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There's nothing ground breaking here. But if you haven't got these Facebook setting switched on you should do so now! In Facebook click Account in the top right corner. Click " Account Settings ". On the My account page click "Account security" Check all the boxes and click the "Save" button. By the way, if you haven't given your mobile number to Facebook yet you'll need to do this before you can get SMS alerts, or you can just leave the "Send me a text message" box unchecked. Also! - once you turn these security settings on your iPhone Facebook app might be messed up. But don't worry! Just follow the 3 steps in my previous post here  to sort that out.

If you are getting an error every time you try to login to the Facebook app on your iPhone, try this solution. Go to http://www.facebook.com/iphone On the left-hand side (you may need to scroll down) click "Remove app" Now try logging in again on your iPhone. Source I found the solution here: http://goo.gl/LPYEu So what caused the problem?.. Not exactly sure, but this started happening right after I update my Facebook security setting. I had turned on HTTPS and had activated alerts for when a new computer or mobile device logged in to my account. One of these settings must have caused it.

What do you think folks, if the main character from your favourite series (think Hawaii Five-O, CSI, Criminal minds) was tweeting like a regular person and maybe had a Facebook page to boot, would this add a new dimension to the show? Just to be clear I'm talking about Twitter and Facebook accounts that are professionally scripted to present the person as they are in the series in a real-life way. They would actually interact with the world around them just like a real-life tweeter would. You'd need to have a clever little team, including the people who write the script of the actual series to create a realistic character, but if done well it could be really fun for people that enjoy the series and could even increase the popularity of the series. Has anyone seen this being done professionally yet? If not I kinda bet that we'll start to see this in the near future. It may not be suitable for every type of series, but it could be really cool for suitable ones. Imagine ...

[update: reformatted the post] In today's world you'd almost want to bite back "dude video calls are ancient history... lame." But come on, who makes regular daily video calls. Do you? I'd love to hear on what device, on what network in which country :-) I made my first ever (decent) video call a few days ago. I say decent because I have a vague recollection that I may have attempted a video call in the past, but it either didn't work, or was of too rubbish a quality to really consider a success. Anyway it went like this. I usually tote a first generation iPhone, but today (because I need to use TomTom and had to update the satellite info) I had to put my one and only SIM card into my rather aged HTC Kaiser (TyTN II). At some point during the day I pressed a strange little button on my Kaiser's dial screen by mistake, and suddenly my face popped up. In a couple of split seconds I figured that I'd hit the video call button, and the front-facing came...

It's easy to do, but it took me a little while to find out how... Covert the "Inactive" memory used by my Mac (as displayed in Activity Monitor) to "Free" memory. First you might want to know what the difference between the two is. This is explained clearly by Apple support here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342 And yes we know that the Mac has an incredibly smart memory management system, and it's wonderful that Macs are able to distinguish between completely unused memory ("Free") and memory that was used earlier but that hasn't been marked as "Free" just in case we want to use it for the same app again ("Inactive"). Unfortunately my experience is that if you have next to no "Free" memory left, and tons of "Inactive" memory, everything you start up feels sluggish. So, to solve that problem manually, all you need to do is to flick open a terminal, type purge , and hit enter. It may take a little ...