So you've got umpteen million friends on Facebook that you haven't gotten in touch with for a while and you would like to email them more often.

The only problem is that you don't have their email address in your Outlook, Mail.app, iPhone, Gmail, or phone address book.

So what you need is a way to download email address from your Facebook friends to your computer, iPhone, Gmail, phone, Mac, etc… right?

Read on….

Downloading your friends' email addresses from Facebook is not made to be easy, but there is a perfectly legal, perfectly legitimate "backdoor" way to do it involving Yahoo Mail.

(This is the part of the How To where I tell you that you need to have a Yahoo email account, so if you don't – go sign up for one.)

To export your Facebook friends' email addresses, to to address.yahoo.com and click the Facebook icon. A Facebook login window will appear.

Sign-in with your Facebook password and Yahoo will begin copying all of your friends email addresses to your Yahoo Mail Account.

Once the import is done, go to the TOOLS tab and select export (or just click here!) and select either a CSV file format or the vCard, Zip of .VCF files format. (I prefer the vCard, Zip of .VCF files for Mac users, because I can add contacts selectively and even merge the information with my existing contacts).

Stumped? The originators of this lesson have a video that makes it all easy to understand…

If all money owned by all American banks, businesses and individuals was gathered up today and sent to the U.S. government, there would not be enough to pay off the U.S. national debt.

The President's proposed 2011 budget includes plans to halt NASA's progress towards returning Americans to the Moon, establishing a permanent lunar base, and — eventually — the manned exploration of Mars.

Supporting NASA's Constellation program is not simply about watching astronauts bounce around on the Moon. The technologies created & tested in support of this mission and the discoveries to come will shape our global society and provide innovations that will impact every aspect of our lives – from the products we use every day, to the way we create & consume energy, to the lifesaving treatments & advances that better our lives.

NASA's Constellation project (which has already built, tested, and launched rockets into space) doesn't merely represent the future of NASA or American leadership, but rather the future of mankind's exploration of space.

I urge you to watch this outline video, to read about the program, evaluate opinions such as those from Popular Mechanics and to consider raising your voice in support of Constellation.

For some reason or another, I've been offline this week. I've checked email, but – other than jumping on Facebook to catch up on some family matters – I really haven't spent much time online. I wish I could say that I spent my offline time accomplishing great things but sadly that is not the case, unless you consider being 100% up-to-speed with season eight of 24.

So… if I missed your tweet or post or status update, it wasn't intentional. (Sure… right… that's the ticket!)

Yall send me a smoke signal and I'll get caught up.

Everyone who knows me knows that I love tacos. It's indisputable. The sun rises in the east… and I love tacos. So it's with great sadness that I mark the passing of Mr. Glen Bell, founder of the Taco Bell chain.

Glen W. Bell Jr., the innovator and entrepreneur who tapped an unsated hunger for Mexican fare as Americans discovered fast food, creating Taco Tia, El Taco and in 1962 his signature Taco Bell, has died. He was 86.

Thank you, Mr. Bell, for helping to bring tacos to the masses (and for all those late nights that your drive thru sat open in college!) Thank you.

Facebook makes it very easy for anyone to upload & share pictures, including the option to tag people who appear in the photos. If you're on Facebook, there's a fairly good chance that friends have tagged pictures of you.

So what do you do if those pictures are really good and – for example – you want to download copies to share or make prints? The answer is it's possible, but fairly difficult for many users… until now.

Code wizard Tommy Murphy has created a program for Windows or Mac that quickly downloads all your tagged Facebook photos. The best part? Yep… it's free.

Photograbber works extremely well for quickly downloading all photos in which you're tagged. Simply launch the program, grant it permission to access your tagged photos, and tell Photograbber where to save the files. Boom. (And did I mention that it's free?)

Source: Business Pundit

According to the fine folks at TripIt.com (@tripit), here are my travel stats for 2009:

19 Trips
57 Days
36,270 miles
22 cities
4 countries (technically I was in 5 in 2009)

Are you on TripIt (it's free!)? If so, connect to me!

Are you annoyed when a webpage forces Safari to open links in a new window (ie target="new")? Fear not, because there's a simple fix!

To force Safari to open new web page links in a new tab rather than a new window, cut & paste the following into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Restart Safari and you're set!