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Design Facebook Timeline Cover Photo From Android Phone [Step-by-Step Guide]

Kannan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:53:25 +0000

Personally, I love Facebook’s new Timeline feature as it brings a bright and colorful new interface to my profile. One new feature of Facebook Timeline is users can charm their Facebook home page by adding a cover photo. Here is how to create an awesome cover photo (also profile picture) from your Android phone using a free app called Facebook Timeline Covers by D33P and upload it right to your Facebook Timeline.

Step 1: Download Facebook Timeline Covers by D33P from Android Market and install it. On the first run, you will be prompted to grant access to your Facebook account. Do so.

Step 2: To create cover photo, tap on the blank place of ‘Cover Photo’ (or to create profile picture, tap on the blank place of ‘Profile Picture’).

Step 3: Now choose a photo from your Android device, app’s cover art gallery, photo from your Facebook News Feed or from your friends’ Facebook photos.

Step 4: Once you are done with your selection, tap on ‘Use photo’, then preview your Facebook cover photo and tap on ‘Finish’. Now, if you want you can also create a new profile picture just as above.

After finishing your work, tap on ‘Upload&Share’ option to upload your cover photo to your Facebook Timeline.

What is interesting with this Android app is you can create an awesome Cover Photo from a great photo that you just taken by your phone.

If you want to create a Cover Photo for Facebook Timeline from your computer, you can use the web application called CoverCanvas.

How to Reveal Hidden Passwords in Firefox and Google Chrome

Kannan — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:00:01 +0000

Automatic login in sites like Facebook, Google +, Twitter, etc makes our online life a little easier as we don’t have to enter the password and username every time we go to the relevant login page. However, if you have forgotten a password on a site that automatically logs you in, and you need to know what will be behind the asterisks or dots, here is how to reveal it.

For Firefox, follow the steps given below:

Step 1: Run Firefox browser and right click the Bookmarks bar.

Step 2: Then select ‘New Bookmark’ and give a name for new Bookmark, such as ‘Show Password’.

Step 3: now copy this code from Pastebin, insert it into the Location box, and click ‘Add’ button.

Step 4: The next time when you are on the relevant password page, you click that bookmark; your password will appear in a box called Password found.

Similarly, you can do this in Google Chrome also.

Step 1: Right click the Bookmarks bar, select ‘Add Page’ and give the new bookmark name (such as show password).

Step 2: Next, copy the Pastebin code, paste it into the URL box, and click OK.

Warning: If more than one person uses your computer, should not use this method, as there are safety concerns.

Note: If you aren’t familiar with Pastebin, it is a very useful website mainly used by programmers to store pieces of sources code or configuration information. It lets you cut and paste snippets of source code that other people have created.

Convert Your Bookmarklet Into Chrome Extension [How to]

Kannan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:33:38 +0000

Twitter Share is one of my favorite bookmarklets that makes it easy for me to share any webpage, even if there isn’t a tweet button. However, I have to access it from my Chrome’s bookmark bar each time I need it, which is annoying as I have few other bookmarks also. However, by converting bookmarklets into an extension, I am able to access it just with a click from the Chrome’s address bar. Here is how it is.

Here is how to convert your Bookmarklet into a Chrome extension with an easy to use web app – no technical knowhow or coding experience required. It helps us avoid cluttering the bookmark bar.

Visit this web app page and follow the instructions:

Step 1: Type name, description for bookmarklet and drag it into the form.

Step 2: Click “Generate extension” and download the zipped extension.

Step 3: Unzip the downloaded file, then, go to Chrome’s extensions setting page (chrome://settings/extensions) and enable ‘Developer mode’.

6. Click “Load unpacked extension…” and select unzipped folder. That’s all.

Download Google Web Fonts to Your Computer [How to]

Kannan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:06:39 +0000

Google’s Web Fonts hosts hundreds of free eye-catching fonts that you probably don’t have on your hand. If you are looking a way to download these open-source fonts to your computer to expand your font collection and to use in your design works, documents or presentations, here is how you can do that.

