20 Tricks to Make Facebook Better

By: TestLab on 5:52 AM

Facebook is By Far the Biggest Social Networking Site on Web.These Cool Tricks and Tips Help you to Enhance Your Facebook Experience.

Tweak Your Facebook Settings

1. Appear Offline to Certain Friends

By opening your Facebook chat window, clicking the settings icon in the upper right corner and then navigating to “Advanced Settings,” you can customize your chat experience by appearing offline to certain people on your friends list. This tweak will be especially helpful for those of you with chatty acquaintances who like to talk your ear off when you’re online.

2. Reposition Your Timeline Photos

When uploading a new photo, it might not always appear on your Wall the way you Thought. Particularly long or wide photos have a tendency to be cropped , but you can fix this rather easily. 
By clicking “Edit Photo” from your Timeline page, you will gain access to a “Reposition Photo” option. Using this tool, you can move your photo around the preview window so that it appears as you intended.

3. Add Photos to Your Worldly Travels

If you’re a fan of Facebook’s “Places” feature, you can very easily decorate it with pictures to show off your various activities all over the world. On the main Places page, simply click “Add Photos to Map” and start tagging away! If you frequently upload photos directly to your Facebook profile using a mobile app for iPhone or Android, you might find that your map is already pretty well populated.

4. Easily Hide App Notifications

By going into your account settings, navigating to the “Notifications” tab on the left side of the page, you can browse the applications that have permission to populate your news feed. If find that a friend has spammed your feed with an excessive number of app notifications, simply deactivate the offending app. It’s easier than breaking off the friendship.

5. Upload Photos in High Resolution

Sometimes you’ll find that a gorgeous photo you wanted to share with your friends appears tiny and blurry after adding it to your social network profile. Remedy this by going into your Facebook albums and, before uploading a photo, click the “High Quality” box.

6. Use the “View As” Option to Tweak Your Appearance to Specific Friends

Knowing what your friends can see on your Facebook Timeline is an invaluable tool to ensuring your virtual reputation stays intact. From your Timeline page, click the settings icon next to “Activity Log” and then click “View As.” From here you’ll be able to see what specific friends see when they visit your page.

7. Download Your Entire Facebook History

Ever wanted to browse your entire Facebook profile at once — including every status update you’ve ever submitted? Facebook makes it easy. Under your Account Settings page, a small link will appear at the very bottom of the options list. Click “Download a copy of your Facebook data” to begin the process of securing your entire archive.

8. Forward Your Facebook Conversations

Having to repeat yourself is annoying in day-to-day life, and it’s even more of a bother when online. Rather than copying and pasting directions or instructions to multiple people, click the “Actions” tab at the top of any Facebook message thread to access the option to forward it to others. Ta-da! No more double-talk!

9. Turn Chat Sign-in Off by Default

Can’t stand endless chat when you’re simply browsing your status updates? No problem. Click the settings icon in the main Facebook chat window, and click “Turn off chat” to have all future messages sent to your inbox, rather than pop-up in realtime on your screen.

10. Use Facebook to Design Your Business Card

If you’ve put a lot of work into making your Timeline page reflect exactly who you are, consider using it as a pre-designed business card. Clicking the “About” link — located under your name on your Timeline — lets you browse your social network details. In the Contact Info window is a small business card icon that will direct you to Moo.com, where you can customize a Facebook-flavored business card and place an order.

Web Tools That Optimize Facebook

11. Analyze Your Facebook History With Wolfram Alpha

For the most comprehensive breakdown of your entire Facebook history, Wolfram Alpha can’t be beat. Simply type “Facebook Report” into the main search bar, approve the app’s use of your Facebook data and wait for the system to break down your history. Once it’s finished, you’ll be treated to a seemingly endless number of graphs and data points showing your update history, most-liked photos and much more.

12. Schedule Facebook Updates With Sendible

Believe it or not, thieves are big fans of Facebook. By finding out when you’ll be away from your home, security experts believe would-be robbers target those who go on a Facebook hiatus. Sendible — an application that allows you to schedule updates even when you’re not near your computer — can keep your online persona active, even when you can’t.

13. Use Twitter to Update Facebook

Sometimes you just don’t have enough time to keep all your social networks up to date, but thankfully Facebook and Twitter play nice together with a little tweaking. Head to the Twitter app page on Facebook to begin the process of syncing your virtual social lives. After authorizing the Facebook app via Twitter, all your tweets will appear on Facebook as status updates.

