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The UNAUTHORIZED
FreedomTorch
Survival Guide.
Please note that some functions of the web site may change and we will try to keep up. We assume nolegal liability in the use or misuse of the information contained herein. Use of FreedomTorch has been
known to cause squeamishness in laboratory liberals.
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Table of Contents
Your Window on the World........................................................................................................................5
DYNAMIC MENU BAR...........................................................................................................................7
STATIC MENU..........................................................................................................................................8
Forums...................................................................................................................................................8
Polls.......................................................................................................................................................8Blogs......................................................................................................................................................9
Groups.................................................................................................................................................10Events..................................................................................................................................................10
Videos..................................................................................................................................................11
Audio...................................................................................................................................................11Documents...........................................................................................................................................12
Photos..................................................................................................................................................12
Size Does Matter.............................................................................................................................12
So how do I lower the size of the Pictures?....................................................................................13Chat.....................................................................................................................................................14
Podcasts...............................................................................................................................................14Sharing.....................................................................................................................................................14
Add Photo............................................................................................................................................15
Add Link..............................................................................................................................................15
Add Audio...........................................................................................................................................15Add Video............................................................................................................................................15
What you can do with your posts........................................................................................................16
Settings................................................................................................................................................16BLOGS.....................................................................................................................................................18
Blog Basic...........................................................................................................................................19
Toolbar.................................................................................................................................................20
INSIDE TIPS FROM OLD PROS!..........................................................................................................21Back up your Facebook information...................................................................................................21
Tired of all of the messages?...............................................................................................................21
SUMMARY.............................................................................................................................................22
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FreedomTorch Survival Manual
Good morning, Mr. Phelps, or whatever your name is. Your mission, since you allready accepted it, is to use this manual to hopefully make your membership onFreedomTorch more productive and enjoyable. As always, if any of yourFreedomTorch team is captured, remember to blame Jonathan. This manual willnot self-destruct. You must burn it or eat it. Or, you know, you could just delete itoff of your hard drive.
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Strewn throughout this
manual you will findtips that I have found
useful in boxes like
this. I have no TIPJAR. You'll have to
send a money order.
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Your Window on the WorldWe will presume (because we never assume here!) that you have already learned how to sign up
and log in. Otherwise, you would probably not have figured out how to get to this guide.
On the Home screen, you will find a dynamic menu,static menu, some advertising and the
wall. We will eventually cover all of these areas; some in more details than others. What I call thedynamic menu is updated on a regular basis. I refer to the blue menu as thestatic menu as it does notchange or give you updated information on your status. It simply sits there patiently waiting for you to
utilize its potential as a powerful navigation force for your
FreedomTorch experience.
In the Announcements section you will see... Well,
announcements.You see the Facebook Status Update first. That is the area
Johnathan uses to suggest what you might post on your Facebook page.You can cut and paste it into your wall on another site that you might
still be associated with, though I don't know why.
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I have found it easierto use View Recent
Updates to accept
friendship requests.
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Under that is the What's New section or the news feed. This is where Patriots share
information. We will explain about posts later. Notice that there is a warning indicating 1 new updateavailable. This is different than the Updates on the dynamic menu, which we will discuss later. This
indicates that someone shared a post while you were away. Click on it and you will see the new post,or posts.
Another thing to remember is that you can LIKE a post
and COMMENT on a post. When you do either, you will get anotice on the dynamic menu bar. If you do both, you will get a
duplicate message, i.e. so-and-so commented on a post you likeAND so-and-so commented on a post that you commented on. Ifyou want to prevent duplicate notices about posts, you can either
LIKE orCOMMENT, but don't do both. That will save you
some clutter especially if there has been a busy night after you
went to sleep.On the liberal side
(left), you will see
another menu. The topitem is to View RecentUpdates. The Updates
on the menu bar will listthe latest nine items. If
it indicates ten updates,
you can click on View
Recent Updates to see
all of the updates. ViewMy Profile takes you to
your Wall showing allof the brilliant bits of
information that you
have shared throughout your history on the site. You can doeverything to your own posts from here that you can do in the
What's New section of the home page, i.e. Like, Comment,
Delete, Add posts, etc. Edit My Profile allows you to change information and your Profile Picture.Below that, you can browse for members to see if your friends are on FreedomTorch. If not, ask them
Why not? Finally, you can click Invite Friends which will take you to a page allowing you to enter up
to ten email addresses and personalize a message that will send your friends flocking to the site.
