Archive for the 'blogging' Category

Facebook are trying to ban the F.B. Purity browser extension and its developer from Facebook

Facebook are trying to ban the F.B. Purity web browser extension ( a cool tool for cleaning up and customizing the Facebook experience ) and also its developer from Facebook. Full story here: http://tiny-url.org/fbpbanned

How to hide / remove Trending Articles and Trending Videos box from Facebook

Lots of people have been wondering how to get rid of or remove the Trending Articles and Trending Videos boxes on their Facebook newsfeeds. Well wonder no longer, as theres actually a simple fix for this. You just need to install the FB Purity browser extension, then open the options screen, by clicking the FB […]

FB (Fluff Busting) Purity v7.5.0 – Adds option for Single Column Timeline Layout + More security and Privacy features

FB Purity Update : v7.5.0 New in this version of the FB Purity browser extension (for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera)is a Single Column layout for Timeline option. As well as forcing Timeline pages to a single column, it also shortens the Cover image, and hides the horizontal “Friends”, “About”, and “Interests” Sections  so it […]

How to disable / remove Facebook Timeline the easy way – with FB Purity

This video shows how easy it is to disable Facebook Timeline with FB Purity in Google chrome: There are also simple solutions for disabling / removing Timeline in Firefox, Safari and Opera here

Facebook – Privacy – Transparency – Accountability and what they are doing with your data etc…

Europe vs Facebook website details the battle against Facebooks terrible record on Privacy, and their lack of transparency despite their insistence their users must be transparent: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Objectives/objectives.html How to get a copy of the data facebook has stored about you: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data_.html Even if you can no longer access your account: This was useful to me, […]

Facebook disabled my account and also the FB Purity Fan page, that had over 36,000 fans

Yesterday Facebook disabled my personal account and also the F.B. Purity fan page, without any warning or explanation. Not only have I been cut off from all my friends and family on Facebook, ive also had all my online memories erased and all Facebook messages and photos, and on top of that they have cut […]

F.B. Purity v6.1.1 Released : Fixes various filters + other nice tweaks to make your facebook clean

I’ve updated FB Purity to v6.1.1 to fix various issues it was having. Heres the change log: FB Purity is a free web browser extension that lets you clean the junk from your facebook homepage and newsfeeds. Its available for Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari (and is now also compatible with Seamonkey and IceApe) Changes […]

Flash player now working on the Orange San Francisco / ZTE Blade phone! :)

I just read a post on modaco, that links to the xda-developers forum that has a link to a working version of the Adobe Flash player that is compatible with the Orange San Francisco / ZTE Blade phone. It works on youtube and even the BBC Iplayer, fantastic!!! :) Im using the Ginger Stir Fry […]

How to hide the Facebook Ticker, the easy way – with F.B. Purity

Many people are now seeing the Facebook Live Ticker sidebar on their FB Homepages, and want to remove / disable it. Unfortunately Facebook dont give you that option. Luckily F.B. Purity is here to rescue you, just tick the “hide Ticker bar” (previously known as the “happening now bar”) option in the F.B. Purity options […]

FB Purity v4.4.0: Restores Comment Button – Fixes Facebooks silly new commenting system

Facebook recently changed the way comments work on the site, now instead of having to click the “Comment” button to submit your comment, pressing “Enter” or “Return” submits the comment, whereas before pressing either of those would add a new line to your comment. I dont know the reason why they have done this, but […]