Computer Tricks and Secrets

The Evolution of Facebook Applications: What’s Trending in 2024 Facebook remains one of the most popular social media platforms globally, with billions of users. Many people maintain personal profiles and manage business or interest pages. One of the reasons for Facebook's enduring popularity is its wide array of applications, which enhance user experience and engagement. With the rapid growth of technology, Facebook application development continues to be a thriving field. Below, we highlight some of the top Facebook applications that are capturing users' attention in 2024. Top 5 Facebook Applications in 2024 1. Candy Crush Saga Still a favorite among Facebook users, Candy Crush Saga has evolved with new levels, challenges, and events that keep players hooked. Its engaging gameplay, combined with social interaction features, makes it a timeless classic. 2. TripAdvisor As the ultimate travel companion, TripAdvisor remains essential for travelers. The app provides up-to-date r...

Need not to say what Facebook is right?? Almost everyone knows what Facebook is but most of them don’t know its secrets and some of the unpopular features in it. Here are some of the secrets you have never known about it. 1. Facebook tracking: Most of them are not aware that Facebook tracks your each and every activity while you are on Facebook. When you are on Facebook and open some other stuff in a new tab or new window, then this information is sent to Facebook from some other third-party. There are billions of users over the world, which means each and every one’s activity is being tracked by Facebook in daily life. In order to prevent Facebook tracking our activities, there is an extension ‘Facebook disconnect’, which helps in preventing the airing of information from some third-party to the Facebook. 2. Save the stuff: There are several posts posted by someone or other on Facebook. In order to save your favourite post, Facebook has recently provided an option for saving it where ...

Facebook’s Free Basics has been on fire in India since its inception. First it started with internet.org but even it got a lot of negative response from experts all over the country as it was violating Net Neutrality. And now again Facebook has come up with Free Basics in collaboration with Reliance. Again all the experts started firing Free Basics as it was violation Net Neutrality in the country. If you are new here is everything you need to know about Net Neutrality . In an attempt to save Free Basics from getting banned in India, Facebook came up with this strategy by sending notifications to all the people and signing up in support of Free Basics. What does the notification say? This notification is very persistent, and it comes whenever one of your friends signs up without his/her knowledge. A regular internet user who doesn’t has much knowledge about Net Neutrality and Free Basics tend to fall for it and signs up in support of Free Basics which you shouldn’t. When you click on...

Whether you are adding titles in the lower third of a video or creating text captions to be placed on top of a coloured photograph, the text should be readable irrespective of the color of the background image. If you have been struggling to find the perfect text colours for your video or image, try this simple rule. Set the fill colour as white and use a thin black outline and your text captions will be clear readable over any other colour and brightness. This is exactly the reason why most meme generators on the Internet, including the one available on Google+ and Cheezburger.com, use a white font with a black outline for the text to be readable over any background. And if you enable text captions for any YouTube video, you’ll find they also use the white colour with a black outline and a little amount of drop shadow. Thus the titles ill display well in the foreground even if there are different colours used in the video. The source is unknown . One more thing. Prefer using Sans Seri...

You meet this person at the gym everyday and one fine morning, he sends you a friend request on Facebook. What do you do? You have exchanged a few conversations with him, he seems like a genuinely nice person but still you don’t know him enough to approve that friend request. How do you deal with these unwanted friend requests on Facebook coming from office colleagues or old classmates who are acquaintances but not really friends? When you receive a friend request from someone who you do not wish to be friends with, you can either politely reject the request or ignore it and the request will appear as pending in their timeline. Or when you have no option but to approve that request, you can click “Confirm” to add that person to your Facebook but put him or her in your Restricted list. When you put someone in the Restricted list, they will be listed as your friend on Facebook but they’ll only see your photos and other posts that are public. In other words, they can only see stuff that y...

Facebook, like YouTube, now allows to you easily embed videos on web pages outside Facebook. That means if you come across an interesting video on Facebook, you can easily put it on your blog without having to direct your audience to the Facebook website. There are two important points to consider though. One, you should only embed videos that are public. Facebook does provide the embed code for private videos that are shared with you or your network but your audience won’t be able to play these videos on your website. The other issue is that Facebook still uses the Adobe Flash player to embed videos when your website is viewed on a desktop. It automatically switches to the HTML5 format on mobile devices but if someone is viewing your website from a desktop or laptop, they would need the Shockwave Flash plugin enabled to view your embedded videos. Add Facebook Videos to your Website First, let’s find a video on Facebook using Graph Search. Go to the search box and type a search query l...

Notice some suspicious activity on your wall? Well there some simple security settings built into Facebook – some of these settings are new while others have been around for some time – that should help you quickly detect if any other person is secretly logging into and using your Facebook account. Go to Facebook.com -> Account -> Account Settings -> Account Security.  Here you’ll see a list of all computers and mobile devices that have logged into your Facebook account and when. You can also see the approximate geographic location of the device, based on the IP address, that was used to access your Facebook account. If you come across an unknown device / location in the list, say you are Mac user and the device listed is IE on Windows, just click the corresponding “end activity” link and it should immediately log you out from that machine. For extra safety, you may also choose to receive email and SMS alerts if someone else tries to log into your Facebook account from a previ...

Ten years ago Facebook was just cresting as the cool new social media site that helped you keep in touch with the people you didn’t actually like in high school. We fed it our thoughts and feelings, shared our meals and locations and our top ten movie lists, kept it up-to-date on our relationship status, political views, favorite links, and personal information — all in the name of staying connected, and all without a thought to our security. But with a decade of questions regarding how Facebook makes money  now answered, and a general understanding of how sharing information online can be dangerous (while the platform constantly updates its security protocol ), we continue to use it anyway, even though many of us are just checking in as ritual and have threatened our exit from Facebook for years. Of course, screen time in moderation is, for the most part, perfectly acceptable, and social media can offer a few genuinely beneficial uses. But before you log in or tap that app on your sma...

While there are workarounds that let you easily download all your  Facebook data , including  email addresses  of your Facebook friends, one of the important pieces that you still can’t move out of Facebook is the phone book. Export Phone Numbers of your Facebook Friends Most of your Facebook friends have put their phone numbers on their profile pages and you’ll love to import them to your mobile phone’s address book but unfortunately Facebook doesn’t offer an option to let you do so. There’s however a new Chrome extension that be of immense help here. Called Facebook Friends Exporter, this extension will let you export phone numbers, email addresses (not just the primary address but all the other email addresses as well), IM screen names and website URLs of your Facebook contacts in a standard CSV file that you can quickly import into Outlook, Gmail or any other address book. Alternatively, you may also choose to import your Facebook friends details directly into Gmail /Google Contact...