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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

The Facebook Graph Search tour uses your data to make it more useful

24 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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Facebook, social media, tours, tutorials
Facebook is building and gradually rolling out a new feature in beta called Graph Search. It will allow you to perform useful searches
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Hit Alt-Tab in Tumblr to quickly switch between your blogs

23 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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Alt key, shortcuts, Tab key, Tumblr
It’s a great trick for switching between your blogs fast to create new posts for that blog, check notes, or get to other
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Flip Tumblr photos over to view metadata

08 Jan 2013
David Chartier
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blogging, EXIF, metadata, photography, polish, Tumblr
If Tumblr photos in your Dashboard contain EXIF metadata, you can flip the photo over with a slick animation to view camera model, ISO,
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Fever lets you add a feed to multiple groups

28 Dec 2012
David Chartier
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feeds, Fever, newsreaders
Fever, a self-hosted feed reading alternative to Google Reader, lets you add feeds to multiple groups. This is handy if you want to
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Flipboard’s page flip animation created with CSS and javascript, released as open source

07 Dec 2012
David Chartier
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CSS, Flipboard, GitHub, JavaScript, open source
Flipboard is a “social magazine” for iPad, iPhone, and Android that turns your social accounts and various publications
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Tumblr Dashboard lets you use keyboard shortcuts to navigate, like posts

27 Nov 2012
David Chartier
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Tumblr has long allowed you to scroll forward and back through posts in your Dashboard using the J/K keys (shortcuts popularized by
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WordPress will offer the red pill if you compare the wrong revisions

14 Nov 2012
David Chartier
1
easter eggs, The Matrix, WordPress
If your browser crashes while editing a WordPress post or you run into a similar problem, WordPress will let you know there’s an
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Simple.com adds style when nudging you for activity

13 Nov 2012
David Chartier
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logout, prompt, Simple
Simple, a new online bank with great mobile and web apps for managing your finances, adds some style to the “wake up or
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An easy way to browse App.net hashtags

23 Aug 2012
David Chartier
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Appnet, hashtags
If you want to root through hashtags on App.net, the new for-pay social network where you are the real and only customer, you can
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