Below that menu is a button that allows you to share the site on your Facebook page.Below that you will find the most recent blog entries that people have made. Blog entries are
for use when you want to post articles that are too lengthy for the Comment block or articles with a
specific focus. We'll discuss blog entries later.On the conservative side (the right), you'll find a list of the most recent videos posted. Then the
network stats, which is self-explanatory. Below that are recent documents that people have posted to
the site. If you click on Documents on the static menu, you will be taken to a list of all of thedocuments added to the site by various people from various sources. There is also a Library group if
you click on the Groups menu. This also contains many interesting and historic documents. I believe,
though, that a group can be pulled at anytime by the person who started the group (Don't you dare,Jonathan!).
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I have found that the View Recent
Updates can get rather lengthy. Youmight find it useful to list all of the
updates. Start at the bottom new
update and RIGHT CLICK on it to get
the menu. Then select Open in New
Tab to see that update. You can go
back and forth to eliminate the list.
You can then mark all read and start
fresh. That helps when you get a lot of
updates while your are asleep. Though
I cannot believe anyone could sleep
with such exciting updates happeningall night long.
Illustration 1:
Text 1: If you get a friendship
request, you can click on Some
Body's name and you will be takento their profile where you can
accept their requests.
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DYNAMIC MENU BAR
We will now cover the dynamic menu bar briefly.
At the top of your FreedomTorch screen on the right, of course, you will find a gray bar which
has UPDATES MY PROFILE MESSAGES SETTINGS SIGN OUT next to a search bar. Thismenu appears on your browser on most pages. In fact, the whole top section does including ads. Hey,
gotta pay the carbon taxes.
As you sit enamored by a topic that interests you, you may see the UPDATES turn red and give
you a number. The number is the number of updates. By
clicking on it, you will be presented with a list ofUPDATES such as messages received, when other people
post on posts and blogs entries that you have posted to,make comments on what you have posted and when people
have asked to be your friend. Remember that in this section
you will find message notifications and friendship requests.So review this section carefully. You can click on View All
Updates and it will take you to the same page as ViewRecent Updates on the menu in the left sidebar.
Clicking on MY PROFILE takes you to your profile page
the same as the link on the menu to the left
If you have received a message in yourinbox , you can click on MESSAGES to godirectly to your inbox. The MESSAGES
center is pretty easy to figure out, so we
won't go into detail on it.Settings is another important area in
FreedomTorchton. Okay, that did not come
out as smooth as I had hoped. Anyway,when you click on SETTINGS, you will be
taken to My Settings page.
The General tab allows you to set or
change your login email, set your time zoneand your language. Just press 1. You can
Change Password by using that tab.
I have not tried Networks, but I presumethat you can set up a network of friends
through the site to communicate with. (Starker. This is Kaos. We don't assume here!)
The two tabs that I believe most important here are the Privacy and Notification tabs. The
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Privacy tab takes you to a screen which explains how to Block Members and the result. Simply go to
that members profile and click on the Block Member button. You can get to that members profile by
clicking on their profile picture next to one of their posts. This will block your content from that
members view. This is useful for people you find annoying or harassing you .You can click the option.... Wait a minute. Why did my
screen go blank? I'll figure that out later. As I was saying, you can
click the option to remove your name from searches, membersearches and the Online members list at the bottom right hand of
your screen.
Next comes the Privacy Policy where you can select whocan view your profile.
Below that, you can decide what items concerning you that
you want to appear in the Recent Activities (What's New) section
of the Home screen. You can help clear up a lot of clutter byunchecking some of those items.
Then comes the button that we hope you will never have to
use. Sign out. Unless, of course, you've said all you have to say. We understand that sometimes peskylife gets in the way. You know, eating, the need for water, maybe a shower....That sort of thing.
Do I have to explain SEARCH? Really?
STATIC MENU
Have you ever felt depressed, confused and alone in the world? When you left the comfort of
your parents chambers and loving arms into a world that spins you around and inundates with media
images, books, magazines that simply show you a world gone mad! Yet, you always knew that therewas a place were you could go for comfort, love and warmth at your old home.
Same here. Just press the Home button to return to the main page if you get befuddled.
Remember as we go through this section, some of these activities can be affected by uncheckingitems in the Settings Privacy page.
Forums
The Forums button will take you to the Forums page. Most helpful to new personnel are
probably the Help With Site and Introduce Yourselfin the Miscellaneous section. The forums here
work like forums everywhere else.
PollsThis is a relatively new option which caused me to have to update this manual. I didn't get the
memo, Jonathan!
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I recommend that under thePrivacy Policy that you, at
least, select All Registered
Members. That way no one
visiting the site can view
your profile.
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At any rate, now you can ask the burning
question.... Whatever question really burns in
your mind, I suppose.
