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How to change your BlackBerry phone time manually

Are you using a BlackBerry and getting a time error while Re-Booting your phone or cannot change your time after changing your location? Then this post is for you which will tell you how you can change your BlackBerry phone time manually without using any standard time zone.

The ‘Network Time’ or the ‘Time Zone’ is mostly same and correct time according to your location. But sometime what happens is that network cannot update it’s time due to unavailability of network or connection at that particular location. In that case you can manually set your BlackBerry phone’s time. Just follow the steps below:

Changing time manually:

  1. Turn on your phone and go to Menu by pressing the BlackBerry key.
  2. Now from your menu go to ‘Options’ and select Date/Time from the list.
  3. On your Date/Time page find the option ‘Use Network Time’ and select ‘No’ for that. When you select ‘No’ you will see a time and date appearing just below the option ‘Use Network Time’. Click on the time to manually adjust your clock. Once you’re done click the back button and select save.

That’s it; the time you changed in Step 3 will now appear on your phone’s home screen irrespective of the time in that zone or country. Anytime you want to switch back to your local time zone just select ‘ Use Network Time’ as ‘Yes’. This post is specially for those people who think that it’s not possible to change time yourself on your BlackBerry phone. 😉

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Difference between Tag Review and Profile Review on Facebook

Facebook.com, the best and one of the most confusing social networking website on the net in terms of its features recently launched two new features for its user privacy. As usual these two new features are very confusing too with little difference between them. These new features are ‘Tag Review’ and ‘Profile Review’. Both are nearly same which lets you to approve a post or photo tag before appearing on your profile and on Facebook. Let’s have a look at them.

Tag Review:

‘Tag Review’ a privacy feature that allows you to approve or reject a tag made by your friend on a photo or a post. The tag on that post or photo won’t appear until you approve it. If ‘Tag Review’ option is On you can check and approve tags and once it’s approved it will be automatically appeared on your wall. To enable this feature go to your privacy settings and click ‘Edit Settings’ given with ‘How Tags Work’ and click ‘Turn On Tag Review’.

Profile Review:

‘Profile Review’ is the second step of ‘Tag Review’. Once you have approved a Tag and activated the ‘Profile Review’ as well then it will ask you to Approve Profile Review so that Tagged stuff can be appeared on your profile. If you reject a pending post, the Tag will still be there but that photo or post won’t appear on your profile.

Profile Review option is given just above the Tag Review’ and you can activate it in same way. Once it’s activated you can go to your profile page to manage pending posts. Please note that Pending Posts tab will only appear on your profile if there’s a pending post/tag for review.

If you’re using Facebook from a long time then you probably know that Tag Review feature was earlier there on Facebook but Facebook disabled it after some time. It’s a nice and useful feature in terms of user privacy.

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20+ Categories to Find Recommended Google Plus Users to Follow!

A few weeks ago, Google Plus started showing the verified sign, to show that a particular Google+ account of a famous person is the real deal. But it has no way at of looking up interesting users with Google Plus.

Twitter has a search function which allows searching for trending topics which at the moment Google Plus lacks. This makes it difficult to run into interesting Google+ users from different niche.

Recommended Users, offers a solution but hosting an unofficial directory of famous Google Plus accounts.

The categories are many and a simple click shows a list of related Google+ accounts. One of the best parts of this directory, is it has more than 24 categories.

Next time if you are wondering who are the really interesting people on Google Plus, who are writing about food or web designing, then give Recommended Users a try.

Do drop in your comments.

Link: Recommended Users Google+

Related: 10 Great Tools to light up Google Plus Users.

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How to add pages you admin on your Facebook profile sidebar

Again we have something for Facebook page administrators. Last time we told you that ‘Why There Should be Only One Admin for Your Facebook Page’. This time we will tell you how you can add your page to your Facebook profile sidebar. This will show your page just below your ‘Featured Friends’ list with a new list ‘Pages’. Let’s have a look at this very simple procedure.

Well if you want to show your pages on your profile you don’t need to change even a single thing on your profile. All you have to do is to open the page that you admin and want to show on your profile and go to its settings i.e click on ‘Edit Page’.

After that click on ‘Featured’ link given on the sidebar. Featured here means the highlighted pages or page owners. Click ‘Add Featured Page Owners’ after that.

It will open a small window showing all the people who admin that page. Select yourself or anyone so that the page can be added on your or other admin’s profile.

