One of the reasons I’m starting to actually prefer Facebook Messenger: you can stop specific people from messaging you.
Smile!
Selfies are back and here to stay. Create a photo post, click “Take a photo” on the bottom right corner, and GPOY to your heart’s desire.*
Want to update your avatar? Visit your blog’s settings page to take a selfie or drag and drop directly from your desktop.
*Chrome and Firefox v20+ only for now
They’re good for things like navigating between the sidebar icons and individual posts, navigating comments, and putting focus in the search box at the top. Hangouts have a bunch of shortcuts, too.
Yaaayyyyy Tumblr!
Hello there, slick little Tumblr notification alert thingies. How you doin’.
If you’re the type who gets around faster with keyboard shortcuts than a mouse, Delicious is happy to accommodate you.
MATTER, an investigative online and PDF magazine that launched from a Kickstarter, lets readers vote on its next investigation.
Facebook offers a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts for many common and even not-so-common actions. Socialbakers created an infographic to list these shortcuts for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on OS X, and Chrome, Firefox, and IE on Windows.
Some of these shortcuts include: create a new message, get back to the main page (news feed), check your friend requests, visit your profile page, check account or privacy settings, and like a photo.
Two shortcuts Socialbakers didn’t list: J and K now work to move you forward and back through your news feed, but apparently not on profile pages.
About Finer Things in Tech v2.5
These sites and their individual sections—Mac, iOS, PC, Web—have been through some pretty big changes over the last couple years, but especially the last few months. I figured it was time to round up the latest in a single post, including some big additions I have coming up. Yes, I’m considering an Android section, but I’m also looking for new, creative ways to support not just my work, but give something back to all you wonderful readers who contribute posts.
Bonus points: each top-level Finer Things in Tech section has its own Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feed, so you can follow them how you like. Want another options? Let me know and I’ll see what I can do.
This is a really nice touch: the Facebook Graph Search tour uses your data to make it more useful, so you actually see a query you could actually type and the actual results you would get from it, based on your friends and data.
In other words, it’s not just a canned tour with canned data; it shows you how to actually use your stuff.
