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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Enable Facebook's Redesigned News Feed NOW

A few months ago, Facebook unveiled a redesigned news feed to make its often overwhelming stream of updates feel less cluttered. The first thing you will notice about the revamped News Feed is how aesthetically pleasing it is. This UI update, however, is more than just skin deep -- underneath that design is a whole bucket of new features that are just as appealing as the visuals. The feeds now incorporates bigger images, more customization and a consistent experience on mobile and desktop versions.

Facebook's New News Feed

Sadly Facebook is taking a painstakingly slow approach to releasing this remarkably overhauled version of the feeds, as previous updates by the social network giant [such as Timeline and Ticker Feed ] have met with a mixed reception upon release from its users..

However, if you wish to enable this new design right now, simply head over to the Facebook's news feed page, scroll down till the end and click on the "Try the new look" button.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

How to Disable Facebook Timeline

If you don't like the Timeline view, here's how you can disable\deactivate\get rid of it :

Note : The Timeline view gets disabled only in your browser, other people will continue to see your profile as the default Timeline view.

1. Navigate your browser to SocialReviver.net

2. Install the add-on\extension for your browser by clicking on the "Install now" button.
(SocialReviver is available for Firefox, Chrome and Opera)

3. Once installed, head to Facebook.com.

(Optional) 4. Click on the ▼ button present at the top of the page, to the right of the "Home" button and select "SocialReviver Settings" [see screenshot below]

(Optional) 5. You will find a lot of useful features in there, but for now, disable them all as we are only interested in disabling the Timeline view. For that, uncheck every box you see. Also set "Chat Style" as "With Sidebar" and "Chat Tabs Style" as "Classic Style". Click on the "close" button once you are done.

Thats it! Now enjoy browsing Facebook profiles just like you used to.

Result :

Before (Timeline)

After (Timeline disabled)

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Thursday, June 21, 2012

How to Turn any Image into Large Facebook Chat Emoticon

"Tired of sending the old boring Facebook chat emoticons? Want to send your friend a message with a cool smiley that Facebook doesn’t have?"

After my last post on this topic, a friend of mine informed me about smileyti.me, a site where you can create your own emoticons from any image in just three easy steps and then you can use them in your chats to amaze your friends.

Here's how :

1. Head to the site smileyti.me

2. Click on the “Choose File” button and select the image that you wish to turn into emoticon from your computer.

3. Hit the "Upload Now" button and wait a few seconds for the code to generate.

4. To use the custom made smiley in your chat, simply copy the generated code and paste it in the Facebook chat box and hit [Enter]

Thats it! Enjoy the reactions from your friends

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Integrate Results from Facebook and Twitter in Google Search

Google has recently added a new feature to its search engine dubbed as "Search Plus Your World" that not only finds content from public web but also integrates results from Google+, its own social networking platform.

The primary downside of this new feature is that it integrates results from Google+ ONLY and not from other, more popular social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler etc.

To counter this, you can use "Don't be Evil" : a bookmarklet released by a group of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. The bookmarklet is actually a small javascript that runs in your browser and adds results from other social sites to Google's "Search Plus Your World" feature.

To install it, go to Focus on the User website, click "Try a More Relevant Google", and drag the button "don't be evil" to your browser's bookmark toolbar. The next time you perform a search that shows social results, click on the "don't be evil" bookmarklet for improved results.

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Monday, January 23, 2012

Solution : Facebook Authentication Problem in Digsby

For those of you who use Digsby, you may have noticed that both Facebook chat and Facebook notifications fail to authenticate and disconnect quite often. What I'm about to tell you isn't a fix for the actual Facebook chat implementation in Digsby, but it does fix Facebook Chat by letting you access it via the Jabber protocol

Here's the trick :

1) Start Digsby

2) Click on the "Digsby" menu (on the top left of the buddy list)

3) Select "My Accounts"

4) In the "My Accounts" section, click on the icon that looks like a brown light bulb [check the screenshot]

5) Enter the following information :

Jabber ID : username@chat.facebook.com

The "username" is the name in your Facebook address. For example. If your Facebook profile address is www.facebook.com/techmeasy, then type techmeasy@chat.facebook.com in "Jabber ID" field.
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If you don't already have a username for your Facebook account you can obtain one from the following address. https://www.facebook.com/username/
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Password : <your facebook password>

6) click the Save button.

That's it. Your Facebook friends should now be showing in Digsby. Also go back to your Digsby "My Account" box, click on the Facebook icon and uncheck the "chat" label to prevent your Facebook friends to show up twice in your buddy list.

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

List of all Facebook Chat Emoticons

Want to add some spice to your new Facebook chat conversations? Today I present to you a complete list of Facebook emoticons:

Emoticon Image	Meaning	Key
	Smile	:) :-) :] =)
	Confused	o.O O.o
	Unsure	:/ :-/ :\ :-\\
	Grumpy	>:( >:-(
	Upset	>:O >:-O >:o >:-o
	Sad	:-( :( :[ =(
	Cry	:'(
	Tongue	:-P :P :-p :p =P
	Devil	3:) 3:-)
	Curly Lips	:3
	Angel	O:) O:-)
	Kiss	:-* :*
	Robot	:\|]
	Grin	:-D :D =D
	Gasp	:-O :O :-o :o
	Chris Putnam	:putnam:
	Wink	;-) ;)
	Heart	<3
	Glasses	8-) 8) B-) B)
	Kiki	^_^
	Penguin	<(")
	Squint	-_-
	42	:42:
	Sunglasses	8-\| 8\| B-\| B\|
	Packman	:v
	Shark	(^^^)
	Like	(Y)
	Poop	:poop: