This morning sees the release of version 3.4 of the iOS Facebook app.
The update is now available to download from the app store and contains the following updates:
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- Ability to unfriend direct from your device
- Map View for ‘Places’
- Ability to check in to events
- Improved UI and improved alerts.
The iOS client is possibly one of the safest ways to use Facebook, preventing the chance of installation of unwanted software from clicking on links, unlike browsing the site from your PC or Mac.
This evenings post has been contributed by Carly Bond an Excel Guru, who often helps me out with some of Excel’s more complex functions and formula’s.
As a user of large files of data, I constantly use Notepad to check lengths of data before importing them into other programs. Going to the end of the file & using a keyboard shortcut of Ctrl G or Edit>Go To, will pop up a box to tell you how many lines are in the file.
For Example:
One day the line count function stopped working for no apparent reason, which was quite frustrating, the option to ‘Go To’ being greyed out. If this ever happens to you, then all you need to do is remove the ‘Word Wrap’ function. This can be done by clicking Format > Word Wrap. The tick will disappear to stipulate it being switched off.
For many years now OpenOffice has been the staple of many an open sources tool box, providing the power of the Microsoft Office suite without the hefty price tag, however, a recent takeover of Sun by Oracle created a fork in the OpenOffice community. Many staying true to the brand and it’s new owner’s beliefs, with others forking off to create ‘The Document Foundation‘ which is where LibreOffice was born.
LibreOffice is developed by it’s users in a new community-driven style. It’s community is wide spread with a very varied background, and although I can’t personally vouch for them, Lorna Mitchell assured me that they are a great group of people. Although I am not currently in a position to start developing for open source products, it’s certainly something I would like to do.
For those of you who have been brave enough to Jailbreak your iOS devices, or those who have decided you preferred the straight up, stable, reliable (aka boring) standard iOS offering, you may be relieved to hear reversing a jailbreak is as straight forward as downloading and installing the latest iOS release.
If you’re not already on it of course, which won’t be an issue for many until the latest jailbreak tools are released.
Once the iOS has installed, your phone will be just as it was when you unboxed it…feature crippled but fast and stable, all signs of the break will have gone.
So there you have it, if you’ve not yet tried it and are worried about not being able to turn back, there’s no need to panic! There’s always the iTunes update facility!
Boxcar for Mac is the new variant of the popular iOS instant notification application, bringing together updates from a wide range of services including Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz and even your RSS feeds all under one roof, and now under one roof on both your iOS and OS X devices. Whats more – boxcar’s developers are hard at work on an Android version too!
If you are a subscriber of twitter, Facebook and all the countless other social networking sites you will know how much of a bind it is to have to check all the various locations for updates.
With the Boxcar app, you can set up different notifications for each service, and with a large collection of built in sounds you couldn’t ask for more!
If you’d prefer to remain ‘cloud’ based, the Boxcar site also offers the same ‘all under one roof’ idea, with a neat and tidy interface.
Boxcar’s list of services it supports is already immense, which no doubt will be updated all the time with even more services! For a full list check out Boxcar’s provider list.
If you’d rather just dive in and try it for yourself check out Boxcar’s site for download links.
