20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know [Tips, Tricks]

20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know [Tips, Tricks]

If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more...

This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

How to Download Facebook Photo Albums

FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.

How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook

Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.

How to Update Facebook without Using Facebook

hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.

How to Schedule Facebook Messages

Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.

How to "Friend" Someone on Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.

How to Create a Photo Collage Using Pictures of Your Facebook Friends

Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.

How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete or Block You

This service has been discontinued. X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.

How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page

A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"

How to Remove Facebook Advertisements

This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.

How to Syncs Photos of Facebook Friends with Contacts in Microsoft Outlook

OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.

How to Display Facebook Statuses on WordPress Blog

The following method make use of Facebook status feed and WordPress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host WordPress blogs.

How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically

Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.

How to Access Facebook Chat on Desktop

Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.

How to Create Quiz on Facebook Easily

LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.

How to Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts

Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.

How to Get Facebook Updates on Email

NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.

How to Update Facebook Status from Firefox

FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.

How to Get Facebook on Your Desktop

Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy andFacebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.

How to Delete, Cancel and Terminate Facebook Account and Profile

A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.


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Easily Hide Files In an Image File With File Camouflage [Tips, Tricks, Hacks]

Easily Hide Files In an Image File With File Camouflage [Tips, Tricks, Hacks]

Sometimes you need to hide a file. It may be a surprise birthday party invite list, a sensitive work document or even something a bit more nefarious. Whatever the reason, File Camouflage will do the trick.

What happens when you camouflage a file is, the file you want to hide is masked as one of your existing picture. If you open the picture with the file hidden in it, the picture will look no different. The only difference you will notice after the file is camouflaged into another  is the name of the host picture is modified.

The beauty of this application is its portability. You can run it from a USB drive or even the memory of your smart phone. Tell me that’s doesn’t make you feel like a spy.

How to Install and Use File Camouflage

There are two different places you can install the File Camouflage application. You can install it on your hard drive, or you can install it on a portable flash drive of some sort.

How-to hide your files using File Camouflage

Here is how the process works.

STEP 1. Open the exe file. Click on “Skip” when asking for a donation and the main application window will open up.

STEP 2. First pick a file you want to hide by clicking on the “Browse” button and selecting the file.

STEP 3. Choose a Jpeg file to use to hide your file in.

STEP 4. Select the output location for the camouflaged file. The output file will have a different file name to tell the two files apart.
STEP 5. Click the Camouflage button. The process of hiding the file in the picture will start.

STEP 6. When the file is hidden, you will see a screen like this telling you what the new filename is for the new picture with a file hidden in it.

I chose to camouflage a picture in a picture. Here is the picture I hide.

Now, here is a before and after of the picture used to hide my file.

Before

After

Do you see any difference with the two pictures? I couldn’t see any difference either.

Un-Camouflaging your file

STEP 1. Click on the De-camouflage tab.
STEP 2. Select the image with the embedded file and the output folder location.

Tips :

1. If you pick the wrong file and run the program, you will see an error like this letting you know there is no file in the image you selected.

2. If there is a file camouflaged in the image you chose, you will see, what looks like, the same process as you did when you camouflaged it.

When you are done, you can open the file like normal.

Just to be clear, you need a Jpeg file to hide a file. It’s not just images that you can hide – all sorts of files (.txt, .pdf etc) can be hidden in the Jpeg image.

Conclusion

If you are transporting sensitive information on a flash drive or even emailing files with information you do not want to fall into the wrong hands, this is ideal. It was tested running from a 4gb flash drive, a micro SD card in an Android phone and from the hard drive of a Windows computer. All worked great for both hiding and un-hiding the files.

Download File Camouflage and start hiding your files.
Alternate Download Link .

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How to Hide / Show Specific Control Panel Applets / Icons in Windows? [Tips, Tricks]

How to Hide / Show Specific Control Panel Applets / Icons in Windows? [Tips, Tricks]

This tutorial will guide you to hide or show any specific Control Panel applet in Windows. This tutorial will work for all Windows versions: NT, 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008 and 7.

METHOD A: For All Windows Versions except Windows 95, 98 & Me

1. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. Now go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\
OR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\

2. Under this key create a new key with the name don't load , so the new path will be:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\don't load
OR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\don't load

3. Now in right-side pane, create new String value. Set its name to the file name of the applet which you want to hide, e.g. if you want to hide Display applet then set its name toDesk.cpl now set its value to no to hide it. If you want to show it again, either set its value toyes or simply delete the String value.
To use the above mentioned method, you'll need to know the .CPL file name of the desired applet. You can search for .CPL in Windows Search or you can use help of following list which contains .cpl file names of almost all default Control Panel applets:

CPL File Name	Applet Name
Access.cpl	Accessibility
Appwiz.cpl	Add or Remove Programs
Bthprops.cpl	Bluetooth Devices
Desk.cpl	Display
Hdwwiz.cpl	Add New Hardware
Inetcpl.cpl	Internet Options
Intl.cpl	Regional and Language Options
Joy.cpl	Game Controllers
Keymgr.cpl	Stored User Names and Passwords
Liccpa.cpl	Licensing
Main.cpl	Mouse
Mlcfg32.cpl	Mail
Mmsys.cpl	Sound and Audio Devices
Ncpa.cpl	Network Connections
Nusrmgr.cpl	User Accounts
Nwc.cpl	Netware client connectivity
Odbccp32.cpl	ODBC Data Source Administrator
Powercfg.cpl	Power Options
Sysdm.cpl	System
Telephon.cpl	Phone and Modem Options
Timedate.cpl	Date and Time
Sapi.cpl	Speech
Wuaucpl.cpl	Automatic Updates
Wscui.cpl	Security Center or Action Center

