The_MoUsY_spell_checker's Advice Column

Hello!

Can anyone give me a suggestion for another place to host my family homepage? Prodigy was bought out by AT&T I guess, so they are shutting down everybody's prodigy pages and closing down the free web hosting service for good.

First geocities closed down and now prodigy? Can anyone suggest something that might stay open when things nobody thought would ever die and shutting down? Thanks for your helpful ideas!

What do you need your web host to do?

Since you haven't specified any functions that you need, I'll just recommend two basic ones.

Freewebs (http://www.freewebs.com) offers quite a lot of functionality.

Google Sites (http://sites.google.com) is easy to use.
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I noticed when I was viewing my Facebook profile through "friends of friends" that my photo albums were not visible to them. I went in my photo album privacy and my photo albums were already selected for "everyone" I went to the facebook help page and it said this.

http://tinypic.com/r/w1qjpd/7

then I tried doing that, but the photos application doesn't show up. (Sorry I wanted to blur out some apps due to privacy reasons)

http://tinypic.com/r/veoe8z/7

So I'm really confused as to what I do because I type in photos in the search bar and it directs me to the page of friends who have uploaded recent photo albums there is no "setting" in that page. I hope this all makes sense :/ but I would really appreciate it if someone helped me
Also, I noticed through my friends of friends profile that the box where you can put a quote or something your passionate about "peace, love, happiness" etc is also not visible to friends of friends. How do I make that visible also??

Facebook allows you to have different privacy settings for each album. You can do so on this page: http://www.facebook.com/privacy/?view=photos

As for quotations, go to http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy , click "Customise settings", and change the setting for "Bio and favorite quotations" to "Friends of friends".
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I just started a website called "Teensy Triumphs".

Users basically just drop by to share an accomplishment and to support that of others.

here is the link: http://teensytriumphs.yolasite.com/#/

do you think it's a good concept?
how can I improve?
Also, feel free to post on the forum :)

I like the idea. It's just like Gives Me Hope, FML, and some others. Your site might just becaome as famous as one of those. Why don't you start off by posting some of your own triumphs?
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Can you fix your facebook wall so that only certain people can write on it? One of my friends... or acquaintances, had a birthday today and it showed on the news feed that people had written on his wall, and what they wrote.

But when I clicked the link that said "write on his wall" it took me to his profile, but his wall wasn't there... but others had written on it. However, the tab doesn't show up when i'm on his profile.

Is he just blocking me? Or can you fix it where you choose what people can write on your wall?

Yes, it is possible to block people from seeing specific parts of one's profile, including the wall.

The setting is "Posts by me" under "Things I share" in Privacy Settings.

Note that you can change the privacy settings for individual posts by clicking the lock icon next to the "Share" button.
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Hi, well i have been trying to spice up my myspace profile for a VERY long time. I just cant seem to get the hang of it. I dont know how to make that section visible, and that code didnt seem to work when i tried to put a pic on there. Im half tempted to give you my user name and password and you can do it for me. lol i just dont understand what the issue is? well my myspace is myspace.com/lover381 and my yahoo is lovewatudo@yahoo.com but i get soo many spam messages on my yahoo it would be useless to message me on there. please help me..

I see BBCode for an image there. That's for forums.

The corresponding HTML code is what you need.
<img src="http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww12/Jttisluv/1ceb384ee100fa4f62e706473a3c9634.jpg">

There's also black text on a black background. Which one do you want to change? (The text colour, or the background colour?)

For white text:
<style type="text/css">
.blurbAboutMe
{color:FFFFFF;}
</style>

For white background:
<style type="text/css">
.blurbAboutMe
{background-color:FFFFFF;}
</style>

You can change either to other colours too. Use a colour chart for the codes.
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Hey! How do you change the "Comments" and "E-props" to something else on Xanga?

