We all have those Facebook friends that constantly ping us for no reason other than to distract you. You tried ditching AIM and Google Chat to avoid encountering them online, but they remained persistent.

Hey Tony!
Whatcha doin?
How was your day?
What’s you favorite color? Mine is brown. Because it’s the color of your eyes.

But if ditching Facebook isn’t an option for you, what can you do?

Mashable(ugh) noted in an article that Facebook can allow you to selectively hide yourself from chat. Start a Facebook chat as you normally do, and then click on the cog icon on the top-right of your chat box. You will find an option that says “Go offline to [name].” And like that…you’re gone!

Mashable also has a more detailed walkthrough for this process if you are interested in hiding from multiple people. You can check it out here.

Photo Stream is this awesome feature in iCloud that automatically distributes your photos across all of your devices. Despite the benefit of not needing to connect your device to your Mac to access the photos, there is one drawback. For instance, to access photos in your Photo Stream, you need to launch iPhoto on your Mac. It’s not the fastest way and luckily, there is a better solution.
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Unforgiveable

Almost as embarrassing as having someone read your browsing history, autocomplete suggestions in modern web browsers can be just as painful.

Lifehacker posted an awesome tip to a question I’ve been struggling to figure out for awhile now (innocent reasons, I swear): how the hell do I stop my web browser from displaying my past web-surfing exploits every time I type something in my address bar?

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Gmail is the email client I love and use every day. Desktop email clients like Sparrow, Apple Mail, and Microsoft Outlook are nice, but I prefer doing most of my work inside my browser.

One of the annoying things that I often have to deal with is accidentally clicking a mailto link on a webpage and then furiously trying to quit Apple Mail as it launches. Ideally, I wanted mailto links to open in Gmail by default. Here are some methods I’ve found that will do just that.

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New blog post: "How to Clean your Filthy, Grimey Laptop"

If you’ve ever attempted to remove a sticker from your computer, two things usually happen:
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I recently noticed one of my friend’s Facebook update was a tad bit…peculiar. Under the message, the status said that it was posted “via Gameboy Color.” I was confounded, curious, and ultimately madly envious. A quick Google search led me to the answer posted in a reddit thread.
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Above: The Wall Street Journal; Below: The New York Times

With newspaper revenues dwindling in the age of the Internet, mobile devices, and social media, popular news publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have implemented paywalls to limit users’ access to their content. To combat that, a number of solutions have popped up to bypass this roadblock and avoid paying for a subscription.

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Recently, I began serving my static files(images, css, javascript files) via Amazon’s Cloudfront and S3 services to reduce the bandwidth on my web host and also speed up the delivery of web pages to visitors. I wrote a tutorial on how to set this up using the plugin W3 Total Cache on my other blog.

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