METHOD B: For All Windows Versions except Windows 95, 98 & Me

1. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. Now go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

2. Look for a key "Explorer" under it. If its not present, then create a new one and give it name Explorer.
3. Select "Explorer" key and in right-side pane, create a new DWORD value DisallowCpl and set its value to 1
4. Now create another new key under Explorer key with the name DisallowCpl so the new path will be:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer\DisallowCpl

5. Select "DisallowCpl" key and in right-side, create new String value with name 1 and set its value to the applet name which you want to hide.You don't need to use the .cpl file name of applet in this method. You have to put the applet label which you see in Control Panel.

e.g., If you want to hide AutoPlay applet, then create a new String value, give it name 1 and set its value to AutoPlay. If you want to hide more applets, then simply create more String values with names 2, 3 and so on and set their values to the applet label.

METHOD C: For All Windows Versions except Windows 95, 98 & Me

This method is opposite of METHOD B. In this method, you'll tell Windows which applets should be visible and Windows will automatically hide the rest.
Its useful when you want to show a few specific applets and want to hide remaining applets. So you just need to create a few String values to tell Windows which applets you want to show. It'll save your valuable time.
1. Type regedit in RUN dialog box and press Enter. Now go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies

2. Look for a key "Explorer" under it. If its not present, then create a new one and give it name Explorer.
3. Select "Explorer" key and in right-side pane, create a new DWORD value RestrictCpl and set its value to 1
4. Now create another new key under Explorer key with the name RestrictCpl so the new path will be:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\ Explorer\RestrictCpl

5. Select "RestrictCpl" key and in right-side, create new String value with name 1 and set its value to the applet name which you want to show.You don't need to use the .cpl file name of applet in this method. You have to put the applet label which you see in Control Panel.

e.g., If you want to show AutoPlay applet, then create a new String value, give it name 1 and set its value to AutoPlay. If you want to show more applets, then simply create more String values with names 2, 3 and so on and set their values to the applet label.
Now Windows will only show the applets which you mentioned in String values, other applets will be hidden.

METHOD D: For Windows 95, 98 & Me

1. Open "%windir%\Control.INI" file. Where "%windir%" denotes Windows folder which is present in system drive where Windows is installed.
2. You'll see a line saying [don't load] in the file. If you can't find it, then create a new line at last.
3. Now under this line, you can set .CPL file name of your desired applet which you want to hide in following format:
filename.cpl=no
e.g.,
If you want to hide Display applet, then the syntax will be:
desk.cpl=no
You can create similar lines for other applets which you want to hide. The .CPL file name can be obtained from the list mentioned in METHOD A.

METHOD E: Using TweakUI Power Toy

You can also use Microsoft official powertoy "TweakUI" to easily hide/show control panel applets.
Download TweakUI from here. Run it and click on "Control Panel" in left side section. Now in right-side list, you can easily hide/show desired applets by just enabling/disabling the appropriate applet checkbox.

Click on Apply button and you have done.

NOTE: This tutorial can also be used in case some applets in Control Panel have been disabled accidentally and you want to enable them again. Just follow the steps mentioned in above methods and delete the required string value or line.
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How to make your Own EXE file [Tricks]

This is a tutorial where you can make your Own EXE Setup file of your Own. You can add as much number of Files you want and make an EXE File and send it to any friend so that he can extract and use the Application. You can create a Setup.exe and distibute Games, Software, Images and anything you want in a Single Executable file , rather than sending in Multiple File Formats.

Here is the Step by Step Tutorial of Making your own EXE file Easily.

1. Navigate to the “Start” menu and select “Run.” Type “iexpress” (without quotes) and click “OK.” The IExpress Wizard will appear.



2. Select the “Create new Self Extraction Directive file” radio button and click “Next.” The Package Purpose dialog opens.



3. Select the “Extract files and run an installation command” radio button to create a package that will install a program after it extracts its files, or select “Extract files only” to create a package that simply compresses its contents. Click “Next.” The “Package Title” dialog opens.



4. Type in a title of the package into the text box. This will display the title on every dialog box the user sees when she extracts files from your Setup file. Click “Next.” The Confirmation Prompt displays.



5. Select “No prompt” to skip confirming with the user that she wants to install your package, or select “Prompt user with:” and enter a message into the text box, such as “Are you sure?” Click “Next.”



6. Select “Do not display a license” to skip showing the user a license agreement she must agree to before installation, or select “Display a license” to show one and then click on “Browse” to find a text file that will display in a text window when the user installs the package. Click “Next.”



7. Click “Add” and navigate the dialog window that appears to the files you want to include in your package. Continue doing this until you have added all of the files you want to include and then click “Next.”



8. Select an installation program from the drop-down menu that appears if you selected to run an installation command and then click “Next.” Otherwise, skip this step.



9. Leave the default option selected in the “Show window” screen. Click “Next.”



10. Click the “Display message” option and type a message, such as “Extraction Complete!” to show the user when the package finishes installing her files. Click “Next.”



11. Type “Setup.exe” into the text box to name your package and select a location to save the file to, using the “Browse” button. Click “Next.”




12. Leave the default options selected in the “Configure restart” screen if you chose to use an installation command, then click “Next.” Otherwise, skip this step.

13. Select “Save Self Extraction Directive (SED) file,” which is a text file that contains a record of the package you are creating, or select “Don’t save” to not do this. Click “Next.”

14. Click “Next” on the “Create package” screen to create your Setup.exe file. Click “Finish” to close the IExpress Wizard.
Finally you are your Own EXE is done . Save it and send it to your Friends to Exteact the Files inside it.
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