20 Facebook Hacks and Tips You Might Not Know

If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more..

This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. 

Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. 


       1.How to Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar
            If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

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2. How to Download Facebook Photo Albums

   FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.
   

3. How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook

   Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.
   

4. How to Update Facebook without Using Facebook

   hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.
   

5. How to Schedule Facebook Messages

   Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.
   

6. How to "Friend" Someone on Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

   A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.
   

7. How to Create a Photo Collage Using Pictures of Your Facebook Friends

   Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.
   

8. How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete or Block You

   X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.
   

9. How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page

   A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"
   

10. How to Remove Facebook Advertisements

    This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.
    

11. How to Syncs Photos of Facebook Friends with Contacts in Microsoft Outlook

    OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.
    

12. How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog

    The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs.
    

13. How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically

    Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.
    

14. How to Access Facebook Chat on Desktop

    Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.
    

15. How to Create Quiz on Facebook Easily

    LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.
    

16. How to Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts

    Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.
    

17. How to Get Facebook Updates on Email

    NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.
    

18. How to Update Facebook Status from Firefox

    FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.
    

19. How to Get Facebook on Your Desktop

    Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.
    

20. How to Delete, Cancel and Terminate Facebook Account and Profile

    A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.
    

Source: Hongkiat.com

John Walkenbach's Favorite Excel 2010 Tips and Tricks

John Walkenbach's Favorite Excel 2010 Tips and Tricks (Mr. Spreadsheet's Bookshelf)
Wiley | 2010-07-13 | ISBN: 0470475374 | 504 pages | PDF | 6 MB

Build robust Excel 2010 apps quickly and efficiently Known as "Mr. Spreadsheet," John Walkenbach's name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that explain the complexities of various topics. With this collection of favorite Excel tips and tricks, you get a unique look at ways to make Excel 2010 more efficient than you ever imagined.

Packed with easy-to-understand advice regarding all aspects of Excel, this book shares improved ways of speeding up application development with Excel and maximizing the power of Excel to create robust applications.

* Addresses the extensive changes to the 2010 version of Excel and shares tricks and shortcuts for making your Excel experience as successful and efficient as possible
* Reveals ways to deal with function arguments, create "impossible" charts, and tame the Ribbon bar
* Discusses absolute vs. relative references, change data entry orientation, and sort more than three columns
* Demonstrates ways to enter fake data for testing purposes

With John Walkenbach's Favorite Excel 2010 Tips and Tricks, you'll get a jump start on mastering the extensive changes to the 2010 version of Excel.

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Add Gpedit.msc to Windows 7 Home & Starter Editions

The Group Policy Editor (Gpedit.msc) is one of the most useful tools for administering policy on Windows 7. While Windows 7 Ultimate, Professional and Enterprise editions have gpedit.msc, Unfortunately certain editions of Windows 7 like Home Premium, Home Basic and Starter Editions do not include the Group Policy Editor.

One of thewindowsclub forum members davehc has compiled a tool Gpedit Installer that allows you to add gpedit.msc to Windows versions that do not have it, like Windows 7 Home Premium, Home Basic and Starter Editions.

To do so, download the zip file, unzip its contents and run the installer as admin. This is how it will go:

At the end of the run, you will find that it will have add the Group Policy Editor to your Windows Home Premium, Home Basic or  Starter Edition.

DOWNLOAD Installer

Above Steps are enough for x32 bit systems.

Extra Step for x64 bit systems:

After Installing the above installer - Download the zip file below and extract the gpecit.msc file to C:\Windows\System32 Folder manually

Download File

So if you plan to try it out, do let us know how it goes. Best to always create a system restore point first before making any changes to your system.

source:thewindowsclub.com

Add Multiple Columns For the Start Menu in Windows

Today i am going to give you new windows tricks with the help of which you can add multiple columns for START Menu. For this windows trick you have to edit the registry setting of PC.  This windows trick makes Windows to use multiple Start Menu Columns instead of a single scrolling column, like Windows 9x had, Also if you are using Classic Mode in XP.So here the PC tricks for this windows tricks.

 

You have to follow the following steps very carefully and if you not get the step properly then saw the screen shot. I have made every screen shot for this PC tricks so that you can get it easy and perform this windows trick easily.

