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Add Po.st Social Media (Facebook, Google Plus) widgets to your blog?

I really like the set of social media buttons you have on the pages of your AskDaveTaylor site, Dave. What are they, and how did you add them to your site? In particular, a lot of the ones I've looked at have uninteresting sites like Delicious and Reddit, but don't yet support the new Google Plus "+1" button, so yours is really slick. What's the story?

Question answered on February 7, 2012 at 08:42 AM :: Comments to date: 0

How can I invite someone to join Pinterest?

I've recently joined Pinterest and it's super fun. I'm becoming a pinning fool. At least, that's what my husband says. Still, I really want to get my sister and my mom hooked up. When they go to Pinterest, however, there's no sign up or register button, just a "request an invite" link. How can I get them on Pinterest directly, without them having to wait for an invite?

Question answered on February 2, 2012 at 08:39 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How can I have Pinterest updates appear on Facebook?

Category: Facebook Help

I'm a big fan of Pinterest [ I am too, you can find AskDaveTaylor on Pinterest as d1taylor -- Ed ] and recently noticed that some of my friends are having their Pinterest activities show up on their Facebook timeline. Nice. I want. How do I hook up Pinterest to Facebook and vice versa?

Question answered on January 23, 2012 at 08:28 AM :: Comments to date: 1

Post an iPhone photo to Google Plus?

I have finally figured out how to post a photograph from my Apple iPhone to Facebook and am wondering if there's a way to also post a picture to Google Plus in a similar way? That is, from the Google Plus app. Doable?

Question answered on December 27, 2011 at 08:23 AM :: Comments to date: 0

How do I Connect YouTube and Google Plus?

Category: Google Plus Help

Naysays aside, I'm a big fan of Google Plus and find it's a great tech audience, perfect for my job. Part of what I do is produce and upload videos to YouTube too, and I'd really like to be able to hook the two together so videos I upload on YouTube automatically also show up on Google Plus. Possible? How?

Question answered on October 14, 2011 at 08:11 AM :: Comments to date: 2

Add a "Circle me on Google Plus" widget to my blog?

I already have a nice widget from Facebook on my blog that lets people friend me but I don't see anything equivalent from Google Plus as of yet. I'm wondering if there's anything like that available and if not, whether it'd be hard to create for my blog?

Question answered on October 11, 2011 at 08:31 AM :: Comments to date: 6

How do I invite someone (a friend) to join Facebook?

Category: Facebook Help

I want to invite someone as a friend and the advice that is on your link, is outdated, as the FB page looks totally different now. How do I invite someone? Why is it so difficult? Is it because I am from the previous generation or what? It is frustrating!

Question answered on September 27, 2011 at 08:43 AM :: Comments to date: 2

Increasing Facebook Security with an SMS Password

Dave Taylor shares another tech tips video to help you increase your Facebook account security by connecting it to your cell phone and setting an SMS password.

Keywords: Inside Scoop, facebook, security, sms, password

Question answered on September 23, 2011 at 10:57 AM :: Comments to date: 0

Hide a Facebook auto list on the left side menu?

Category: Facebook Help

With the latest round of Facebook interface changes, it has now automatically created lists for me based on various criteria including my home city, each company I've worked with, what colleges I went to, who I have identified as family, and so on. Nice, except I don't want them all. How can I zap the Facebook lists I don't want?

Question answered on September 22, 2011 at 08:27 AM :: Comments to date: 0

Is my girlfriend cheating on me on Facebook?

Category: Facebook Help

Let me be honest and tell you that I want to know if my girlfriend is cheating on me. To find that out, I need to access her Facebook.

Now, I am not going to ask you to help me get her password. All I ask is that I will give you the names of the people she is talking with, and IF you really can hack passwords, then just copy the text of the conversation with them and email them to me. I am NOT asking for password, I just need the information PLEASE!!! HELP! ME!! You have NO IDEA what I am going through.

Question answered on September 20, 2011 at 08:14 AM :: Comments to date: 1

Increasing Your Facebook Privacy and Security Settings

Dave Taylor shares tech tips for increasing Facebook privacy and security settings.

Keywords: Dave Taylor, Facebook, privacy, security, Inside Scoop

Question answered on September 15, 2011 at 11:55 AM :: Comments to date: 0

Post URLs to LinkedIn as status updates?

I've spent so much time playing around in Facebook that I have neglected to stay present for my colleagues and associates on LinkedIn. I want to remedy that, particularly now that I am writing about resumes, job interviews, and other career related topics. Hence my question: can I post updates to LinkedIn that include embedded URLs to my blog articles?

Question answered on September 8, 2011 at 08:59 AM :: Comments to date: 0

Is the Facebook 'Like' Button Illegal in Germany?

german facebook like bannedThis is a guest post by Klaus Holzapfel of conceptbakery, a social media marketing company with offices in Germany and the United States.

