Christopher B. Mac

How To Empty Your Facebook Timeline

May 23, 2012 in Facebook, Social Media, Uncategorized with 2190 CommentsHow+To+Empty+Your+Facebook+Timeline2012-05-23+14%3A24%3A51admin

Have Facebook Timeline and don’t like it? or don’t like how it shows every post you’ve made since you opened your account? Perhaps like the people in this video from CNN your Facebook posts are potentially hurting your chances of getting the career you want? Or maybe you have become increasingly discontent with the ways of Facebook and their seemingly endless privacy issues and their continuously updating terms of service and don’t like how much information on you they have amassed? Short of deleting your Facebook account what can you do?

Figure 1

Download and install Google Chrome.
Drag this bookmarklet from fbwallcleaner to your bookmarks bar. You will need this in a few minutes.
Go to the Chrome Webstore and install the “Timeline Remover” extension. This will make your Facebook Timeline revert back to the way it looked before you had Timeline, aka Wall. If you do not have Timeline yet you can skip this and move to step 4. (Side Note: This does not change your account permanently, it’s simply a hack that allows you to view the “old” Facebook when using Chrome, if you delete or use another browser you will have Timeline again .)
Go to your Facebook profile, bask in all it’s Timeline free glory.
Click on the bookmarklet you made in Step 2, you may receive an error telling you it might not be secure, press load anyway. I think this might only happen if you use Facebook through https.
Click on the bookmarklet again and you will see a screen similar to Figure 1. Choose how many posts you want to keep, up to 20, and then click on “Go”. It will now search for posts and will permanently remove them one by one using what looks like a macro. You should leave your browser window visible and preferably not use your computer except to check on its progress. (Side note: At this point you might have second thoughts about doing this, this is natural and if you choose to stop you can press the “Stop” button but whatever has already been removed will still be gone.)
Figure 2
It may be necessary for you to repeat step 6 several times depending upon the number of posts you have. It took a couple of hours for this to empty my Timeline (Figure 2).
You can now delete the bookmarklet and uninstall the “Timeline Remover” extension from Chrome.

Your work is now complete and your Timeline will be post free, but there still will be photo tags and other information such as “Places” check-ins, photos and photo tags, etc. You’re on your own for removing those.

Monday Mashup

January 30, 2012 in Interesting, Monday Mashup with 2060 CommentsMonday+Mashup2012-01-30+20%3A31%3A09admin

Here are some notable links from my journeys around the interwebs over the past week or so that I have enjoyed.

TSN SportsCentre Dan and Jay clip from last week, I’m not sure how they get away with the things they do on air. For more funny highlights check out YouTube user MrLogue1021
Painful video:
Animated video, I love the contrast between the slugs point of view and the old woman’s.Slug Invasion from The Animation Workshop on Vimeo.
Commercial: Matthew’s day off from, Honda: A tribute to “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” from Honda starring Matthew Broderick.
Funny site: Animals being dicks - semi offensive name but pure hilariousness. Is that even a word?
Cool article from Wired: The New French Hacker-Artist Underground

How to turn off your iPhone Cell Radio

January 27, 2012 in Apple, iPhone with 2050 CommentsHow+to+turn+off+your+iPhone+Cell+Radio2012-01-27+13%3A49%3A14admin

Right now I’m sitting in a rink for the morning as my boys are taking part in a hockey tournament this weekend. While that’s good, what isn’t good is the lack of Rogers cell coverage here at the rink as it sits in a bit of a hollow. If I walk outside I can get one, possibly two bars of Edge network coverage but nothing more. I think Rogers should install a microcell inside the arena so customers like me have some coverage.

Luckily, there is open wifi so we’re not completely without communication to the outside world. But that more than likely means the radio on my iPhone is going to be continually searching for a cell network and therefore draining my battery. Going through the settings of my phone I find there is no option to simply turn off the cell radio but still have wifi.

The solution? Turn on Airplane Mode and then re-turn on your wifi. Doing this might seem obvious and/or be well known to everyone else but I didn’t know it today as I never had need to do this before today. I had always assumed, incorrectly, that it wasn’t possible to turn on any radios while in Airplane Mode, hence it being called Airplane mode.

(Photo) – Doing a fresh install of Windows XP sucks…

June 7, 2011 in Twitter Pics with 1880 Comments2011-06-07+22%3A21%3A56Chris

Doing a fresh install of Windows XP sucks so much because of all of the security updates.

Wordlock – If you have kids and a shed then you need one of these

June 6, 2011 in Around the house, Home with 1750 Comments2011-06-06+16%3A18%3A59Chris

When we built our storage shed below our deck a couple of weeks ago we initially threw my gym lock on the door as we did not have a padlock on hand at the time. Since my combination lock wasn’t really a weather proof solution and with the wet May we had I knew the combination lock wouldn’t hold up to the elements. So I, like any other self respecting Canadian, ran to Canadian Tire after a few days for a replacement lock.

There I found the Wordlock, it is a genius of a product. Instead of using a key like a normal padlock or having to remember a series of random numbers like a normal combination lock, you get to choose a four or five letter word to remember. There are no keys for you, your kids, or your spouse to lose, and you don’t have to worry about bringing the key back into the house when you are finished. We have used it without issue for the last couple of weeks and it’s easy to reset the combination as the boys, aged nine and ten, were able to do it themselves. Just make sure they tell you the combination and hide the reset tool when you get it back from them.