5 Must-Know Facebook Timeline Tips/Tricks

Have you embraced the changes? The new Facebook Timeline lets you change the way your entire life is showcased over the Internet – in the form of colorful scrapbook, with highlights to enhance excitement and emotional feelings. There are those of you who have embraced the changes and loved it and then there are also those who haven’t really gotten into the full experience yet.

In this article, we’ll share with you some tips and tricks to help you configure your Facebook Timeline and exercise your full control over your personal information. Maybe then, some of you will be convinced that the Timeline isn’t all that bad after all.

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1. Feature Photos/Links/Status

There are 2 sides of your timeline on Facebook, your life stories, and updates; this makes your featured photos cramped in half. To feature your favorite photos or any stories and updates page-wide, hover over the top of the story section and click on the ‘star’ button that says ‘Highlight’.

Once the ‘Star’ button is clicked, you will see that your photo is now featured page-wide like this one.

To remove highlight, simply click on the ‘Star’ button again.

2. Backdate

We have plenty of stories of our past. With Facebook Timeline, you can update not only your ongoing life events, but also stories and updates from any past date on your timeline.

To do this, mouse hover on any part of the long line that represents your timeline and you will see a ‘Plus’ button appear. Click on that button.

You will be given options to update status, photos, places as well as other life events. Pick any one from the list and fill up the details.

When updating the status, it will stay on the date where you place them on your timeline, but your friends will still be able to see the updates on Facebook Wall, unless you share them only to yourself;

3. Hide From Timeline

In case there are stories you want to hide from your Timeline, you can click on the ‘Edit or Remove’ button on the top right corner of your status box, and select ‘Hide from Timeline’.

Once hidden, you will get a notification, with an ‘Undo’ button, should you decide to unhide.

4. View As Public Or Specific Friend

Facebook has made it possible for you to show different stories to different people, and to check ‘who’ can see ‘what’ on your timeline. Click on the dropdown menu at the top right just below your cover image, and then click ‘View As’.

By default, you will now see your timeline viewable by the public. Now enter your facebook friend’s name in the box, to preview what they can see in your timeline.

5. View Hidden Posts

If you do a lot of scrolling down to your timeline’s end, you will notice that not all of your stories will be showcased, not that it is hidden either. When you see a blue dot along the horizontal timeline, click on it to see option, and then click on the notes to showcase all stories that are kept in the blue dot.

Bonus – Activity Log

Now that you know you can add stories to your timeline, from any date and time, you may start to wonder how to check when a story was added to your timeline. Simple enough, you can click on the ‘Activity Log’ button that’s available at the top right corner of your timeline, again, just below your cover photo.

Now you will be presented with a timeline of your every activity on facebook e.g. what did you do or change or add on what date.

Conclusion

With these extra tips, you will be able to fully customize your Facebook Timeline following your preference, set who can see what, review your activity log, add and remove contents as well as set a featured stories or life events.

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How To Protect Your Pictures From Pinterest Pinnings [Quicktip]

The interest on Pinterest has grown exponentially and users have been pinning photos from all over the internet. If your site leverages on having loads of images, this pinning fever might worry you a little – there are references to Pinterest as being the ‘haven for copyright violations’ for a reason. If you are not fond of having your valuable copyrighted photos pinned by these pinners, it may seem like there is nothing you can do to stop them, or is there?

Pinterest itself has released a new feature that will allow you to disable pinning activities on your sites with a meta tag. It’s very simple to implement on your site, and there’s also a plugin you can use if you work on a WordPress blog. In this article, we will guide you on how to use these Pin-prevention methods to protect your photos.

Stopping Pinterest Pins On HTML Sites

If you have your work on a standard html website, you can stop Pinterest pins by inserting a meta tag in the header section of your html page, within the <head> section. Make sure it is inserted before the closing </head>. The meta tag to use is as follow;

<meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" />

Your standard header file should look something like this once the meta tag is included;

With this meta tag, Pinterest users who attempt to pin your photos will get this error message.

Stopping Pinterest Pins On WordPress Sites

If you are using WordPress, you can simply add a new plugin to stop pinning activities. An example of a plugin you can use is called Pinterest Block. To use this plugin for your WordPress sites, go to your WordPress admin page, click ‘Add New’ under ‘Plugin’ section, and search for ‘Pinterest Block’.

Once you have found the Plugin, install and activate. In the option panel, you will have a few options on how you want Pinterest Block to work on your site.

Check the options that are suitable for your site, then click "Save Settings". And that’s it; Pinterest users will now no longer be able to pin any photos from the pages you’ve blocked. The error shown will be the same as those for html websites.

Conclusion

With only a simple step, you are now protected from photo copyright violations. Users are random and not many of them are aware of copyright issues, but with this meta tag, you can continue producing great photos and publishing them on your sites without worry.

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16 Ways How Educators Use Pinterest [Infographic]

Have you joined the pinning craze yet? With all the hype focused on how Pinterest is a social networking site for women and how it is valued at US$200 million etc, we mustn’t lose sight of the technology and potential Pinterest has for the academic world. Pinterest is a platform that allows you to showcase your interest and ideals via the simple act of pinning. This pinned collection of yours is easily shared to your network of followers or friends. They, in turn, can continue pinning materials from your board to theirs and spread the info further, all at the speed of a click.