Like most options, it is pretty self-explanatory. You click on the Polls option to see
what polls there are, check the progress of your
polls or create a new poll.A Poll Title tells people what your poll is
about. You might want a poll such as, How
many people think that the Second Amendmentgives people the individual right to keep and bear
arms, as has even been decided by the Supreme
Court, or think that it is a collective right as those
Communist, left-wing nuts believe who alsobelieve that the National Guard is the Militia?
It might be better, however, to simply entitle it
Second Amendment Poll and re-write the restof that into a paragraph for the Descriptionsection which follows. Just sayin'.
The description gives you an opportunity toask your question and, perhaps, give a brief
description of why you want to know. This
section displays as the Poll question.Of course, you have to supply the multiple
choice questions. You will notice that there are only two text boxes to begin with. What happens if
you have more answers? Simply click on the Add another option linkand a new text box will appear
like magic. Or as the computer program directs, if you prefer.There is an eighty character limit to your
answers including spaces.
Privacy and Comment Privacy, likeother options, gives you the opportunity to
choose who can see and answer the poll and who
came make their snide remarks. Pleaseremember to include me in that category. And
you can check whether or not this poll should
show up in the search results.
Finally, you can create your poll. Orcancel it. Which seems a pity after all of the
work you put in on it, don't you think?
Once created, you can click on the My Polls tab to delete or edit the privacy selections. Youcannot add or subtract answers.
Blogs
Blogs is an important section in which you can write full length articles on topics of which only
you have vast superior knowledge. Or opinions. Or fun stuff. It does not have to be all political. It
can be recipes, opinions, a humorous story from your vast life experience, a movie review or whatever.
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You could express your opinion on the Constitution, Supreme Court decisions or whatever. While the
site generally does not censor, it should be remembered that it is conservative and there are many
Christians as members. You should remain within the boundaries of good taste. Opinions in Blog
entries are the views of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of other members or thestaff of FreedomTorch.com (but most probably do).1 We'll detail how to make blog entries later.
GroupsThe Groups menu item takes you to a list of groups of people with special interests. You can
join a group or start your own. The menu items, here, are self-explanatory, so we won't go into detail.
Events
Events are events that you can join in on. They could be online or at areal, live physical place. You can see Past Events, My Events (meaning, of
course, your events), or you can Start Event.
When you are first brought to this screen, you will see what events arecurrently in the works, who is running it and what it is about. Click on the title
and you will be taken to a screen where you can opt to join the event. You can
add comments and join in on the discussion with those who will be attendingthe event. Events are good for very focused topics. You could start a TEA
Party event for your State. That would connect members from across the State
to trade ideas on elections and strategies. You could have a reunion for all of
your shipmates. You could have a prayer or Church service. After all, the FirstAmendment here does not mean the same as out there! We know better.
Whatever the case may be, you can set up your own event. If you set up a
TEA Party meeting for your State, for example, you will, of course, have tonotify them that it exists and that they will have to become a member of FreedomTorch to join in.
I have not used all of the features, but I have set up one event online. It appears that you can
attach a map to an event if you are holding it in your town. Or someone else's town. One thing to keepin mind is that when you set the time, it is based on the time zone that you have set in your profile. If
you set a time of 7 pm in Arizona, it will show up as 9 pm in New York. Or 5 am in Kenya. If, you
know, you want to invite someone special.
The text box to enter information about the event is limited. So you can enter the basicinformation about your event. Right next to the events menu (shown) you can enter more details where
it says, Post Something... You can post rules, directions or whatever you could not fit into the basic
information block.When you initially start an event, you will get an option block that allows you to set the details
of your event and add a photo. After you start the event, you can go back to edit the event. You will
get a menu such as the figure on this page. Here you can edit event details which takes you back the
the same option block as when you initially set it up.If you know CSS, you can change the colors, fonts and other styles by clicking on this block.
You can delete the event (presumably to start over). The last three options are to promote your event
and get members to join.
1 That should cover us legally. Right?
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Videos
In the video section, you start with the Browse Video tab where you can search for videos that
have been place through shares on the site. The My Video tab lists videos that you have contributed.
You can view any of the videos from either of these tabs. You can, also, post a video from this section.When you post a video here, it does show up on the Wall, but not the same way as if you post it with
the Share button. When you post a video from the Share button on the New Activities section, the
video description from the source is inserted into your post. If you post a video from here, only yourcommentary that you type in is used.
Remember under Settings that you can choose to
prevent certain activities that you are involved in from being
posted in the Recent Activities of the Home page? If you goto Setting--->Privacy, you can unclick New Video at the
bottom to prevent the video you post from showing up. Be
sure to Save your changes before you move on.