Step 1: Visit Google Web Fonts at http://www.google.com/webfonts

Step 2: On the left side, you can filter your font choice by font category like serif, sans serif and handwriting, font style like width, thickness, etc. and font script like Latin, Greek, etc.

On the top right, you can select font size, sort fonts by popularity, trending, style, date added, etc, and choose to see fonts from one word, a sentence, or paragraph.

Step 3: Now, browse through the fonts by scrolling down the page.

Step 4: On the fonts that you would like to download, click the blue ‘Add to Collection’ button. You can add as many fonts as you like.

Step 5: After completing your collection, click the ‘Download your Collection’ (see screenshot above) link shown at the top-right hand corner.

Step 6: In the pop-up window that follows, click on ‘Download the font families in your Collection as a ZIP file’ (see screenshot below).

To add fonts to your system, just extract the downloaded ZIP file and add fonts to your system’s Fonts folder.

Firefox: Open Any Link in Private Browsing Mode by Right Clicking

Kannan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:02:28 +0000

As you all know, all major web browser have an option to switch to private browsing mode. In this mode, all browsing activities will be deleted once you close the browser. Of course, you can quickly switch between private and normal browsing mode by using shortcut keys (for FF & IE: Ctrl + Shift + P, for GC: Ctrl + Shift + N), but how to open a particular link in private browsing mode while you are in normal mode.

For Firefox users there is an add-on called ‘Open in Private Browsing Mode’ that enables a right click menu option to launch any link into private browsing mode.

After installation, while browsing in normal mode, just right-click on a link that you would like to open in private browsing mode, and select “Open in Private Browsing mode” option.

Firefox will switch to Private Browsing and automatically open the link you selected.

Firefox users can install this restartless add-on from Mozilla add-on website.

How to Open the Last View Page in Adobe Reader

Kannan — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:09:21 +0000

Since a great number of e-books are in the PDF format, and many people depend on the free Adobe Reader for reading them, bookmark feature in Adobe Reader has some importance. Because, usually an e-book contains several pages, if it is hundred or more pages long, we cannot read it whole at once. But the problem here is, the free Adobe Reader does not have bookmarking feature to reopen the last view page, then how you can do that.

If you can create bookmarks or open the last view page when reopening the PDF file to continue the reading, it would be more convenient and time saving. Unfortunately, each time you open a PDF document, Adobe reader open it from the beginning page.

However, Adobe Reader has a feature to open the last view page. Of course, It is not a real bookmark but at least you can get back to the last view page when reopen the eBook.

1. To enable this feature, in Adobe Reader, go to Edit – Preferences.

2. Under Categories, click on Documents.

3. Enable ‘Restore last view settings when reopening documents’ option and click Ok to save the settings. [Via]

Instantly Delete all Private Data and Close all Tabs From Firefox

Kannan — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:25:10 +0000

For some reasons, you may want to immediately delete all your private data (Cookies, browsing history, saved form info, saved passwords, download history, cache, etc) from your Firefox browser. Usually it involves few steps. But, if you are looking for an alternate, quick way, here is how you can do all that with a little extension called Eraser. Besides, you can also close all opened tabs with a click.
Eraser will be handy, for example, if you want to clear your browsing information easily and most importantly immediately. It can delete Cookies, Browsing History, Saved form info, Saved passwords, Download History, Cache, Search bar and Flash Local Shared Objects (Flash cookies) with a click.

Install Eraser extension from Mozilla add-on site and restart your Firefox. It will add an Eraser-button in toolbar. If not, right-click on the toolbar, select ‘customize’, and drag and drop Eraser icon into the toolbar.

To delete your private data or close all opened tabs, just click this button. From the Eraser preferences (click on the Eraser button), you can select which item you need to delete.