Download Facebook iPad App

Facebook for iPad is now available in the iOS App Store. It looks similar to the one which was leaked back in July.

The app brings loads of new features – You can play Games in Full screen mode, view photos in high resolution, Chat with friends, easy navigation. It comes with a left-hand navigation bar for accessing the feeds, Photos, Messages, Groups and settings. Moreover, it also supports HD video and Airplay, so users can watch Facebook videos through their Apple TV or their other Apple devices.

Download Facebook iPad App

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Download Flickr Shoot and Share for Android

Flickr, yesterday released shoot-and-share its first official Android app, almost two years after it had released an app for iPhone.

Users can take shots directly from the app, edit photos and add Instagram-like filters. And then cross-post to multiple social platforms at the same time. The app also lets you change the flash and shutter focus as well as browse through photo libraries.

Recent uploads are organized in a stream that includes both the shots and comments side by side.

 

Download: Shoot and Share for Android by Flickr

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How to Remove or Disable Lightbox Image view from Blogger

Blogger has officially announced that the lightbox image view has been implemented on all blogger blogs. When you click an image it opens up with a large transparent black frame around it, exactly the same way photos are displayed on your Google+ account when clicked.

While for some this feature is an awesome improvement to how pictures are displayed, but for most bloggers users, this addition as caused problems. The blogger help forum is filled complains by blogger users, demanding this to be removed and others who see it as a bug in the blogger template.

Unfortunately blogger did not offer it as an opt-in feature. The problem with this addition is that images on a blog post don’t show up enlarged when clicked, as the way they showed up before the changes were made by blogger.

Until blogger address this issue, here is a work around by Mark from EnglishJavaDrinker that removes the lightbox affect.

To implement the code, simply head to:

Dashboard > Template > Edit HTML and find the </head> tag.

Now copy the code below and paste it right before </head>

<script type="text/javascript">

//<![CDATA[

function killLightbox() {

  var images = document.getElementsByTagName('img');

  for (var i = 0 ; i < images.length ; ++i) {

    images[i].parentNode.innerHTML = images[i].parentNode.innerHTML;

  }

}

if (document.addEventListener) {

  document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',killLightbox,false);

} else {

  document.attachEvent('onDOMContentLoaded',killLightbox);

}

//]]>

</script>

All Credit: EnglishJavaDrinker

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How To Add a Subscribe Option to your Facebook Profile

Facebook has added an option to let people "subscribe" to your profile just like the way they follow you on Twitter. Whenever you post an update on your wall with the privacy option set as “Public”, it will appear in the "News Feed" section of your subscribers.

The Subscribe button that sits on the top right side of a profile and wall page lets you hear from interesting people you're not friends with—like journalists, artists and political figures. Subscribers can choose what type of updates they want to see in their News Feeds. This includes: All updates, Most updates and Important Updates. There are further options to select the types of updates that should be posted to a News Feed. These can be live events, status updates, games, photos and videos.

 

How To Enable the Subscribe Button on your Facebook Profile

To add the subscribe button to Facebook and start getting subscribers, go to the Subscriptions tab on the left-hand side of your profile. Or, visit this subscription page and click Allow Subscribers. There on you can select whether you want subscribers to comment on your updates or get notified about new subscribers. You're done!

However "Subscribe" is an opt-in feature. The only people who allow subscribers will have a Subscribe button on their profile. If you don't see the button, you can't subscribe.

Next: Get Flight Related Information With Google

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Find Flight Related Information Easily With Google Flight Search

Google has added a new search feature that will help you sort through flight information and fares. Compare flights, dates, destinations, and fares in an instant.

The search feature is available initially to a select group of U.S cities and displays results for economy class round-trip flights only.

Whether you are looking for the cheapest flight to a particular city or a non stop flight, Flight Search can help you quickly find the best option for your trip.

Flight search results can be filtered out in several ways: dates, price, duration, number of stops, airlines, connections, outbound time and return time etc.

 

 

The map itself can be used to find several bits of information:

1. View flight options for a city by clicking that city on the map.
   
   
2. Click on an airport marker to see nearby airports with their lowest price flight, and check off the boxes for the airports to include in your flight search.
   
   
3. Zoom in on the map to see more airports in a particular area.
   Once you select a departure city, hover over any cities on the map with your mouse to compare prices on flights to those destinations.
   
   
4. Drag and drop the markers to adjust the origin and destination of your trip, and then explore various travel options based on different locations.

When you’ve found the right flights for you, click the red Book button. Google will take you to a website where you can purchase your tickets.

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Offline Google Mail App for Chrome Lets you Use your Gmail Offline

Gmail users previously were able to backup their emails offline using Gears, a Google plugin allowing web apps to run offline. But recently in May, Google announced that it shifted focus to HTML5 and stopped the development of Google Gears. As a result, those users who installed the versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome released after May could no longer backup their Gmail account using Gears.

The good news is that Google has brought back the ability for Gmail users to access their emails even when they are not connected to the internet.

The functionality can be achieved by installing “Offline Google Mail”, a new chrome web-app based on HTML5 that updates in the background while you’re online.

Incase the internet is not available, simply open a new tab in chrome and launch the app. From there you can compose, read, search and archive emails. Offline Google Mail will automatically sync the changes once internet connectivity is available.

The streamlined user interface, based on Gmail’s popular tablet interface, provides an extremely fast response time with a pure, email focused experience.

Install - Offline Google Mail

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Increase Gmail Account Security with basic Security Tips from Google

For most of us, a compromise on an email account could mean a compromise on a dozen connected accounts. Its always a good practice to have separate public and private email addresses. A public email address that your would use to subscribe to online services such Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Quora and several other sites and a private one that can be associated with Bank Accounts, Hosting Company, PayPal, Amazon, Online file hosting service and any other place where account security is even more critical.

Having separate email addresses combined with a strong password maybe the best security measure but if you are a Gmail user there are other basic, yet important steps that you can take to make your Gmail even more safe and secure.

Here are two videos from Google. One providing the very basic Gmail security tips and the other about the recently introduced — 2 Step Verification method.

Basic Gmail Security Tips:

 

2 Step Verification:

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Find Videos from Specific Websites with Google

You need to re watch a clip you recently saw on some popular sports website but can’t seem to find it easily or you want to find videos about some news events making headlines but these to be sourced only from news websites but can’t exactly figure out how.

Well, Google Videos isn’t the only places to search hundreds of sites for video content but certainly is among the better resources if not the best.

Simple search operators that we use on Google to find textual content can also be applied to video searches in a similar way to limit search a great extent to specific sites only.

For example: You wish to find videos of “forest fire” from some of the major online news sites you follow.

Head straight to Google Videos and use the “|” operator as below to get results only from desired news sites. In my case, the bbc, abcnews and msnbc.

forest fire bbc.co.uk | abcnews.go.com | msnbc.msn.com

Rarely, a search term may show up a couple of videos from YouTube or some other video site, along with results from our specified sites. This can happen  only if a video on YouTube or another video site has a link in the description area to any of the sites we want video results from.

We can always use the “ - “ search operator to leave out such results.

forest fire bbc.co.uk | abcnews.go.com | msnbc.msn.com –youtube.com

Search for Videos from specific websites with Truveo:

Many search engines provide us with an extensive video search functionality. Turveo is one of the best ones. It can pull results from major video sites including news and entertainment websites.

Simply enter your search terms and filter results from the sources listed.

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