Download Facebook Videos

Most video sharing sites do not allow users to download videos off the site for offline viewing. But still, there’s always an other way round that does the trick! I’ve shared a number of times how you can download videos off YouTube and other video sharing websites. And now here’s a trick how you can download videos from Facebook shared by your friends. How to Download Facebook Videos This is a simple Greasemonkey (What is?) script that you need to install using the Greasemonkey addon for Firefox. Follow the steps below to get direct links to download Facebook videos in high quality. Get Greasemonkey addon for FirefoxInstall the script...

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Facebook Desktop Application

There are many applications that lets you use Facebook on desktop, but not all give you a nice interface with almost all the Facebook features built in it. Photo Uploader for Facebook is actually an Adobe AIR Facebook desktop application that lets you upload photos by simply drag-and-drop, but along with features to make a complete desktop app. Simply click and drag an image (or folder of images) onto the running application. You can also stay constantly connected with your Facebook friends, view your News Feed, receive notifications, pokes and chat, right from your desktop without having to go into the browser. Download Photo Uploader...

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Facebook App v1.7 for BlackBerry

The best Facebook app for smartphones that comes next to Facebook app for iPhone is the BlackBerry Facebook app. Thanks to all the features it has, even Android version of this app doesn’t come closer to it. There were rumours already that BlackBerry Facebook app 1.7 will be releasing on October 16th, and it has turned out to be true. Facebook 1.7 is now live on the App World client. New features in this version are: News Feed Support – The ability to set the News Feed as the landing pageNews Feed Filters – The ability to toggle between ‘News Feed, Status Updates, Photos & Links’Caching Improvements – The application uses the device...

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How to Show Age in Facebook Profile

How many of you are bad at Maths? Okay, let’s take it this way. How many of you find it difficult to calculate age of someone whose date of birth you know? Well, in Facebook, the profile page only shows a person’s date of birth (only if the user has allowed others to see). it doesn’t show you their age and yes, (for those who’re week in calculating) you have to calculate their age yourself, if you ever need to. Today I came across this small Greasemonkey script that would replace the date of birth field in Facebook profile page with their age (like in the screenshot above). For all those lazy people, you won’t have to calculate the...

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Facebook Notifications on Desktop

I’m sure you remember the list of best Facebook applications I did? I also recently wrote about a Facebook Photo Uploader that is also like a complete desktop app for Facebook. But those were all Adobe AIR based applications. I’ve found another cool Facebook application that shows Facebook notifications on desktop. Notifications is a small desktop application for Facebook that brings all your new notifications to your desktop. These notifications include friend requests, pokes, event updates, group invites and unread messages. Whenever a new notification arrives, you get notified with a pop up window like in Windows Live Messenger....

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How to Hide Highlights in Facebook Sidebar

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. If you don’t like that highlight section, you can use a userscript to delete that part out of the Facebook homepage. Unfortunately, Facebook being so much customizable, doesn’t allow to enable or disable Highlights, Suggestions or any other section of the homepage. To remove Highlights, simply download the Hide...

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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. I noticed that the new Facebook homepage sidebar now let’s you suggest profile pictures for people you ‘might’ know. Under Suggestions, it now shows options to write on friends’ walls who are not very active on Twitter. To suggest a profile picture for someone,...

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Facebook 3.0 iPhone App Features & Screenshot Tour

A couple of hours ago, the Facebook 3.0 app for iPhone and iPod Touch finally made it’s way to the App Store for download. The UI has been completely revamped to support a number of new features that can be seen in Facebook 3.0 iPhone app. This app is getting mixed reviews from everyone, but for me, it’s the best Facebook for iPhone app release till now. I’ve compiled a list of the best features along with screenshots of Facebook 3.0 iPhone app. Menu View and New UI The main interface gives you access to news feed, profile, friends list, messages inbox, chat, friends requests, events, photos and notes icons. You can open those applications...

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Add Facebook Friends to Windows Live Messenger

How many of you have more friends on Facebook than Windows Live Messenger (WLM)? Atleast, I do as I’m more active on Facebook than Windows Live. Since the launch of the new WLM, many services have been integrated to it, like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn etc. Now you can even add contacts from these services in your WLM contact list. It’s better to use the Connect tool in Windows Live Profile, rather than going through each of your Facebook friends’ profile for their Windows Live address and adding them individually. How to Add Facebook Friends to Windows Live Messenger Wondering how to do this? Just follow the steps below :) 1. Visit the...

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Get Emoticons List in Facebook Chat

I personally don’t prefer Facebook chat much and have almost put it on offline, but this tip could be helpful for those who use it a lot to chat with friends on Facebook. I’m sure none of you would be aware of the entire list of emoticons available in Facebook Chat, but this little Greasemonkey script will display all of them like in any IM chat window. How To Get Emoticons List in Facebook Chat Follow the simple steps below to get your Close any Facebook tabs/windows if they’re opened.Get Greasemonkey addon for Firefox.Now install this script for Greasemonkey to display Facebook Chat emoticons.Sign in Facebook and open a chat tab to...

