Facebook offering Rs 50 talktime for referral Signups

The Social Networking Giant,Facebook is continuously coming up with new ideas to promote itself.We all know Facebook is best in everything it does.Recently,after buying fb.com domain name for $8.5 million,Facebook has now come with another brilliant idea.

Now what's that idea?The idea is that Facebook will offer the mobile talk time worth Rs. 50 to new 'Selective' Users in India who make the signup on the basis of some reference.

The first thought that would be coming to your mind would definitely be "It's another fake news" but be assured this time,the news is definitely not fake.It has been revealed by one senior company official.

Also the Country Growth Manager,Kevin D'souza said that the initiative has been taken on the pilot basis and the amount of recharge varies from person to person and place to place since different telecom carriers have different Facebook plans.

D'souza also added that they never know what thing may work.So,they continuously keep on experimenting up with new things and this is also one of their experiments which is being done in India.He continued saying that the company reserves the rights to discontinue this service at any time without any notice.Had it happened,will the talktime received prior to it be credited as appropriate only.

The user will have to firstly register on the company's website and then will have to provide his/her mobile number along with the mobile number of the person who has referred him/her in order to avail this Rs. 50 talk time,the Facebook's Mobile version talk time promotion page reads out.After confirmation of account,the user will receive the talk time within three business days.


We can't say,this new experiment is anyhow going to be fruitful for Facebook or not but definitely Indian users are going to be benefited a lot with it. Afterall Rs. 50 recharge is not a poor amount.

Create your own folder lock with a Simple Code

Folder locks have become the necessity for this generation for the very obvious reasons which we all know..But finding them for free on the internet is sometimes not an easy task to do.

There are lots of issues related to the free online folder locks like the trial period,fake serial key and lots more.

Even if you cope up with these issues,still you will be using only a 3rd party software which may not be secure and genuine in every case.

So,won't it be a better idea,if you can create your own folder lock and that too using the easiest way ?Not only you will be prevented from relying on some 3rd party software,but also you won't be having the need to download it from anywhere.

Features that would be available with this Folder Lock

1) Ability to lock and unlock it with your desired password.

2)Hide the folder from everybody(The folder will remain hidden even if you check the option reading "Show Hidden Files and Folders").


Now lets see,how to create this folder lock:

1) Open a notepad file and copy the below code in it.

2)Type your desired password for the folder lock in the place highlighted in the red reading "type your password here"  in the code.

3)After making the necessary changes,save the file with the name locker.bat

4)Now a bat file has been created.Double click on it.

5)Double clicking on bat file will automatically generate the locker folder in which you can add your files like you do in other ordinary folders.

6)Now to hide and lock the folder,again double click on the bat file created by you i.e 'locker.bat' file.
You will see a message like this 
"Are you sure you want to lock the Folder(Y/N), type Y(yes) and press Enter to lock and hide it.

7)Now if you want to make the folder visible and unlock it,simply double click the 'locker.bat' file and enter the password chosen by you in the Code and press enter.The unlocked folder lock will again be visible then.

cls

@ECHO OFF

title Folder Locker

if EXIST "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" goto UNLOCK

if NOT EXIST Locker goto MDLOCKER

:CONFIRM

echo Are you sure you want to lock the Folder(Y/N)

set/p "cho=>"

if %cho%==Y goto LOCK

if %cho%==y goto LOCK

if %cho%==n goto END

if %cho%==N goto END

echo Invalid Choice.

goto CONFIRM

:LOCK

ren LOCKER "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

attrib +h +s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

echo Folder Locked

goto END

:UNLOCK

echo Enter Password to Unlock Folder

set/p "pass=>"

if NOT %pass%==type your password here goto FAIL

attrib -h -s "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"

ren "Control Panel.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}" Locker

echo Folder Unlocked Successfully

goto END

:FAIL

echo Invalid Password

goto END

:MDLOCKER

md Locker

echo Locker Created Successfully

goto END

:END

Playing with the folder locks was never this easy.I hope,now you won't be having the need to spend hours on Internet just to look after some effective and full version folder lock.

