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How to know who blocked you?

August 23, 2009 By: admin Category: Application, Idea Box, Info Tech

Used to chat with friends online whether it’s G Talk, msn, yahoo messenger or many others like AIM and MySpaceIM? Yes, we do the same. Online chatting has become part of our life, but what if someone intentionally block you in the chat room?

Here we will explore further, with Pidgin pidgin. Since they are many chatting networks available, we will only share one among the famous that is Google Talk.

1) If you are new to Pidgin, download Pidgin chat client here.

2) Assuming you’ve installed the file, we will next go straight to the configuration like below.

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Click [Add] and follow the 2 steps as shown below and complete the [Basic] and [Advance] tab. Once this step is completed, you should be able to connect to GTalk and load your connection/ friends with no mistake. Now we are on our way to find out who actually block you (if any).

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3) To check who is blocking you, go to Offline list. These lists may consist of peoples who genuinely not online and also peoples who intentionally block you where their status will shown as Offline as well.

Simply choose any friend whose status is Offline, right click on [Get Info] and you’ll be able to see the secret behind.

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Below comparison chart tells which of your connection is really Offline and who are the peoples intentionally blocked you. If he/ she blocked you, nothing will show under Buddy Information.

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Interesting? Get started with Pidgin now!

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How to understand Facebook better

August 16, 2009 By: admin Category: Idea Box

As Facebook user, chances you understand how Facebook (FB) works including adding friends, update recent status, view friends’ photos and using many other applications such as games and Pages.

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Here, we wish to explore further on some other exciting tricks/ tips on how you can work on Facebook. If you find other than what we have listed below, do feel free do drop us a comment and we shall include it by highlighting your name/ website as well.

1) How to update FB without using FB _____ 2) Understand if any of your FB friend block/ delete you privately _____3) Update Microsoft Outlooks’ contacts with FB photo _____4) Update your blog post to FB wall automatically_____ 5) Chatting with FB friends directly from desktop _____6) Use FB without entering the browser _____7) Choose favorite FB friends on profile

1) How to update FB without using FB

The HelloTxt Facebook Application allows you to set your Facebook status by posting a message to HelloTxt. You must add the HelloTxt application to your Facebook account to enable this service.

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After login into Facebook, simply click HelloTxt to get started!

2) Understand if any of your FB friend block/ delete you privately

3) Update Microsoft Outlooks’ contacts with FB photo

OutSync

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.

Check out the setup requirement here.

4) Update your blog post to FB wall automatically

Wondering how to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall automatically? Wordbook does it for you!  Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts as example shown below.

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Question: Isn’t Wordbook the same as importing my blog posts into Facebook Notes? Find out why.

5) Chatting with FB friends directly from desktop

Gabtastik, who currently supports Facebook Chat and Google Talk lets you keep chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser. It also lets you specify window display level and window opacity, and lets you toggle quickly between supported chat services.

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6) Use FB without entering the browser

Ever heard of Facebook Sidebar gadget? No surprise, you can easily see all the important updates happening on Facebook directly on your desktop!

Change your status. See all notifications sent to you. Hassle free login, simply login to the gadget once and keep yourself logged in all the time!

facebooksidebar_download or find out more!

7) Choose your favorite FB friends on profile

Got your own favorite friends in Facebook? How to specially display their pictures on your Facebook Profile Page?

Facebook lets you decide who shows up under Friends box. Click “edit” pencil in your Friends box and key-in the name of your favorite which says “Always show these friends”. Done and you have your favorite 6, 9 or even 12 of them!

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Yet, there are many others tips and tricks that we are just not able to share one by one. Why? Simply Facebook is so great that its team work on new ideas and applications every single minutes that made Facebook ranked the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users.

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Google Doodle

May 24, 2009 By: admin Category: Info Tech

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If you are one of the fans of Google, then you must know what the hack the above is.

Yes, they are Doodle, designed by Dennis Hwang. Let’s get to know him personally.

Click here.

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Google analytical bounce rate

April 29, 2009 By: admin Category: Info Tech

What does Bounce Rate mean?

Bounce rate is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entrance (landing) page. Use this metric to measure visit quality – a high bounce rate generally indicates that site entrance pages aren’t relevant to your visitors.

The more compelling your landing pages, the more visitors will stay on your site and convert. You can minimize bounce rates by tailoring landing pages to each keyword and ad that you run. Landing pages should provide the information and services that were promised in the ad copy.

To view the bounce rates for your website, go to the Bounce Rate report under Visitors > Visitor Trending > Bounce Rate.

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Google hanyu-pinyin

April 26, 2009 By: admin Category: Application, Info Tech

Some said it’s very creative, some said it’s powerful. I will say, it is the world easiest, world’s best and user friendly chinese character software, or hanyu-pinyin.

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You will never know how it can really works for you until you check out its feature, click here.

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For those are using old version, you can now upgrade to download the latest version.

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Download now.

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