Switch to Old Facebook News Feed
by Haris on October 27, 2009
in Facebook, Social Networks, Tips and Tricks
We all know about the latest Facebook homepage changes that went live a couple of days ago. Lots of people, including me, have been complaining about it since then.
The latest homepage features separate feeds for news feed and live feed. You can switch to whatever you find yourself more comfortable with.
Suggest a Profile Picture on Facebook
Facebook introduced the new homepage yesterday, which was in works for quite some time. People have been complaining about the live news feed ever since it was released.
The latest homepage features separate feeds for news feed and live feed. You can switch to whatever you find more appropriate for yourself. Even this design hasn’t been received well by the Facebook users.
How to Hide Highlights in Facebook Sidebar
by Haris on October 23, 2009
in Facebook, Tips and Tricks
A while ago, Facebook introduced a section of Highlights in its right sidebar which shows the most commented photos, coming events, notes and what others are doing.
Highlights section got a neutral response from everyone. Some liked it, but others found it as an addition to the ever growing clutter on the Facebook homepage.
Login Facebook with Your Username
by Haris on September 19, 2009
in Facebook, Social Networks
Back in June, Facebook introduced vanity URLs for all its users where they could have a personalized URL for their profile pages which would be much easier to share among friends.
Today, Facebook announced that now you could even login to your Facebook account using your username.
How To Change Your Facebook Username
by Haris on July 25, 2009
in Facebook, Social Networks
Last month, Facebook introduced vanity URLs for all its users where they could have a personalized URL for their profile pages. This was previously available only for celebrities that were on Facebook.
Thanks to vanity URLs, you can now easily share your profile URLs with friends and on other online networks. When choosing our username for the first time, Facebook recommended to choose that carefully, because you won’t be able to change it later.
Facebook Photo Album Downloader
by Haris on March 6, 2009
in Firefox, Social Networks, Tips and Tricks
I’m sure people with many friends on Facebook come across interesting albums or individual photos that are uploaded by friends, and sometimes you even want to download them.
But since Facebook does not provide an option to download albums, you have to go through all the photos saving each of them one by one.
Facebook and Orkut Desktop Client
by Haris on February 1, 2009
in Freewares, Social Networks, Softwares
Facebook and Orkut are very popular social networks, but one thing lacks in both of them is a proper desktop IM client to chat with our friends on those networks.
Scrapboy is a free desktop client for some of the popular social networks like Facebook, Orkut, and MySpace. It is a very useful app that brings all the features of social networks right on your desktop.
How To Appear Invisible in Facebook Chat
by Haris on January 25, 2009
in Facebook, Tips and Tricks
Last year, back in April 2008, Facebook introduced Chat to communicate with our friends in real-time right from the Facebook website. For some it proved quite useful, but some people didn’t liked it and keep themselves offline.
Earlier, I used Facebook Chat a lot, but as my friends list got bigger, it started getting annoying that every time I log in Facebook to check my wall, messages etc, 4-5 friends would come by just for a casual chat.
