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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Google Mosaic Wallpaper

Google is everywhere, it is taking control of your every aspect of life slowly, gradually but effectively. Now its time to experience the Google effect on your desktop with this amazing mosaic wallpaper featuring Google Logo. It was last month when I found the Giant Google Logo Mosaic. Now it was really not appealing to fix only logo right on my desktop, so I simply added some reflexive effect to the original file to made it more appealing. I hope you guys will like it. Wallpaper Click the image below to download high quality version. All credit for the original logo goes to the original design...

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Best Free Painting Applications

Image editors like Adobe Photoshop, CorelDRAW and GIMP are used for high-level image editing, which can also give very realistic looking paint effects, but now you can use a number of free tools to give that effect. A paint effect application is not a full image editor like Photoshop, but it can give way more options and features than the usual Paint app in Windows. Below are some of the free apps I found which can be used to give nice paint effects to your photos. MyPaint MyPaint is a fast and easy graphics application for digital painters. It has extensive options for brush creation and configuration which give effects like natural...

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