shows your video clip.
You should see a small icon in the lower right corner of your browser:
Google video clips are really just embedded Adobe Flash files. The red down-arrow shows that the FireFox add-on found the video file. If you don’t see the red down-arrow, you may need to refresh the page to give it another chance to find the file. If it still doesn’t show up, make sure the “Download Embedded” add-on is installed by looking for it in the Tools > Add-ons menu.
Click the red down-arrow. A menu should appear with two options.
Pick the option “view embedded items.” A window will appear showing a list of items (there may be only thing on the list).
Click on the item that starts like this (it will be really long): http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F%...or this (on blogger.com): http://www.blogger.com/img/videoplayer.swf?videoUrl=http%3A%2F...
Click Copy to Clipboard. You now have the (hidden) address to your video clip!
Test your video address
Go to the address bar of your browser.
Press ctrl+v (or click the paste icon) to paste the address.
Press Enter or Return. You should now see your video all by itself.
Create the code you need to embed your video somewhere else.
Copy the following HTML code to a text editor (Notepad for example):
Copy the entire HTML code and paste it wherever HTML is accepted. For example, if you have embedded a YouTube video somewhere, you can post this code in that same place for your Google video. Note: Some forums restrict the use of embedded content, so this may not work even when a site says it allows HTML tags.
My wife brought home a great thrift store find today: a bread maker called the Hitachi Automatic Home Bakery HB-B101. She bought it half price for $3.50! It looks like it is in great shape. The only problem is that its manual is missing. I’ve been spoiled by the availability of product manuals online and thought, “big deal! I’ll just find it online.” Well, in this case the manual is pretty good at being a fugitive: No matter how I search for it, all I get is links to other people looking for it, or links to eBay listings where it is selling for upwards of $15. The Hitachi site was not helpful — the only section on bread makers is in Japanese.
Fortunately, our basic recipe is printed on a sticker the side of the machine:
I posted it here because I got the sense from my web hunt that this isn’t printed on every version of this machine.
Another thing we had to figure out is that you have to snap the bread bowl down into place securely before it will let you start the mixing/kneading/baking process. A lot of people (us included) were getting an Error message (blinking E) until we figured this out.
In case someone else who bought one of these didn’t get the recipe, here you go:
1. Pour 3/4 cup of water into the bread pan.
2. Add all dry ingredients except the DRY yeast.
3. Place the DRY yeast on top of the DRY flour. Do not mix.
4. Press the START button
“Your oven-fresh bread will be ready in 4 hours and 10 minutes. It is more convenient if you use the built-in delay timer.”
Thanks to someone who posted at this website, here is the recipe for a large loaf (though I’ve never seen a 9/16 measuring cup before):
Water 9/16 cup (4.6 oz)
Fresh milk 9/16 cup
bread flour 3 cups
salt 1 1/2 teaspoons
sugar 3 tablespoons
butter 1 1/2 tablespoons
dry yeast 1 teaspoon (“bread” setting)
2 teaspoons (“bread rapid” setting)
If anyone who has found the post has an electronic copy of the manual, I’d sure appreciate it. During my search I did find an article about how to use automatic bread makers in general: http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/breadmachinemanual.htm
I’ve found that when I log out and log back in Facebook even “remembers” how I set this to Live Feed, but your mileage may vary as they say.