Audio
Posting audiohere is essentially the
same as videos. You
can browse otheraudio tracks that
others have placed
online, check out your
own tracks or add audios. When you add audios, you can buildplay lists and the audios that you upload will all be associated with that play list. Again, the audios will
be placed in the Recent Activities section, but will appear differently than if you posted them using the
Share button.One thing to remember is that when you add an audio to your play list, it gets posted in the
Recent Activity center on the Home page. You can go there and delete it. To prevent your play lists
from being posted, you can go to Settings--->Privacy and unclick New Playlist about three-quarterway down the list. Make sure to Save Changes before moving on.
You can listen to audio while you check out the vast knowledge provided by your fellow
patriots. Simply press the arrow (circled on the figure) to get a pop-out player.
You can add audio to playlists to listen towhile you enjoy your time of FreedomTorch.
When you see a song that you want to add to a
playlist, click on the + sign next to the song. Youwill get a menu that will allow you to Create a
Playlist, if you have not already done so. If you
have playlists, they will be displayed in the menu.You can select an existing playlist or create a new one. You can make a playlist for, say, funny clips,
music or whatever your imagination comes up with. As Albert Einstein said, Imagination is much more
important than knowledge.
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You may find yourself wanting to listen
to one of the audio tracks or open one
of the videos. If you have a slow
Internet connection, audios and videos
will download slowly. Also, you might
want to listen to your audios while you
peruse the brilliants that emanatesfrom the home page. However, when you
go to the home page, the audio or video
will stop. What to do? You can get a
pop-out player by clicking on the icon in
the upper right corner of the player.
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Documents
We explained the documents section earlier. Again, you can browse documents, see your own
documents or add documents. Sometimes document conversions fail or they are deleted by Scribd.
You can delete documents through this section, as well. You can try reloading if the documentconversion fails.
Photos
Photos are pretty much the same as the other menu items. If you add photos through the Share
on the home, they get put in a Wall Photo album. When you add photos from here, you can break themup into albums. All-in-all photos posted here become another brick in the Wall. Unless, of course,
you make the appropriate adjustments in the Privacy options.
Here's a secret I learned. I like to enter pics in my Blog entries. Remember, this is an advanced
Blog technique. We are still going to cover Blogs in a later section. To add photos to a Blog, I found ituseful to set up an album called Blog Photos. These are photos that I want to enter into my Blogs. You
can use the same method for any of your albums. I was just experimenting with keeping an album
private. Anyway, I click on the album that contains the image. I, then, Right Click it to get the menuand select Copy Image Location. I place my cursor at the point I want the picture to show in the Blog
and then click on the Image button. I then paste the image location that I copied into the image URL.
If you know how to do it, you can add the align= tag in the HTML mode.If this is confusing, don't worry. You may never use it. All will become clear when we discuss
Blog entries later.
If you have uploaded several Profile Pics because you like to confuse us, you can go to this
section to change your profile picture. You can, also, share photos that you have uploaded into a post.
Size Does Matter
I will try to get through this section without too much technical mumbo-jumbo. If you needsomething full of rambling sound-bites that are meant to daze and confuse, I suggest that you search
YouTube for the head of one of our fine government agencies such as the State Department or FederalCommunications Commission.
The best way to start is to explain that the size of the photos that you upload matters for a
reason. I take pictures with a 6.1 megapixel (or MP) digital camera. You may know that your camerais rated at 10 mp, or 12 mp, or 3 mp (if your still using your old camera). To break it down in a manner
which is easiest to explain, I download those pictures (or transfer, if you like), to my hard drive. My
camera saves them into a file that is 2832 pixels wide by 2128 pixels high. Some of you understandthat, some are scratching their heads.
To put it another way, the file size is 17 megabyte. When I first started computing, my first hard
drive was 1 megabyte. (NO, NOT in the Renaissance!) I thought it was something when I could storeten-megabytes of information. I never thought I would use that much space. Of course, you can seethat I could not even store one picture on my old hard drive.
I am not a FreedomTorch insider. I do not know the deals made by the cigar-smoking men in
the back room. I present this documentation from things I have learned and experimented with. Withsome ISPs they charge for hard drive space and ALL charge for bandwidth. I only tell you that because
you can see that adding large photos takes up hard drive space. Bandwidth, in simple terms, is the
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amount of information transfered over the line that you are using to connect to FreedomTorch, or any
web site for that matter. When you connect to FreedomTorch, you are using bandwidth when you log
in. FreedomTorch downloads the site, basically, to your browser cache and that takes bandwidth.