14. Export Your Facebook Calendar to Your PC

Make sure you don’t miss any important events by exporting your Facebook calendar to either Microsoft Outlook or Apple iCal. Head to your Facebook calendar (located under the “Events” tab on the Facebook navigation bar) and click the settings icon. Click “Export,” and then choose either your Facebook birthday list or upcoming events. Your desktop’s calendar app should launch immediately, making the process even more streamlined.

Chrome Extensions for Facebook

15. Facebook Photo Zoom

Using this extension, you no longer have to click on the photos in your news feed in order to view them in full size. Simply move your mouse cursor over the image thumbnail and the larger version will pop up right in front of you. You can even adjust the zoom by moving the mouse back and forth over the photo itself. It’s like magic.

16. Revert Facebook Photo Viewer

If you’re not into real-time photo zooming, this extension turns back the clock on your Facebook’s photo feature. Rather than displaying pictures in the new “Theater” layout, photos will appear on their own pages, complete with the full comments section and “Like” options.

17. Facebook Chat Notifications

Have you ever left a Facebook tab open on your web browser and missed an urget message from a friend? This handy plugin produces a pop-up window on your desktop to notify you when someone needs to chat, ensuring you never miss an important bit of info.

Firefox Add-Ons for Facebook

18. Like the Page

If you’re a Firefox user, you can use this add-on to instantly share any web page they come across, even when the site doesn’t have a built-in Facebook share button. A small “Like” icon will pop up at the bottom of every browser window, and all it takes it a click to share your find with the world.

19. FB Purity

This plug-in returns your Facebook to an earlier day, back when spammers and useless clutter wasn’t a hinderance to your browsing habits. You can hide any type of notification you wish, including birthdays, relationship updates, tagged photos, links and much more. You can make your social experience as simple as you wish.

20. Facebook Auto-Logout

Do you hate it when you accidentally leave yourself signed in to the social network, only to come back to missed chat messages and anxiety over whether someone else was browsing your digital life? This handy add-on will automatically sign you out of your Facebook windows if you’ve been inactive for too long, ensuring that nobody can snoop your info.

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Asia should have its own Facebook, Twitter: China official

By: TestLab on 2:39 AM

Asian countries should have their own version of Facebook and Twitter to expand the region's influence, a Chinese official said on Tuesday.

Asian media groups should use technical innovation to enrich their communication channels and have their own versions of Facebook and Twitter to expand the region's influence, Cui Yuying, deputy director of the State Council Information Office said.

"Compared with Asia's increasingly vital role in the world economy, the influence of Asian media groups on the world stage is very much disproportionate," Cui said at the fifth 10+3 Media Cooperation Forum at Chana's Changchun city on Tuesday.

China banned Facebook and Twitter but permitted microblog services, akin to Twitter whose numbers crossed over 300 million, constituting the world's biggest microblog network.

Cui said that more than 80 per cent of news comes from major Western media groups while their Asian counterparts, lacking "a strong platform and authoritative status," have to rely on the Western media to obtain information.

The forum, jointly organised by the Beijing-based People's Daily and the Jilin provincial government in northeast China, was themed "Asia's Voice & Values: How Can Media Promote Peace, Harmony & Cooperation."

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See how much Facebook earns from user sign-ups

By: TestLab on 7:48 AM

Facebook's shares maybe at an all-time low on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), but the social networking site's primary interest lies in increasing the number of friends and apps a user has on the website, as it draws most of its revenue from advertisers and users who sign up for the social site.

Facebook reportedly earns an average of 5.90 dollars a year for everyone who signs up for the site.

The firm's value is not just in the adverts that one clicks on the site, but also makes money through a the number of friends a user has, whom he/she can recommend products and services and the number of apps he/she has signed up for.

Facebook users may have noticed lately that people with fewer than 30 friends are being recommended to them as an addition to their friend list, as people with more than 30 friends are more likely to be active users, and Facebook wants all its users to be active, logging in at least once a week, Stufzz.co.nz reports.

Facebook has also smartly and cleverly changed its app sign-up screen, which previously used to show a user in large print exactly as to what permissions they were granting while signing up for the app such as whether it would post to their wall on their behalf or they could simply click 'no thanks!' if that was undesired.

Now, that information has been moved to the bottom of the sign-up screen, in fine print and grey font, and the options for not signing up for an app been made far more confusing and complicated for a user to understand.

Despite the plummeting stock prices, Facebook has left no stone unturned to garner more users for its social site along with new apps in the App Centre and adverts, which surely would ensure the firm's smooth sail in tough waters for a long time to come.