Its gonna be Android 4.0 with Aakash Tablet this time

Telecom Minister Mr. Kapil Sabil announced that the new Aakash Tablet is expected to be launched on November 11 this year.

Although he didn't give any assurance about this but speaking at the Economic Editor's Conference,the minister said "Hopefully on November 11,you will see the President talking to 20,000 students across the nation(who) will have their hands on Aakash".

Talking about the features,the new Tab will be running on 1 GH processor and is going to include 7" Capacitive touchscreen,Android 4.0 Operating System and the long 4 hours battery backup as compared to the earlier iteration that ran Gingerbread with a paltry 366 MHz Procesosor.

The biggest competitor of the new Aakash in terms of price will definitely be Datawind,the company that manufactures Aakash and which has already launched four lowest price versions of the Ubislate tablets in the market but the price difference will still be considerable one,the resources said.

Initially the price would be comparatively high,but gradually it is expected to come down to $35 which will be around Rs 1500 once the manufacturing activities setup in India,Sibal said.


Sibal added that there are plans of manufacturing about 5 million new Aakash Tablets and that too without putting any burden on the Ministry of Finance.


If compared to the Aakash tablet launched by the Government in October last year which ran into big controversy due to the delayed shipment despite pre-order payments made months in advance,it does not seem to be the case this time as Mr Sibal has quoted a specific date on which the device would be made available.Still,all we can do is hope that this time everything is for real and the words of our minister doesn't prove out to be mere words only.

No. of Facebook likes getting doubled with every Share

The recent flaw revealed in Facebook is the automatic increment in the number of facebook "likes" of the webpages irrespective of whether the users have clicked the like button or not,or even visited the page in question.

The flaw came into limelight after Facebook announced that it has surpassed the milestone of one billion monthly active users.

It has been found by a US security researcher that whenever someone sends the webpage address to his friend using the facebook private messaging system,it automatically adds two likes to that webpage.

Even if someone leaves a comment under any story within a webpage,the count of the facebook likes will increase,BBC reported the flaw.

When the giant itself was asked about this,it admitted the very existence of flaw and told that "We did recently find a bug with our social plug-ins where at times the count for the share or Like goes up by two,and we are working on fix to solve the issue now".

In all this discussion,one new thing came into limelight that whatever figure the 'Like counter' shows is not only the number of likes the page has got but it also includes the number of times the page has been shared,though the number appears next to the word "Like" and the site's distinctive thumbs up icon.


So,even if you are sharing any webpage with your friend to highlight some negative content,inadvertently you are making that webpage popular as your share will automatically increase the Like counter of that webpage.



Although Facebook is saying it to be the flaw,who knows whether it was done intentionally by the clever mind to make the giant go even more popular.Anyways,Facebook will have to fix the issue as soon as possible,as it has gone quite popular now.

Facebook to step into E-Commerce With new Feature

Facebook has officially confirmed this monday its very idea of introducing a new feature that would allow the users to create a wish-list of the items like home-furnishings,clothing and other retail products that they want to purchase.

The feature is going to be introduced with the new "Want" button.

Facebook announced that it has currently engaged with the seven selected businesses who would be able to share the information about their products through a feature called "Collections".

The Retailers who are involved in this program are Pottery Barn,Wayfair,Victoria's Secret,Michael Kors,Neiman Marcus,Smith Optics and Fab.com

The Users will find the collections only in their news feeds for now and not as a separate social plug-in or outside of facebook site,the company said.

The feature will allow the Users to like the items and even share the things they are interested in with their friends.

The giant said that this Collection test will be comprised of three separate actions namely-"Want","Like", and "Collect".In addition to liking the product content tagged by participating retailers using already famous "Like" Button,Users will also be able to identify themselves as "Wanting" a product in the vendor's collection or in the process of "Collecting" it.

All these actions would be visible to user's friends on his/her timeline and there would be a Buy Link for each product in the Collection that takes you to a place to buy it offsite.

Facebook said that its new Collection feature will gradually be available to all its users in the US.While some users will see the "Want" button as part of the test,others will see a button inviting them to "Collect" an item or to "Like" it.



