Facebook Privacy Setting for Wall Posts by Friends

Also see the update on Jan 5, 2011.

Facebook has been changing a lot since this March and they still keep changing. Have you ever noticed the above setting in the red box?

You can find this setting at your personal profile page. Go to your profile, locate the "Share" button. Right below it, click on "Settings," you will find the above settings circling by the red box.

If you change the setting for "Who can see posts made by friends?" to "Only Me," the check box for "Posting Ability" will be grayed out and become unchecked. It means no one or application can post anything to your wall. Unfortunately you won't notice this change unless you immediately refresh the page and then go back to the same location to check on it. Or you may know this problem when someone notifies you.

These above two settings are supposedly corresponding to the settings at your privacy settings page. Again, it is confusing. After the changes made from your profile page, if you go and check your privacy settings page, you will find this confusing settings as shown in the following picture.

The check box for "Friends can post on my Wall" is still on (checked) while "Posts by Friends - Control who can see posts by your friends on your profile" is set to "Only Me."

Because the second setting is set to "Only Me," no one but you can post to your wall. Thus, if you allow your friends to post something to your wall, please make sure "... [W|w]ho can see posts made by ... friends... " is set appropriate in your profile page or your privacy settings page.

I personally don't understand why Facebook still doesn't want to change or amend this wording "... who can see posts made by ... friends?" to make things clear.

How to make UTF-8 as default encoding in Notepad++ manually

The following information applies to version 5.1 up to the current latest version 5.6.8. It may apply to the future versions. However, if you're using the latest one (5.6.8), the GUI now provides a nice setting for you to change (Settings -> Preferences -> New Document/Default Directory). If you use the GUI to change the settings, the following manual method may not work. I don't know where another configuration files are stored.

Important: Don't use the same version of Notepad++ to edit any its configuration files. Otherwise, all your changes or modifications will be lost when you exit.

Note that I use Notepad++ zip version and do the manual installation instead of using the executable installer. Thus, your installed file structure may be different from mine if you're using installer.

• Go to the location where you install your Notepad++ and you should see two folders, ansi and unicode.
  
  Each folder represents a distinct version. The Unicode version is mainly to support Unicode characters in paths. Please see here to learn more about these two versions.
• Go in either ANSI or Unicode version folder where you may use to launch your Notepad++.
• Open the file called config.xml. For the newest version, this file doesn't exist at the beginning but config.model.xml is provided. Make a copy from config.model.xml and then rename it to config.xml.
• Locate the following line:

  <GUIConfig name="NewDocDefaultSettings" format="0" encoding="1" lang="0" openAnsiAsUTF8="no" />
  

• Set encoding to 4 for UTF-8. For other encodings, see the table below or the comment inside the file.

  <GUIConfig name="NewDocDefaultSettings" format="0" encoding="4" lang="0" openAnsiAsUTF8="no" />
  

  0	ANSI
  1	UCS2 BIG
  2	UCS2 SMALL
  3	UTF 8
  4	UTF 8 without BOM

• Relaunch the Notepad++.

Thinking to extend my MagicJack service to 5 years

I have been using MagicJack almost for a year. I am thinking to extend the service to 5 years. Unfortunately, the charge of 5-year service plan has been increased from $59.99 to $69.99. If I have have know this, I could have extended it earlier to save my $10.00. Still, this 5-year plan deal is better than the one provided by AT&T, Time Warner or other phone service companies. The most importance is that I am satisfied with their phone quality but I have to bear with their poor support service including Web one.

Note that beginning of this post, I switched to use the image hosting service from ImageShack instead of PhotoBucket because PhotoBucket has imposted a storage limit to free accounts.