Some people use Facebook pages for their business. But most of them misses the most important thing in it which is so useful for the growth of their business, that is the way a member is going to contact them. It looks good and professional when you add a separate section of contact form on your page rather than communicating through comments and wall posts. If you don’t have a contact form for your page we will tell you how you can easily add it and that too for free.
To add a contact form, the easiest way is to use a Facebook app. For that the best application available on Facebook is Contact Form. Go to the application page and click on “Go to App”. Now fill up the details to set up a contact form on your page. First of all select a page from the drop down list which shows all the pages you admin. Then enter some basic details and the details you need in the contact form. After that click on “Submit Form”.
With basic settings your contact form will look like the image shown below. Also a tab ‘contact’ will be added automatically to your page’s sidebar.
Just give it a try on your page. Drop a comment below if you got stuck somewhere.
Chrome being one of the most promoted products of Google has some exclusive Google features which certainly aren’t present in any other browser. I thought why not list down a few of them I know about.
#1. Instant Pages
This Chrome-only feature renders the webpage of the first search result when you search on Google. So, when you click on the first result, it takes only a Nano second for it to load, irrespective of your connection. Although this doesn’t work all the time, as Instant Pages knows when to render and when not to.
For a demo, launch your Chrome, enter a query “wikipedia” in the Omnibar and then wait for a second and hit the first link on Google search, it’ll be loading in less than a second.
If you’re on Windows 7, you can setup Speech Recognition, but I personally found Chrome’s Speech recognition to be more accurate. Go to Google Search (on Chrome), and there you can see a mic symbol on the search bar. Just hit the mic button, speak something and it appears within a second in the search bar.
#3. Desktop Notifications
By enabling desktop notifications in Gmail, Google Calendar etc. sites you get notifications directly at your taskbar. For Gmail, you get notifications when you receive a new mail or chat message. Apart from Google sites, there are many apps which use desktop notifications.
To enable desktop notifications, go to options page in Chrome and under notifications, select “Allow all sites to show notifications”.
#4. Uploading Folders in Google Docs
Although you can install a java applet to support uploading folders in Google Docs, Chrome is the only browser which supports this feature natively.
#5. Automatic Sign In to Google Sites
This feature was actually introduced in Chrome 15, but later on was discontinued, may be that’s because it’s a bit buggy. If you’re the only (or most frequent) user of your PC, then this feature is for you. When you go to a Google site, say gmail.com, then a notification bar pops up with a sign in button, so with a click you can login to your Google account, without entering the credentials. I guess this feature will be back soon.
#6. Offline Gmail, Calendar and Docs
Recently Google has rolled out its official Chrome extensions which will make some of the Google products work offline. Starting with Gmail, which previously used Google gears for offline support, Google Calendar and Docs can also be accessed offline, provided you install the respective extensions in your Chrome.
What’s your favorite among these? Tell us in the comments.
With Facebook’s recently launched smart and friends list feature, you can now categorize people in different ways depending upon how close are they. But with these two lists, Facebook also launched a new restricted list which is a good way to hide your updates from people you don’t know much or hiding from friends you met online.
You can easily add someone to restricted list but by default this list is empty. To access your ‘Restricted’ list go to this page to see all of your lists and click ‘Restricted’. After that on the right sidebar you will see a space to enter your friends name whom you wish to add to this list. Select your friends from there. You can also click on ‘Manage List’ on the top right side of page and click on Add/Remove people.
Once added in your Restricted list, your friend won’t be able to see updates from your profile unless and until that update is public. It’s a good way to keep few people away from your private content without unfriending or blocking them. Facebook is changing lot’s of things in it’s design and the good thing is that most of the changes are good and important. 🙂
Banning a user from a Facebook means completely restricting him from the page. A banned user can neither post anything on that page nor he can join/like it again. Sometimes admin of a Facebook page bans a user and later he doesn’t know how to unban him. And sometimes admins just mistakenly bans a user. Let’s tell you how you an remove a ban i.e. unban a Facebook page’s member. Just follow the steps below.
Open a Facebook page that you admin. After that click on ‘like this’ link given with the number of fans of that page on the left.
Now you will see the list of people who liked that page. On the top of list there will be a drop down list ‘People’. Click on that list and select Banned to see the list of banned people from that page.
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Click unban button given with every name to remove the ban from that user. You don’t need to save it, just click on close.
That’s it, the banned user will now get the access to your page again and he can post comments and like wall posts. Removing a ban is so easy but strategically placed by Facebook that’s why admins get confused. Drop a comment below if you got stuck somewhere.
YouTube not only has the latest videos on music, entertainment and current events, but it is very popular way for sharing home videos with friends and family.
Home Videos are often shot usually on hand-held cameras and one issue is the camera is usually not stable and appears to be quite shaky. This is very evident especially on videos shot from a mobile phone.
YouTube now allows users to stabilize shaky camera motions on uploaded videos with a simple click of a button in new ‘edit’ mode.
How to Edit Your YouTube Videos
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Login to your YouTube account and look up the list of all the videos you have uploaded.
A new option ‘Edit’ will show up with every video. Click on it to get into the Edit mode for that video.
In the ‘Edit’ mode of the video, simply click on ‘Stabilize’ button and the shaky video does improve a great deal.
Other than the stabilize feature there are other options like color correction, rotate video, changing color intensity and adding other effects.
If you edit a popular video which has been viewed more than a 1000 times, then a new video is created. All edited changes can also be undone if you are not happy with the changes .