Although a Facebook Spokeswoman said that the company won't receive a fee when someone purchases a wishlist item on facebook from a retailer's site,still the words are like this feature would become one of the biggest sources of revenue for Facebook.

India's First 4G Phone by Huawei

Huawei, the china based telecom giant is being seen to diversify its business by entering into the SmartPhone Market.


Earlier the giant offered the cloud services in its phones for the Indian Users and this time it is planning to come up with the first 4G phone in India.

The company says that it was testing a 4G phone on the Airtel Network and is planning to launch it by December though the actual date of launch still depends upon the network service provider which has its 4G network already successfully running in Kolkata and Bangalore through USB dongles only.

Victor Shanxin,president for huawei devices in India said in a report that "we are ready with our phone(Ascend P1 LTE) and if the operator is ready,we will surely launch the phone by December this year."Although price of the phone is not revealed yet.

He also added "We were doing most of our business through tie-ups with operators until now but now we are planning to come up with an open market strategy and we are hoping to acquire atleast 5% share in Indian market with the SmartPhones holding the maximum share".

He said " We are working on building up the supply network so that the people can buy our products very easily".

Seems like Huawei is focussing on the quality rather than the price this time.Although Chinese companies are famous for their cheap products,but when asked,Shanxin said "Yes we will sell affordable products,but we want to focus on quality."

This criticization directly pointed toward the local phone makers who according to Shanxin want to make the products available at the lowest possible price.But he says that the trend of the market has changed.Now,people are even ready to spend some extra pennies if they are getting better quality products.



Till then,all we can do is to trust the words of Shanxin and wait for the new 4G experience about to come in Indian market.Also hoping that the product will be available at the affordable prices.

Learn your Pan Card 10 digit Numbering System

The PAN(Permanent Account Number) Card which has now become a mandatory identity proof by the government has its own semantics behind its numbering system.

PAN is a 10 digit alpha-numeric number in which the first five characters are alphabets,next four characters are numbers and the last character is again an alphabet.Each character in PAN has its own meaning which has been explained below:

PAN Explanation:

The Permanent Account Number has been divided into five groups as:

1) The first three characters are the normal alphabetic series starting from AAA and running upto ZZZ.

2) The fourth character represents the status of the PAN card holder.Its one of the most important character in Pan Card number and those who deal in PAN cards usually look at this character only to identify your status.

Now the status can be like

C - represents a Company

P - represents a Person

H - stands for Hindu Undivided Family

F - represents a Firm

A - stands for Association of Persons

T - represents a Trust

B - represents Body of Individuals

L - stands for Local Authority

J - stands for Artificial Juridical Person

G - stands for Government

3) The fifth character represents the first character of the PAN holder's Surname.

For eg- If your name is say Arindom Banerjee,then the fifth character of your PAN will be 'B'.

4) The next four characters are again the normal sequential numbers starting from 0001 and running upto 9999.

5) The last character in the PAN is an alphabetic check digit.

Though its not necessary for you to learn the significance of every digit of your PAN for now,yet surely the knowledge might be useful in the long run to avoid the frauds.

Facebook "new Photo Look"-The Coolest one till now

The social networking giant Facebook has been continuously experimenting with its features and this time,it has come up with a new photo section and that too having the coolest features of all time.

Though,Facebook has made the changes in its photo section earlier also,yet the changes were not so attractive that they could seek anybody's attention.

But this time,the changes are really praise worthy.

So,how the new photo section looks like:

At the top,you will get to see the three tabs including your tagged photos,your wall photos and your albums.

The best and the noticeable change has been introduced in the album view.Earlier photo albums on facebook were as simple as the normal bunch of photos which you could navigate through but now when you hover your mouse over any album,you can see the slideshow of top five photos in that album even without having any need to open it.

But With this cool change is associated a serious Privacy Concern.By default,Facebook has set the domain for every new profile pic to be added to Public,that means if you add a new profile picture to your facebook account,then by default it would be visible to public now no matter what privacy conditions had you set before for your photos.

Ofcourse,you can change it to other options too manually like before but that was a point that should really have been discussed keeping in mind the privacy concerns of the people.

