14 tips and tricks for Facebook users
Yoann | Jan 11th
If you regularly use social networking site Facebook, you are probably thinking you know everything about it ! And maybe as many users, you start to get tired. But know that it reserves you a few surprises ! There are tools on the net and can be quite useful on the site … or totally useless.
But to introduce these few tips, here is a manipulation worthy of the best cheatcode.And yes even on facebook you can use the arrows, buttons, … like a console controller!
Press … Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter key and then right click and then up and down.
The circles are supposed to appear:] Now to remove them .. that’s your problem! *
1. How to put the Facebook chat in your Firefox browser?
You can enjoy the private chat into your browser without always having to be connected at the site … you just simply follow these instructions:
1) Take a look in your navigation bar, and proceed to your “Bookmarks” click on “Organize bookmarks …”
2) Add to a new marking (navigation bar -> Organize) by selecting a folder in front, with the following information:
- Name: Facebook Chat
- Address: http://www.facebook.com/presence/popout.php
- Check “Load this bookmark in the sidebar”
- Add
3) In the navigation bar click the “View” -> “Sidebar” -> “Bookmarks”
4) In the search box, search for “Facebook chat”, choose the bookmark, chat! :]
2. How to download photos from Facebook albums?
FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader Allows you to download the photo albums of your friends, groups, events, … Download Firefox Module (link at the beginning of sentence), to download right click on the link to an album and “download with FacePAD”
3. How to share Flickr photos to Facebook?
Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial tool that allows to download photos from Flickr to the social network Facebook.
4. How to schedule messages on Facebook?
Sendible allows you to program in advance for Facebook messages, it is easy to write messages and to define when you can send them to your friends, colleagues, …
5. How to control the display of your status on Facebook?
Maybe sometimes you don’t want all your “friends” can read the messages in your status? Facebook allows you to “sort” and choose among your contacts who may have access to your status. The approach is simple:
1) Go on your profile
2) Below the button “share”, click Options, then Settings
3) In the news items published by my friends’ place the menu
Who can see the publications of my friends? “And click Customize.
4) You then can change your privacy options and choose who can not have access to your profile
6. How do you know who has blocked or deleted?
To do this simply use the application “Who did you deleted” It tells you when one of your “friends” no longer appears in your list of friends. If you click on his name and it redirects you to the page with the classic button “Add Friend” it is because the person has deleted you .. Logic! If by cons you landed on the homepage, it is most likely an account put on hold, your friends has “opted out” but can return afterwards of course …
7. How you choose to show his friends?
A new feature on Facebook allows you to choose which friends will always appear on your profile.To do this click the little pencil next to your list of friends on your profile and select the friends you always want to see. Easy!
8. How not to show ads on Facebook?
A small script allows you to remove advertisements and updates in the right column of the site.Although not really annoying, the ads may annoy some people …Â Up Cleaner
9. How to publish articles directly to your WordPress on Facebook?
For those who use a blog powered by WordPress (like this one), a plugin exists allowing you to directly publish your blog entries on your Facebook profile:Â Wordbook
10. How to get to chat with Facebook through his office?
Gabtastik and Digsby allows you to store your chats Facebook open on your desktop and without using your Web browser.
11. How to create a quiz on Facebook?
Ah! The ultimate question anyway, these tests / quizzes that abound and rot our screens. I have long hesitated to give the answer to those who had not yet found the m’enfin here are: the Quiz Creator (in English) Please use correct French! Or at least anyway. Avoid LoL and other MDR is not funny actually.
12. How to hide his status on-line chat with Facebook?
Facebook allows you to create lists of friends (meet you in the friends section of the site) and through the latter you can choose to interact with the cat. When you log into the chat, your friends are sorted to the lists that you create (family, sports …). If you do not want to talk with your friends in the sport, simply click on the small button to the right of other lists. Easy! :]
13. How to put your Facebook status update through Firefox?
FireStatus is a tool that allows you to change your status on various social networks like Facebook.
14. How to use Facebook on your desktop?
For aficionados of this network, you can use it without you visit a web browser. A series of software is such that
Seesmic Desktop, facebooking, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application.
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February 27, 2010 - 5:48 am
Thank you for the help.
Will this work in Windows 7?
There is another method to install software i.e. using safe mode. Just press the F8 key when you start your windows. You can also copy the CD to your hard disc and can run the install from set up. Try to run the install from your hard drive in safe mode and see if things work.
If you are still getting the problem to install software then you can just check the manufacturer details on the CD or can visit to the manufacturer’s site. Just get in touch with them over phone or can mail them at their e-mail address.
If you have just downloaded software from the manufacturer’s site then you can visit the site and ask for the trouble shooting. Some good manufacturing sites have message board where you can post your complaints and you will get the answer instantly by the experts.
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