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Facebook is reportedly set to expand its organ donor initiative to Asia

By: TestLab on 5:36 AM

Facebook’s organ donor initiative looks set to come to its first market in Asia tomorrow, that’s according to Korean news agency Yonhap which reports that the feature will go live for users of the social network in South Korea tomorrow.

The report states that the state-run Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will team up with the social network to give the feature a visible push when it is brought to the country.

As it is a company with truly international reach, Facebook is unlikely to expand the service piecemeal and bring it to Korea alone so we suspect that the country will be one of a number — perhaps from Asia and beyond — that gets the feature for the first time tomorrow. At this stage, however, no details of any such plan have been communicated by the Menlo Park-based company.

Launched in May, the ‘life saving’ initiative, as Facebook called it, has been a huge hit and it has helped swell the ranks of organ donors worldwide. Donor registration numbers jumped by 800 percent in California the day after it launched, while the UK’s NHS saw its own figure more than triple overnight.

The move was widely-praised for the positive change that it is making and, with Facebook rapidly approach 1 billion users, it further demonstrates that the social network is a platform of great influence with the potential to bring about social change worldwide.

A statement from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg at the launch of the feature read:

Facebook’s mission is simple: to make the world more open and connected. But the Facebook community has also shown us that simply through sharing and connecting, the world gets smaller and better. Even one individual can have an outsized impact on the challenges facing another, and on the world. At Facebook, we call that the power of friends.

Organ donation is currently available to Facebook users in Australia, Brazil, Columbia, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, UK and the U.S.

To get it, those on the list must ensure that they have a Timeline profile and follow the instructions from the dedicated Facebook Q&A page:

• Click Life Event at the top of your timeline
• Select Health & Wellness
• Select Organ Donor
• Select your audience and click Save

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Find Your Most Popular Facebook Posts With This Cool App [REVIEW]

By: TestLab on 12:46 AM

How Popular Was that Video that You've Posted on Facebook ? Or How About Those Pictures and Albums From Your Most Recent Vaction? Well if You Want to Find Out Them Then Here is a Cool App Named Good Sort ...

A new app called Good Sort will find your most popular posts on Facebook according to likes, comments or shares. First, you have to let the app access your Facebook Wall. Good Sort lets you stay on top of the most commented and liked posts that include you, so potentially embarrassing pictures you’re tagged in never get buried in your feed without you noticing them.

Perhaps the purpose of this app is to help you better manage your page, gain more Facebook friends or simply boost your Facebook confidence. But just how much will users want to pay for this app?

The Good Sorts app [iTunes link] is available for $.99 on iTunes, but requires a quarterley subscription of $2.99 if you want to sort posts of friends, groups and pages (so long as you have admin access). Seems a lot to shell out, but so far in the comments on the iTunes app store, users are fans of this app.

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This App Knows More About Your Facebook Account Than You Do

By: TestLab on 9:12 PM

Nearly 50% of my Facebook friends are Single, which adds up to 123 people total. Meanwhile, 20.1% or 51 of my friends are in a relationship.

All this information I now know thanks to a new “Facebook Report” by Wolfram Alpha, which will gift you with more knowledge than you could possibly ever want to know about yourself and your Facebook profile.

You can access your data by going to Wolfram Alpha’s site and typing “Facebook report” into the search box. Results will ask you to authenticate the app, giving it permission to analyze your account and tell you details.

For instance, I now know I’m Facebook friends with 10 Davids, making that name the most popular on my friends list. Chris comes in second place with a total of 8 making their way onto my list of friends.

I have the most friends in common -–151 -– with my friend Benton, someone I’ve know since middle school. My oldest friend is a 74-year-old professor from college. My youngest is a 22-year-old I babysat when she was just a few years old.

“Wolfram Alpha knows about all kinds of knowledge domains; now it can know about you, and apply its powers of analysis to give you all sorts of personal analytics, “ Stephen Wolfram said in a post on the company blog. “And this is just the beginning; over the months to come, particularly as we see about how people use this, we’ll be adding more and more capabilities.”

In addition to those random trivia facts, the app also gives you a highly detailed breakdown of your most liked and commented on photos, what apps you use most often to upload pictures to the service and when, and even what your average post length is — mine is 9.47 words or 58.59 characters.

The app even gives you a detailed breakdown of you and where you’re from.“It’s quite fascinating—and sometimes revealing—looking at the personal analytics reports for oneself and one’s friends. I think I could spend ages doing it. And coming back at different times to see what’s changed, Wolfram added.

“I’ve no doubt that one day pretty much everyone will routinely be doing all sorts of personal analytics on a mountain of data that they collect about themselves,” Wolfram says. “But it’s exciting today to be able to start that off with Wolfram Alpha Personal Analytics for Facebook. I hope people have fun with it! And perhaps it will also inspire some young Facebook users to become data scientists.”