When you press share, comment, any of the menu items and, yes, upload or view pictures, you soak upbandwidth. Different activities take different amounts of bandwidth. You might notice that some
pictures take longer to show up in your browser than others. The larger the file size of the picture, the
longer it takes to download, and the more bandwidth is used. When you view a video, even linked tosayYouTube, it is being transfered, or downloaded, from YouTude (using up their bandwidth) to
FreedomTorch to your browser (using the bandwidth of FreedomTorch). Republicans, out there,
understand this as a consequence of the free-market economy. Somebodies gotta pay. Libertariansmight argue that it should be free and open to all, Liberals will argue that it should be shut down
except access to sites originating from Height Ashbury (you guys from the sixties probably understand
that reference) or Chicago. Jesse says Free Willey. Whatever your view of the matter, that is the way
of the world.(btw, Jonathan doesn't advertise it well, but there is a donate page at this LINK. Brother can
you spare a dime! I'm sure he'd like to keep it free like another social network that one might think of.
But keeping all of those annoying, useless aps and other crap off of the site costs.)The point is that to reduce costs, you have to reduce use. Perhaps the FCC is just looking out
for us after all. It could be that the ISP has a cap on the size of photos or that Jonathan has a cap.
Either way, it is not all that much of a problem. In general, an 800 x 600 pixel image is more thansufficient for Internet use. People can download and print the image to their hearts content. You can
look at my Test Albumto see what size photos I uploaded for this article.
So how do I lower the size of the Pictures?
That's relatively easy. All of the stuff above is not really
necessary to understand how to reduce file size. If you have a
graphic editor and you know how to use it. I use AdobePhotoShop. Open the file into your text editor. OnPhotoShop you go to Image-->Resize-->Image Size. Of
course, there is only one reason I included this picture. I'll bet
you can see rightthrough it.
The key is that
you get a box likethe one to the right.
I have Constrain
Proportions checked so that if I change the width, the height
changes automatically. So I change the width on my bigphotos to 800 pixels and the height changes accordingly. If I
have to crop a picture, for some reason, I do that first, then
change the size. Notice at the top it says Pixel Dimentions:and gives the size of the file. If you keep them down around
one-megabyte, you are probably in the ball park.
I did upload a couple of pictures larger than that to my sample photos for testing and so that you
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could see the difference. But I usually use between 600 and 800 pixels wide. You should check
pictures that you download from the Internet for size as well.
The advantages are the when someone looks at the photo and it is downloaded to their browser,
it takes less bandwidth and that makes the system faster and smoother for everyone.There might be times when larger is necessary. Phil Petty put up a series of photos from a
pamphlet called The Road to Serfdom. I add that link for two very important reasons. One,
everyone should look at it. 2ndly, I did not check the size, but they might be larger than 800 pixelshigh. But it is a readability issue. You can read the pamphlet pages. If you made them smaller, they
might not be as readable.
That brings up one more point. My discussion has been concerning photos in a landscapeformat; that is the width is greater than the height. If you are working with a portrait picture, the height
is greater than the width. Simply keep the height about 800 pixels and let the program set the width.
You menu choices may, of course, differ from PhotoShop, but your graphics program probably
has the same capability. Check your help file.
Chat
Chat will open a new tab and display the chat rooms. Currently, there is the Introduction andGeneral chat rooms. You cannot set up a private chat room that I have found. You can invite people to
chat with messages or make a general announcement on the Home page.
We're almost done!
Podcasts
Podcasts are podcasts made by the FreedomTorch founder Jonathan Cousar. You will noticethat this also opens up into a new window. Notice that there is no Dynamic or Static menu to be seen.
When he's got you, he wants to keep you! Actually you can just click on the X in your browser to exit
out of this window.Now, you are probably wondering why I mention Jonathan throughout this document. It was in
his wisdom that this site exist. Without his efforts, FreedomTorch would not be the conservative think
tank that it is today. And if I don't, he won't send me a check.2
Sharing
Sharing information is similar to that ofother social networks that shall remain
nameless. When you sign in, you will seethis box. You will not always see one ofmy posts directly under it.
2 DISCLAIMER: Just to make it clear, that was a joke. There is no financial arrangement specified between the
aforementioned parties in the writing of this guide. So, we don't have to worry about those 1099's thanks to Obamacare
in January.
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Place your cursor in the box, and you
should see the following:
From here you can add photos, links toweb sites, audio and video.
Add Photo
To add a photo, click on Add Photo and youwill see the menu. Clicking on Select File
will bring up a separate window to allow
you to select a file from your hard drive.Find the file and click on it and the photo
will appear. Press on the Attach button, and
it will put the photo into your share. Photos are limited in size, so you may need to resize them before
the web site will accept them.
Add Link
To add a link, press Add Link and you will
get a text box. Simply copy the link you
want to share from your browser addressbar and paste it in this text box. Select a
thumbnail or none and press Attach. Then
you can make remarks in the text box thatsays Post Something.