The potential behind this information transfer is enormous and now that the technology for it exists, academicians and educators should be quick to jump on the bandwagon and start pinning as well. To help this process along, onlineuniversities.com has created this infographic showing the ways educators can use Pinterest to collect, organize, collaborate and encourage active learning amongst students. Think of it like the bulletin board you always pass by at the school corridor – only more regularly updated and with plenty of space for just about everyone to put their stuff up and show to the whole school and beyond.

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20 Facebook Tips/Tricks 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. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

1. How To Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

   If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.
   

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

   This service has been discontinued. 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.
    
    
    
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10 must-have Google Chrome extensions

Despite Microsoft’s IE gaining its market share and numerous Mozilla Firefox loyalists, Google’s Chrome enjoys ...

Despite Microsoft’s IE gaining its market share and numerous Mozilla Firefox loyalists, Google’s Chrome enjoys a large share of millions of users. To further enhance your browser experience and increase productivity, the search giant (as we like to call it) has a lengthy list of Chrome extensions. These add-ons are simple to install and make your browsing experience swift. Among the numerous extensions made available by Google, we have listed out our 10 must-have Chrome extensions for you. Ad Block Plus As the name suggests, this extension keeps all those annoying ads at bay. This is one of the most, rather the most popular browser extension and is also available for Mozilla Firefox. It claims to not infringe on the user’s privacy and Chrome warns all extensions that modify web pages. It is a community-driven open source project that aims to better the use of Internet by negating irritating ads. Block them all... Smartr Inbox For Gmail Now, we know Google has added a full fledged Labs feature to upscale the productivity of users. But we just couldn’t sideline this one from our list. Smartr Inbox for Gmail is a smarter way of managing your contacts and relevant details about them in one place. The Gmail Inbox offers all essential contact information, including e-mail history and also updates from social sites like, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Moreover, it does so automatically by finding people. Users can also opt for Pro to further connect contacts across platforms, like Gmail, Android, Outlook and BlackBerry. TooManyTabs for Chrome This extension is an excellent way to tackle the numerous tabs that some people often tend to open at a time. Numerous tabs sometimes even make it difficult to see the favicon on the tab and here’s when the TooManyTabs extension comes handy. It brings a 22’s eye view of all the tabs and lets you preview the content of each tab. It’s a nice way to make instant tab searches.  If too much to handle Awesome Screenshot Awesome Screenshot is simply awesome at capturing the screenshots of a page or a particular portion, and then also lets you annotate it. You can highlight content with circles, rectangles, arrows, lines and even add text, to indicate what you are trying to say. It supports .png format and also horizontal scrolling. You can save and share these images. Points out clearly Gmail Offline Here’s yet another Chrome extension, which is a Gmail app to support offline access. Though in beta, this extension seems quite handy. Gmail Offline automatically synchronizes messages and queues them into action any time Chrome is running or an Internet connection is available.  Google Dictionary This is yet another useful extension to rely on, each time you come across a difficult word on a webpage. You don’t need to reach out to an online dictionary or turn pages (for those who still prefer the good ‘ol dictionary!). If you just double click on a word, an instant bubble will give you the meaning of the word. While using the toolbar dictionary, you can view the complete definition of any word. Besides English, it supports languages like Chinese, French, German, Spanish and more. Mind your words YouRhere If you indulge in a lot of reading or researching online, then this extension is simply awesome. On installing YouRhere, you will notice a small white arrow that follows your mouse on hovering over a web page. Just double click on a line where you’ve stopped due to some interruption and the extension will highlight it for you, and take you to the same line when you want to continue reading. Simply click on the YouRhere icon and it takes you to the same line. Basically, it lets you read, mark and share (via social sites) web pages with mere clicks.  LastPass This is a solid manager for all your passwords. Now, talking about someone managing your passwords may not seem sensible to many, but this password manager is helpful, if you have like 100 of accounts, such as blogs, forums, and so on. It generates one single master password that does the reset, without you needing to type in the password. It also helps at completing your forms, if any.  Click&Clean This extension will do all the cleaning for you with instant clicks. It is meant to clean all your browsing history, typed URLs, flash cookies and all traces of online activity in order to protect your privacy. It scans the PC for malware and erases temporary files. It is also capable of cleaning up your hard drive to make available more disk space, including secure file deletion using external applications, such as CCleaner or Wise Disk Cleaner.  On a cleaning spree Taskforce It puts an end to juggling and copy-pasting emails to stay organized. It can convert emails into tasks without leaving Gmail and the productive extension will save you all the time. Taskforce is completely collaborative and just by entering an e-mail address; it adds another person as a collaborator, in case you need to communicate with others to get the work done. It enables your e-mail to be read, responded to, searched and archived, even when offline. Task..simplified.. Take a look and see which one suits you best, also share your list of must-have Google Chrome extensions in our comments section below.  News from - http://tech2.in.com/features/web-services/10-musthave-google-chrome-extensions/295772/1#story