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For those of you who don’t know or have never heard of The Onion News you should quickly head to their website and check them out.

The Onion is an American “fake news” organization. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news as well as an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 690,000^[2] and says 61 percent of its web site readers are between 18 and 44 years old.^[2]

The Onion’s articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes, as well as traditional newspaper layout and AP-style editorial voice. Much of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy items, and by playing on commonly used phrases, as in the headline “Drugs Win Drug War.” ~ The Onion Wikipedia

I personally don’t read many of their news articles but absolutely adore their videos. Their production quality is outstanding making them look sometimes even better than real news networks.

The stories they come up with and report on are as original as you can get. Below I’ve included some videos from their YouTube Channel that had me in tears. Read the rest of this entry »

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As the new Facebook has been launched (not pushed out to everyone yet) only a couple of weeks ago, many suggestions are hitting Facebook and many things are getting added and updated daily.

Today I have found two new features that have been implented. The first is the addition of the Current City information for your profile. Facebook has always had Hometown, which I think confused people because people didn’t know if that was where you were born or where you live now. So now we have Current City and Hometown as can be seen in the screenshot below.

New addition, Current City

The second addition to the Facebook’s profile page has been the Settings link which now sits beside the All Posts, Posts by <your name> and Posts by Others links. This new Settings link has the same features as the old Import link (which allows you to import things like your shared Google Reader posts, YouTube videos and Flickr photos) which use be on the old Facebook but now has some extra added features like allowing you to chose whether you want friends to comment on your stories and friends to post on your wall.

New settings link

Check out the new Facebook if you haven’t already and keep an eye out for the new features being added daily.

Thanks,

Marat

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On Facebook each profile has a Mini-Feed which displays usefull information about that particular person, including their latests wall posts, added applications, shared blog posts from Google Reader and favourite YouTube videos.

You can view the entire Mini-Feed by clicking the See All link in the top right hand corner of the Mini-Feed, but from there you cannot filter the Mini-Feed by Google Reader, YouTube or WordPress from the right hand View menu.

However a simple way to do this is to click the the icons for each Mini-Feed post (the highlighted icons in the picture on the right). Clicking these icons will take you to the same page as clicking the See All link but this time will filter the Mini-Feed posts by that particular post category, whether that may be WordPress blogs, Google Reader’s shared blog posts or even favourite YouTube videos.

This allows anyone visiting your Facebook profile page to view all Mini-Feed posts related to that category.

Thanks,

Marat

Well since I’ve been gone for such a long time I thought I’d make a new post and include a few new little scripts/extensions/tweaks I’ve found and started using for some time now.

First off I must note that in order to utilise any of the following scripts/extensions/tweaks you must use Mozilla Firefox. I haven’t said this enough but please by god don’t use Internet Explorer and just switch for Firefox already

Ok now that we’ve got that out of the way lets begin.

Greasemonkey (Wikipedia)

Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to most HTML-based web pages. As the Greasemonkey scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened, making them effectively permanent for the user running the script. ~ Wikipedia

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