Add Audio
Adding audio is essentially the same as
adding a photo in that you upload the audio
from your hard disk. The procedure is thesame as for adding photos. You cannot,
yet, add an audio from an online source.
You have to download it to your hard drive,then upload it to FreedomTorch. PLEASE NOTE: You should not upload photos or audio that you do
not have theLEGAL right to use. Check the web site you are downloading from for their terms of use.
We do not need to leave any sticky wickets that the NWO can use to shut down the site. Please keep
that in mind.
Add Video
To add a video, click on Add Video and you
will get this configuration. Select the source
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of your video from one of two choices. Copy the link to the video from the address bar and paste it in
the text box. Click on Attach and your video will appear. Enter your comments and press share.
What you can do with your posts
If, for some reason, you get a double post or you decide not to pursue the activity, you can delete it.
Simply click on the Delete link. You will see a box thus:
Click on the delete button and it will delete
the activity. Note that it will delete the post
from the wall, but will not delete the video
or pictures that you have included. You will
have to go to appropriate location on the siteto delete it.
Settings
Somewhere along the line, I missed this
section. When you post something, you mightfind that people want to comment on your post.
Or if you comment on a post, others may
respond to your comment. Virtually any changesin a post that you create or that you associateyourself with will generate an email to the
INBOX of the email associated with your
account. This way, you can be notified for thingslike, when people like your post or people post
on your profile, and so forth. This way you are
not blindsided and you always know what ishappening with your posts.
Of course, that can be annoying to some. I
know this, because I see people asking about
this particular subject all the time. Especially ifyou go on vacation and get a load of emails
upon your return.
There is no way, that I know of, to changethe notification system internal to Freedom Torch. That is, the little red update button on the gray
dynamic menu. Not too far to the conservative (right) of that update notifier, in the middle of the
dynamic menu, is the SETTINGS button.
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Of course, you can make a lot of adjustments to your account settings from here. You will
notice a NOTIFICATION button. Click on it and you will get the menu in the figure that allows you
to adjust what notifications you will receive via the email.
Make sure you Save Changes.There is another method of controlling these demon emails as suggested by Jonathan himself.
So I placed that in the Inside Tips From Old Pros section near the end of this manual.
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BLOGSBlog entries are for long articles that
would fill up too much of the Home pageWall. They can be as long or as short as
you desire. As sophisticated or simple.Smoking or non-smoking. Paper orplastic. You can see just how many
decisions you have to make before you
attempt a blog entry.Blog entries contain articles for
which you have unique or first-hand
knowledge. (Remember, though, thatObama is watching.) Articles subjects
range from law and the Constitution to
fictional works. Any topic you consider
interesting is fair game within theboundaries of good taste.
This section is designed to assist you
in making effective blog entries. Thissection might improve in the future and
is not intended to be all encompassing. It
is simply to get you started and someexperimentation and further research will
be necessary on your part.
The headers of the various blocks are
self-explanatory. The Status block is a
drop-down menu. When you click onthe arrow, you can designate whether you
want to post this entry as a to be
Published orDraft when you post the
entry. If it is Draft, it won't show up to
the general population. It is not that weseek population control, but rather you
may want to re-read it for mistakes prior
to publishing. The line that says, If thisentry is published, it cannot be switched back to draft mode, might be a bit confusing. You will be
able to edit the entry if you need to update something. It simply means that it will remain published.
When I am editing a document, I save it in draft mode. I uncheckShow this blog entry in searchresults. I set Privacy and Comment Privacy to Just Me. I can work on the document at my leisurewithout prying eyes. You can change all of these settings back before you actually publish the
document.
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Blog Basic
The biggest block with the tool bar is what we will concentrate on now. This is the core of the
whole bloggingthing. You should have entered the title of your blog entry in the appropriate block
above, so you can simply start typing here. The thing toremember is that the preview and what you see may not
be what is posted. By that I mean, when you hit return
to start a new paragraph, it will show a space betweenthe paragraphs. When you view the blog in real world,the paragraphs might be run together. Pressing enter
twice to start a new paragraph should resolve that
problem.Another thing that you will notice is that there is no
formatting capability. You have to learn some hypertext
markup language (HTML)3 on your own and use theHTML button on the tool bar to do any formatting of the
text. This is really an advanced topic beyond the scope
of this guide. We might try to add some training on
HTML later. That covers the HTML button.There is another way to enter a blog entry with
headers, and circles and arrows and a paragraph on the
back of each one. With the use of the Word Documentbutton (the one without an arrow an on the graphic.
How did I miss that?), you can make your blog entry as
a Microsoft Office Document. This button allows you to cut and paste your blog entry from yourMicrosoft Office with formatting.
