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So, today I am here to write what is pretty much my first useful post on this website. After a long time of not motivating myself, I finally got around to writing a bookmarklet to make removing (de-authorizing) Facebook applications easier! If you don’t know what I’m talking about either you have never decided to remove an application (Shame on you for not giving a damn about how many applications you allow to see your personal information), or you’ve never tried to remove more than one at once.

Basically, when you decide to remove an application, you click the “X” and then Facebook pops up a little notification asking if you want to remove that app (which, because facebook wants to be fancy, takes about half a second for the window to pop up and then another half a second to fade away), then about one or two seconds later, a second notification pops up to tell you that you have successfully removed it (also with the previously mentioned delays). Obviously this would take up a lot of time if you want to remove several applications.

So, to help with this annoyance, I made a bookmarklet. While this doesn’t get rid of those notifications, it does automatically click them for you. Also, and more importantly, it adds check boxes next to each application so that you may select all of the applications which you wish to remove and then have them automatically removed.

Now, basically as I said, this doesn’t remove the dialog boxes. So, once you have selected the apps you want to remove and click the “Remove Selected” button, it will go through each one, clicking the dialog boxes for you, each taking about 4-5 seconds each, so it will still take time, but at least you don’t have to do it manually.

Before I go into how to set this up, let me first say, I’m not the best JavaScript writer, so, this may be any of the following: slow, inefficient, resource hogging, semi-functional, nonfunctional. Also, use at your own risk, any damage which may occur is not my responsibility, sorry. Use at your own risk. 

Installation:

To install the bookmarklet simply drag the following link up to your browser’s bookmark bar: Remove Facebook Applications

If anyone is currious, the source code can be found here.

Usage:

1. Simply visit the Facebook application page (currently accessed by clicking Account on the top of facebook, and then Application Settings, Alternatively, you may click here).
2. Click the bookmarklet. The checkboxes and button should then appear on the list of applications.
3. Check the box for any applications you wish to remove.
4. Click “Remove Selected”.

The script will then go through the process of (hopefully) removing all of the applications you selected.

As I said, this may not work correctly, so feel free to leave a message here if you have any questions, problems, or comments.

Hello again, semi-anonymous user who has, more than likely, arrived here by mistake. Today, I am taking on a new commercial which I just saw on the television. The commercial in question is a Best Buy Recycle It On commercial in which a man receives a new laptop, but doesn’t want to just throw out his old one. The man then passes the old laptop off in a “hot potato” style to another, then this process repeats.

My response is simple: Give it to me!

Okay. For the many of you who do not personally know me, I’m quite geeky. I really enjoy computers and frankly, one can never have to many computers. Really, I would kill for a free PC, no matter how old or crappy it may be. I don’t care if it’s an old box with 3mb of ram and a floppy disks worth of hard-drive space, I’ll take it!

So next time you’re looking to get rid of an old PC*, remember, I’ll take it!

*if you don’t personally know me (and therefore don’t live close to me), you must also be looking to dispose of a few bucks for shipping. Have a nice day.

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of aimless jabbering.

this was the result of an image search for “jabbering.” I don’t get it either.

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So, today I’m making a list of music to make your lonely Valentines Day worse*.  Have fun!

*Only applies to people who are horribly lonely, like me. Consult your physician before use. Not valid in the state of Mississippi or Puerto Rico; void where prohibited. Batteries not included. Results may vary.

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Yes, yes, I know this is the type of material that you would receive in a mass email forwarding from your mother, but I really have to ask: Why can’t I be this kitten? He has a box. An awesome just-the-right-size box. I want a box. I want to be him. Seriously, this guy is luckier than that guy I saw with a bucket a while ago.

Oh well, I guess you can’t have everything

Happy thanksgiving everyone!

Now, it doesn’t take an idiot to figure out what happens next; A ton of crazy images I stole from the internets! YEY!

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Well, if you are, then you are like me. If your aren’t you probably know someone who is, so you might want to pass this on to them.

Today, as I was browsing around looking for various scholarships and other methods for increasing my visibility to colleges I found a great website: Zinch.com. Basically, this site is a social networking site, but besides simply connecting you to other people, it also connects you to colleges. All a person has to do is fill out a facebook-like profile and you are out in the view of hundreds of potential colleges.

Not only does Zinch help you connect with colleges, it also uses your information to find available scholarships from their databases containing thousands of potential scholarships. In less than two hours I have already applied to, at least, four different scholarships.

Want to know more? Here is a quote from their website:

Based on our comprehensive student profile, we can match students to any scholarship out there. Students tell us who they are…and we hook them up with scholarships that matter. Zinch allows students to learn about, get recruited by, and interact with more than 726 colleges and universities from all over the world. And it happens on a platform that students embrace – the web.

So, what are you waiting for? Why don’t you take a few minutes and sign up like I did, because its a win-win situation, this can only help you.

So, to congratulate your good work, have some college related videos!

Professor Wikipedia

Guy Stuck In Class

Asher Roth – I Love College

(link is higher quality than the embeded video)

Once again, boredom, as well as encounters with stories that give validity  to stereotypes, has driven me to try to write a post about something intellectual and actually worth reading. However, as you may very well expect, I’m not going to do that. So, instead, I’m just going to post a mix of Links, quotes and pictures for the sake of brief entertainment.

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So starting tomorrow, a transition is going to occur that may or may not cause trouble with this site. I am getting a new internet connection which means two things: one, my internet connection will not go down when the weather changes (hopefully), and, two, I will no longer have a static IP address.

[Warning: Educational Content – Skip past education]

For those of you who aren’t computer savvy, IP addresses are the numbers that basically tell computers where to go in order to access a website. Taken from wikipedia:

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numerical identification and logical address that is assigned to devices participating in a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes… The role of the IP address has been characterized as follows: "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how to get there."

The average Internet user has a dynamic IP address, which means it changes and does not stay the same. One day your IP address might be 123.123.123.123, but another day it might be 111.222.011.022. However, a static IP is one that does not change. A static IP is typically required to run a website, because when someone types in a website name, the DNS server (i’ll spare you all and not explain that) looks up the name and tells your computer the IP of that website.

If the IP of that website ever changes, the DNS server has to be updated, or else it will send you to the wrong website (or to a server that does not exist).

[End of severe education]

So basically, as I said, I am loosing the static IP address. This leaves me with two options, plan A and plan B. Plan A: Because the address doesn’t change too often all I need to do is update the DNS with the current IP if it ever changes. This is a temporary solution and should work as long as nothing malfunctions. The draw back is the necessary work, and it takes time to update the server, so the website could be “down” for almost a day. Plan B: Don’t host my website at home. That’s a simple and easy solution, but what’s fun about that?

So, in summary, if you can’t access this site (then again who would want to), its because of this stuff and it should be back up eventually.

Now, because I don’t want to leave you all with some boring post about internet protocol, here is a nice heaping serving of “pic unrelated”

Well, sadly, it is that time again. Its the time when the summer is ending and we all have to go back to school. Usually, I don’t mind going back; I mean, I like not having school, but normally I hadn’t ever had anything to exciting happen and therefore the summer was just another vacation. But this summer was a bit different, even though I spent most of my time at home, it was still really fun, lots of things happened, and it was probably one of my most memorable summers. However, as fun as it was, I am still excited about school. Not so much about the work and educational opportunities, but more about the simple social aspect of it; seeing my friends and meeting new ones.  

Freshman

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