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Interesting Facts About Facebook [Info graphic]

By: TestLab on 6:36 AM

Check out some fascinating facts about the Social Networking Site Facebook, including its demographics, reach, usage, etc. From the Below Infograph.

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All Facebook Apps to Soon Have Notification Capability

By: TestLab on 7:55 PM

There could be a lot more notifications from Facebook on the way. The company’s rolled out a beta version of a new notifications API, a tool for developers that lets all Facebook apps send notifications to users.

This could open the floodgates to a plethora of notes under Facebook’s “notification jewel,” where that little red number will start counting itself higher than ever, especially if the user has signed up for lots of apps.

Of course, you can always get rid of an app’s notifications — you simply click on the X in the upper right of a notification box, and the messages will stop. For example, here’s how the box will look for the Tester app:

It’s a good thing this routine is so easy, especially since as soon as this developer tool becomes ubiquitous, any Facebook app you’ve subscribed to will be able to send you notifications without first asking for your permission.

Along with this capability, Facebook is instructing those developers who might abuse it to attempt to build “high-quality notifications.” Facebook software engineer Bo Zhang urges app developers, “Don’t make it look like spam — we all know the words on the DO NOT CLICK list — i.e. ‘Click Here!’ ‘Check this out!’ ‘You have to see this…’ or ‘Here’s something free!’”

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Facebook Cracks Down Fake Likes

By: TestLab on 5:06 AM

Are You Fed up With the Fake Facebook Likes ? Then Here is a Good News For You.

Facebook Inc is weeding out fake "Likes" on its social network that are being caused by spammers, malware and black marketeers as it strives to maintain credibility as an advertising platform.

Facebook said the number of Likes, or endorsements by users, on corporate pages is likely to drop by less than 1 per cent, on average, after the crackdown.

"Newly improved automated efforts will remove those Likes gained by malware, compromised accounts, deceived users, or purchased bulk Likes," Facebook said in a post on its official blog on Friday.

"While we have always had dedicated protections against each of these threats on Facebook, these improved systems have been specifically configured to identify and take action against suspicious Likes," the post continued.

Thanks to a growing black market, companies can instantly raise their profile on Facebook by purchasing thousands of Likes at a time - a practice that is forbidden by the No. 1 social network, which has 955 million users.

Many of these Likes come from bogus Facebook user accounts rather than genuine users of the social network.

Meanwhile, various spam-like programs on Facebook deceive users into unwittingly liking something when they perform another action, such as clicking to watch a video.

Facebook said the cleanup will benefit both users and companies that maintain pages on the network, by giving a more accurate measurement of fan count and demographics.

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Bing Can Now Search Through Facebook Photos

By: TestLab on 10:09 PM

More Facebook functionality is creeping into Bing with a new feature that lets users search and browse through their friends' photos.

The so-called Friends' Photo feature isn't available directly from the Bing homepage. Instead, you must navigate to www.bing.com/friendsphotos before you can start searching your friends' Facebook albums.

The feature only works if you are signed into Facebook and have granted Bing permission to connect. If you haven't done these things, you'll first see a prompt to login, followed by a permissions page from Facebook.com, before you can start searching.

Once connected, browsing Facebook photos on Bing actually seems easier than it does on Facebook's own Website. Whereas Facebook simply lists photos in a single, reverse-chronological column, Bing lays the photos out in a tiled view, so it's easier to scan for interesting pictures--and to ignore the boring ones.

Each thumbnail image shows the number of likes and comments, and when you click on an image, it expands while showing comments in a sidebar. You can add your own comment, like a photo or share it on your wall directly from Bing. There's also an option to open photos in Facebook, which is useful if you want to tag a photo or add a location.

Searching for photos was less reliable than browsing in my experience, but that's simply because a lot of my friends don't tag all their photos with locations or keywords. For instance, a search for "Cincinnati," where I live, turned up less than a dozen results even though plenty of my friends' Facebook photos have been taken there.

Also, keep in mind that photos won't show up at all from users who don't allow Facebook to interact with third-party apps. None of my wife's photos, for instance, appear within Bing for this reason.

Microsoft says it will never share Facebook photos with the public. Bing also respects the same privacy settings as Facebook, so photos will only be viewable in Bing to users who have that permission on Facebook.