The Facebook Like button is now at the forefront of privacy rights conversations in Germany, following much discussion of Google Analytics and pixelated homes on Google's Streetview and Microsoft's Streetside. A post on Mashable from August 19 mentioned that a German data protection commissioner is planning to ban the Facebook Like button. Since then, commissioners in three other German states have taken the same position.

Question answered on September 2, 2011 at 08:04 AM :: Comments to date: 1

Aperture can't connect to my Facebook account?

I've used iPhoto for a long time on my iMac and one of its best features is the ability to select a pile of photos and share them with my Facebook friends. I've recently shifted to Aperture and like its additional power and capabilities but can't get it to connect with my Facebook account any more. If it matters, I did set up the Facebook 2-step verification security, as you recommended. Are these related?

Question answered on August 27, 2011 at 08:33 AM :: Comments to date: 0

Add a favorite TV show or movie to my Facebook profile?

Category: Facebook Help

I've been really getting into some of the newer TV series like No Ordinary Family, Falling Skies and The Amazing Race, and want to add them to my Facebook profile. How do I add new TV favorites -- and maybe a new movie or two -- to my profile info?

Question answered on July 28, 2011 at 08:35 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How do I link to a blog entry from Google Plus?

Category: Google Plus Help

I'm on Google Plus and am trying to learn as much as I can. Are there any tricks to linking to an external page - or blog post! - from within the Google Plus world?

Question answered on July 13, 2011 at 08:52 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How do I invite a friend to Google Plus?

Category: Google Plus Help

I finally got into Google Plus and want to invite a few friends to join me, then add them to my BFF circle. How do I invite them to join me on G+? I don't see an "invite" button anywhere!

Question answered on July 6, 2011 at 08:34 AM :: Comments to date: 15

Where is my Mac OS X profile picture stored?

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This might sound silly, but I would really like to get a hold of my profile picture, that I took when I first got my mac. I have looked almost everywhere on the machine, and I can't seem to get it from System Preferences either. I'm just really scared of messing something up, like deleting it etc.

Question answered on May 2, 2011 at 08:19 AM :: Comments to date: 3

Easiest way to share a YouTube video on Facebook?

I've been having fun making weird videos and uploading them to YouTube. What I really want to do, though, is share them with my friends on Twitter and Facebook. What's the easiest way to share a YouTube video on Facebook?

Question answered on April 15, 2011 at 08:28 AM :: Comments to date: 1

Can I get Facebook profile photos into iPhone Address Book?

I have a ton of overlap between the people in my Address Book / Contacts on my iPhone and the people with whom I'm friends on Facebook. Since my iPhone can display people's photos when they ring, I'd really love to have as many of my friend's pictures in my iPhone contacts data as possible. Which leads to an obvious question: is there some sort of tool that lets you import Facebook profile pictures and match them with your Address Book contacts? That'd be very cool...

Question answered on April 7, 2011 at 08:48 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How can I manage my Foursquare Friend List?

A colleague of mine had a very weird thing happen yesterday: he checked in to a restaurant just before a lunch meeting, and some random person called the restaurand and asked to be connected to him. He had no idea who it was and it's set off quite a firestorm in the office about whether anyone in the company should use geolocation checkin games. I think it's a bit overblown, but want to know, how can I see who are my Foursquare friends and remove those I don't know?

Question answered on March 25, 2011 at 08:50 AM :: Comments to date: 0

Connect to Twitter securely with SSL (https)?

After switching over my Facebook account to always use an encrypted connection [see Connect to Facebook Securely with SSL] I would like to do the same with other sites I visit. Gmail supports it [see Secure Gmail Connection], but what about Twitter? Is there some way to connect to Twitter with a secure, encrypted SSL connection?

Question answered on March 16, 2011 at 08:38 AM :: Comments to date: 2

Share favorite books from Amazon.com on Facebook?

I'm an avid reader and would love to be able to easily share books I am buying or books I have just reviewed on Amazon.com with my friends and family on Facebook, along with a comment or two. I've seen this done in other people's updates. What's the secret, Dave?

Question answered on February 18, 2011 at 08:28 AM :: Comments to date: 1

Thousands of Twitter followers with zero tweets? Huh?

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Dave, here is a question for you. Today I got a Twitter follow from someone who has made a total of 1 tweet, and yet this person already has 3,712 followers. I've seen other Twitter accounts with the same high number of followers and hardly any tweets yet. How do they do that? I thought content was important to building followers on Twitter.

Question answered on February 14, 2011 at 08:23 AM :: Comments to date: 3

Kill a frozen / stuck app on my iPhone or iPad?

The Facebook app on my IPhone is frozen and won't do anything! What can I do to fix this problem?

Question answered on February 9, 2011 at 08:33 AM :: Comments to date: 16




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