Click ‘Save’ and you’re all done. That page will now be added to your profile. Open your profile to see your page there.

Please note that your profile link will also be added to your page as ‘Page Owner’. You cannot remove any one of them, which means if your page is on your profile, your profile will also appear on that page.

 

 

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How to extract actual link of a video on Facebook

If you want to upload your videos somewhere then Facebook is an alternate option too after websites like youtube and megavideo. You can upload any video on it and share it with your friends as well on your website or anyone on the net. But if you don’t know how to share it with people who are not on Facebook have a look at the method below.

How to extract video link:

Upload a video on Facebook or open an existing video. Now click on ’embed this video’ given below that video.

Also make sure that your video is Public. That means everyone on the internet can see it. If your video is private then this tutorial will be of no use as one must login to Facebook to see that.

Now copy the Embed code and paste it somewhere like on notepad. For example the embed code for my video is:

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<object width=”400″ height=”300″ ><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.facebook.com/v/2214868644923″ /><embed src=”http://www.facebook.com/v/2214868644923″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”400″ height=”300″></embed></object>

You Embed code will be like this only, except some change in video link. See the above Embed code, the actual link of my video is the value in it, that is:

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http://www.facebook.com/v/2214868644923

You can click on the link to see that video even if you are not logged into Facebook. The video will be in its maximum size but full screen option won’t work here.

Usage:

This video link might not be useful for all of you but you can use it in some cases like:

  1. Sharing a video where you don’t want people to know that who uploaded it.
  2. Sharing it as a comment on different websites.
  3. Sending the video to people who are not in your friend’s list.
  4. Sharing a video on different pages on Facebook.
  5. Sharing it on your website without embedding and not uploading on Youtube in order to keep limited viewers.

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How to customize your Facebook sidebar

With latest design change in Facebook, you can customize your homepage’s sidebar with your favorite pages and groups or you can even delete default buttons given there. Customizing your sidebar according to your needs will definitely make Facebook easier to use and hence will take less time to visit your favorite pages and groups or other links. Let’s see how you can edit your sidebar.

Follow these steps:

Open your Facebook homepage and see your sidebar as shown here. Leave FAVORITES for now and roll over your mouse to any link given under APPS, GROUPS or PAGES. You will see a pen like mark with every link click that to add it to your Favorites. That will now appear with your FAVORITE links like News Feed, Messages e.t.c. If you can’t see any particular group or page that you want to add to your Favorites, you can click on ‘More’ that will appear when you roll over your mouse where GROUPS and PAGES are written.

Once you have added your Favorite links you can go on your FAVORITES and click on that Pen Mark again and click re-arrange. After that Drag and Drop your links and arrange them according to your usage. You can also remove any particular link except ‘News Feed’ by clicking ‘Remove from Favorites’.

You can remove an application or group from sidebar by clicking the same button and selecting ‘Remove app’ or ‘Leave Group’ respectively. There’s no option for removing pages directly.

This customizing will be helpful for you if you admin some Facebook Pages or Groups as you can see number of Notifications on your page directly on your sidebar without visiting them.

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How to remove your imported contacts on Facebook

Are you using a BlackBerry, iPhone or Android and synced your phone’s contacts with Facebook? Or if you have used the ‘find friends’ feature on Facebook using your E-Mail, then this post is for you if you want to do the reverse process of syncing that is deleting all the imported contacts. Obviously it’s not a good idea to delete it one by one as there will be hundreds of them. The use of deleting imported contacts if to protect your friend’s details like E-Mail, phone number e.t.c. Please note that deleting imported contacts will also clear your phonebook contacts imported from your phone.

Removing imported Facebook contacts:

  1. To remove imported contacts first of all see all the contacts that you have imported and make sure that you want to delete all of them. You can see your imported contacts here. https://www.facebook.com/invite_history.php.
  2. You can delete some of them if you don’t wanna delete all. To remove all your contacts click on the link given below. It will ask for your confirmation so clicking it doesn’t mean it’ll remove them immediately.
    https://www.facebook.com/contact_importer/remove_uploads.php/?r=%2Finvite_history.php.
  3. Click ‘Remove’ to confirm. All your contacts will be deleted in few minutes depending upon the number of contacts. Turn of syncing if you are using an iPhone else contacts will be imported automatically again.