Photo search is the second major Facebook-related feature to come to Bing in the last few months. In May, Bing added a Social Search sidebar, which shows social network activity from friends and high-profile "experts" for any search keyword. It also allows users to ask questions of their friends and link to relevant search topics. Compared to Google's approach with Search Plus Your World, Microsoft is drawing a clearer boundary between regular and social search results.

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McAfee app helps protect Facebook photos

By: TestLab on 9:51 AM

Security solutions provider McAfee has launched a new free application 'McAfee Social Protection' to help users protect their photos from being shared without their permission on social networking site Facebook. 

Offered as a Facebook app together with a browser plug-in , the app lets users select which friends have access to their photos and makes pictures appear blurry to everyone else, McAfee said in a statement. 

For selected friends, the photos will be displayed properly once those friends have installed the app, creating a second layer of protection , it added. Also friends, who have been granted access to view photos , will not be able to share, copy, print or take screenshots of them.

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Entire History of the Internet on One Facebook Timeline

By: TestLab on 3:43 AM

We’ve seen companies and people do some inventive things with Facebook’s Timeline feature, but this project may take the cake.

Grovo, a company looking to better educate people about common web and mobile products, has curated the entire history of the Internet on one single Facebook Timeline.

Many important dates in the development of the Internet are honored with milestones on the company’s page, from recent social media launches like Instagram, to way back in 1536, which is the first known use of the @ symbol.

Check out the many cool happenings of the 1990s in particular — the good old dot-com days. Also, can you believe the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was founded in 1958? The agency has done lots of truly mind-boggling research in those fifty-some years. And it only took six years after the invention of email in 1972 for spam emails to show up.

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First Look: Facebook's Amazing New Campus

By: TestLab on 10:05 AM

Facebook (FB) already has 2,000 employees at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. But it's preparing for a major expansion. Eventually, its current location—the East Campus—will hold 6,600 employees. Another 2,800 will occupy a second site, the West Campus, across the Bayfront Expressway.

Facebook has hired Frank Gehry's architecture firm, Gehry Partners, to design a new, sprawling office building which will house those engineers in a big, open space, with walls cleverly angled so the insides don't feel oppressive.

Here are some models and drawings which give an idea of Facebook's new home.

rows of desks and meeting rooms clustered throughout the building. You'll be able to walk from one end to the other without passing through a door. Note the looping ramp in the upper left—that gets you from the basement to the first floor to the roof.

The roof will be planted with grass, trees, and a vegetable garden. It's not just pretty—green roofs cut heating and cooling. 

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Facebook Virus- Your Friend Added a New Photo With You to the Album

By: TestLab on 5:04 AM

Did you just get an e-mail saying your Facebook friend added a new photo of you? Ignore it, and check Facebook yourself. Scammers are sending out e-mails saying that someone has added a new photo of you to a Facebook album. The spam, which claims to come from the social networking giant, includes an attachment that installs malware on your computer.

The e-mail subject is typically something along the lines of “Your friend added a new photo with you to the album” (though cybercriminals can easily alter it) and appears to come from an e-mail like “notification+kjdm-dj-hud_@facebookmail.com” (again, this can be changed). The attached file is named “New_Photo_With_You_on_Facebook_PHOTOID[random].zip” where “random” is a generated number.

Sophos, which first spotted the attack, detects the malware as Troj/Agent-XNN. The 61KB threat copies itself to “C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\svchost.exe” and adds itself to your Windows registry, masquerading as a Sun Java updater. In this way, the malware ensures it starts up when you boot your PC.

The e-mail body is straightforward, but don’t believe what it says:

Greetings,

One of Your Friends added a new photo with you to the album.

You are receiving this email because you’ve been listed as a close friend.

[View photo with you in the attachment]

Facebook, Inc. Attention: Department 415 P.O Box 10005 Palo Alto CA 94303

As you can see in the screenshot below, the spammers have even tried to mimic the blue Facebook design to dupe victims:

As a general word of caution, don’t open attachments in e-mails or click on links in them unless you are absolutely certain that the sender is who you think you are. I have contacted Facebook Security about this scam, but you should warn your Facebook friends as well.

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Facebook Adds Notifications to Camera App

By: TestLab on 2:59 AM

Just because the deal to acquire Instagram is going through without a hitch now doesn’t mean that Facebook isn’t still focused on its own photo app.

Today, the company released an update to its Camera app for iOS (or is it Camera* app?) which includes a few helpful features like notifications of comments, tags and likes, as well as the ability to upload photos to a specific album.

These are necessary enhancements to fully utilize the entire Photos product that Facebook has built.

The update should be rolling into Apple’s App Store shortly.

➤ Facebook Camera for iOS

SOURCES: Thenextweb.com

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