We all plan for our future and work for it in the present. As we start with the New Year, we soon plan for the 2010-year looking at the Calendar 2010 and then decide for the forth-coming New Years 2010 and 2011, as they will be approaching after year 2009.

This is Day 30 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
There’s an old proverb which says “He who fails to plan, plans to fail” and while there are people that will debate the importance of planning, mapping out a guide for the next month will make things a lot easier. What blog posts will you be writing? What content will be most effective to drive new fans to your Facebook? What steps will you take to promote your Facebook Page? While we’ve listed 29 techniques to boost your fan base,…

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Yahoo Messenger is a popular advertisement supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo that allows you to see when friends come online and to send them instant messages It also can alert you to new e mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals accounts or when you have upcoming events recorded in your Yahoo Calendar Yahoo Messenger offers firewall support a standby mode that minimizes the program until an Internet connection is made the ability to save and print your conversations and a tabbed interface that provides quick access to your favorite stocks news and sports…

Facebook is getting aggressive with a few developers who have been abusing the platform. Today the company alerted us to a “substantial” policy enforcement against the developers behind My Calendar, one of the largest Facebook applications. MyCalendar has been temporarily disabled and hundreds of other applications have been permanently shut down. According to Facebook, the developers have been engaging in misleading and spammy tactics in order to get more users rather than building valuable experiences.

The My Calendar developers have been making aggressive applications for a long time now. Back in May I questioned how the developers’ applications were growing…

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sent in this project called Droplet. He’s been doing work with Xbees and Arduinos together and built this little toy. He describes it as “sort of like a Chumby”. It has built in services for Twitter, Google Calendar, News, Gmail, etc.  You can download the full source code and plans on his site. His next planned revisions include possibly running it from a sheevaplug, making a nice case for it, and utilizing the unused pins of the arduino.

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Over the past two weeks I’ve been going through the process of simplifying and organizing my life so that it’s more manageable. While the “work/life balance” (or whatever you’d like to call it) issue always arises, I personally believe it’s important to keep yourself organized. One area where many people are disorganized is there Facebook contacts. I’ve personally boiled down my personal organization to a few items: email, calendar, tasks, documents, and contacts. Facebook should be efficient at effectively managing my contacts/relationships (something I expounded on earlier this week).

Our Diverse Network Of Contacts
I was in college when Facebook…

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Raise questions to begin with before you join an associate program. Do a modest investigation regarding the choices of program that you mean to join. Obtain various answers since they will be the deciding instant of what you will be achieving afterward. This program you select will govern your victory.

Will it expense you anything to become a member? The largest part associate programs being offered nowadays are unconditionally without charge. Thus why settle for those that expense you a few dollars prior to joining.

What time do they deliver the commission cheques? Each program is discrete. Various deliver…

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The PCF8563 is a real-time clock/calendar/alarm chip with an I2C interface. This would be useful in projects where the primary microcontroller doesn’t have enough resources for an interrupt driven clock.
We demonstrate the PCF8563 using the Bus Pirate after the break. For a limited time you can get your own Bus Pirate, fully assembled and shipped worldwide, for only $30.

PCF8563 real-time clock calendar (Octopart search, $1.33). Datasheet (PDF).
The schematic above shows a bare-bones circuit for the PCF8563. It requires a simple external oscillator circuit with a 32.768khz watch crystal (Q1). The oscillator input pin needs an external…

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