20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know


If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more..
This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

1. How to Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar
   
   If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.
   
2. How to Download Facebook Photo Albums
   
   FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.
   
3. How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook
   
   Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.
   
4. How to Update Facebook without Using Facebook
   
   hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.
   
5. How to Schedule Facebook Messages
   
   Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.
   
6. How to "Friend" Someone on Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates
   
   A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.
   
7. How to Create a Photo Collage Using Pictures of Your Facebook Friends
   
   Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.
   
8. How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete or Block You
   
   X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.
   
9. How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page
   
   A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"
   
10. How to Remove Facebook Advertisements
    
    This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.
    
11. How to Syncs Photos of Facebook Friends with Contacts in Microsoft Outlook
    
    OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.
    
12. How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog
    
    The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs.
    
13. How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically
    
    Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.
    
14. How to Access Facebook Chat on Desktop
    
    Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.
    
15. How to Create Quiz on Facebook Easily
    
    LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.
    
16. How to Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts
    
    Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.
    
17. How to Get Facebook Updates on Email
    
    NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.
    
18. How to Update Facebook Status from Firefox
    
    FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.
    
19. How to Get Facebook on Your Desktop
    
    Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.
    
20. How to Delete, Cancel and Terminate Facebook Account and Profile
    
    A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.
    

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15 Useful Google Search Tricks


Most of us use Google search to search on various topics, products, tips, etc. No doubt it’s one of the best search engines available out there. In order to search something we simply enter the keywords in the search bar and search for stuff but did you ever know that there are several built in functions within Google which makes searching stuff even easier. Some of you’ll know about them. But well if you don’t, then here they are:






Google calculator:
Google search can be used as a calculator. It can calculate anything from the simplest math to the most complex equation. All you need to do is just enter the math in the search box and hit enter. You can use the following functions:
+ : add
- :subtract
* :multiply
/ :divide
^ :to the power of
sqrt : square root of a number







Dictionary Definitions:
You can define any word by entering “define:” following the word. For example define: ignoble
Google will display a list of dictionary definitions for that word.







Search for a specific title:
Suppose you came across a great article which you really liked but unfortunately forgot to bookmark it then you can find it easily with the help of Google provided you know the title of the article. Here’s how you do it:
Let’s say you read an article “Women talk three times as much as men” then you can search for it by typing “intitle: Women talk three times as much as men”







Google Convertor:
Using this feature you can convert units like millimeter into inches, kilometers into miles, liters into ml, etc. You can do so by typing ‘25km in miles’ for converting km in to miles, ‘50litres in ml’ for converting litres into ml, and so on.







Compare currencies:
Google’s search has an inbuilt currency converter. It allows you to perform any currency conversion. All you need to do is just enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and hit “Enter” or click the Google Search button. For instance: “1 USD in INR”







Weather Updates:
You can easily know the weather condition of a specific place. In order to find out, all you need to do is just enter the place name followed by “weather”. For ex: “london weather”







Search for specific file types:
There are various kinds of files available over the net. Searching for a specific file type isn’t really easy. But using this tip you can easily search for a specific file type.
For instance if you want to search for a guide, let’s say a ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career’ in ppt format. You can make use of the “filetype:” function. So in order to search for the PPT version of the guide you can enter in search bar ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career filetypept’







Search on a particular website:
If you want to search for something from a particular site using Google search then you can do so by using the “site:” feature. Here’s how you do it:
Let’s say you want to search for cloverfield DVD on Amazon, you can do so by typing “cloverfield DVD site:www.amazon.com”







Get the local time anywhere:
Wanna know what time is it in London now? You can ask Google by typing “what time is it London” in the search bar. You can also enter “time (location)” without the quotes.







Remove unwanted search results:
Suppose you wanted to search a Harry potter book review but you ended up in getting reviews of the movie rather than the book. Well in this case you can make Google to exclude the movie results from the search. You can do so by adding “-movie” at the end of the term. For instance: “Harry potter Chamber of secrets -movie” This will give search results excluding the movie- The chamber of secrets.







Search for URLs:
You can even search for URLs in Google search.For instance: “Women_talk_three_times_as_much_as_men”. You can also use “.” “-” instead of “_“. The search will bring up results with the URLs containing the above words entered.







Track flight status:
You can also track a particular flight status. All you need to do is just enter the airline and flight number into the search box and hit enter. You’ll get the arrival and departure time of the flight right inside Google’s search results.







Search Google groups by the subject line:
You need to be in the google groups search page before attempting this query; otherwise it might not work correctly. Using the “insubject:” function you can search google groups by the subject line. For instance “insubject:windows xp fast shutdown”







Find related sites:
Suppose you find an interesting website and you would like to find some other alternative to this site then you can do so by using “related:” function. For instance if you want to search an alternative for google.com you can do so by entering “related:www.google.com”







Find links to a specific URL:
You can find the webpages which have a link to a specific URL using the “link:” function. This is really great as it will help you if you own a website, you can easily find out the pages linking to a page in your site. To use it, you need to enter the whole URL after “link:”
For instance “link:http://www.cnn.com”
Well that’s it for now, hope you liked them. If you know more feel free to mention them here.







Whois Lookup service:

You can also search for information on a particular domain name. Just type in “whois domain.com” and hit enter. You’ll get to see the creation and expiry dates of the domain.







Suggests words, phrases and their results:

This is really helpful if you aren’t able to spell a particular word or you would like to know the results a particular word would contain when searched.

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How To Type Upside Down Letters And Backward Text





Ever wanted to write text upside down on websites? Click on this link and start flipping away everything that you type instantly.. you can then copy/paste them on wherever you want.



˙ʇuɐʍ noʎ ɹǝʌǝɹǝɥʍ uo ɯǝɥʇ ǝʇsɐd/ʎdoɔ uǝɥʇ uɐɔ noʎ ˙˙˙ʎןʇuɐʇsuı ǝdʎʇ noʎ ʇɐɥʇ ƃuıɥʇʎɹǝʌǝ ʎɐʍɐ ƃuıddıןɟ ʇɹɐʇs puɐ ʞuıן sıɥʇ uo ʞɔıןɔ ¿sǝʇısqǝʍ uo uʍop ǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ ǝʇıɹʍ oʇ pǝʇuɐʍ ɹǝʌǝ




http://www.sevenwires.com/play/UpsideDownLetters.html

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