Perhaps you do not want anything to do with a
Microsoft product You do not want to support acompany that supports a new world order. Well that just
shows that you are an intelligent conservative.Fortunately, there is aFREEalternative. There is a
program called OpenOffice.org that you can downloadat OpenOffice.org. Go figure. The program is brought
to you by the same people who bring you Java. They
support the new world order, too. But you are notpaying for their program. It is a word processor, spread
sheet, presentation program, and much more, just like
Office. It also creates PDFs, if you need them. I use itto create many documents including this one. With this
program, you can cut and paste using the Microsoft
button. One thing to note is that you still might need anextra space between paragraphs to break up the paragraphs.
I tried WordPad, which comes with Windows, and WordPerfect. It does allow to cut and paste,
but you loose all of the formatting. Also, no graphics will be transfered. You must add graphics as we
discussed in the Photos section.
3 I explain that it is hypertext markup language only to make myself look brilliant. If you know about HTML you already
knew that. If you don't, you probably don't care.
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Illustration 2: An OpenOffice.org document I
experimented with.
Illustration 3: This is how it looked after the
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Toolbar
Most of the toolbar is self-explanatory. The two items are Undo and Redo arrows.
The little broom Cleans HTML code. If you are conversant in HTML, you will understand this
button. You can ignore it if you are not. What this is supposed to do is make the HTML code of your
blog entry nice and neat and compliant with WC3.The eraser removes formatting. If you cut and paste using the method described above, you can
remove the formatting of the document. Of course, that defeats the purpose of using the cut and paste.
The next button allows you to paste from Microsoft Word. Weren't you paying attention?The next button brings up a new window showing your blog in HTML format. As covered
earlier, if you know HTML you can adjust the look of the document. If you know cascading style sheet
(CSS),4 formatting, you might be able to add a style sheet to make the blog entry look anyway youwant. You can change the look of the headers, for example, or the text. You can place graphics more
precisely. You are limited to your own imagination. And of course, CSS formatting code.
Here is the media buttons are supposed to work. We have already covered the Insert/edit
image button in the Photos section. In theory, you can insert/embed a video into your blog. I have yet
to get it to work and you can embed videos or link to videos in the posts anyway. If you figure out howto use this button, you write a book, dog-gone it!
The next button toggles the screen between full-screen mode and... Uh, not full screen mode.When you first go to write a blog entry, you are in not full screen mode. I have seen little advantage to
toggling to full screen mode. But, hey, it's your blog entry. Do what you want.
And, finally, you can preview your work. The preview is slightly deceptive. Kind of like apolitician. It says your blog looks okay, but is it? If you have not double-spaced between your
paragraphs, the preview looks as though the spacing is all right. Yet when you view the real blog, the
paragraphs are all run together. If you double-space between paragraphs, it looks like there is a bigspace between the paragraphs. Viewing the blog shows a normal spacing between paragraphs.
Preview, however, is useful in that you can check links to other sources that you might have inserted
into your blog entry with hypertext markup language (there I go again). You can tell if pictures thatyou inserted show up generally where you want. It gives you a good overall view.
When all is written and done, you can post the entry with the Post Entry button. Well what
were you looking for. This isn't a government project, after all. We're not leaning on shovels here!
When you publish, the word goes out to all the world (at least, the FreedomTorch world) to see.Unless you made the appropriate changes in the settings.
4 See footnote 4.
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INSIDE TIPS FROM OLD PROS!
Here I come to the point where I jus' plain run outtainformation. Don't worry, folks at FreedomTorch has got yer
back. Here are some tips submitted by those older and wiser thanme. Or they might be younger and more foolish. Either way,here are some suggestions by your friends on FreedomTorch.
And, you know, by old pros I don't necessarily mean, you
know, old. And they might not be in the profession. It's justsome phrase I picked up somewhere.
Back up your Facebook information
Virginia Ginny Harper Graham
Login to your FB account. Go to "Account" then "AccountSettings" then scroll down and select "Download Your
information". Click on "Learn more". Follow on screen
directions. Save it to your desktop to find it faster. It will put
everything (including pictures) in a folder for you. Then go and get all your FB contact info like emails,phone #'s of family and friends to save to your ISP contact list, etc. Then you will be able to have peace
of mind if FB deletes you with no warning!
Tired of all of the messages?
This message comes from the old master Jonathan. Unfortunately, he used technical termswhich I will attempt to clear up in this section.
When you join Freedom Torch, you will start receiving a remarkable amount of emailage viathe notification system whenever people do things that concern you. Such as comment on your post,
comment on a post you like, join the Libertarian Party, post on your profile, or whatever. One way to
control this flow of information is, of course, through the SETTINGS item which you access through
dynamic menu.Now how much would you pay? Put that checkbook down (and just mail us your VISA card)!