Please note  that these Facebook contacts are used by Facebook to find new friends for you that it shows in Friend suggestions. If you remove your contacts then friend’s suggestion will be less relevant.

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Why There Should be Only One Admin for Your Facebook Page

Facebook pages, a good way to interact with people who like your business, work or anything in common like an artist or a place. Most of the people have their pages as well on Facebook along with their profile. Some pages are with smaller number of fans but some are huge enough that people add anybody from page as it’s admin so that page can be managed by a small group of people like 3 or 4 persons. This posts tells you few reasons why you should keep your Facebook Pages with a single admin only. Check out the points below:

  • Co-Admins can remove Actual Admin: The worst thing about Facebook pages is that you can’t have an admin with lower privileges. Evey admin will have same power, that means if you make someone admin of your page, he can even remove you as the owner of that page. So it’s better if you admin your page yourself or make an admin someone you know personally. Never give administrator rights to a stranger from that page.
  • Who updated the page: If you keep more than 2 admins there will be a problem that nobody know who posted a particular update. What if somebody posted something abusive on that page? You can never figure out who posted that so administrator powers might get misused.
  • Admin’s profile got hacked: What if one of the admin’s profile got hacked? His profile as well as the page he admins both will be misused and even the hacker can remove you as admin or delete that page. But this might be beneficial too, what if your own profile got hacked? Co-Admin can save your page in that case 😉
  • Changing Page settings: Unfortunately you don’t get notifications while a co-admin changes anything in your page. Also you can’t check everything on daily basis to find out whether everything is fine or not. So keep  your page’s settings to yourself only.

Please add a point if I missed something, also do tell us what are your views about Facebook pages?

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How To Stop Those Useless Notifications from Facebook Groups

Facebook groups are a good way to interact with a number of people at the same time. You can share a post, photos, videos, events, documents simultaneously or you can even ask a questions. But a negative point of these groups is that admins or your friends can add you in  a group without your permission which leads to flooding of useless updates in your notifications page. One option of stopping these notifications is to unjoin that group, but there’s an alternate solution too where you can stop these notifications while staying in that group.

How to stop group notifications:

  • This will open the custom notifications, see the screenshot below.

Make the following changes:

  1. Select ‘Only posts I am subscribed to’ to completely stop notifications from that group, you will not receive any notification even if the admin posts. If you want updates from a post click ‘Subscribe’ link given with that post.
  2. Uncheck this box if you don’t want notifications as an E-Mail too.
  3. This box enables group chatting, if you feel that pop-up appeared by group chats are annoying too, then uncheck this box as well.

Now you’re all done, just click ‘Save Changes’ and that group will never disturb you again with annoying and useless notifications. Stay connected to Devils Workshop for more tips and tricks.

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How to find who unfriend you on Facebook [without app]

Last week we told you that how you can Backup or Export all your Facebook contacts with their E-Mail using a Yahoo! account. If you missed it you can read it here. Exporting contacts is a part of this tutorial so you have to read it before proceeding further. The good thing about this method is that we are not using any kind of 3rd party application and hence there will be no spam or scam.

Requirements: You need a Facebook account and a separate Yahoo account for this tutorial.

Steps:

  1. Follow the steps 1 to 4 of this tutorial: How to Backup/Export your Facebook contacts. After that all your Facebook contacts will also be there in your Yahoo! account with their E-Mails.
  2. This will create a Backup of your friends till that day. Now if you feel that someone deleted you, you can check it out by opening the page: https://www.facebook.com/find-friends.

  3. On that page select Yahoo. Now enter your Yahoo E-Mail address that you used in Step 1 and click ‘Find Friends’. In this Step we are importing our contacts back to Facebook that we exported earlier.

  4. Now a Pop-Up will appear asking your permission to start importing contacts on Facebook. Click agree to begin.

 

 

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  1. After that it will take you back to the ‘find-friend’ window and will show you how many contacts are there who are on Facebook but not in your friend’s list. This is actually the list of the people who unfriend you (deleted you) from Facebook provided that there were no contacts in your Yahoo account before step 1. You can add them back by checking the box given with each profile else click ‘Skip’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out the screenshot about, when I imported my Yahoo contacts it shows that I have 82 Yahoo! contacts on Facebook. That means a total of 82 people deleted me from their friend’s list from the day of my first Backup. Please make sure that you export your contacts time to time.

If you are stuck somewhere drop us a comment below. 🙂