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PatternWall.com: Free Patterns for Your Twitter

The default Twitter themes are boring. Some might say Twitter is boring, but that’s completely besides the point. Finding a great background to separate yourself from the thousands of others hasn’t always been easy, until I found PatternWall.

There are countless sites around interwebs that are offering customized Twitter themes, but most of them are more worried about promoting themselves on every theme used. PatternWall.com is a Tumblr-based site that displays about 100 different tile-able patterns that can be used on any Twitter account and/or any other projects you see fit. The best part is there is no sign-up and you just click, download, and you’re done.

There are a number of styles of patterns including plaid, grunge, shapes, and stripes. I really wish the patterns were in a higher resolution. Some of them are very blurry and even unusable, but I can only expect that to change with time. This is a new site and I’m interested to see if they’ll add more patterns periodically and/or how they will fix the quality issues plaguing the site currently.

PatternWall.com

You can check out my new Twitter theme here.

Do you have a gnarly Twitter theme? Link it in the comments

Tags: themes, twitter

Steps You’re Likely To Take When Your Parents Join Facebook

Facebook is no longer for the college student who likes to post pictures of the sick party the previous night. It’s open to the high schoolers, business professionals, and yes, even your mom.

So when a parent joins Facebook, there are a few things you’re likely to do, but does it really matter?

Untag yourself from the photos that show you in a bad light. This bad light, may include you consuming too much of a substance or getting that tattoo of the girl from a rum bottle (of which you thought was a great idea, at the time).

That dirty mouth your mom would have grounded you for when you were a kid is now in full strength on Facebook. But it’s not like your parents are going to ground you, you’re an adult now, right? You might censor yourself the next time you’re on.

Ultimately, you may keep yourself looking like an angel in front of your parents, but only for a couple weeks. You’ll fall back into the way you really are. What’s wrong with that? Don’t worry, your parents already know you’re a tad profane, thanks to that nosy cousin of yours.

Facebook Chat on EVERY Page

When I open Firefox the first thing I go to is my Facebook and I keep it open the duration of my web experience. Instead of keeping a tab open for my Facebook, I want the Facebook chat to be available on every page. I don’t care how it’s done, but I think it would be extremely popular (especially among myself). With the ability to have it open and functional on every page, users could post cool links and chat any time while navigating the web.

There could be many ways of adding Facebook chat to every page. There could be a browser plugin, maybe a Greasemonkey script, or use Facebook’s Connect feature. The Facebook chat bar could be used for more than just chat, it could be used as a login for sites using Facebook Connect.

I want this and I don’t think it would be too difficult to pull off. If it already exists please put a link in the comments. I thank you in advance.

Would you use this if it were available? Am I asking for something no one else would use? Leave your opinion in the comments.

Tags: browser, chat, connect, facebook, network, web