There is, yet, another means of controlling that flow of traffic. It has to do with your email reader,
itself, called the FILTERS. This is not part of Freedom Torch, but your email software.For this section I must point out a few things. Why you wouldn't want to hear from your old
friends is beyond me. Second, this tutorial is based on the Thunderbird email software. Other emailsoftware may have a similar mechanism. To figure out its use, go to the help file. Then go to the website for the software. Explore the myriad forums covering the topic of how to filter messages. And,
finally, when you have exhausted all other avenues, give up and have your ten-year old set it up for
you. If you were drawn into using Hotmail, you are out of luck. They have no mechanism for filteringsoftware or for even blacklisting bad messages. I do not know about Yahoo! Mail, G-Mail or any of
the other government information collection agencies out there. If you are using WebMail through your
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Internet provider, there is, almost, certainly a means of filtering messages.
The following information may be
written too low-level for you Techies
out there. Bear in mind, please, that this iswritten to help our non-tech friends out
there. Remember, you might need their
assistance on an understanding of thebalanced budget amendment or some other
information to which they are privy,
someday. You don't wanna piss 'em off.To begin, open your email program
(Come on! Did I really have to tell you
that!). You need to create a folder for your
filtered messages. To do this inThunderbird, simply right-clickthe
account that you want the new folder in to get the
menu and select New Folder.The next step is to set up the filter, of
course. A filter will take certain phrases, email
addresses or whatever from you message and routethose messages to whatever folder you choose.
This works for any type of messages that you
choose, by the way. You could sign up formessages from the Democratic National
Committee, for example, just so that you can route
them to your trash folder. What fun. (I wonder if
that costs them money? Hmmm.)In Thunderbird, select TOOLS and then Message Filters. You should get a pop-up box.
In this box, you can select the email account
that the filter should effect in the Filters Fordrop-down menu. Then hit the New button.
Here, you will get, yet another, pop-up
menu. This menu is where you input theconditions which a message must meet to be
filtered and what to do with it.
I will tell you a little story. When I was
about ten-years old, I used to roam the streets ofYuma. I might ride my bike up the Eighth Street
hill to go to the swimming pool even though it
was crowded much of the time. There werethree convenience markets on my block. Two
were privately owned and then there was Circle-
K, which was American owned then. When I felt that I needed some cash to buy a soda or candy bar, Icould generally find a dime in one of the ten phone booths in my area or quarters in the change
machine at the local laundry or collect enough soda bottles to augment my meager allowance. Talk
about recycling, I could always find soda bottles, so they were off of the street. Today, if you findquarters on the ground at all you are lucky. Those soda bottles have to be taken to a specific recylcer to
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get anything out of them. And even when you do, try and buy two candy bars, a soda, and a pack of
gum for fifty-seven cents.
That story has, of course,
nothing to do with this topic. I justwanted to get the text down to the
next graphic.
There is a text box to namethis particular filter that you are
setting up and a drop-down menu to
select when you want the filter toapply.
The first drop-down menu
below that allows you to select things
like, but are not limited too, who themessage is from, the subject line or
body of the message. The second
drop-down menu allows you to selectcontains, doesn't contain, is, isn't,
begins with or ends with. This will be clearer in a moment. The last section is a text box that allows
you to enter the search phrases that you arefiltering.
In the example that I show here, it should be
easy to see that if a From line of a messagecontains freedomtorch.com, I want the
email program to do something very special
with it. But what to do?
That is the purpose of the block just belowit. In this case, I want to move the message to
the Freedom Torch folder that I created. Thus,
I select that folder.You might notice that there is a lot of room
in these blocks and may wonder why. If you
click on the +, you will see that you getanother block through which you could filter
even further. For example if you click on it, you can add a filter to see if the Body of the message
contains Jonathan Cousar. If it does, you might want to set up another filter with that addition to move
it to a folder entitled, Words of Wisdom, or something like that.As for the Actions, you can not only move messages to folders, you can automatically forward
them, copy them to other folders or delete them altogether, among a dozen other things.
You will have to experiment to see all of the wonderful things that you can pull off with thefilter mechanism of your software. Enjoy.
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SUMMARY
This is the First Edition of this guide. Quite frankly I just slapped it together to help you getstarted. If further editions are needed, I will update this file and republish. I probably won't change the
cover because that would be a pain each time. I will simply upload new editions and you will receivemore information. It will be subtle. You will not even notice---Constitution---that we are twisting---Constitution---your mind with subtle---Constitution---messages.
If you find anything in error in this edition, ignore it an move on. You could let me know with a
message, of course.So we hope that this is helpful. If you have specific problems, you can always go to the Forums
section and post a question.
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