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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.

Notification Control Lets Stop Unnecessary Email Notification From Social Networks

Kannan — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:26:08 +0000

Too many email notifications from different social networking services can be a pain. Majority of them are useless messages and unnecessarily filled our mail inbox with junks, so most often, it has become very difficult to find an important email among them. Of course, social networking services are offers options to control email notifications, but many users do not to know where it is.

Here is an online solution called Notification Control that helps you to skip ‘unnecessary’ email notification from different social networking services such as Facebook, Google +, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube, Tunblr, and more.

After enter at Notification Control, clicking a link, for example Twitter, will lead to twitter sign in page. Just sign in with your account and it will lead you straight to Twitter notification page. There you can uncheck any option that you don’t need.

After you’ve clicked on a link it will always remain grey as a reminder that you’ve already set it up the way you want.

Facebook Messenger App for Windows Download Available

Kannan — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:42:52 +0000

Facebook is to release a messenger app for Windows 7 PC to facilitate users chat and message with their Facebook friends without being login on facebook.com using a web browser. It also enables users to see the latest updates from their friends in ticker and gives quick notifications about what is going on. Currently it is in a testing phase; however, you can download it officially from the Facebook help center.

This first version of Facebook Messenger app does not have support for video call and group chat feature, however, quite easy to handle. It also features chat sound and Dock Window to right options.

To use this app, after installation, you will need to login and give permission to your Facebook account from a web browser. For that, once you set up the app, right click the Facebook icon in the system tray to log in and log out.

Additionally, you will need to have the “Keep me logged in” option checked (on your browser) when using Messenger. This option allows you to stay logged into Facebook even after you close your browser.

Interested users can get more details and download from the official Facebook help center here. (Via)

fTalk: Stylish Desktop Chat Client for Facebook

Kannan — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:53:30 +0000

I think one of the most attractive features of Facebook is its chat feature. It lets users instantly start conversations with their Facebook friends without installing any IM software. However, a problem here is, users need to be on the Facebook.com website in order to use Facebook chat. If you are looking for a simple IM desktop client for Facebook chat, you can try fTalk.
fTalk is a free messenger application (IM client) that enable you to chat with your Facebook friends from the comfort of a desktop IM client, you don’t need to login to Facebook.com. It provides a more pleasant environment than the built-in Facebook chat.

Currently fTalk offers following features:

Simple, neat, fast and accessible
No need to open any browser
Get notified when friends come online
Update your status right from the app
Cool emoticons

fTalk is rather a new application, so it is limited with features and may contain bugs. However, the developer claims that they will add more features in future.

fTalk (not a Facebok client) can be downloaded from here for Windows.

Backup and Download Facebook Photo Albums in Zip Format

Kannan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:38:45 +0000

Sharing photos with friends and acquaintances is one of the most popular features of Facebook. However, sometimes you may want to keep a copy of your photos or your friends’ photos locally on your computer for some reasons. There are several ways for the same and Facebook2Zip is another good tool for this work.
Facebook2Zip is a Facebbook app that helps you download all your albums (or your friends’ albums) in compressed Zip file format.

To do this, you have to give permission access to the app, choose your or one of your friends album (s) and click ‘download all’ button. To download multiple albums, press and hold Ctrl key and select albums.

Nielson Social Media Report 2011: Snapshot of Social Media Landscape and Audience

Kannan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 11:35:12 +0000

Today, social media is not just limited to socializing; it connects people with just about anything. A recent report by Nielson (Social Media Report: Q3 2011) reveals some interesting facts about the landscape and audience of social media. The total usage of all social networking sites, especially Facebook has grown dramatically in all age segments globally. Another interesting fact is that, today out of five active internet users, nearly four of them are using internet to visit social networking sites and blogs.
The following figures from the report shows that Facebook is the largest social networking site in terms of visitors, time spent on the site, and unique mobile users followed by Blogger and Twitter (May 2011 statistics).

Facebook: 140.336 million
Blogger: 50.055 million
Twitter: 23.617 million
WordPress: 22.417 million
MySpace: 19.25 million
LinkedIn: 17.786 million
Tumblr: 11.87 million
Six Apart Typepad: 8.578 million
Yahoo Pulse: 8.397 million
Wikia: 7.601 million

Key Finding of the Report:

Social networks and blogs continue to dominate Americans’ time online, now accounting for nearly a quarter of total time spent on the Internet.
Social media has grown rapidly – today nearly 4 in 5 active Internet users visit social networks and blogs.
Americans spend more time on Facebook than they do on any other U.S. website.
Close to 40 percent of social media users access social media content from their mobile phone.
Social networking apps are the third most-used among U.S. smartphone owners.
Internet users over the age of 55 are driving the growth of social networking through the Mobile Internet.
Although a larger number of women view online video on social networks and blogs, men are the heaviest online video users overall streaming more videos and watching them longer.
70 percent of active online adult social networkers shop online, 12 percent more likely than the average adult Internet user.
53 percent of active adult social networkers follow a brand, while 32 percent follow a celebrity.
Across a snapshot of 10 major global markets, social networks and blogs reach over three-quarters of active Internet users.
Tumblr is an emerging player in social media, nearly tripling its audience from a year ago.

Nielsen’s Social Media Report – Q3 2011” presents a snapshot of the current social media landscape and audiences in the U.S. and other major markets. Visit here for details. (via)

Learn How to Stay Safe and Still Have Fun on Facebook (user guide)

Kannan — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:23:26 +0000

Because of the virtual identities created on social networks like Facebook, often mirror user’s real personas, making them vulnerable to identity theft. Whether you are a young adult, parents, educator, or whatever will you be, it is very important to protect our real identities from strangers, avoid scammers, and stop imposters for a peaceful mind.
If you are an avid Facebook user, here is a very good guide (official) to learn how to stay safe and still have fun online. Because of the larger user base and popularity of Facebbok, cybercriminals and scammers targeting this social network like mad.

You can learn the following things from this official user guide to Facebook security.

Protect your Facebook account
Avoid the scammers
Use advanced security settings
Recover a hacked Facebook account
Stop imposters

You can download the eBook ‘A Guide to Facebook security ‘(PDF) free at here.[via]