I’ve been looking all over for the working script that ensures in various browsers that the facebook canvas size will be set (even when using some slow loading javascript code). Just set this in your facebook APP page and it should work!

<div id="fb-root"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
    window.fbAsyncInit = function () {
        FB.init({ appId: 'YOUR APP ID', status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true });
        FB.Canvas.setSize({ height: 890 });
    };
    (function () {
        var e = document.createElement('script');
        e.type = 'text/javascript';
        e.src = document.location.protocol +
            '//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js';
        e.async = true;
        document.getElementById('fb-root').appendChild(e);
    } ());
</script>

Having trouble adding html code to the wordpress visual editor? Does it keep removing your <div>, <form>,<iframe> tags? After struggling for several hours and trying to find a work around, I finally came to some conclusion.

Shortcode Generator:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shortcode-generator/

I found this plugin and it has made my life so much easier! I can now add bits of javascript and code to my wordpress pages/posts via a wordpress [shortcode]. It is really easy to add new code via the plugin. Just install and activate the plugin. Then navigate to the menu and add the code to the generator and it will pop out a [shortcode] that you can use throughout wordpress.

Hope this helps and spread the word!

So if you are like me and wanted to upgrade to WordPress 3.0 automatically…you might encounter this “error”

“Briefly unavailable for Scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute”

After you upgrade to wordpress 3.0 automatically, you get sent to a window that says “Briefly unavailable for Scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute”. I first thought it would go away after it finished installing, but it never did.

Here is how to solve the WordPress 3.0 “Briefly unavailable for Scheduled maintenance. Check back in a minute” error:

1. Step 1: Login to your blog via FTP
2. Go to your root director where you have your wordpress install
3. Be sure to “show hidden files”
4. Delete the file named “.maintenance”
5. You are good to go!

I recently tried installing Airtight’s SimpleViewer Gallery on one of my client’s sites. I liked it because I could upload the photos to flickr and it will automatically generate thumbnails and add everything to the gallery.

One Problem. SimpleViewer didn’t work at all in FireFox.

Here is how I fixed the SimpleViewer FireFox Bug

How To Make SimpleViewer Work in FireFox

I’m surprised it didn’t work out of the box.

1) Take the Following Script and change the 100% values to a number such as 960 and 600. Firefox needs an actual number, not a relative value. Let me know if this works for you! It worked for me!

Google Chome’s Pin Tab Feature Gone?

If you’re a tab hog like me, I’m sure you used the Google Chrome Pin Tab feature. Unfortunately in recent updates, they took this feature out! Well you are in luck today.

If you would like the Google Chrome Pin Tab feature back, download the latest developer (dev) release! No, not the beta, the dev version. Here you will get the pin tab feature back in Google Chrome!

Download the Google Chrome Browser (DEV) here:

Google Chrome for Windows

Dev channel: http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel

Google Chrome for Mac

Requirements: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.5.6 or later.
Dev channel: GoogleChrome.dmg
Then drag the app to the usual place.

Today is Twitter’s fourth birthday, and to celebrate the occasion we asked our Twitter followers: “Let us know how Twitter changed your life – add hashtag #thankstwitter4 so we can find your tweet.”

We got thousands of responses — in fact, #thankstwitter4 has become a trending topic. As promised, we did our best to sift through the tweets and find 140 that represent the Twitter zeitgeist as we enter the social network’s fourth year. Below are our selections, split up into categories or sentiments that we noticed were particularly common.

Consider this Twitter’s birthday picture at age four. Is it cute or is it ugly? You decide!

Continue reading…

This is really frustrating for not being able to suggest or invite a facebook group, fan page or application profile page to all your facebook contacts in one click. How do you feel to select 500 friends with 500 mouse click?

The javascript code from John P’s blog http://onemansblog.com/2009/08/30/how-to-invite-all-facebook-friends-to-a-group-event-or-page/ worked well when I used it a week back back but tomorrow I noticed that the trick is resting in peace !

I was very much frustrated when I saw the code not working anymore. I decided to resurrect the trick back to life and I am successful in doing that. But don’t know when this trick will get murder again by evil facebook ! :s

There are two ways by which you can do it.

1. By javascript code

Click “Suggest to friends” on application profile page or “Invite to friends” on group, fan page or events page.

Right click on any friend and click “open in new tab”

You will land on a page which will only show suggestion window
At this point, paste the following code on to the address bar

javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

[or]

javascript:fs.select_all();



And there’s an even easier way to select all friends.

2. By using chrome extension known as Facebook Invite All

VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJABucRb7I0

Simply no. However, I did find a little round about way of doing it.

Here is the situation. You are like me and have 2 macs (one that you leave at home and one you bring to travel). Well I just got the new iMac and its so compact I didn’t want to (or had the ability to) plug it in to an ethernet cable. I want to be able to bring my laptop while traveling but still have access to my home computer should I need to read a certain document, file, etc. The problem is that since my iMac is not plugged in via ethernet, I cannot wake it by sending a packet. However, follow the steps below to make it work:

1) set up VPN on your home computer. Click on System Preferences ->sharing.

2) click on remote management and enable. Allow access for the users you wish ( I chose all)

3) click settings and click the settings you want. The most important is control screen with password as this will allow you to actually use it, not just see it.

4) if you are behind a firewall / router, you need to forward the port 5900 to the computer on the network (i.e. 192.168.1.2).

5) you are done setting up the home computer for remote access.

6) on your remote computer in your finder click “go–>connect to server”.

7) type in your actual home ip “if you don’t know it.. search google “what is my ip” and one of those websites will tell you.

8) type vnc://(your-actual-ip-goes-here)

9)log in using your user name u set up on your home computer and viola!

10) now if you are going away for a week and want to use it and wake your home computer on a wireless network, you must do this round about wake up. go into system preferences on your home computer then click energy saver

11) say you are going away for a week. click WAKE FOR NETWORK ACCESSS. then go to schedule. the day you leave, just set your computer to wake up every day at like 8am and go to sleep at like 12pm. This will allow a window for wherever you are to remotely access your computer on a wireless network.

The Foundation For Women landing page has been redone! Check it out by clicking here.

Teleport for Mac allows users to control multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse!

Have multiple mac based computers? Hate using multiple keyboards and mice? I have the solution!

I recently got a new iMac so I can have a dedicated work computer that I can dual-screen Adobe CS4 and increase productivity. Now I’m staring at 3 monitors: my iMac with dual screen and my older MacBook Pro.

After awhile using these computers, I found myself using my laptop keyboard to try and control my iMac and vice versa. Well obviously that doesn’t work.

I recently did a google search to see if there was a cure for my illness. Abyssoft has created a little program that helped me! It’s called Teleport for mac.

This preference pane app allows a user to control multiple macs with one keyboard and mouse! I just installed it so I’m still new to the whole concept, but I must say I can see it increasing my productivity!

Side note: I tried installing it but I kept getting an error saying, “Could not load teleport preference pane.” The solution to this problem (at least for me ) is:

1. Make sure you have the correct version. Right now there are 2 different versions available. One of them is for older PPC based macs (mine was running Tiger) and one is for newer macs (currently running snowleopard).
2. Try installing the preferencepane app (the right version) and then restart your computer and try re-installing. That worked for me!