Facebook Tips and Tricks
- Update Facebook status from Firefox: If you are a Firefox addict and you just don’t like going away, you don’t need to leave Firefox to update your Facebook status. Just install the FireStatus add-on and update your status right from your Firefox browser. You can also use the Facebook Toolbar to completely manage Facebook from your Firefox browser. For FireStatus, follow: http://addons.mozilla.org/en/US/firefox/addon/firestatus and for Facebook Toolbar, follow: http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-toolbar/
- Get the photos on top of your profile page back: If you are the one who saw some recently tagged crazy picture of yours on the top of Facebook profile page and to get rid of it you clicked the “X” button and now you see those gray boxes or you want to restore those photos back. Follow these steps
- Click the “Edit My profile” icon at the top left.
- Click on the “Profile picture” tab.
- Click the “Unhide all” button next to “Row of photos at top of profile”.
If restoring wasn’t successful, make sure you’re using decent browser. No the photos you deleted from your Photo stream will be restored.
- Create a profile banner using Photos on top of your profile: This can be easily done using MS Paint. The “trick” is to grab a full size picture and cut it into 5 different slices, which are each photo stream photo. Then Upload them all into an album and tag yourself in each one in the correct order (tag a photo last if you wish to see it first in the banner) to give the look of a banner. You can also use a website called FBanners.
- Using Facebook Search like a Pro: Not all of us know how powerful Facebook Search is. It has many advanced features that you may find useful. For example if you are finding a person named Sudip Upreti and you want to filter your results only to people who are married, you can type name: Sudip Upreti status:married in the search bar. Also you can search two things at a time by using the vertical line “|” character between two terms.
- Posting a status message longer than 420 characters: If you don’t want to take pains of writing a Note, you can share a txt larger than 420 characters by sharing any photo for your drive and writing the status is “Say Something about the photo” textbox.
- Scheduling your Facebook message and status: if you want to schedule your Facebook message to be sent sometime in future, sendible (http://sendible.com/) is a great tool to do that. You can also use Sendible to schedule your status updates.
- Remove Facebook ads from your profile: you can do this by using a Greasemonkey Plugin Script called Facebook: Cleaner (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27121) removes many of the annoying ads and updates for your Facebook page.
- Download Facebook Photo Albums: if you ever feel the need to download complete photo albums from Facebook, you can easily do it with either a Windows desktop application named FotoBoounce (http://fotobounce.com/) or even the software availbale on web.
- Talk like a pirate on Facebook: If you ever wish to talk like a pirate, you can set your Facebook to appear like a pirate page by going into “Account Settings” where you can go to Languages section to change Current Language Settings and setting it to English (pirate).
- Using cool symbols in your status update: J You can make your status updates interesting by adding cool symbols by copying then from the link: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/cool-ascii-symbols-get-them-now. And pasting in your status updates.
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