What else has been changed:

The earlier features like

a) star button(*) to highlight the photo

b) edit button to change the location and time of the photo

c)like and comment buttons

have now been introduced on the photo thumbnails also.

With the new star button(*),you can highlight any photo in your album(Earlier star button was used to highlight the photo only on your timeline).After highlighting,everybody will see your that particular picture in a magnified view when he/she reaches your album.

New Edit button allows you to change the location and date of the picture directly from the thumbnail without having the need to open it in the full view.

New Like and Comment buttons again allow you to like and comment on your picture directly from the thumbnail without having any need to open it in the full view. 

Some analysts hold the view that facebook works with the motto of competing with its own features.Bringing up such brilliant features this time,Facebook has indeed proved it also.But not everybody can enjoy this feature for now.Seems like it would take sometime for everybody to see the new photo section looks.The reason for this has not been found yet.

After Samsung,its time for Facebook-Apple Controversy

After the most famous Samsung-Apple designs theft Controversy which has still the final hearing pending in the US district Court,its the Social Networking Giant Facebook now which has been involved in another controversy with Apple for copying its designs.

Facebook unveiled a new look for its message service recently.The new design puts the list of user's friends on the right side and the message content on the left.

Facebook has large hopes from this new design,the CEO,Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview."This new design will attract more and more users to their service and will make their system more reliable as well".

But to everybody's surprise,the new design was accused by many users as they found it to be very similar to Apple's Ipad mail software.

The Apple users said that the facebook new message design is very much similar to Apple's two-pane design.

When Facebook was questioned regarding this,it stated "A lot of thought and care went into this new version of messages and we really hoped that people will like it".It also added that "there is so much more we can do to make the world more open and connected and to make our messaging system more flexible and more reliable".

Though,Apple has not filed any case against Facebook in the court yet and the facebook new message look is in the oral controversies only,the sources reported that Facebook will publish the new design with some major changes in it to avoid Apple design Infringements.


Till then,we can only wait for the new design to come up but one thing is certain,the way facebook is enhancing the chat features whether by adding the emoticons to it or allowing the people to attach the files in their chats shows how hard Facebook is working for its users.Also Apple's not filing any case against Facebook shows that its only the users who are firing the issues without knowing the actual details.

Facebook Up with "NO backup maintaining" Way-Out

The Social Networking giant Facebook which promises the privacy to its users had been keeping the huge bunch of inappropriate pictures in its storage against the users' will for years which you had deleted in the past and thought that they would not be available to anyone now.

But the fact is that if anyone on facebook had the direct link of your picture,then he could still view it in your profile.

The issue was raised by a 28 year old Cambridge student who discovered that even when he deleted his pictures from facebook,they could still be viewed by his friends having the direct link to them.

But now finally a good news is out in the market.The company has declared to remove the storage of all those millions of embarassing and inappropriate pictures from its servers.

From now onwards,any picture deleted from the facebook account will be permanently wiped out from the system within 14 days  or a maximum of 30 days.Also,unlike before,picture will now not be viewable to anybody from the very moment it is deleted even if someone has got the direct link of that picture.

The reason reported for the company to take that much of time to make it really possible is the huge engineering effort involved behind the change.Facebook has gone that much broad in its functionality and features that now even making a small change requires thousands of brilliant minds and million dollars of money and the change we wanted from Facebook was something that could make any company go mad but Facebook still managed to do it successfully for its users.

A Revolution in Technology-Apple Vs Samsung Verdict

Apple's patent win over Samsung last friday night through US(California) district court is reported to be one of the biggest events in technology awarding the World's richest company with an additional $1.05 billion in its account.

The decision was taken by the US Jury after it found that Samsung had infringed several of the Apple's Software and design innovations. 


While Samsung says that it intends to appeal in the court,Apple says that it even seeks a ban on eight of the Samsung Smartphones including Galaxy S 4G,Galaxy S2 AT&T Model,Galaxy S2 Skyrocket,Galaxy S2 T-Mobile model,Galaxy S2 Epic 4G,Galaxy S Showcase,Droid Charge and Galaxy Prevail in the US market at the heart of lawsuit hearing on 20th September.