The code is available on this page:

http://help.xanga.com/topic/proper-coding?post_id=4139

It works on my Xanga. If it doesn't work on yours, post a link and I'll have a look.
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I really can't figure it out! haha help me out? I need it to be private. thanks

Click "My Account" (it's on the top right corner next to "Log Out"), then "Privacy", and choose the privacy setting for each individual aspect of your profile.

You can also change the visibility of individual modules by going to the "Customise Profile" page and clicking the "Visibility" icon in each module.
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I have three hotmail accounts, and they're all linked, but i'm attempting to delete one account and I would like to unlink it. How would I do that?

And also deleting one linked account won't delete the other two will it?

Go to http://account.live.com, sign in with your primary account, and you will be able to unlink them under "Linked IDs".
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is there a way to make a survey online that depending how you answer the question, it directs you to different questions. What i mean is like i want to do a survey that has different questions for males and females so like i'd ask if they were males or females and then if they were males it would direct them to the male survey and same for females. Oh and it has to be free too. Or very inexpensive. Please give me a website! thanks.

The function you described is called "skip logic" on survey-providing sites.

Kwik Surveys offers surveys with this function for free. http://www.kwiksurveys.com/

If you want other options, click the search button.

only search Advicenators.com

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do you know how to make your myspace private? if not can you find out because i cant and i have to!

thanks

On the top right corner of any MySpace page, click "My Account", then "Privacy". (Or just click this link: http://profileedit.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=accountSettings.privacy ) That should give you the option to make your profile only visible to you and your friends.
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how come sometimes my friends count gets lower than back to normal again? do people deactivate their account then reactivate them? i keep noticing this.

If your friend count actually goes back up after a while, it's the most likely possibility. Some people deactivate their accounts when they need time away from Facebook. (For example, exam time, where people really don't need the extra distraction.)

Another possibility would be that someone has deleted you as a friend, in which case your friend count will obviously not go back up by itself.

Facebook also occasionally has technical issues that causes things to return to an earlier state. If that happens, other things will be missing too and it'll be obvious.

Next time you see the count go down, look through your friends to see who's missing, and ask them through any other means of communication.

If you can't figure out who's missing, face it, you probably won't miss the person too much anyway. Also, you must have a lot of friends.

(I'm guilty of doing this myself. At the time of typing this, I have 540 friends. I'm sure I should have at least one more, but I don't know who's missing.)

Make use of friend lists to sort your friends, so that next time your friend count goes down it'll be easier to figure out who's missing.

More importantly, if Facebook is actually your only way of communicating with someone who matters a lot (such as recently rediscovered friends or friends who moved away), now is the time to get their email address or phone number just in case they deactivate their account for any reason.
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How do I get pop up email alets on my computer for yahoo(not to my phone, on my computer)?

The official options are Yahoo Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com/) and Yahoo Toolbar (http://toolbar.yahoo.com/). Which one you use depends on whether you keep your browser open all the time or not. If you have the browser open anyway and you don't use Yahoo Messenger, then you might as well just get the toolbar.

If you use Firefox, you also have the option of extensions such as Yahoo Mail Notifier (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1264). This is not officially made by Yahoo (so use at your own risk), but it works. The advantage is that it takes up less space on the screen than the toolbar, and if you don't want the other features of the toolbar this might be what you want.
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You know the truth box thing on myspace? Well i'm always scared to leave things in peoples', cause I think they'll find out. I know that it's like supposed to be a secret, and on some you can get a hint what gender / age, but is there like another way hackers figured out or something? :/ Only answer if you really know.

You know, we actually get this question quite frequently.

No, people can't find out who said what in a truth box. Think about it. If someone managed to figure out a way to find out who wrote what in truth boxes, it'd be big news amongst MySpace users.

More importantly, if you don't want the other person to know you said something, don't say it. That's the only way to guarantee they never find out.
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I just tried to tag one of my photos on myspace and now it says "Stack overflow at line: 0"

The message keeps coming up (I use internet explorer) and I can't tag the photo on firefox either. What do I do?

