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Finer Things in Web

All the great features, tips, and tricks to help you work and play on the web better.

Facebook Chat lets you disable messages from specific friends

Finer News: Updates to RSS feeds, main sections

Google+ has quite a few keyboard shortcuts

You can disable Facebook alert sounds

Path’s 404 page is worthy of a starship captain

Finer Things in Web

Facebook Chat lets you disable messages from specific friends

15 May 2013
David Chartier
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Facebook, Facebook Chat, Facebook Messages, messaging apps
In addition to letting you mute conversations until tomorrow morning or forever, Facebook also allows you to filter friends from
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Finer News: Updates to RSS feeds, main sections

02 May 2013
David Chartier
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Finer Things Business
Google’s been shutting down services in an effort to focus, and one clearly not long for this world is FeedBurner, the service I
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Google+ has quite a few keyboard shortcuts

01 Apr 2013
David Chartier
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Google Plus, shortcuts, social media
These shortcuts are good for things like navigating between the sidebar icons and individual posts, navigating comments, and putting
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You can disable Facebook alert sounds

19 Mar 2013
David Chartier
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Facebook, Notifications
Facebook recently introduced alert sounds, but if you don’t like them you can go to the Gear > Account Settings >
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Path’s 404 page is worthy of a starship captain

07 Mar 2013
David Chartier
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404 pages, Path
[Thanks Paul Conigliaro!]  
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Tumblr has real-time notifications in desktop browsers

05 Mar 2013
David Chartier
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blogging, Notifications, social media, Tumblr
When people like and reblog your posts on Tumblr, you will now see real-time alerts in the lower right corner of your browser window.
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Delicious has keyboard shortcuts to navigate, open links

18 Feb 2013
David Chartier
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Delicious, shortcuts, social media
When browsing links at Delicious, a social bookmarking site, you can use up/down arrow keys to navigate links and Return to open them.
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MATTER magazine lets readers vote on next investigative topic

06 Feb 2013
David Chartier
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MATTER, voting
MATTER, an online and PDF investigative magazine successfully funded on Kickstarter, allows readers to vote on the topic of future
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Facebook has a ton of keyboard shortcuts to create new messages, visit your profile page, check privacy, and more

30 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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Facebook, infographics, shortcuts
Facebook offers a whole bunch of keyboard shortcuts for many common and even not-so-common actions. Socialbakers created an infographic
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