Facebook Chat Notifications for Chrome
If you are regularly making use of Facebook chat, you have probably noticed that you can only keep up with messages if you have the Facebook site open and pay attention to […]
Facebook Launches App Center in the US
Up until now Facebook users who wanted to install a particular app or game on the social networking site had to either search for it on Facebook, or be notified about it […]
Facebook Promote for non-English Admins
Facebook is currently rolling out its new promote feature that page admins can make use of to show the selected post to people who have liked the page. It is basically a […]
More Indicators that Opera may be for Sale emerge
As far as I'm concerned, it is all just a rumor at this point in time. I'm talking about Opera Software currently in talks with Facebook, and maybe other potential buyers. Two […]
Facebook finally releases Admin Roles for Pages
Up until now Facebook Page admins could authorize other users as admins, who then had more or less the same rights as the page creator. This approach was problematic for a number […]
Rumor: Facebook To Buy Opera Software To Join Browser Wars
Okay take this with some skepticism as there is no official confirmation about this yet, and the only source for the article is an unnamed one. According to web magazine Pocket-Lint, Facebook […]
Facebook Breaks Ties With Grooveshark Permanently
If you have been one of the five hundred thousand or so Grooveshark app user over at Facebook, you may have noticed that the app is not working anymore. Or, maybe you […]
Beware: Facebook Messenger Reveals Locations, Introduces Read Confirmations
Facebook is currently rolling out an update for its Facebook Messenger apps for iOS and Android, that is bringing new features to the clients that will surely cause some controversy. One of […]
Facebook Auto-Logout for Firefox Makes Sure You Are Logged Out Of Facebook
Staying logged in after using Facebook, or any other Internet service for that matter, is more comfortable than having to remember to log out of the social networking site every time you […]
Facebook Should Build Their Own Browser? I Do Not Think So
Ben Parr over at Cnet believes that Google will eventually win the social networking battle against Facebook thanks to the success of the company's Google Chrome web browser. The argument goes something […]
Download an Expanded Facebook Archive
For some time now Facebook users can download their archive to their computer. This includes the photos or videos that were shared on Facebook, the wall posts, messages and chat conversations, as […]
Restore Old Facebook Profiles With Timeline Remove for Chrome
The reception of Facebook's Timeline profile design has been highly controversial so far, with part of the userbase rejecting it. With Facebook rolling out the new profile design for everybody, there is […]
Facebook Messenger for Windows Now Officially Available
Facebook Messenger leaked back in December, and Facebook decided to keep the link active that was pointing to the program's download. Today, Facebook is officially releasing Messenger for Windows, promising that Mac […]
Facebook Logout Ads, Bing First to Advertise
In the past year, Facebook and Microsoft have started to work closely together. Microsoft has for instance added Facebook to its recently purchased Skype software, and to the company's Bing search engine, […]
Websites Can See If You Are Logged Into A Social Networking Site
Can websites find out if you are logged into Facebook, Twitter or Google+? That's what Tom Anthony wanted to find out. If third party websites could, it could be used for different […]
Encrypt Facebook Group Communication With Encrypt Facebook
Social networking sites may use the contents that you post on their sites in a variety of ways. They may sell them to advertisers, use them to personalize advertising on their sites, […]
Facebook Users Can Soon Listen To Music With Their Friends
When I discover a great video or music track on the Internet I often want to share it with friends who I know have a similar taste when it comes to entertainment. […]
How To Change Your Birthday On Facebook
When you sign up for a Facebook account you are asked to enter information about you including your birthday. The majority of Facebook users will probably get that right, but it can […]
Pokes, How To Display Them Again on Facebook
A recent redesign on Facebook has changed the look and feel of the user start page on the social networking site. Some of the changes, the ticker for instance, have mostly received […]
How To Avoid Facebook Timeline Profiles
Facebook recently rolled out a new user profile design that the company calls Timeline. These new profiles change the layout and design of user profiles fundamentally. Facebook Timeline is currently an opt-in […]
My Permissions Lets You Clean App Permissions
With the popularity of a service and an api come third party services that either use the service's authorization system or add functionality to the service. A prime example is Facebook. Sites […]
Facebook Messenger, Chat and Notification Client For Windows
Update: Facebook Messenger is no longer available for Windows. Facebook is only offering it for Android, iOS and Windows Phone currently. We have removed the link to the (now defunct) download page […]
Facebook Timeline Profiles Now Available To All Users
Timeline is the name of the new Facebook user profile that was previously only available to beta testers and developers. Interested users can now activate Timeline for their profile on this page […]
Facebook bug can make your private photos public
Nothing is ever 100% completely secure, let's get this settled from the off. Whatever security anybody or any company ever puts in place there's either some way to crack it, or some […]
Delete Facebook Friends In Bulk
Update: The userscript has not been updated for nearly two years and is not working right now as a consequence. We have removed the link to it as a consequence. For now, […]
Modify Facebook To Your Liking With Social Fixer
Most Facebook users probably have one or two page elements or features that annoy the hell out of them. This can be a small recent change like the top posts feature that […]
Facebook Ticker Now With Sponsored Stories
The Facebook Ticker is a controversial new feature that Facebook introduced in August of this year. It basically displays a history of friend activity on the popular social networking site; It notifies […]
Turn On Tag Reviews On Facebook To Avoid Being Tagged Automatically
One of the biggest sources of spam in my opinion are tags on Facebook. The reason for this is that it is possible to tag friends in photos automatically. Those information are […]
Logging Out Of Facebook Is Not Enough
You may know that your browser sends information to Facebook whenever you visit a web page that hosts a Facebook Like or Share button or other Facebook content. That's true even if […]
Facebook Friendly Gaming Simplifier For Firefox, Chrome
I have to admit that I'm not playing games on social networking sites like Facebook or Google Plus. To be honest, I'm annoyed by status messages that contain gift, bonus or game […]
Facebook Side Ticker Remover, Hide Facebook Ticker
I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of the Facebook sidebar ticker that is now being displaying on every page on the social networking site. The ticker displays the […]
Facebook Introduces Top Stories From The Last Day
If you are not visiting Facebook on a daily basis, you may have had to read a lot of news stories that have accumulated since your last visit. Facebook then did not […]
Facebook Subscribe Button
Up until now it was not really easy to customize what appears in your news feed and what not. That's a big issue if you do not want to see game updates […]
Every Facebook User Has Multiple Passwords
Facebook users log in to the social networking site with their username and password. Normally you would expect that the password is unique, and that no one else can access the account […]
Facebook Improves Friend Lists, Introduces Smart Lists
Facebook has just announced that they are updating and improving friend lists on the social networking sites. The improved friend lists are said to make it easier for users to see updates […]
Facebook Improves Photo Feature
It is an incredible number: the 250 million photos that get uploaded to Facebook every day. Imagine that: 250 million photos. That's a lot and some Facebook users must really be active […]
Facebook Introduces Photo Tag Previews, Other Sharing Changes
One of the most annoying elements on Facebook in my opinion is photo tag spam that is running rampant on the social networking site. Especially so since spammers take advantage of the […]
A Guide To Facebook Security
Facebook on Thursday has released a security guide aimed at young adults, parents and educators to educate them about security concepts on the social networking site. The 14 pages of the pdf […]
Facebook spammer turns himself in to the FBI
A US man who sent more than 27 million spam to Facebook users has turned himself in to FBI officers in California after being put on their wanted list. Sanford Wallace, from […]
Skype Update 5.5 With Critical Security Vulnerability
It does not happen often that software updates ship with critical security issues, or that those issues are detected shortly after an update gets released. But that's exactly the case with the […]
