Facebook Deletion, Flickr Automation, and Cheap Media Centers

This week on the podcast, we're answering your questions about deleting old Facebook posts, automating Flickr uploads, and cheap ways to get a Plex media center.

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Carl asks, "Is there an easy way to delete old facebook posts on my timeline, for example any posts before say.. 2013? I would like to have a clear out, surely deleting every post one by one isn't the only way? It's very frustrating. I could create a new Facebook but I'd have to re-friend everyone again!"


There are a lot of tools out there that should help you, usually in the form of browser extensions or Greasemonkey scripts. Try this one—we haven't tested it ourselves (for obvious reasons), but it supposedly works well.

Abboody asks, "I was wondering if there was an easy way to make it so that all pictures I take are auto-uploaded to Flickr, sorta how Dropbox does it. I got the Terabyte offer so I wanted to take advantage of it. I'm on Android, so unfortunately IFTTT is out of the question."


Your best bet is to probably send them to Dropbox and use something like Wappwolf to send them from Dropbox to Flickr.


Jim asks, "I am considering using Plex in my living room. I have an older 50" Panasonic TV with HDMI connections. What is the best (simplest, cheapest) way to hook up Plex to my TV? I'm not a gamer, and I live in a rural area and have to use a (slow) satellite internet connection with a 30GB monthly bandwidth cap so I don't use Netflix."

There are a ton of Android-based HDMI sticks out there that will work with Plex, and that's probably the cheapest route (or a Chromecast, which supports Plex from your phone). Our opinion? Pay a tiny bit of extra money for a Roku 3, which has a Plex app. It's a much more reliable experience, and is still relatively cheap compared to a lot of alternatives.


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