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Official Facebook Like and Share Extension for Google Chrome

Arun — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:20:17 +0000

Facebook crossed 800 Million active users and the Google Chrome has 200 million users using its ultra fast browser. Definitely most of them are crazy Facebook users and to improve their Facebook experience on chrome, Facebook has introduced a official “Like” extension for the Chrome browser.

We already have third party Facebook Like plugin for Chrome. But this official Facebook Like Button is very secure and it shows how many others have clicked Like on the page we are viewing.

Facebook Like Button Plugin for Chrome

- Once installed this extension Users can Like, share or recommend web pages, images, videos (html5 only) and audio (html5 only) on Facebook.

- Users can see a thumbs up icon in the top right corner of their Chrome browser. Liking a page is as easy as clicking on that button, which also displays the total number of likes associated with any website you are viewing.

- Users can also right click on any page to like, share or recommend content from the Facebook Like Button menu. If users choose to share content, they can add a comment and control who sees their post.

Download Facebook Like Button for Chrome

How to Link and Post Facebook Profile, Fan Page Status to Twitter

Arun — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:47:45 +0000

Update your Facebook profile posts and Facebook Fan page posts with a twitter account. So we can sync and update all our wall posts and shares to our twitter account. Users can only cross post their public status updates of their Facebook profile and Facebook page

How to Link and Post Facebook Profile Status, Facebook Page Status to Twitter

Posting your Facebook Status to twitter is very easy. Just do the below steps

Step 1: Go to http://www.facebook.com/twitter and sign in with your Facebook profile

Step 2: Now click “Link my Profile to Twitter”

Step 3: Now select what you want to share from your Facebook profile to twitter. You can select or deselect the following – status messages,photos, videos,notes and events to share them with twitter .Only Facebook posts with a privacy setting of ‘Public’ will be shared on Twitter.

Step 4: You can also link your Facebook page with Twitter. You can find the option in the same page where you are selecting the sharing options for your Facebook profile ( refer screenshot).

Also Get : Facebook App for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch (iOS)

How to Create Google+ for Business using Google Apps

Arun — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 18:49:08 +0000

Google+ profile for Business is finally available. Now users can create Google+ business profiles using their Google Apps for Business. Many of the IT Organizations, Online Firms, Tech Blogs are using Google Apps for Business as their email service. Now they can create their Google+ profile using their Google Apps account.

How to Create Google+ for Business using Google Apps

To create a Google+ profile, one thing must be done by the Google Apps administrator account of the Organization. Google+ service must be enabled manually for the users by the IT Admin ( Google Apps Admin account). Here are the steps to enable the service to create Google+ for Business.

Step 1: Log in to the Google Apps administrator control panel.and Click the Organization & users tab. Select the business accounts you want to enable Google+ from the “users” link and click “Services”.

Step 2: Click the “On” button of Google+ which is listed on the services. A pop will open to confirm the terms and conditions. Read the conditions and click “Turn Google+ On”

Step 3: Now to Google Docs or Google Calender Page using your Google Apps Account

Step 4: Now Click your Business Profile in the Upper Right Corner.

Step 5: Now Create your Public Google+ Business Profile for your products,Business Team, Web Sites and Tech Blogs.

Recover/Retrieve Old Deleted Mails from Hotmail Account

Arun — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:13:12 +0000

MSN Hotmail – one of the best Web Mail Service added one important feature to retrieve or recover old deleted mails and accidentally deleted mails in your Hotmail account. The deleted mails may contain one of your important mail which was completely deleted from your Hotmail account. Gmail and Yahoo this feature is not available.

How to Retrieve Old Deleted Mails from Hotmail Account

click the “Deleted” folder link in your Hotmail/ Live Mail account. In that page, you will see the following link: “Recover deleted messages“.

Click the “Recover deleted messages” link, This Mail recovery process will take some time to retrieve your deleted mails. After this process, we can see the recovered mails in the ” Deleted folder”. So that we can easily move the mails to our inbox.

How to Extend Laptop Battery Life and Fix Power Consumption Problems

Arun — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 21:30:35 +0000

The real worry for Laptop and Notebook users is with their Battery Life. Most of the Laptop batteries are failing to live the duration specified by the manufacturers. Actually manufacturers are not responsible for these failures because some laptops backup time is very good. The reason for poor battery life is the Laptop settings ( timeout and sleep settings, display settings, and screensavers)

Microsoft is now is providing Windows users with a “Fix It” download via its Microsoft Support website, designed to make their laptop batteries live longer. The tool works best for Windows 7 laptops and notebooks, but also for computers running Windows Vista and XP.

How to Extend Laptop Battery Life ?

