Monthly Archives: October 2009

Question of the day: download video from facebook

robinna/ October 27, 2009/ social media, meetups/conferences, question of the day, that's cool, media, tutorials, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

There are a few different ways to download a video from facebook, none of which are built in to facebook. You can dig around in the internet cache for (IE) or Firefox or if you use Firefox you can add this wonderful little GreaseMonkey script that creates a download link right at the video in facebook. Whoa, now that is

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For you bloggers — National Blog Posting Month

robinna/ October 26, 2009/ life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Nablopomo runs several blog events to encourage bloggers, too…. well, blog. October’s theme was haunted. November is blog every day. I’m going to give it a try this year. As you know, November is just around the corner and with it comes the big blogging free-for-all of the “official” National Blog Posting Month. There’s no theme for November, so you’re

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Fix facebook feed — facebook “enhancements”

robinna/ October 25, 2009/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

So, if you logged in to facebook over the weekend you saw that FB has wreaked havoc on your feed, greatly impacting the information you send out to your friends and what you see from your friends. Friend spam! I love it (not really…..) Of course, along with the bad is some good options. Potentially LOTS more control over what

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Facebook, privacy & digital identity (presentation)

robinna/ October 22, 2009/ social media, my projects, Training/ 0 comments

10/26/2009 Update: Although my presentation is still (very) relevant, if you are looking for the fix for the latest facebook live feed enhancement, start here. This presentation was done the week before the enhancement was launched so although I did talk about privacy issues (and setting your privacy settings) the feed enhancement is was not available at the time.…and you

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Question of the day: My “hand” tool is stuck in Fireworks, Photoshop, etc.?

robinna/ October 20, 2009/ software, meetups/conferences, question of the day, tools/tips, tutorials, Training, web 2.0+, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

So, I had the dreaded stuck “hand” tool in MXFireworks 2004 (yeah, I know, way behind, I work for the govt….) where I absolutely could do nothing except move around using the hand tool.After much googling, here are the responses I came up with (and I now share in hopes of helping somebody else) : The first three are duhs,

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