This sounds like a problem with a site itself.

Report the problem to the Myspace staff to make sure they know about it.

Click the "Contact" link at the bottom of any Myspace page (or if you can't find that, here's the URL: http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=misc.contact) and choose "Site Error" in the drop-down box.

That should give you some FAQ links and ask you if they answer your question. Click "No, Email Customer Service". This should take you to a page where you can type your email. Tell them about the problem and wait. (Chances are that someone else will have notice the problem and notified Myspace, so it shouldn't take long.)
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Whats the myspace code to hide the word blurbs and the orange bar behind it but keep the about me section?
make sure it keeps the about me and id like to meet section b/c all the blurbs hiding codes hide those too. thanks!

Try this:


.orangetext15 {display: none;}

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At the top of my Facebook profile my network has my high school name but the wrong class year. When I try to edit my birth year it won't let me change that and I can't figure out how to get my network to have my high school name with the correct year I will graduate.

How do I change that network?

If your graduation year is between 2009 and 2012, you can leave your school network and then rejoin it with the correct class year. This can be done on the "Networks" tab on the account page, which is linked at the top right corner of every Facebook page after you've logged in.

However, if you have already graduated (or even if you're in the class of 2008 but your school year hasn't finished yet), there isn't anything you can do to change your class year to the right one, because Facebook only allows current high school students to join high school networks.

Short of starting a petition to request Facebook to allow alumni to join high school networks, there isn't much that can be done.

If you really don't want the incorrect year on your profile, you can just leave the network altogether, but keep in mind that once you no longer have access to your high school email, you will not even be able to join the network with an incorrect class year. If you do want the correct information on your profile, click the "edit" link next to "Profile" at the top of any Facebook page, and add the information under the "Education" tab.
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on facebook how do you hide conversations between you and someone else,that everyone else can see, like for example, if i look at some random person's profile i can see their wall to wall conversations with some random person, so how do i hide that on my profile so that no one can see the comments between me and someone else,
thanks a bunch

To add to the other answer, you can change the privacy setting on your wall so that only specific people can see it.

To do that, click the "privacy" link in the top right corner of any Facebook page while logged in, and click "Profile". Scroll down and you should see the settings for your wall. You can then change it to allow or block specific people from seeing it.

If your wall is not visible to someone, then that person will not be given the "wall-to-wall" link under your posts on other people's walls, nor can that person see those posts by manually typing your user ID into the URL.

However, keep in mind that anyone who can see your wall can see all the posts on it. You can't hide individual posts.
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hey does anyone know how to get the facebook horoscopes sent to your cell phone??? With no charge just the normal txt charge, thanks!!!

This depends on which Facebook horoscopes application you're talking about. Remember that the applications are developed by other users, not by the Facebook staff themselves.

One of the more popular horoscopes applications developed by RockYou allows you to receive horoscopes through text messages (providing that you're in the US). It doesn't say whether it charges extra though.

Here's the link:
http://www.rockyou.com/horoscope/create.php?ref=front
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About 4 years ago or something I made a bebo account, but it got hacked and I stopped using it.
Well I recently found out that it's still up, and I want it deleted because it has totally false information about me, but the problem is that I don't remember which email I used for it...or password.
What could I do about this?

One thing you can do is to click the "Lost Password" link and reset your password. Just try every email address that you have.

However, if someone else has gained access to your account, it is possible that he or she might have changed the email address.

If you can regain access by resetting your password, follow the instructions on the help page to close the account.

If you can't regain access to your account, contact the Bebo staff with the form on their "Contact Us" page. Include a link to the account profile, and tell them that someone is putting false information about you.
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does anyone know where i can buy The Sims Online?

According to Wikipedia, the original "The Sims Online" servers have been shut down. It is replaced by a free game called "EA-Land".

Here's a link to its official website:
http://ea-land.ea.com/
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