1.First of all for this windows tricks click on the START and select RUN option

2. Now open your RegEdit.For this you have to type “RegEdit” in the RUN.
3. Go to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Software\ Microsoft as shown below in screen shot.

4.Then in Microsoft you have to choose the followin option Windows\ Current Version\
Explorer\ Advanced as shown below.

5.Now for this windows tricks you have to create a string value named as "StartMenuScrollPrograms" by right click on the right plane as display in the screen shot of this windows tricks.

6. Right click on the new string value and select modify as shown below.

7. Set the value to "FALSE" as shown below.

Download Photo Album From Facebook

Today I am going to give you new facbook trick on how to download your friend complete photo album from facebook in just a one minute.
Follow these Simple steps to perform the facebook trick to download the photo Album:

1.Before using this facebook trick you have to download the FacePAD Firefox extension directly from google it is absolutle freeware. You may get a message block from Firefox - right click and allow that.

2.Once you have installed - You will need to re-start Firefox to begin using the downloaded extension.

3.You will now see FacePAD added to your list of addon extensions in Firefox.

4.Head over to your friend's profile page and click on Photos. There you will find all the albums of your friends.

5.Simply right click on the photo album and you will now get a new option "Download Album with FacePAD". Go ahead and download the album.

6. Then you will be asked to location where the photos has to be saved on your hard disk

5. Then u will be asked to enter the prefix for the given photo album, enter the prefix and press ok.


These are the five step for this facebook trick. After using this facebook trick your photo album get saved in your harddisk.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for Beginners

Before I start, let me clear few things. First, I am not making in this article any turbo charged rockets or promises which will boost up the search engine rankings within 3 hours or 48 hours. These are only basic tips which will help your website for better indexing and high ranking.
Secondly, this is the main reason why I am writing this article. When I was about to start learning SEO lessons I ask myself why SEO is important? And then this answer came to my mind from nowhere.

Amjad, the Internet provides an avalanche of information, but think about just for a while that what would the sea of knowledge without a point do for seekers? True, isn’t?

Obviously, that was true. At that time I was beginner in SEO field and this was my first lesson that high search engines ranking is one of the best way to drive huge traffic to a website. If you still thinking what I am talking about or what SEO is or how it can help, you should read this article.
You may think in the beginning that learning SEO is confusing and hard to do or only experts can do. But it’s not as hard as you may think. If you still think it’s hard to do then at least you should learn about basic SEO which I will be explaining below.

How to Achieve a Higher Search Engine Ranking

There are so many ways both legal and illegal even in the field of search engines. The use of illegal methods which aka “Black Hat SEO” should be avoided because someday your website will be penalized or banned by the search engines.
The easiest and pure way to achieve higher search engine ranking aka “White Hat SEO” for the website is clean and validated HTML source code and you should be interested in providing unique & pure text. Keep in mind, the “CONTENT IS KING” for search engine optimization.

How to Use Title and HTML Meta Tags

Always use unique title tag with the desired keywords init on every page and content should contain the title tag and desired keywords. Do not use same title tags for each topic page with the desired keywords to make sure the search engine reads it also separately.

Finding the Right Keyword

Proper use of right keywords enhance the chances for higher ranking so set a realistic goal for the keywords for your website. Always pay attention to what could potentially your customers are looking for? For example if you search for “Web design”, currently you will find 368,000,000 results as I checked few minutes ago in Google. You almost have few chances in this pool of competition to get a higher listing. For this reason, in the beginning you should set your goals for the use of right keywords and be realistic, after short time you find yourself in the search result among the first.

JavaScript, Frames, and Flash animation

Search engines do not index Frame pages, Flash pages/animation and JavaScript/Pop-Ups. Sometime Frame pages are periodically analyzed and recorded by bots but If your website is a pure Flash site, you have very few chances to get indexing and high ranking. JavaScript is ignored and kept hidden by the search engines. You should really always think, “Do I need these effects anyway?” Compare with the customer benefits and see if is required or completely unnecessary effects? Also, search engine cannot read the text in graphics. Try to avoid use of images but if at all you have to show the image then use alt="" tag in images.

