Part 1:

• Getting an Account
• Finding Friends
• Customizing Your Profile
• Adjusting Privacy Controls
• Communicating with Others

There was just no way for me to cover Facebook in one 10 minute video though, so I’m releasing it as Tech-Bite’s first ever FREE Mega-Bite!

Under normal circumstances, I probably would have put this hour-long episode together as a DVD and made it available for purchase, but this Mega-Bite is going to be available to everyone and at no cost! Just subscribe to the Tech-Bites newsletter using the form below and you will be given immediate access to my full Mega-Bite tutorial on Facebook! Subscribers will also know when new videos or Mega-Bites are available in the future.

Here’s what we will be covering in the 2 additional Facebook videos (altogether totaling about 1 hour in length!) :

Part 2 (subscribers only):

• Reading the Newsfeed
• Personalizing the Newsfeed
• Adding Applications
• Joining Groups
• Becoming a Fan

Part 3 (subscribers only):

• How to Get Your Email Inside Facebook
• Adding RSS
• Working on Office Documents (like Word docs, Excel, Powerpoint, and more) together with friends on Facebook
• Adding your Twitter
• An Overview of Desktop Applications for Facebook

Just type in your Name and Email below to watch the next two videos in my Facebook Mega-Bite series. (Already a member? No Problem! Either click the link that came to you in the most recent newsletter, OR type your previously registered name and email here. My system will recognize you and let you through!)

Piclens is an addon for Firefox that allows you to browse popular sites in a fluid 3D context. This may not sound real practical right out the door, but wait ’til you see it in action… if you’re not sold on Firefox yet, you may be after seeing this! This addon is available for both Windows and Mac.

Piclens currently supports:

Get Piclens!

Oh, and let me know how you like the video format, or if you prefer the Youtube.com videos instead. This one is BIGGER!

-Garrett

Twitter is one of the best Social Networks on the internet mostly because of how SIMPLE it is! Today’s video shows you how you and your friends can get started twittering each other ’til the cows come home.

Twitter asks you one question: What are you doing?

Will you answer?

Go Sign Up for Twitter

Know of a better way to update your friends than Twitter? Let us know in the comments below!

Yahoo! Answers is one of my favorite networks and a great place to find answers to questions that have been in the back of your mind for days! Learn the ropes in this new video! Click here to go to Yahoo! Answers.

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  Today we look at one of the best free music sites around. Last.fm let’s you listen to music that you like for as long as you want from any platform. You don’t need an account and you don’t need to download any files. Perfect for work or listening to some music on a whim from any computer.  

 DON’T Buy a Computer this year!

Unless you listen to my special message on this important issue. 

I had a nice post made and ready to go that was going to feature a video blog accompaniment to let you know, as modestly as possible, that:

I COMPLETED the challenge!

27 days of work, no $pending, and I’ve got $20.87 banked!

Anyways, I’ve never made so little in my life, for the amount of work I did, but that’s not the point! Hopefully, this represents the beginning of a successful online business.

And about that video… well Youtube decided to go nuts. I tried to upload it 4 times. No luck. So, lucky you, my flapping lips are absent from this post.

But, I warn you now… as soon as I figure out what’s wrong, I’m gonna post that video!

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Though many people have come to trust Google’s ability to sort out the web, we still have one problem:

While we all appreciate Google’s enabling us to find an article on organic soy-free bird feed, there are times that we just want to peruse a more general topic, like “Self-improvement”. With over 2.5 million results and mostly businesses on the top results, how can we “discover” some quality information?

Well, you StumbleUpon it of course!

StumbleUpon is a service that lets you, in their own words, “Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests. StumbleUpon learns what you like and makes better recommendations.”

It is also community-driven and has over 2.5 million members! Well what do you know!? 2.5 million pages, 2.5 million members. Maybe we can figure this Internet-thing out!

