How do I disable those annoying updates on Facebook?
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 that I received 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 webbrowser, 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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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!
This was a request from a subscriber to DutchGeek.com. If you want to get your questions answered, why not post a comment below.
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I had been holding off on posting this, but after finally getting this to work flawlessly for me, I have decided to publish this article.
For all the different domains that I own, and all the websites that I have setup, I have always needed some form of software to be my mail server. I used to run a few different mail server programs out of my own home, so I had greater control over the application.
Then a few years ago I was invited to the googlemail beta when it was still closed. I had used hotmail, yahoo, and a few other free mail clients before this, but they just never seemed to interest me enough to keep using them. Don’t get me wrong, I still have my yahoo account, but I use that as a spam address.
The biggest problem that I was facing was I needed an application that would allow for mail client usage such as Outlook Express (Microsoft Mail now), and also for web viewing, as some of the people that I was serving mail for needed to view it over the web.
I was using a program called Icewarp, and it was great, until I starting getting innudated with SPAM. The different organizations, that I was hosting for free started to complain about receiving way too much SPAM, and asked me to decrease it. It became a never ending battle. So the search started. Then I stumbled upon it… oh could this be it? Gmail had been released for orgainzations. Yes free and paid email solutions for all! Upto 25 accounts was still free, and since my customers were all smaller, this was perfect!
Yes, yes it was all I needed until I got my first iPhone. I saw all the different mail accounts I could have and I could seperate them, and be organized! My previous Blackberry needed special apps to be able to view HTML mails, and even seperate the accounts.
Being on an exchange server at work, I was able to push emails, for my work account, and IMAP for my Gmail, and yahoo accounts. I was in heaven! Then in order to save the company a bit of money, I removed myself from the push server, freeing up my 1 available Exchange connection.
Then Gmail started to tease me. They allowed for contacts and calendars to be synced through push! I copied all my contacts from my work email, and published them into my personal gmail account. Now I had access to all the contacts that I would ever need, and they were in my personal email. This meant that if I was ever let go from the company, I would not scramble to get my contact data out of my work email account. I had seen it far too often that people were let go, and I would have to disable access to their accounts.
That’s right people. If its your work account, it doesn’t belong to you. You might think it does, but sadly, it doesnot. This was a great way for me to prepare incase any ever happened, I would retain my contacts, and my work email account would be clean for anyone else to look at.
Then a short while ago, Gmail allowed mail push. Oh Happy Day! yes that’s right, I am now able to push all my information for my gmail account in realtime to my iPhone.
Gmail for organizations has become a true leader in email services. They are second to none, as they offer free accounts for the smaller organizations, and low cost enterprise solutions as well. Everytime I am asked how to setup an email acount for a client, I always recommend Gmail, as the administrator is able to control the accounts, and the people in the organization can have an email address with their proper domain name rather than a @gmail.com account or a @hotmail.com. This is much more professional looking, and its very easy to setup.
COngratulations Google for giving us yet another stunning service!
I had been holding off on posting this, but after finally getting this to work flawlessly for me, I have decided to publish this article.
For all the different domains that I own, and all the websites that I have setup, I have always needed some form of software to be my mail server. I used to run a few different mail server programs out of my own home, so I had greater control over the application.
Then a few years ago I was invited to the Gmail beta when it was still closed. I had used Hotmail, Yahoo, and a few other free mail clients before this, but they just never seemed to interest me enough to keep using them. Don’t get me wrong, I still have my yahoo account, but I use that as a spam address.
The biggest problem that I was facing was I needed an application that would allow for mail client usage such as Outlook Express (Microsoft Mail now), and also for web viewing, as some of the people that I was serving mail for needed to view it over the web.
I was using a program called Icewarp, and it was great, until I starting getting innudated with SPAM. The different organizations, that I was hosting for free started to complain about receiving way too much SPAM, and asked me to decrease it. It became a never ending battle. So the search started. Then I stumbled upon it… oh could this be it? Gmail had been released for orgainzations. Yes free and paid email solutions for all! Upto 25 accounts was still free, and since my customers were all smaller, this was perfect!
Yes, yes it was all I needed until I got my first iPhone. I saw all the different mail accounts I could have and I could seperate them, and be organized! My previous Blackberry needed special apps to be able to view HTML mails, and even seperate the accounts.
Being on an exchange server at work, I was able to push emails, for my work account, and IMAP for my Gmail, and yahoo accounts. I was in heaven! Then in order to save the company a bit of money, I removed myself from the push server, freeing up my 1 available Exchange connection.
Then Gmail started to tease me. They allowed for contacts and calendars to be synced through push! I copied all my contacts from my work email, and published them into my personal gmail account. Now I had access to all the contacts that I would ever need, and they were in my personal email. This meant that if I was ever let go from the company, I would not scramble to get my contact data out of my work email account. I had seen it far too often that people were let go, and I would have to disable access to their accounts.
That’s right people. If its your work account, it doesn’t belong to you. You might think it does, but sadly, it doesnot. This was a great way for me to prepare incase any ever happened, I would retain my contacts, and my work email account would be clean for anyone else to look at.
Then a short while ago, Gmail allowed mail push. Oh Happy Day! yes that’s right, I am now able to push all my information for my gmail account in realtime to my iPhone.
Gmail for organizations has become a true leader in email services. They are second to none, as they offer free accounts for the smaller organizations, and low cost enterprise solutions as well. Everytime I am asked how to setup an email acount for a client, I always recommend Gmail, as the administrator is able to control the accounts, and the people in the organization can have an email address with their proper domain name rather than a @gmail.com account or a @hotmail.com. This is much more professional looking, and its very easy to setup.
Congratulations Google for giving us yet another stunning service!
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