How do I disable those annoying updates on Facebook?
Do you get really annoyed when you login to Facebook and all you see on your wall is a bunch of updates from your friends, but not really from your friends? Rather, the update is from a game or application that they are using on Facebook, and it has decided to let you know that your friend is playing thier game, and that they want to let you know, or they need your help!
I know that this topic is not one that I normally cover, but I liked the question so I decided to post on it.
In Facebook, these apps and games are trying to advertise themselves to everyone, and thats why they are posting to your wall. I can appreciate that, but I personally find it annoying, so I am going to tell you how to stop it, without blocking your friend!
When you login to Facebook and you are looking at the home page, you might see a bunch of updates from Farmville, Mafia Wars, some random quiz, or whatever the latest Facebook fad is. The best way and easiest way to stop them is really simple.
Beside each post on the right hand side, there will be a drop down arrow.
You won’t see it unless you move your mouse over that area, thats the trick! once you have your mouse over that area, you will be able to select “hide” or hide application.
Hide, will remove all posts from that user, so you never see their updates again. Not sure you will want to do that, but its there. Hide application, will remove all the posts from that application. So if you have 20 friends all playing Farmville, or passing around the 10 things I know about you quiz, once you hide that application, you won’t see anyones update about it afterwards.
Although you are not able to do this on the iPhone with the Facebook app, once you do this on your PC in a web browser, then you will not see these updates on your iPhone anymore either.
There you go, now you don’t have to see all those application updates anymore!
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Categories: Tips and Tricks Tags: Facebook, iPhone, Mobile, Spam
What are System Restore points?
Have you ever wondered just what a system restore point was, and just why you need them?
Your not alone. A lot of people don’t know how to effectively use them, and they can be a great tool for backup. However; that being said, it should never be your ONLY form of backup of your system. System Restore points should be considered the front line of your backup solution.
System Restore points can be made in Vista or Windows 7 by opening the Control Panel and choosing System.
Select on System Protection
Here we are able to choose the specific settings of our backup. Choose configure, and Select the following options:
Restore system settings and previous versions of files.
The amount of Disk Space that is used, is up to you. I would normally recommend about 10% of your total Hard Disk. Once these options are enabled, then your system should be backing up the data. The default for the task in Windows is to run at midnight each day.
***NOTE***
I do not consider this to be a full backup of your system, however; if used correctly this can be used as one component of a full backup routine for your data.