Get Links to Your Website

As I mentioned “CONTENT IS KING” in the same way the building back links are “QUEEN“. Of course, an optimized and clean site is already half the battle. To boost the ranking you need links related to the desired keyword from other sites. Ask your partners if they are ready for a link exchange with you to make your placement on their sites.

Use os Sitemap for Better Indexing

I read a lot that don’t waste your time to setting up or submitting sitemap to search engines but in my case I will strongly recommend you to create proper sitemap and submit it to top search engines. After all sitemap is the only protocol that directs the search engines to URLs on a website available for crawling. Click here to learn more about Sitemap.

Information Tools for Further Improvements

There are many tools available which help you to improve search engine ranking but I am going to list here my favorite information and SEO tools. I don’t want to have duplicate content by describing about these tools on this page but you can still learn more about these tools by browsing these links.

• Google Webmaster Tool
• WordTracker
• Keyword Discovery
• Google Analytics
• ClickTracks
• StatCounter
• Google Website Optimizer
• WebBug
• Copyscape
• Web Developer Toolbar

Conclusion

Always set realistic goals for your website in advance. Keep viewing the huge number of competitors for the optimization. Avoid unnecessary effects; put best efforts and confidence with good implementation.
You have done everything well. Still you find your site much below your expectations. You know why? Because! Everything takes time. You have to be patient and wait for search engine crawling. After all you are going to find a top place among other huge number of competitors.

Search Engine Optimization Tips

Misconceptions about search engine optimization are common. One of the most common is that once a site is built and submitted to the search engines, heavy traffic is on its way. Another is that when making a submission to each engine, a site will be registered immediately and will stay listed with that engine for as long as it is in operation. That's just not how it works… not even close!

What people need to know is that search engine optimization, which is actually the effective utilization of search engines to draw traffic to a Web site, is an art. It is an ongoing, continuously evolving, high maintenance process that includes the customization of a site for better search engine ranking.

Critical steps to take before submitting

After developing a Web site and selecting the best hosting company, don't rush out and submit it to search engines immediately. A Web site manager would be wise to take a little time to:

Fine tune the TITLE tag to increase traffic to the site
Improving the TITLE tag is one technique that applies to just about all the search engines. The appearance of key words within the page title is one of the biggest factors determining a Web site's score in many engines. It's surprising how many Web sites have simple, unimaginative titles like "Bob's Home Page" that don't utilize keywords at all. In fact, it's not unusual to see entire Web sites that use the same title on every page in the site. Changing page titles to include some of the site's key words can greatly increase the chance that a page will appear with a strong ranking in a query for those key words.
 
Create gateway pages that are specific to the focus of each site
Key word selection must be done carefully with great forethought and understanding of the search engine's selection criteria for key words. The larger the number of key words that are used, the more the relevance of any one key word is diluted. One way to get around this is to create gateway pages.
Gateway pages are designed specifically for submission to a search engine. They should be tuned with a specific set of key words, boosting the chance that these key words will be given a heavy weight. To do this, several copies of a page should be made, one for each set of key words. These pages will be used as entry points only, to help people find the site, therefore, they don't need to fit within the normal structure of the site. This provides the page developer with greater flexibility in establishing key words and tags that will encourage a stronger ranking with the search engines. Each gateway page then can be submitted separately to the search engines.
 
Ensuring that site technology won't confuse the search engines
Often the latest technology being built into a site can confuse the search engine spiders. Frames, CGI scripts, image maps and dynamically generated pages are all recently created technology that many spiders don't know how to read. With frames for instance, the syntax of the FRAMESET tag fundamentally changes the structure of an HTML document. This can cause problems for search engines and browsers that don't understand the tag. Some browsers can't find the body of the page and viewing a page through these browsers can create a blank page.
Today only 2% of browsers don't support frames, but many search engine spiders still don't support them. A search engine spider is really just an automated Web browser and like browsers they sometimes lag behind in their support for new HTML tags. This means that many search engines can't spider a site with frames. The spider will index the page, but won't follow the links to the individual frames.
 
