Are you as annoyed as I am about the sidebar on Facebook? In addition to not being a user of Facebook Chat, it confuses me that I get to see people online because then it makes me feel like I’m supposed to use FB Chat.
So, I hid it.
Here’s how (until they do their next interface change tomorrow or something…):
Click on the ‘”Gearwork” (I think?) symbol and there’s a “Hide Sidebar” option.
iphone 3gs from Flickr - ntr23
When Apple announced the iPhone 3GS earlier this month, along with the ooh’s and ahh’s were some hefty fees for AT&T’s bevy of current iPhone 3G users if they wanted to upgrade. While LA Times Tech Blog recently reported that ‘AT&T Relents on iPhone 3GS upgrade pricing‘, the situation itself reveals that the iPhone has changed expectations and is waiting for things to catch up.
iTunes 8 (from the apple.com website)
This post is off of a twitter exchange I had with greenlagirl (who runs that awesome greenlagirl website). While it’s inefficient (among other things) that iTunes currently doesn’t have streaming of its online content, a little research told me that it might not be this way for long. Engadget.com, off a CNET posting, noted in February 2009 that this might be the wave of the iTunes future. It makes sense after all that iTunes would adopt streaming (evenutally), what with netflix streaming and hulu.com‘s popularity. My friend Julius remarked that he had recently caught up on his tv shows (while in a sick stupor) and it had almost made him think to cancel his cable (before remembering that it didn’t carry some cable shows).
Screenshot: Facebook Sidebar (4/07/09)
Now added to my “Inefficient” Web Commentary* series is Facebook. Facebook recently underwent a design change that caused quite the uproar with its users (not that it stops them from using the service, but like the current theme, we do somehow seem okay with living life with a marginal amount of dysfunction and a healthy dose of hope – or ability to complain). In any case, this series will just be about things I think would make Facebook work more efficiently. We will start with something I noted today about the Home Page.