An internal source even reports that Apple will try to use this verdict to halt the sale of other Android based Phones in the market which it believes are infringing its patents.

Apple's another rival company Google released a statement saying 
        "The court will review validity of all the patent claims and the           
      infringements".It also says that "Not all the core android operating     
    system is included in this verdict and they will continue to work on the  
  android to provide the public with the innovative and the affordabe products as they don't want anything to limit that."

Impact on Microsoft:

After Apple,the company that has been found getting the maximum benefit out of this verdict is Microsoft.During the court case,a hidden fact was revealed by Apple that it has licensed some of its technologies to Microsoft.

Some analyst even reports that Microsoft can now take the advantage of the verdict to convince the mobile manufacturing companies to use their Windows Operating System in the new phones.

The Windows OS has already been taken to the next level thereby raising the stock price by about 0.4%.

Impact on Google:

Google,another android OS based company is looking after the lawsuit hearing scheduled on 20th september and is expecting the patents to hold up under appeal so that it could recode Android to ensure avoiding infringements.

Also as an alternative way to settle down with its rival company,Google has filed its first lawsuit against Apple since it took over motorola,based upon seven patent infringements by Apple,succeeding which Google could call for an import ban on Apple's iOS products.

Talking about the stock price,Google was down by 1.4% on Monday.

Impact on Apple:

Quite obviously,Apple has got the maximum out of this verdict afterall its the company who has won the biggest verdict ever in technology.

Apple's Stock price was found to rise already by 2% to an all time high on monday.

News are that Apple can use this verdict to win monopoly over hundreds of Smartphones' basic features and designs(which are continuously being improved by Samsung and other companies) which then couldn't be used in the other Smart phones generating the need for the companies like Motorola Google,HTC,Samsung,etc to almost double their efforts to come up with new ideas.

Impact on Samsung:

Samsung is hoping to succeed in keeping its devices in the market or atleast creating a delay on ban based upon the appeal it has petitioned for the verdict whose hearing is scheduled on 20th september.

Till then,Samsung flagship smartphone,Galaxy S3 which were not included in the verdict will be on sale in the market.

You can surely expect the future Samsung Smartphones to be highly different in features,looks and design from Apple's Smart phones.

A chief analyst said that its actually a win for Samsung since Samsung could make it to the #2 position (in terms of most profitable mobile company) by paying just $1bn as compared to Microsoft which paid $8bn for Skype.

Regarding the stock market,Samsung's shares fell 7.5% on Monday which is reportedly their biggest drop since 2008 wiping about $12 billion off the companies value(approximately the amount Google paid to buy Motorola Mobile Unit).

Impact on Design & Technology:

All the future smart phones by the companies other than Apple will be highly different 'in features and looks' from Apple Smart phones.

Seeing such a tremendous loss incurred by Samsung,the designers will have to carefully design the new products so as to avoid any kind of infringement in future.

Impact on Customers:

There are two schools of thought for its impact on the customers.The first thought is that the customers will be blessed with the new features that the companies would innovate for their hand sets.

The second thought is that since Apple will have the monopoly over hundreds of features existing in today's market,Customers will be left with only less innovation,fewer choices and obviously the higher prices.

Definitely,this verdict has affected every mobile manufacturing company,leaving them with lots of restrictions,one of them being not to use the famous zooming and bounce back functions,which eventually can make them to pay Apple licensing fee for access to the technology thereby making Apple go even more Rich.

But all this depends upon another lawsuit hearing on 20th September.The decision can even turn the entire game. ;)

Annoyed with Facebook timeline ? learn hiding it then

Facebook Timeline is one of the features that no other social networking website can compete with.It has made everything so interactive on facebook that you can easily go back to any part of your life on facebook and make changes there no matter whether that change includes adding some new life event there.

But definitely,facebook timeline feature has got the complexity and people find it real very difficult to use and sometimes even get annoyed with it.