See a video below with all details on Editing Videos on YouTube
Are you tired of getting useless updates from different apps? Then the best way to stop them is to block or remove that application. But in some cases user doesn’t want to remove an application but definitely wants to stop updates of friends from the same application. For example if somebody wants to show daily horoscope on his profile but doesn’t want to read others horoscope. In such a case you can hide updates from an application rather than removing or blocking it.
Hide updates from an app:
To hide updates from an application in your news feed, go to any update from that application and click on the cross mark given with that app on right side.
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After that click on ‘Hide all by (app name)’. For example here I’m hiding all the updates in my news feed from ‘ZooZoo Characters’ application.
Unhide updates from an app:
If you want to switch back and receive all updates from an application again then you have to click on ‘Edit Options’ link on your Homepage. You can find this ‘Edit Options’ link on the bottom of your ‘News Feed’ or Homepage.
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After that you will see a list of friends and applications that you have blocked on your homepage so that you can’t see updates from them. Now find the application name and click on the cross mark to start receiving updates again. Click Save and you’re all done.
Drop a comment below if you have any questions. Stay connected for more Facebook updates.
Last time we told you how you can add a new tab to your Facebook page. This post will tell you how you can change your default landing tab. Defualt landing tab means the tab which opens when someone visits your page. Mostly people choose a welcome page to welcome its visitors as a default tab. Now if you have already created a new welcome tab it’s important to change it to default tab as it’s of no use to welcome a person after he likes the page.
Steps:
Open the Facebook page you admin and you want to change the landing tab.
Click on ‘Edit Page’ on the top right of the page.
Go to ‘Manage Permissions’ from your sidebar and select your new tab in ‘Default Landing Tab:’ from the drop down list.
After selecting the tab click ‘Save Changes’. You can also select Info, Photos, Discussions or any other tab as your default landing tab.
Using welcome tab as default:
If you are using a welcome page as default tab then it’s important to customize your welcome page first in prder to make it attractive. You can add a text note to of you can add an image to welcome your visitors. To add a welcome image read this post and add the following code in the box provided.
<img src=”#”>
Replace # with your welcome image URL including the http:// part. You can also upload that image to Facebook and give the link here. Stay connected for more tech and Facebook updates.
Facebook is a good way to interact with your friends and other people. Also a good means to share your stuff like photos and videos. But most of the people think that it’s impossible to download a video from Facebook, so privacy wise it’s better to upload a video there so that no one can download and upload it or misuse it. But impossible is nothing especially on net. Let’s see how you can download a video from Facebook.
Downloading a video on Facebook:
To download a video on Facebook you need a Firefox browser as we’re going to use a Firefox extension. Download Mozilla Firefox here. If you’re already using it, skip this step.
Now download the Firefox extension NetVideoHunter. Click ‘Add to Firefox’. After that click allow which will start downloading the extension. Click Install once it’s downloaded and restart Firefox.
Once installed you will see a new icon in you Add-On bar at bottom. Now open Facebook and play the video you want to download. The moment you play that video, NetVideoHunter automatically detects it. Click on NetVideoHunter icon and Select that video from the list and click Download. The video will start downloading.
The video file will be downloaded in MPEG-4 format to the selected location. It is recommended to close your video when downloading starts so that it can download it at highest speed possible. You can also download Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and other videos with the same extension.
Once again we have something for Facebook page owners, this time we will tell you how you can add a new tab to your Facebook page. A Page tab is a new link which will appear on your sidebar where you can add anything about your page like some text, image, video or even animations. Most of the people makes a new tab to add a welcome note for their page.
Steps to add a new tab:
To add a new tab to a page, we will use an application Static HTML: iframe tabs. This application supports both HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and FBML (Facebook Markup Language).
Now select the page where you want to add a tab from the drop down list of Pages you Admin. After that click ‘Add Static HTML: iframe tabs’.
That’s it, new tab is now added to your page. Now to customize your tab go to your page and click on the newly added tab from the sidebar (default name for the tab is ‘Welcome’). Add anything in the box ‘Enter your content here”. You can even add simple text to that box. After that click ‘Save and view tab’ to preview the tab.
To rename your tab from ‘Welcome’ to something else, go to ‘Edit Page’ and select Apps from your sidebar in the left. Go to Static HTML: iframe tabs and click ‘Edit Settings’ and rename the tab.
After that click ‘Save’ and ‘Okay’. This is the easiest and the best way to add a tab on your page. You can use any language i.e. HTML, FBML or CSS for customization. Stay connected as we’ll soon tell you how you can customize a Facebook page tab.
Windows 8’s looks to be a great OS, with faster boot and many more features. If you have a Windows Phone, you probably know how Live Tiles look like.
When you boot your Windows 8 device, you’ll be shown a set of tiles which show the apps you’ve installed, it’s highly customizable. Mosaic is a Windows 7 only app for all those Windows fans who can’t wait to get their hands on Live Tiles feature.
Previewing Live Tiles using Mosaic
Mosaic promises to give Live Tiles experience on your Windows 7 device, it’s opensource.
You can add new apps to Mosaic from its store, there are many good apps like Gmail, Twitter, Google Calendar etc.
You can also add .exe files of the most used application to Mosaic Screen. To do that, hit on the forward button > Pin > Application, and select the executable file.
The wallpaper of Mosaic screen can be customizable too, for that, hit options > UI > select any image.
It also integrates with Facebook, you can favorite any of your Facebook friends and they will show up as Tiles, you can even access the wall.
Also, you can pin your favorite websites as tiles, it does have an integrated browser for that.
Mosaic is still in beta, but it is quite smooth on my system. If you’re a Windows 7 user, try out Mosaic and tell us what you think of it.