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Best Facebook Desktop Applications for Windows

Facebook is now the most popular social network with over 300 million active members. Even being this big, Facebook has no official application for desktop to manage their updates and account without opening the Facebook website. I have managed to compile a list of (almost) all the desktop applications available for Facebook, and I’m sure people like me who are very active on Facebook would love to try them out. Best Facebook Desktop Applications Let’s kick off with the list! Facebook Desktop Facebook Desktop is a Windows program that, with a small memory footprint, provides updates to the users Facebook profile, such as messages, pokes,...

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Facebook Introduces Prototypes, Apps In Making

Facebook’s engineers thrive on innovation and experimentation and work on projects that inspire them and build on new ideas, but not all of those features and improvements make it to the main site. For such applications, Facebook introduces Prototypes, an application directory which brings all the usable product experiments built by Facebook engineers for everyone to try. Facebook Prototypes You can test any of the products and features launched by Facebook Prototypes and then provide feedback directly to those who built them. So far, the Prototypes directory shows only five applications, but more will be added soon. Applications available...

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How to Find Orkut Friends on Facebook

We all know how dominant Orkut was in social networks back in the year 2003. Still many people have friends on Orkut whom they haven’t been able to find on the current in thing – Facebook. This is an old trick, but you can easily find your Orkut friends on Facebook by following the steps below. How to Find Orkut Friends on Facebook Drag this Facebook bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks bar.Now login to your Orkut account, and click the Facebook bookmarklet. If that doesn’t work, you can alternatively try opening this link.The Friend Finder tool in Facebook will now looks for your Orkut contacts that are not in your Facebook friends li...

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How To Upload Photos By Facebook Mobile

Facebook has a separate site for mobile users with a clean interface and less options; optimized for all mobile devices. Along this, it also allows you to upload photos directly from your mobile phone. Many times I’m asked by my friends on how I set up Facebook to upload photos directly from my mobile phone. So for them, and all those who don’t know how to, I’m writing the procedure below for your convenience. Sending photos to Facebook is very easy, but some people still have problems on setting it up. First thing I would like to make clear is that this feature of uploading photos works on all mobile devices with MMS capability and...

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Free Facebook Advertisement Credit Worth $100

I must say, Twitter is really replacing my feed reader to get the latest and hot tips. I hardly check my feed reader now, when I can get everything from my friends on Twitter. As you all know Facebook is one of the most popular social networks out there, that has also beaten MySpace in terms of traffic per month. They allow you to advertise your Facebook pages, brands and other websites through their geo-targeted advertising system. Won’t it be fun if you get some free Facebook advertising credit? My friend, Andan Ali, on Twitter shared a trick to get free Facebook advertisiment credit worth $100 by joining The Visa Business Network....

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Backup Facebook Profile with SocialSafe

Most of us are addicted to online social networks like Facebook, Orkut, Hi5 etc. and for some managing an online social profile is now more important than keeping up with the one in real life. Since no web service is infallible, you never know when your account might get hacked, deleted, suspended for false spamming or anything like that where you may lose important data, friends, uploaded photos etc. We have already shared how you can backup your Twitter profile (followers), but there was no way to backup Facebook profile, until today, when I came across the perfect tool to backup your Facebook profile. SocialSafe is a backup tool...

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Facebook App for Android, Coming Soon

Facebook has its official mobile apps for almost all mobile operating systems i.e iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian etc, but Andoid has been the only one left out. That may be because of the past rivalry between Google and Facebook, but it looks like Facebook has finally decided to come out with an official app for Android. This new Facebook Android app is expected to release somewhere in this this week and will use the new Facebook Stream API which provides access to news stream and status updates. It will not be a full-featured Facebook app, like the iPhone one. You won’t be able to even check your Inbox, but all we can do is expect Facebook to add better access support and features as the time goes ...

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Facebook Chat on Desktop

We all know that the chat feature in Facebook is one of the worst feature they have added. I mean, it’s not stable at all and keeps disconnecting every now and then while chatting with someone. There are several multi-IM that allows you to chat with your Facebook buddies, but if you’re looking for a Facebook-only desktop app for chatting, then this application might help you. Gabtastik is a WebKit based app that lets you chat with your Facebook buddies from your desktop. You won’t have to open the entire Facebook page in your browser, just to chat with those friends, thus, saving system resources. The only requirement this app has is...

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Facebook 3.0 App for iPhone Now Available

Facebook 3.0 app for iPhone and iPod Touch is now finally available in the Apple Store for download! After the app was submitted to Apple, it took almost two weeks for it to appear for public. The version 3.0 of the Facebook app is by far the best release till now with lots of new features. Some new features: Check for upcoming events and birthdays.Upload videos from an iPhone 3GSWrite notes and read your friends’ notesZoom feature for photosChange your profile picturePost updates and photos to Facebook Pages.Like feature for all Facebook activity.Make calls from within the app… And a lot more! The only feature that couldn’t make it to...

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Windows 7 Tranformation Pack 2009

Last week at PDC, Windows 7 was revealed to the tech world by Microsoft. I was eager to know more and more about the new features and its awesome looks. At that moment it clicked in my mind to test the geeks that whether they succeeded in making a transformation pack for Windows 7 or not. I was amazed to know that it already exists with the latest Windows 7 theme, start menu, wallpapers etc. So here it is for you guys, Windows 7 Transformation Pack 2009, the loaded piece to download to sooth your eyes unlike similar packs formerly released before the new looks and features were unfolded officially. Also check out 5 Windows 7 Transformation...

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