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Integrating WordPress with Facebook
Facebook and WordPress (image from: www.serifgroup.com)
I find that I am on Facebook a fair amount during the day and since I have friends and family who may be interested in reading my blog and perhaps sharing an article or two here and there, I thought it might be worthwhile to integrate my site with Facebook.
I looked into the Facebook Docs to see what kind of options they had. It looked simple enough, but I thought it might be even more simple, so I checked for existing plugins for WordPress that might simplify things even further!
There are a lot of plugins to sort through, but the one that seemed to stand out the most was: Simple Facebook Connect
Logitech Mouse
4yr old Logitech mouse (by Alex)
So I was looking for a book that I needed for a class (an old APA Manual) and came across my old (about 4 years old) Logitech Wireless Mouse. I do all of my school work upstairs in my “office” on my 17″ Acer laptop (running Ubuntu of course).
I plugged in the USB receiver and pushed the power button on the bottom of the mouse. The mouse worked just fine – as expected.
What surprised me (just a little bit) was that the extra buttons (it’s a 5 button mouse) worked instantly (no special setup needed). Click one and the browser page goes back one, click the other button and it goes forward…