Setting up a NOFRAMES section on the page
Every page that uses frames should include a NOFRAMES section on the page. This tag will not affect the way a page looks but it will help a page get listed with the major search engines. The NOFRAMES tag was invented by Netscape for backward compatibility with browsers that didn't support the FRAME and FRAMESET tags.
 
Performing a maintenance check
All Web sites should be thoroughly tested using a site maintenance tool in order to catch errors in operation before customers are brought to the site. HTML errors can hinder a search engine spider's ability to index a site, it can also keep a search engine from reading a page or cause it to be viewed in a manner different from how it was intended. In fact, a recent report by Jupiter Communications suggested 46% of users have left a preferred Web site because of a site-related problem. With NetMechanic's HTML Toolbox or another site maintenance tool, all Webmasters, from the novice to the expert can avoid potential visitor disasters due to site errors.
 
Finding the best submission service
Selecting a search engine submission service requires careful thought and important decisions. Using an auto submission service is a good place to begin. Most search engines like Alta Vista, HotBot and InfoSeek automatically spider a site, index it and hopefully add it to their search database without any human involvement. Some engines, like Yahoo, are done completely with human review and for many reasons are best submitted individually. Chances are good also, that in the first submission a site will be rejected by several of the engines and will need to be individually resubmitted. There are several online resources for auto submissions. The best ones won't submit a site to Yahoo where the customer is better served doing this on his own.
 
Understanding the waiting periods
A variety of waiting periods must be endured with each search engine before there is even a hope of being listed. Knowing and understanding these waiting periods before beginning the process can eliminate or at least minimize frustration and confusion. Typical waiting periods for some of the more popular engines are six months with Yahoo; one to two months with Lycos and 4-6 weeks with Excite or is that 4-6months? What they say and what happens in reality can be very different.

Ongoing promotion tasks:

To improve site rankings and increase understanding of the listing process, there are many tasks that can be done on a regular or semi-regular basis. Optimizing rankings within the search engines is also to help ensure that a site attracts the right traffic.

Some of the monthly and weekly promotion tasks are:
 
Crunching and examining log files
Data contained in log files is an excellent resource for identifying which engines are sending the majority of traffic to a site. It can also show which key words or gateway pages are generating the strongest traffic and what are those visitors doing when they enter the site.
 
Searching the Search Engines
Conduct a search of the search engines to analyze where the highest rankings of the site have materialized and what keywords are generating the best rankings. Different search engines use different rules to rank pages. Individual gateway pages should be created based on the knowledge and interpretation of what each search engine is using to determine top rankings. Several pages can be tested out on one or more engines and the pages that have the most success can be kept, while the unsuccessful pages can be dumped or revised to achieve a higher ranking.

Learning more about how the search engines work
Each search engine uses different rules to determine how well a Web page matches a particular query. As a result, building a single page that gets a good score in all the major engines is just about impossible. Learning how each engine ranks pages is also hard, since the engines often keep this information as a closely guarded secret. However, with a little patience, some experimentation and reverse engineering, the way that many of the search engines work can be discovered.

Resubmitting the site
For engines that reject a site or don't list it high enough, it is strongly recommended that more information is learned about the engine's criteria before resubmitting. This information should then be incorporated into gateway pages or key word revisions in order to have greater success with subsequent submissions. Fine tune the page (or pages) make adjustments to TITLE tags and META tags, then after resubmitting the site, track the results to further learn about the engine's criteria and which adjustments made an impact on the rankings. Don't be afraid to experiment, take some risks and gather data as you proceed.

Checking log files for traffic being directed to erroneous pages on the site
This is good news!! Don't dump these pages or remove them from the search engine as most people will do when they redesign their site. Any page with a high ranking is of value. If a page is bringing traffic to a site, leave that page on the search engine, don't change it but rather redirect the traffic to valid pages in the site.

Getting Noticed

For small to medium-sized Web sites, search engines are the most important source of traffic. Unfortunately, getting noticed in the search engines isn't an easy job. A Web site manager can spend months getting a site listed in an engine, only to find it ranks 50th in their search results. It's hard to give universal tips for improving search engine ranking because each engine has its own set of rules. In general, though, a page will rank well for a particular query if the search terms appear in the TITLE tag, the META tags, and in the body of the page.