Life and Times of Brad Owens
Posts tagged How To
Why I’m Considering Deleting My Facebook Account
Apr 28th
I hate to say it, but Facebook may be a thing of the past for me.
If I really think about the amount of time I interact on Facebook, it is minimal. I mostly use it to watch old friends’ lives unfold and to see what pictures of me are out there. Recently I’ve used it more for DJ’ing which is a great way to put up videos and interact with possible clients but we’re getting more views on YouTube and our main website than on Facebook. So that isn’t really an argument to keep it.
Now Facebook recently announced that they are changing the web to be more personalized. Basically, what they are saying is More >
How To: Keep your Twitter, Facebook, GChat, AIM, iChat and LinkedIn status in sync.
Nov 25th
I’ve had a lot of questions asking me how I keep my status updates in sync across my different social networks. In this video I detail how I go about keeping my Twitter status, Facebook status, GChat status, iChat status, AIM status and my LinkedIn status in sync. More >
How to Backup All of Your “Stuff”, the Right Way
Sep 17th
I’m going to take you on a journey through my paranoia about losing all of the precious “stuff’ I have accumulated through my years of computer use. All of this stems from a massive hard drive failure I had in college when I lost every single one of my pictures and music files that I’ve had since I started using a computer. It took months and many different trips to various computer shops to recover just a fraction of the data I lost and ended up costing me lots more than a backup solution would have. Why is it that we never learn the cardinal rule of computing until it’s too late? BACK UP YOUR STUFF!!
First, let me give you a picture of how I store my information and where I store it. More >
Video Demo: How To Follow Your Facebook Friends’ Status Updates With Twitter
Feb 27th
10/12/09 UPDATE: It looks like Facebook has disabled the RSS feed capability. This trick no longer works now. Hopefully this will be fixed soon. I’ll bring you an update when it does. http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/08/28/when-did-facebook-remove-rss-for-friends-status-updates/
More >