Some people just want to get rid of the timeline but they are left helpless in the end because facebook doesn't give you any such option.Infact all the accounts are automatically switched to the timeline format after certain period of time.Yeah,Facebook definitely gives you the time to manage your timeline before it starts appearing to the public but you can't avoid it(as everybody says).

But now it has really become possible to get rid of the "so called annoying" timeline.Its not any new feature introduced by facebook to help out its users but its simply a plugin that can help you get rid of it.

Steps to get rid of Facebook Timeline:

1) Go to the Timeline Remove .

2) There you have to download an extension..Dont worry,the extension is fully tested and is 100% virus free.You can install it without even giving it a second thought.

3) Choose your browser out of the various choices as displayed in the picture below

4) Next click on "Add" on the dialog box generated that looks like one shown in the picture below

5) Save the extension.

6) Double click the extension saved in your computer and just install it by clicking on the "Install" button on the new dialog box generated which looks like one shown below

7) After it is installed,just refresh your facebook page to see your facebook profile switched back to one,it used to look like before.

But remember,your friends and others will still see your profile in timeline format only.It has only been hidden from you because of the timeline remove extension you have just installed.

If you again want to see your profile in timeline format like before,its very easy.Just find out the timeline remove button towards the top right corner of your computer screen and click on "Status:Timeline Remove".Refresh your facebook page and you are done.

5 new stunning features introduced by facebook

Facebook,the world's number one Social Networking Site with its tremendously increasing popularity owes its success to the stunning features it introduces with time.

These days Facebook has got much faster in making the changes and introducing the new stunning features to its users.

Within just few months only,Facebook has come up with five new brilliant features about which I am going to write today.

Though the company's CEO,Mark Zuckerberg is being repeatedly accused of the falling prices of the shares,yet he his thinking far behind all this.It seems like he is not affected with all these criticisms.He has come up with a new infrastructural project for his company costing him about thousand crores of dollars.Not much exaggerating it here,I straight forwadly come to the new features facebook has introduced with time.

5 New Features introduced by facebook:

1) Facebook Voice: One of the most awaited feature has now been introduced by facebook and has come up with the name "voice".This is the feature for all the facebook page owners and gives them the choice of posting,liking and commenting on the page either as the page itself or with their own name.

Earlier facebook page owners could like,post and comment on their page as the page only no matter even if the page owner was not using 'Use facebook as page' option.Whatever way he was accessing the page,he couldn't like it with his own name.But now,he gets a choice to do so.

The experts hold the view that the biggest advantage of this feature will be to  the new page holders who can now make atleast two likes on each post thereby giving others the impression that people are active on the page.

2) Picture Thumbnails in Notifications:Though not so famous,yet another good feature introduced by facebook is the 'picture thumbnails in notifications'.With this new feature,you would be able to see the thumbnail of the picture,which is getting the comments,in your notifications itself so that you wont have to navigate to the picture first before getting an idea,exactly which picture you are getting notifications for.

The obvious advantage of this feature is that it saves time and avoids boredom.

3) 'Seen Time' in Chatbox: This feature is useful for those who dont like being avoided.Lol.The "Seen time" feature has been introduced in the chat and it tells the people when the person whom you are chatting with sees your message.It not only tells that the person has seen your message but also give you the exact time when did he do that.

Some people hold the view that introducing this feature,facebook has compromised with their freedom.Not always everybody is interested in doing chat but telling the other one that I have seen the chat message makes me to reply even sometimes unwillingly.

4) Distinction between blocked and deleted accounts: I personally found this new feature by facebook to be very useful.Earlier facebook didn't make any distinction between one who has blocked you and the one who has deleted his/her account in your friend list.In either case,you couldn't find the person's account anywhere(including your friends list)even if you tried visiting the account using the person's facebook username .

But now,facebook has made the distinction between the blocked and the deleted accounts.Now,When you go to your friends list,you would be able to see both the blocked and deleted accounts but clicking on deleted accounts will give you a message like one shown below

while the accounts of the persons who have blocked you will not be clickable at all.

5) Interest List: One of the best feature introduced by facebook is the "interest list".Not everybody is aware of this new list introduced by facebook.This list creates a separate group in which you can add your 

a)friends

b)the people you have subscribed to 

c) and the facebook pages you wish to follow.

