If you ever want to ever change back, just visit the page again and click the button to revert back to the original.
Note: It only affects the browser you select it in.

Tried it for a few months – was okay but I still prefer the original.

P.S. YouTube has changed their homepage today. Love it or hate it, change was due to happen.

Whether it’s a good or bad move, Typekit is now under the control of Adobe for better/worse.

I’m guessing an online Font service for the next version of Photoshop?
Click to purchase? $$$??

Who knows.

* Install PHP-FPM on Debian (tutorial link)
* Install WebDav for Nginx – so I can download the repositories on port 80.

Most of this should be hassle free. I shall let you know how I get on.

“Oh yay!” you will say! As it closely resembles Goolge+‘s “circles” feature which many had complemented as Google+‘s strong point.

“Facebook giveth, then they taketh away.”

Yes, that’s right. As I discovered, Facebook has removed the ability to “Hide all by annoying page“.

If you “Like” a page, they can post news stories in your main wall aka “feed”.

I don’t know about everyone else – but I hate people spamming the feed with promotions. E.g. I like “Coca Cola” for instance – but I don’t want to be subjective to their bullsh*t advertising.

Before you could solve that by hiding their posts but now when you “Hide this post” it tells you:

… the options are now limited. So Facebook is basically saying “You must put up with everyone’s spam – like it or hate it.”

I can see peoples patience wearing thin on this very quickly.

UPDATE: Several other things have been rolling out slowly through the day. I have noticed the “photo viewer” has changed.

I tried removing a Application notification posted by a friend, it does still allow you to block them.

Still no sign of being able to “hide posts by” a fan page without “Un-liking” the page yet.

UPDATE 9/9/2011:

They have finally returned the option to Hide all posts on fan pages. Thank you for catching up, eventually.

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FBML is DEAD, LONG LIVE FBML…

Not surprising news but Facebook has finally retired FBML on 11th March 2011.

What does that mean? Basically it means that you no longer have to use the “Static FBML page” application to create new pages, instead you are now allowed to use iFrames!

*Party poppers and loud cheers!*

Unfortunately, this exciting news turns sour pretty quickly…

With this new ability there are some major roadblocks, mainly for non-tech savy users.

1. iFrames must be able to serve your own web pages from a web host.
2. Any pages that you cannot serve with SSL will bring up a user message which will potentially put off visitors, as explained in their blog post about users running Facebook over HTTPS.
3. Applications. You can only create these iFrame pages with Facebook Applications. For some this will be a real challenge, even as a Web Developer, I still find them difficult.

Making your pages with Facebook Applications

Going back to my previous point. Admins on Facebook will now have to create their own Applications so they can display new pages on their Fan Pages.

There are several difficult hurdles to deal with:

1. Applications are usually created by Facebook Developers, see http://www.facebook.com/developers
2. Facebook have changed their Applications policy. You must now register a valid Credit Card or Mobile Number. Paranoid? I am.
3. Non-tech savy users who innocently created their fan pages will have no idea how to manage their Applications.
4. Documentation and examples are scarce for developing these new iFrame pages. FBML used to allow you to tap into Facebook services pretty easily but now you have to familiarise yourself with a combination of Signed Requests in PHP and the JavaScript SDK aka the Facebook API.

Basically if you can conquer those requirements, you will be allowed to continue using Facebook pages. In summary, your shopping list should include:

1. Web Hosting
2. SSL Hosting to serve your web pages on HTTPS (expensive)
3. A valid Credit Card or Mobile Number (sorry script kiddies)
4. A fearless attitude to creating, managing your own Applications and wading through poorly documented examples for endless hours, have fun.
5. A knowledge of PHP and JavaScript. You prefer a different web language? Tough. Facebook is biased and wants you to use PHP SDK for now.

Hopefully I summed up everything nicely for you. Good luck.

UPDATE: 2nd June 2011
As always, Facebook has quietly made some changes (without really telling anyone).

• You can use your mobile number to verify yourself as a Facebook Developer, allowing you to add new Applications.
• Released SDK v3.0.0 which is an upgrade to the last version of SDK v2.2.x
• Introduce “Facebook Credits” available to all Applications (mostly for games). Virtual currency that Facebook wants you to use. Can use Paypal or Credit Cards to make transactions.

Twitters keywords on the homepage got besieged by porn spam this morning
http://www.twitter.com/

phpBB3′s default ‘prosilver’ theme is dog slow… Please make it lighter + easier to skin like classic ‘subsilver’ for future releases!
http://www.phpbb.com/

How fast is your localhost?
(Work machine, ‘Request per second: 2.36 #/sec’ – man that’s slow, VPS Web server ‘RPS: 8000+’, that’s more like it! proof)
#ab -n 500 -c 10 http://localhost/

The HTC Desire/Legend might be the first Android phone I actually want?
http://gizmodo.com/5504266/htc-desire-review-an-even-more-desirable-nexus-one

So if you enjoy keeping up with the latest trends, I hope you enjoy my information bites!

HTML5 won’t save the web
http://gizmodo.com/5461711/giz-explains-why-html5-isnt-going-to-save-the-internet

Facebook develop faster PHP
http://www.neowin.net/news/facebook-unveils-hiphop-for-php-039source-code-transformer039

IE8 now “most popular” version of IE
http://www.neowin.net/news/ie8-is-now-the-world039s-most-used-browser

Zend Framework 1.10 Released (and now with versioned documentation!)
http://devzone.zend.com/article/11727-Zend-Framework-1.10.0-STABLE-Released

PHP hates integers (64 bit)
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/03/27/integers-in-php-running-with-scissors-and-portability/

The IE Team talks about how you can embed any type of font you want into your web pages. This has been a highly desirable feature for years but has been a tough one to implement.

Apparently the guys at http://www.fontembedding.com/ have come up with a “prototype” way to convert font’s into a friendly format for your web pages.

Surprisingly enough, with the battle of the modern browsers, only versions of IE 4 and above can support this feature (pretty much all IE versions) but none of the opposing browsers like Firefox, Opera or Safari support this function.

Try it out for yourself with the 6 free sample font’s they have on their website. It definitely works, but unless all browsers can agree on implementing this feature, it might be a pointless measure.

Thats a whopping increase from $9.95 last year to $34.95. A dramatic 350% increase!

This is the contents of the email they sent me:

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Get ready for another year of Yahoo! Domains

Dear Jason Ashdown,

Thanks for using Yahoo! Domains. We’re writing to remind you that it’s time for the annual autorenewal of your service.

Your Domains plan, associated with the domain (removed), will renew on 08/02/2008. If your billing information is up-to-date, there’s no need to do a thing (except keep enjoying your service).

Important note: Beginning on July 1, 2008, Yahoo!’s annual domain renewal price increases to $34.95 per year.

You can verify your billing information by visiting https://billing.yahoo.com/ and clicking the Update link next to your plan. Click the gray Edit button to the right of your payment method to review your payment details.

(Please note that the billing center will not reflect the new $34.95 domain-renewal price until July 1. Until that time, you will continue to see the old renewal price next to your plan.)

Have questions? Please visit our help center or contact us anytime.

Best regards,

The Yahoo! Small Business team

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Get ready for another year of Yahoo? Pfff! I currently own 7 domains with them. They were charging $12.95 for domain renewals this year which means my 7 domains would have cost $90.65 (£45). But now it would cost me $244.65 (£123.50).

I suggest you do what I am doing and move your domains to either GoDaddy.com or GoogleApps. Both are premium services without the hefty price catch.