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View Facebook pictures normally (without the lightbox, on their own page)

Nathan Schloss — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:43:55 +0000

Facebook recently made it so when you click on a picture you see it in a lightbox. The idea is nice but the execution needs some work. If you would like to go back to seeing pictures normally on their own page follow these easy steps.

1) Click on any picture that you want to see.
2) In the address bar of your browser (where you type in the URLs of websites) go to the end of the current address and delete just the “&theater” part.
3) Hit enter and go back to seeing that picture normally.

My Life Is Hopkins

Nathan Schloss — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:46:49 +0000

My new website is mylifeishopkins.com (My Life Is Hopkins or MLIH). Its a website that allows students to post small anecdotes about life at Johns Hopkins University. I made the website during finals week when I should probably have been studying. The bulk of the work took 2 hours and I made a few tweaks over break. The site has grown really quickly and has gained over 200 members in the past 3 days!

Follow me on Twitter

Nathan Schloss — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:54:31 +0000

Follow me (Nathan Schloss) on twitter. Click here to go to my twitter account.

To: The Internet

Nathan Schloss — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:31:06 +0000

Dear Internet,

I am writing you this letter to inform you that today I will be speaking at the TED event in San Francisco. I will be speaking around 7:30pm PST during the Pete Conrad Award speech. If you want to watch me live go to http://www.tedxsf.org. But you already knew that…being the Internet and all.

-Nate

Setting Up Google Voice on Android (G1)

Nathan Schloss — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:58:52 +0000

As part of my summer internship I was given a G1 phone for the summer. Also, I recently was invited to the google voice beta. Naturally I wanted to use google voice on my G1 and thankfully google recently released a G1 app for voice. This guide will walk you through the setup process for a normal google voice user and will also walk you through setting up your phone to use google voice for voicemail only.

1) Go to the android marketplace and search for “google voice”

2) After the app installs follow the on screen instructions until you reach this screen:

At this screen, pick the 1st option if you want to use your google voice number as your main number, and pick the other options if you want to keep your current number as your phone number.

3) If you picked the first option in the last step then congratulations, your google voice account is now setup and will act as your voicemail box (go to step 8). If you want to keep your current number as your main number read below.

4) Go to the home screen on your android phone.

5) Hit menu the settings, then go to call settings, the go to call forwarding.

Image from engadget.com

6) In call forwarding you are going to need to change the bottom 3 settings, when you click them you will see something like VM: +1##########, you want to change all of the #’s to your google voice number.

7) Go to the google voice website and then go to settings, then enable the “do not disturb” setting.

8) Enjoy google voice.

PS: If you do not yet have google voice go to http://www.google.com/voice to request and invite.