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Thanks to this information, I have linked a few of my 3rd-party sites and services to my Facebook account. Reminds me of the 90’s when we used to do Webrings – remember Webrings? Remember Webrings on Geocities? Remember the city names? Ha! That’s a memory! I digress. This information is grand!
From: How Do I Import Google Reader, Delicious, and Other Services Into Facebook? | Stay N’ Alive
With the new Facebook home page design, the visibility of all my updates is making other people aware that I import my
Google Reader, Delicious, and other activity into Facebook. It is one of my most frequent questions asked in the messages I get on Facebook. For this reason I thought I’d share how I do it. Believe it or not, no app install is required for this – it’s built right into Facebook.Services available in Facebook as of this post
Services Available
First of all, the services you can import into your Facebook wall feed:
- Yelp
- Photobucket
- Flickr
- Digg
- Picasa
- Delicious
- Google Reader
- Youtube
- Stumbleupon
- Last.fm
- Pandora
- Hulu
- Blog/RSS – you may choose one blog to import (in addition to any note imports)
Start by choosing which of those you belong to and use, and which you would like to share with your friends. Now to set it up.
Set Up
Set up is easy. Click on the “Profile” link in the top nav bar. Then, under the “Write Something” publisher box, on the right, there is a “Settings” link. Click on that, and you’ll now see a list of sites you can import. In the list of sites, just click on the one you want to import, and follow the instructions. Click “import”, and you’re done! If you ever want to edit or remove your settings, just click on any of the services and you can change any of the settings you want.
Importing the other sites you frequent can be a great, viral way to initiate discussion amongst your friends and family. It can also be a great way to bring more exposure to your brand or business if the articles and links on the sites you share belong to your business, and others can always re-share on their profiles, so it is viral as well. So there you have it – you too can import these sites into your own profile.
Entering account info in Facebook
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Here we go Google Sync! Time to see how close we can get to killing off MobileMe!
Looks great right? One warning caught my eye:
Google Apps user? This service needs to be enabled for your domain before you can use it. Please contact your domain administrator.
K, so I am said Administrator. What do I need to do here? Please don’t tell me I need to upgrade to a Premium Account, not after all this work Google. Don’t do it to me. Don’t!
Whew!
From: Google Sync via ActiveSync – Google Apps Help
If you’d like to enable Google Sync for your domain, follow these steps:
1. In the Service settings section of your Dashboard, click the Mobile link.
2. Select the checkbox next to Enable Google Sync.
3. Click Save changes.This feature is currently available only in the Next Generation version of the control panel.
Did it, done. Whew!
So let’s start with getting my calendar.forsbergville.com Google Calendar set-up. I log-in and it confirms the time zone, etc. and bam! Up.
Next I downloaded a neat tool that basically adds Google Calendars to your Apple iCal (10.5 and up only) program. Note that in 10.5 and up iCal, you can also do this manually as the new iCal supports ical: subscriptions (love you Apple – had the Kool Aid made into convenient popsicles and poured into baby bottles just so I can be near it more – you rock). The tool was called Calaboration. Anyway, that got each newly created Google Calendar into iCal all talking back and forth. Sweet. Next, I exported the corresponding calendars I already had either on MobileMe or locally into separate .ics files vis iCal’s great Export… feature. Once done, I used the Google Calendar Import… feature and imported to each Google Calendar calendar. Again – whew! K, done.
After verifying that each one looked good in iCal (I should and did have duplicates of every item as I should not see the original in iCal as well as the newly subscribed to items. I did. Sweet. I delete the local/Mobile me calendars completely, quit iCal, start it again just to be sure, and walla. Cake.
Will go here – need a break at the moment but will edit this post soon to round it off.
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I would like to have integrated chat services on my domain. Users can connect via any Jabber-able client and interact with friends on other messaging networks (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, etc.). How? Well, I have already married a number of sub-domains to my Google Apps account (calendar, email, etc.) and that’s working awesome. Now for chat.forsbergville.com. At first I thought I would install a Jabber server on my host. Then I realized that Google Talk may be able to do the leg-work for me. I can marry chat to Google Talk now, but Google Talk is under-populated and I want those other networks.
Enter the process of federation. Google Apps Admin Help tells me that:
From: How can my users chat outside the Google network? – Google Apps Help
How can my users chat outside the Google network?
Google makes it possible for your users to chat with people using other messaging services through a process known as federation. Go to Google Talk and open communications to learn more about federation and who we’re federating with.
While we’re federating with a number of other services, some services aren’t currently accessible through the Google Talk network, and your users won’t be able to chat with users of those services.
If you’d like your users to have the ability to chat with people connected to the Google Talk network through federated networks, you’ll need to edit your Service (SRV) records. You don’t need to edit your SRV records for your users to chat with other Google Apps and Gmail users. SRV records are managed by your domain host. We suggest contacting your domain host to find out if you have access to SRV records and how you can make modifications.
