Archive for May, 2008
How To Try Out New Facebook Design
Earlier today, I wrote about the new Facebook profile design which is slated to release for everyone this Spring. Currently, it’s only open for Facebook developers and normal users can not try it. I have found a way by which even regular members can use and try the new upcoming Facebook design.
As I said before, it’s only open for developers, so for this you’ll have to become a developer yourself! No, I’m not going to ask you to make a Facebook application. Just by adding the Developer application can count you in their developers. That means then you can also try out the new design.
Sneak Peak At The New Facebook Profile Design
Facebook is planning to roll out the new, redesigned profile this Spring. Their aim is to make things simpler, cleaner and more relevant for the users, without stripping them off with their control over their profile and privacy. And as for developers, they can create more meaningful engagement with users, offer new integration points in profiles, and provide distribution for engaging applications.
Developers have been given a beta period to test out their applications with the redesigned Facebook. The new design uses tabs to split up different types of information, still keeping it simple and easy-to-use. Being a developer myself, I was very excited to try out my Facebook application with the new profile. And to my surprise, it worked like a charm :)
Try It Out!
If you would like to try out the new Facebook profile design, click here. Remember, many features might won’t work as its only open for developers to test their applications.
Now even non-developers can use the new design. For more information on how to, click here!
Let’s take a look at the drop down menus in the top menu bar.
User Menu
From this menu, you can view or edit your Profile, edit and privacy and account settings. Or if you need to, you can also log out from here.
Friends Menu
Friends menu allow you to view your friends list, recently updated profiles, online friends and allows to further invite or find friends using your email address book.
Applications Menu
Add, remove or manage Facebook applications added in your profile.
Inbox Menu
Here you can manage your private messages, view your Inbox, sent messages, notifications and fan page updates, or compose a new private message.
Let’s move on to the tabs now.
Tabs
- Feed: Shows your mini-feed updates
- Info: Shows your basic, contact, personal, education, work and custom application information.
- Wall: All the wall posts
- Photos: View and manage your albums, add, edit or view photos.
- Boxes: Here everyone can see all the applications added.
Overall, I feel the new design is way better than the current one. It’s more easy to use, and I like the idea that all the applications are in a separate tab and won’t load if we try to open our Profile page. There was one missing thing that I hope to see in the final release of this layout, the Social-Feed. It helped me lot to catch up what’s going in my friends profiles.
Facebook Preview
To preview the upcoming improvements to Facebook, be a fan of the official Facebook Previews page.
Do let me know what you think of this design, and did you like it or not? I’ll be looking forward to know your views.
Facebook Links
50 Rapidshare Search Engines
Rapidshare currently has about 230GBit/s of Internet connectivity and 4.5 Petabytes of storage. This makes them one of the world’s biggest and the fastest web hosts around the world. If you see carefully, Rapidshare is a gold mine of its own. I mean, thousands of files are being uploaded everyday. I can bet, there will be hundreds or maybe thousands of files that will be of some use to us, that are available on Rapidshare. But just because it doesn’t have a search engine of its own, we couldn’t search them.
Still some people use complex search queries and try to Google out the files stored on Rapidshare. I have collected a very big list of Rapidshare search engines. Compiled with the help of friends and my best friend, Google.com.
Rapidshare search engines are popping up everyday, but not all index files regularly and updates their database. You can use the following list of search engines to search files on Rapidshare.
RapidZilla (My favourite!)
Phew! That’s all I know. If there is any other site that you use and would like to share, then drop a comment below and I’ll add it above. And if you already use any of the above, do let me know your favourites.
Free RapidShare Premium Account Giveaway
Hey readers, I just got over with the free domain giveaway, and now I’ll soon be giving away a 1 month free RapidShare Premium account. Subscribe to my RSS feed so that you don’t miss out this chance!
Remove Banner Ad From Foxit Reader
Recently, I wrote about Foxit Reader, the best PDF reader available. Since Adobe Reader uses lots of system resources, I prefer Foxit Reader over that. As you all know, Foxit Reader comes in two versions, free and a Pro version. A number of additonal features can be enabled in the Pro version.
The mini banner ad, in the top right corner, can be seen in the free version of Foxit Reader. That banner can be removed if you purchase the Pro version. Foxit Reader gives its users the choice to disable this banner from View > uncheck Advertisements. But for some reason, when you start Foxit Reader again, the ad comes back.
How To Remove Banner Ad From Foxit Reader
I have found a trick by which you can remove the banner ad forever! All you have to do is open Foxit Reader and uncheck Advertisement from the View menu. Close Foxit Reader. Again open Foxit Reader, and repeat the above process for about 2-5 times. My banner ad was removed after repeating it for 2 times.
With Banner Ad
Without Banner Ad
Do let me know if this trick has been useful to you :)
Rapishare Happy Hours Detector - Firefox Extension
Previously I wrote about two [1, 2] Rapidshare Happy Hours detectors. They are very useful if you are a regular Rapidshare user and download lots of files daily. Of course, the over-done CAPTCHA, the download ticket, and the waiting time for free users is quite annoying. But all this gets disabled during the happy hours.