The advantage of this list is that whomever you have added to this list,you will get the updates of that person/page/subscription under that group itself.

Its upto you whether you want to make that list visible to public,your friends or only yourself.

How to create an Interest List:

Creating an interest list is as simple as creating any other list.Since you get the choice of adding your friend,your subscription or any page to the list,you can start from anywhere say from the page you want to add to your interest list.Just visit the page and there will be an option reading "Add to Interest Lists" as shown in the picture below

Click on it and follow the 2 steps instructions to create your new interest list.

You can add your friends,subscriptions and other pages to the list from the tabs on the left hand side as highlighted in the picture below

Using the interest list gives you the chance of being more interactive to the people and hence to socialize more effectively.

Facebook launches new version of Iphone and Ipad App

Facebook launched a new version of App on Thursday for the Apple Iphone and Ipad Users.The previous version of App was unveiled long before by Facebook but it couldn't give its users a satisfactory experience and met with the hell lot of criticisms for it being really very slow.

So,the facebook engineers re-started working on it,replaced most of the web-based code with the native programming code used for iOS,Apple's Mobile Operating System and finally came out with a new and a faster app on Thursday evening.

The company said that instead of adding new features to the app,it rebuilt the application from the scratch to make it speedier and less clunky.

The older code from the photo and the messaging tools has been replaced with the code from Facebook's stand alone camera and Messenger Apps.

The new app proves out to be a great success.During the live demonstartion of the app at the company's menlo park,it was found to perform everything at almost double the speed of the earlier version of the app.The app opened really very fast and so did the photos and the comments.

What exactly did they do to increase the speed:

The mobile product manager at facebook,Mick Johnson said that the programmers removed some lesser-used features like "the way to view the app horizontally" in order to increase the speed of the app.

Feautures Associated with the new App:

1) "Faster speed"(almost double the speed of previous version).

2) Allows Users to "like and comment on photos" which wasn't possible with the earlier version.

3) The new Ipad version features "Timeline",the latest profile page version.

4) A very prominent feature added to the new App is the "Real Time NewsFeed".

Whenever someone likes or adds a comment to the post or status update,it is shown in the newsfeed in the real time thereby eliminating the need of refreshing the post to see new likes and comments.


The app is available for free from the Apple's App Store.

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How to private message the person who has blocked you on Facebook

Did you know that its really possible to send the message to the person who has blocked you on Facebook.To your surprise,YES IT IS.

With the increased popularity of facebook email id about which I discussed in my previous article,Facebook has made this really possible.Either Call it one of the flaws of facebook or the relaxation given to the people who have just got blocked by someone but still want to maintain the conversation with him/her.

Facebook never closes any option completely.It always leaves an undisclosed alternative for everything.You just have to find that alternative.Today I am bringing one such brilliant alternative to you.

How to Send the Message:

For sending the message,all you got to know is the "facebook username" of the person who has blocked you.Obviously,if the person has blocked you,you won't be able to visit his/her profile.But finding the facebook username is really a cakewalk.You can make a new account to find the username or better you can simply ask any of your friend just to tell you the person's facebook username.

Once you know the username,you automatically gets to know the person's facebook email-id.To know how Username is related to Facebook email-id,you can read out my article .Now,you must know that facebook has come up with one new feature,"Emailing blended up with facebook messages." This feature allows you to use your personal email id to send the messages to the people on facebook.

Sending the message using email is as simple as sending a normal mail to anybody.In the "To" section,you have to add the person's facebook email id whom you want to send the message to but has blocked you and in the "body" section,you have to write your message.As usual,the subject part is optional.

After you send the email,the message will arrive in the person's facebook message box in the folder named "Other" and he/she will be able to read out your message like other normal messages he/she receives.

(Note: That person won't be able to reply to your messages but will see an immediate option to unblock you and continue the conversation with you.So doing this,you can really increase your chances of getting back in touch with the person whom you have lost the contact with or atleast you can convey your message to the person who doesn't even want to talk to you anymore.)

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