by Greg Bussmann on March 8, 2010
In another tip from the ‘everybody probably already knows this’ category, I have something for the Google Reader fanatics out there who sometimes feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unread items in their reader.
In the past, when I was feeling overwhelmed by the number of unread items in one of my feeds or categories, I would just hit the ‘mark all as read’ button and move on, telling myself that I could never hope to keep up with everything, and if something is good, it will find it’s way to my attention span.
And we can not keep up with everything, but we can filter. Today, I noticed there are now more options on the ‘Mark All As Read’ button in Google Reader. Instead of marking all items as read, you can selectively mark your new items as read according to these pre-defined options:
I don’t know, this is certainly not life-changing – I realize that. But I just thought it was kind of cool and maybe, like me, you had not noticed it yet either.
by Greg Bussmann on February 24, 2010
Here is a quick and dirty Facebook tip. I apologize if this is old news, but I have shown it to enough people that I think it might be worth mentioning:
Farmville; you either play it or you hate it. Same for Mafia Wars and other Facebook games and applications.
This tip is for the haters. And it works on any Facebook app you hate.
Have you been in this situation: You don’t want to ‘unfriend’ someone, yet all they seem to do with their time is play _______? (insert the name of your least favorite Facebook app) You wouldn’t care if you were not beyond sick of seeing the byproduct of their borderline obsession all over your Facebook wall.
If so, this problem will be gone forever in about 30 seconds…tops.
Ever seen this ‘hide’ button on a status update? It is not there by default, but as soon as you hover over a post, it shows up.
If you click that hide button, you get a little box with a couple options, the first is to hide the person altogether…you could do this, but what if it’s your mother? Or in this case, your daughter? That doesn’t work so good. The second option though, that lets me hide only posts related to the offending app…and it works on any app within Facebook. That seems like a solution that works well for everybody involved.
Click that ‘hide pillow fight’ button and away goes the app. You still see updates from the friend that are not related to the app, and your wall is now refreshingly clear of annoying Facebook applications.
So what do you think? Had you heard this one before?
