websurfing diaries

websurfing diaries

Nikos Anagnostou  //  It's almost compulsory: I need to try out every new web 2.0 service I come across.
This one I intend to use for digital trivialities: things I find and like but that fit none of the thematic areas I follow elsewhere.

For once, the light side of blogging ...

Oct 2 / 3:09pm

Ever heard of electrical polution?

Follow the penguin

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Oct 1 / 2:09pm

WTF?

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Sep 18 / 1:42pm

The only Ferrari in the World no one would steal!

 

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Sep 17 / 10:50am

Amazing interactive 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky

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Aug 30 / 12:40am

Quai des bulles, le festival BD de St Malo

Something to long for...

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Aug 29 / 5:31am

Guinness: 1759

This ad is amazing in its simplicity

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Aug 18 / 10:48am

Anything but this!

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Aug 17 / 4:41am

Facebook Feeds

I added a Lifestreaming plugin to my blog recently and as I was entering the feed urls of the various Web 2.0 sites I am participating, I stumbled upon the Facebook problem.
Since its last change, the old mini-feed feed has disappeared, so one has to reassemble it by its components.
I was particularly interested in the Noted Feed, the Links feed and the Status feed.

Why?

Well, the notes is the facebook blogging.


Notes
Although I rarely use it, it can occassionaly contain some thoughts that are posted nowhere else.


By clicking to the notes tab in your profile (hoping you have added the tab to your profile), you get on the right side a column which, at the lower part has the notes feed. Like this:

The structure of the url is as follows:
http://www.facebook.com/feeds/notes.php?id=<yourid>&viewer=<yourid>&key=<yourkey>&format=rss20

Links

The Links feed is essentialy the feed of all the sharing activity in facebook, so it is a must to include in a lifestream. Working as with notes we can find it at a similar place.
The structure of the url is as follows:
http://apps.facebook.com/feeds/share_posts.php?id=<yourid>&viewer=<yourid>&key=<yourkey>&format=rss20

Status
Last, the Status feed is the most important one, especially if no cross posting is taking place on your Facebook Wall, as it comprises of all the original thoughts and situations you share in Facebook.
But where is this feed located?
As much I have searched I could not find it.

So after discussing this in twitter, from the responses I realized that the structure of the statuses feed url must be the same with other two feed.

First guess: replace notes.php with status.php and ... voila, it works!
http://www.facebook.com/feeds/status.php?id=<yourid>&viewer=<yourid>&key=<yourkey>&format=rss20

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Aug 16 / 11:08pm

arts by Hans Kanters - Look like Salvador Dali and Max Ernst combined

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Aug 15 / 5:55am

Tethering through a Nokia N95 phone

I am 'locked' up today in my mother's house, which, quite unsurprisingly, does not have internet access.  One option is to steal my way to the net through a neighbors' open wifi. Not without some odd problems though: I can open my Gmail in https, send and receive mail as normal, I can browse pages in https (where supported), I can use a twitter desktop client, I can use twitter through (you guessed) https, but every other simple web page request through http fails!

But problems can make one creative! Having encountered the same situation before, this time I came prepared. I had preset my MacBook Air and N95 for tethering and I could surf the web with no restrictions. Well, almost, as  my data plan  isn't for heavy use  (it's just a quarter of a Gb per month) .

How ?

You'll need a USB cable.
Connect Phone to Mac and select PC Suite on the phone.
Make setting as the pictures below
   

One can achieve the same without a  USB cable (through Bluetooth) but I did not try it, as bluetooth drains phone batter all to quickly.

The above settings are specific for my provider, but you can get an idea how it would work with yours. A tip: do not confuse the APN (Access point name, with the connection name on your phone). Open your connection (the one you use to connect to the internet) and see the APN name there.
Leave a comment if you have tried this on a different provider.

 

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