Download the MicrosoftFixit.power.Run.exe here and launch it on their Windows laptop. (Click “Run Now” to download the file)

What “Fix it” Fixes :

Period of time before the computer goes to sleep is set too long
Screen saver is used instead of setting the computer to enter sleep mode
Display brightness is set too high
Power plan is not set to the most efficient power plan
Wireless adaptor in not optimized for power saving
Minimum processor state is set too high

How to Change Windows 7 Startup Sound or Welcome Tone

Arun — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:31:22 +0000

We are regularly updating freewares and some tips and tricks, hacks with Windows 7 operating system. This time a nice freeware tool to change the default startup sound in Windows 7 and Vista. Because there is no option available in windows 7 to change the welcome start-up sound. Happy Bulldozer from winreview.ru designed this useful freeware tool “Startup Sound Changer”

Download Starup Sound Changer (318.5 kB)

How to Change Windows 7 Startup Sound ?

Startup Sound Changer allows you to change startup sound in Windows 7 and Windows Vista (what plays on Welcome Screen).

Download Starup Sound Changer and Click “Play” button to play the current startup sound.

Click “Replace” and choose your new *.wav file. Enjoy. You can use the same software to check whether the new sound is changed or not. Any time we can restore to the default tone by clicking the restore button.

How to Disable Remove Google Black Top Bar

Arun — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:38:36 +0000

Google recently rolled out all of its Google Search Pages, Gmail, Google Plus etc with a Top Bar in white/blue color. But it seems Google is testing that Top bar with different colors. Recently Google stopped its testing by rolling out with a Black Top Bar. But users showed their discomfort and criticized it looks wrong. It completely spoils the user’s Google Custom Homepage. It seems users liked the White/Blue colored Top Google Bar.

How to Disable Remove Google Black Top Bar ?

Disabling the Google back Top bar is very easy. It is a simple trick with some scripts in Firefox and Google Chrome.

For Firefox : install Greasemonkey Addon for Firefox. After that install this Google Bar Classic By Olmer.

For Google Chrome : Install this free addon called Remove Black Bar from Google.

How to Use, Setup and Make Video Calling in Facebook

Arun — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:42:21 +0000

Facebook‘s Skype powered Video Calling is available for Everyone. Facebook responded well to Google Plus Video Chat Feature.But the response is not to the maximum. To make video calls on Facebook users will require a webcam-equipped computer. Facebook Video Calling is available for one to one chat. But with Google Plus, Users can Video chat with more than one person simultaneously.

How to Setup Video Calling in Facebook ?

To Start Video Calling Install FacebookVideoCallSetup.exe.

After Installing the 482KB Plugin for Facebook Video Chat, Users can see a Video Chat Button in all their Facebook Friend’s Profile page and Chat Window. Click the Video Call Button and Chat with Skype Facebook Video Calling.

How to Download Backup Google Data – Google Takeout

Arun — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:18:15 +0000

Google stared a new data storage service called Google Takeout. What can we do with Google Takeout ? Google is offering multiple services like Google Buzz, Picasa, Google Contacts and the Latest Google Plus for users. Google Takeout helps to download an archive of your data from Buzz, Picasa, Google Contacts and Google Plus.Google is planning to include more google services in Google Takeout.

Visit Google Takeout page and login with your Google account. Then select the google services which you want to download or backup. You can either select a sing service or all services. Once selected, you can click the Create Archive button. All archives created are available under downloads button. you’ll find that all your data is in portable and open formats‚ so it’s easy to import to other services quickly.

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How to Disable and Turn Off Facebook Pop-Up Photo Viewer in Firefox and Chrome

Arun — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:28:48 +0000

Facebook is completely rolled out to the new Pop-up Photo viewer for all Facebook accounts. Facebook implemented this to improve slide show of the gallery with some relative advertisements below the slide. But many of us didn’t like the new pop-up photo viewer because its very slow for the users who are sharing a common internet line.

Every time we need to close it down after visiting the gallery pictures. We can permanently disable this new Pop-up photo viewer in Firefox and Google chrome with Add-ons

Manual Trick – Without any add-ons and Scripts in Firefox and Chrome

In Firefox or Chrome once the new Pop-Up Photo Viewer has loaded, hit enter on the URL again or just hit F5 (Shortcut to Page refresh).

Disable or Turn Off Facebook Pop-Up Photo Viewer Permanently in Firefox

Install the GreaseMonkey add-on for Firefox
install this script – Facebook Photo Theater Killer.

It will permanently disable the Pop-up Photo viewer in Firefox.

Disable or Turn Off Facebook Pop-Up Photo Viewer Permanently in Google Chrome

Install the Revert FB Photo Viewer extension for Chrome. It will permanently disable the Pop-up Photo viewer in Google Chrome.