There are 2 major benefits to using StumbleUpon:

1. Previewed Sites: StumbleUpon takes what it knows about you (you tell it what you’re interested in) and what other users liked gave a “thumbs up” to and delivers sites it thinks you will like. When you start rating sites yourself (thumbs up or down), Stumble takes notice and “learns” what kind of sites to serve you. Oh… and it works pretty good!
   
   
2. 5-star Results: Another cool feature is that, if you want it to, StumbleUpon inserts a 5-star rating system into your search engine results! So when your sifting through Google results, you can see which sites users liked.

   

Video: To see visual examples of the steps in this article, watch the video at the top of this page.

Getting Started:

The first thing you need to do is get an account and download the toolbar. Both IE and Firefox are supported. Click the link below to download it now:

• Join StumbleUpon Today >
  

(Firefox is used in these examples, but you should be able to configure IE similarly) Once you have the toolbar installed in Firefox (remember to restart the browser) you might want to add the Stumble button to your toolbar so that you can show/hide the toolbar at will to save space while you are not using it.

• Right-click in a blank area on your Firefox toolbar and select “customize”
• Drag the StumbleUpon button onto your toolbar, wherever you’d like it to be (see video)

Alright, now we’re ready to go!

Click the “Start Stumbling” button on your toolbar and type in your user name and password. After you’ve signed-in, you’re ready to start stumbling.

If you haven’t already, make sure to go to “preferences” on the StumbleUpon website to setup your “interests” in the “stumbling” tab.

Stumbling (excerpts from StumbleUpon Site):

Stumble!

Click the Stumble! icon on your toolbar. Stumbleupon will send you sites and pages based on the Topics that you choose. Stumble! as much as you want. Stumbleupon has millions of sites in its databases, all submitted and recommended by other Stumblers. There is a drop-down menu (beside the icon) that allows you to Stumble! in many different ways (more on this in the FAQ).

As you Stumble! you, click the thumbs to tell the system what you like (or dislike). = I like this! (send me more like this, please!) = I don’t like this! (don’t send me any more pages like this, thank you!) Made a mistake? No problem! Simply click the same thumb again to un-thumb the page, or click the opposite thumb to change your rating.

When you Stumble! a page or site, first thumb it, then click on to see reviews & comments made by other Stumblers, and to add one of your own. On the Reviews page, click on: Add your own review and tag the page for future reference (more about tagging in the Help resources). Type your comment into the Review box, then press: Try it! (You will learn how to delete comments in the next step).

Click the icon to see Your Pages – this is where your comments and reviews are displayed for you, and for other stumblers to read. From these pages, you can edit (or delete) your reviews, and Add Comments. When you have more than 10 reviews the oldest is moved off the front page – but you can still use the PREV and NEXT buttons to see ALL of your reviews! There’s another drop-down menu here: Stumble! a bit and get some reviews & comments on your pages before exploring this facility (or see how it works when you visit other Stumblers’ pages).

This guide has shown you the key functions of the toolbar, but there is more to discover. Lots more! Part of the fun of SU is in finding out some of the secrets for yourself, or to meet your fellow Stumblers and ask them How do you do that?! Take a look, too, at this icon on the toolbar: It reveals a drop-down menu that contains all sorts of useful stuff, including Toolbar Options which will let you customize your toolbar. You can update your topics here, change your password, and lots more.

• Tools > Toolbar Options > Configuration (tab) >
  • This option will add a 5-star rating system to you search results and whether a site has been “Stumbled”
• Tools > Toolbar Options > Configuration (tab) >
  • By checking “Not-for-me” StumbleUpon knows to automatically start Stumbling to the next page when you give a page a “thumbs down”
• Tools > Profile Preferences > Settings (link) >
  • Make sure to set this option if you’d like to stay out/limit the social aspects of StumbleUpon. (as mentioned below)

Beyond This:

Actually, this service is pretty simple. You can get in as deep as you want. There are Stumbler blogs, favorites, forums, charts, and more… if you want to get involved in the social aspects of StumbleUpon. Also, check the selection of StumbleUpon scripts for Greasemonkey, if you run Firefox, for some cool modifications, such as adding del.icio.us reviews.

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