When you enter the following information, make sure to replace gmail.com with your domain. Don’t replace google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.Because there are many different domain hosts offering varying options for SRV records, we recommend contacting your domain host directly for assistance. This includes entering the SRV record data, assigning protocols and weights, and other configuration questions. Some domain hosts will allow you to copy and paste the information above exactly as it’s offered while other domain hosts require granular data entry.
I use GoDaddy to host both my webserver and domain. This trick is exclusively involving the domain. So here you go:
1. Copy this code snippet to your favorite plain-text editor:
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.gmail.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
2. Per Google’s instruction in the cited quotation above, change the “gmail” bits to your domain (Important to leave the “google” parts intact).
3. Save the file as a plain-text file.
4. Login to GoDaddy, get to your domain’s Domain Management area, click “Import” and import the file.
5. Bask in your glory:

Imported SRV settings for Federated chat
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So obviously I own my domain (forsbergville.com). After reading about mapping my MX records for email to Google Apps, I started thinking of other ideas for my subdomains (current and future).
The ideas will keep coming I’m sure, but I think that this is a great start!
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Busy installing and testing plug-in’s for the blog today. The list is quite large, but I am satisfied that, despite the amount of plug-in’s, I have the bare essentials for my design and usability desires. I snatched a few ideas from this wonderful article as well:
From: The 13 Most Essential Plugins for WordPress – NETTUTS
WordPress is a very powerful and flexible blog/content management system, but the thousands of plugins really help to extend the basic functionality. Here are 13 essential plugins that you should immediately install after finishing the WordPress installation.
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So I am seriously considering now renewing my MobileMe/.Mac account when it comes up in 9 months. This is – indeed – quite a bit of type-a over-planning-in-advance, I realize, but please bear with me here: I need to get my saved IMAP folders off MobileMe now! I want it on my GoDaddy account now because I get free email there with my hosting and domain plans! My f-ing domain is there man … I want my username@mac.com saved messages moved – now.

My Finger — YOUR Eye!
Yes, you felt, just now, quite deeply; a type-a attack. But I digress: I want my saved mail moved! So I’m following the article below – now. Well actually – fu%k – I bet Godaddy has timed my session out by now and all because of my damned type-a fingertips to eyes routine.
From: Mike’s Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Using IMAP with GoDaddy email accounts
Using IMAP with GoDaddy email accounts
I really enjoy using GoDaddy for my domain and hosting provider. However, there has always been one aspect of their services that gets on my nerves: email. Let me count the ways:
1. Their email services limit SMTP forwarding to 250 times per day (that is how many emails you can send each day.)
2. Each mailbox only can store up to 10 MB, unless you pay extra.
3. You cannot use IMAP with their accounts, only POP3 or the website-based email.Fortunately, I found out today how overcome all of these problems in one felled swoop. To summarize the process, you use Google Apps instead of the GoDaddy email system. GoDaddy lets you set all the nitty-gritty details of your account settings, including how your email is handled. There is a nice tutorial how to do this here: http://howbits.com/solved-godaddy-email-step-one-get-google-apps/
Or, if you don’t want to follow the instructions at the site above, then you just create a Google Apps account at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html , enter your domain name, go to the “Dashboard” page, click on the “Activate email” link, and follow the directions.
Another great reason to do this is because now you’ll have all the benefits of having a Gmail account, but with your own domain’s email addresses instead of @gmail.com addresses. I have never owned a Gmail account, and I still don’t. Yet I use many of Google’s online applications: the search tool on my website, my personal calendar, and now to maintain my domain-specific email addresses. And yes, that means that I now get the same amount of email storage space for each account as someone a Gmail account gets (over 6 GB at the time of writing this), unlimited SMTP forwarding, and IMAP access via my email client (I use Mozilla Thunderbird.) And all of this is for free! Who would’ve thought such a thing would be so readily available to the public?
Kudos to Google! They may be getting massive and over-controlling of many things, but there are still treating their customers well.
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From: WordPress › Support » Working with caption id=”attachment_###”
I am using MarsEdit (OSX stand-alone blogging software) to publish to my WP blog and have everything working with the exception of one issue I am just confused about.
I use captions for all embedded images in my posts and love the feature. The first part of the caption code reads:
caption id="attachment_###"where “###” is a seemingly random number. How is that number generated (where does it come from)? Is it necessary for posting new photos with captions? While MarsEdit lets me template how each image is inserted, I don’t know what number to put in this part of the code.I found this documentation: WordPress › Support » Working with caption id=”attachment_###”
Image Settings – Titles, Descriptions, Captions, etc.
You can add captions to your images by using the “Image Caption” field in the “Add an Image” or the “Edit Image” window.
WordPress Heart Button
When you add a caption to an image, caption shortcode is inserted into the source code. The caption is also used as the alternate text for the image by default. Here is the source code for the image above right after inserting it.
caption id="attachment_945" align="aligncenter" width="161" caption="WordPress Heart Button"[/caption]
Unfortunately, this doesn’t tell me why the number “945″ is used in both places above. Any takers please?
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