This experimental device is amazing! It sure looks to me like the future of DJ-ing and electronic music performance to me. I can bet there are millions of DJs that would kill to get one of these, but unfortunately they are not commercially available yet. As this is just an apparently working prototype, built by some genius technology enthusiasts.
töken experience from yöyen munchausen on Vimeo.
I’ve updated F.B. Purity, the Facebook Homepage cleaner / declutterer browser extension for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera to v3.9.5.
New in this version is an option to hide the “now using new profile” type stories, which is taken care of by the “updated profile” filter, also added a new story type to the “updated profile” filter, that it was missing. The “hide sponsored box” option now hides the sponsored box on a couple more pages. (Please note this option doesnt work across the whole site, it only works on pages that have a ads container with a specific, consistent identifiable ID)
Get the latest version of F.B Purity for a cleaner Facebook homepage and newsfeeds
Important Facebook Privacy Issues, you should know about.
When a facebook friend of yours adds a facebook application, that application gets to view nearly all the private facebook info of yours that your friend can see. This is quite disturbing… as it means the application’s developers can also access your info, without you even knowing about it or explicitly allowing it.
Luckily there is a settings page, where you can disallow your friend’s applications, and their developers from viewing your information. I cant link directly to the page, so to get there, you first need to go to the privacy page:
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy
Then click the “Edit your settings” link under the heading “Applications and websites” at the bottom of that page.
Then click the “Edit Settings” button next to the heading “Information accessible through your friends”
Now, if you dont want these random people accessing your information, untick all the boxes in the window that pops up. Then to make the changes permanent, click the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the window.
Remove unused applications from your account
Another sensible thing to do to limit your personal details exposure,and to increase your security, is to go through the list of facebook applications you use or have used in the past, and remove the ones you no longer use. This will protect you if the developers of the applications you no longer use decide to go rouge, or sell their application on to other less scrupulous people. To do this, go to the following page http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications
then click the “X” button next to each application you want to remove access to your facebook account and personal information.
How to stop your name being used in Facebook Adverts Without your Permission or Knowledge
Did you know your actions on the facebook site, such as “likes” can be used by advertisers, to use your name on adverts on the site, to make it look like you are promoting their products. If you dont want this, go to the following page: http://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?ads and change both select boxes to “no-one”
Stop websites from getting access to your personal information
Facebook has an instant personalisation feature for various websites, whereby they share your personal information with those websites, so they can customise what you see when you visit them. To stop this sharing of your information, first go here: http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy
then click the “Edit your settings” link beneath the “Applications and websites” heading, then click the “Edit Settings” button next to the “Instant Personalisation” heading, then if the checkbox at the bottom of the page is not greyed out, untick the box, to stop facebook sharing your personal information with those websites.
A final tip – Avoid Facebook application spam – Use F.B Purity
F.B Purity is a browser addon that shields you from potentially malicious Facebook application spam, and other Facebook annoyances, by letting you filter out specific types of messages, or messages containing specific words or phrases. It has received rave reviews in The Washington Post, CNet, PCWorld and Lifehacker.
Ive released v3.9.3 of F.B Purity the GM Script / Browser Extension that cleans up your Facebook Homepage / Newsfeed. Its compatible with Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera.
Changes in this version:
Hi, im testing out a new version of FB Purity, this version is GM script only at the moment, and it just has a few CSS tweaks so that the font size you choose via the options screen affects more of the facebook website than the previous version.
Please give it a try and, leave some constructive feedback, thanks.
Thought i would share some videos of some cool new uses of technology i found recently:
Amazing Webcam Piano, using just a normal webcam and some clever software. Just goes to show you dont need a kinect to do cool stuff!:
3D Video Capture using Microsoft Kinect. This is really cool:
Cool music and a touch screen interface, for a cool performance piece, featuring dynamic interactive particle systems, looks like the guy has figured out how to do fireballs from Streetfighter!:
Superfluid vs Particle from jimi hertz on Vimeo.
Programmable Protest Placards using an Ipad, Low tech meets High Tech:
Ive updated F.B. Purity, the Facebook newsfeed cleaner for Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera, to v3.9.2.
Changes in this version: Updated the hide sponsored box to also work on user profiles and facebook pages. Added Whitelist (WL) and Block App (BA) links to photos and notes uploaded by applications. Updated the chrome extension from a auto converted user script to an actual CRX (chrome extension).
N.B In google chrome, if you are updating from an old version of the script to the new chrome extension version, you need to uninstall the old one first, otherwise it wont work properly.
Get the new version here: Install FB Purity and Clean up Your Facebook home page
I released v3.9.1 of F.B Purity, the script / addon for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera, that cleans up your Facebook homepage.
Changes in this version:
Get the latest version of FB Purity for a Purer Cleaner Facebook Home Page and News Feeds
I also released a new version of my firefox addon, Ebay Negs! that fixed a few minor bugs.
Facebook reduced the font size of status updates so they are now quite tiny, and much harder to read for those with poor eyesight. I added an option to my F.B. Purity script / addon for Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera that lets you increase the size of the font, to make it easier to see.
FB Purity, also has lots of other options for hiding the junk you dont want to see on your facebook homepage, such as application spam, Facebook Places checkins, who became friends with who, who likes what, etc etc, its fully customisable, to let you see just the message types you want to see. It also lets you remove the boxes from the right hand side panel, that you dont want to see.
You can get the script here: F.B. Purity – Cleans up your Facebook Homepage
Ive just released an Opera 11 extension version of F.B Purity.
In case you didn’t already know, F.B purity is a browser script/addon that cleans all the junk from your facebook homepage / newsfeed / newstream. Its fully customisable and easy to use, has thousands of users around the world, and has received great reviews from various well respected tech journals.
It joins the Safari extension, Firefox extension, Chrome extension and Greasemonkey Userscript/UserJS versions.
