Download Friends Facebook Photo Albums
Download any of your Facebook photo albums with ease, all you need is Fotobounce – it’s a free Windows-only utility that would help you manage photos in your Facebook and Flickr accounts right from the desktop.
You can download old photos, upload new ones to the web or simply view your existing photo albums as a slideshow without downloading them locally.
Fotobounce also includes built-in face recognition (similar to what you have in Google’s Picasa Albums) so you can quickly tag photos on the desktop and these people tags will be preserved even when the photos are uploaded on to Facebook.
This utility is useful if you want to migrate photos from one account to another.
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Monday, December 20, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Friends Secretly Delete You As a Contact
How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete You As a Contact
“A and B are now friends on Facebook” – That’s the message displayed in your Facebook profile each time you add a new friend on Facebook or someone else confirms your pending request.
But the reverse is not always true – you will never know when existing friends remove you from their Facebook friends list. The count of your friends will decrease but Facebook won’t reveal the name of the person who just unfriended you.
You can however play detective using some applications. These 'app's will let you know when friends quietly remove as a connection on Facebook.
Unfriend Directory
Unfriend Monitor
Unfriender
Note: The only downside is that these may works only with friends that you have added after installing the Facebook application.
Disclaimer: Some 'app's may be vulnerable.
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“A and B are now friends on Facebook” – That’s the message displayed in your Facebook profile each time you add a new friend on Facebook or someone else confirms your pending request.
But the reverse is not always true – you will never know when existing friends remove you from their Facebook friends list. The count of your friends will decrease but Facebook won’t reveal the name of the person who just unfriended you.
You can however play detective using some applications. These 'app's will let you know when friends quietly remove as a connection on Facebook.
Unfriend Directory
Unfriend Monitor
Note: The only downside is that these may works only with friends that you have added after installing the Facebook application.
Disclaimer: Some 'app's may be vulnerable.
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Export Email Addresses of all your Facebook Friends
Export Email Addresses of all your Facebook Friends into Harddisk
The most important principle for Facebook is that every person owns and controls her information. Each person owns her friends list, but not her friends’ information. A person has no more right to mass export all of her friends’ private email addresses than she does to mass export all of her friends’ private photo albums. - Facebook
There’s however a simple (and perfectly legal) workaround that can help you easily download all your friends email addresses from Facebook’s walled site.
1. Create a Yahoo email account. Even if you have an old one, create a new one so that the imported contacts are clean. You’ll get a confirmation screen that looks like this, below. Click on import contacts “Get Started” link and then choose Facebook.
2. Authorize Yahoo in the Facebook pop up and then wait a few seconds. You’ll see a confirmation screen like this:
3. Ok, you’ve now imported the names and email addresses of all your Facebook friends into Yahoo. Now just click “tools” in Yahoo mail and export. CSV format is a good format for uploading to Gmail or your desktop contact book. Save the file to your desktop, and you’re done.
4. Enjoy your new contacts. You’ve just done something that Facebook says you have no right to do, using tools provided by Facebook.
Tips –
Do not use Chrome for this, it doesn’t appear to work in that browser. - Admin (CosmoCyber)
If Yahoo! is unable to import your Facebook Address book, open your Facebook page and choose “Application Settings” under Account. Next remove the “Yahoo! Contact Importer” application from your Facebook profile and try the steps mentioned in the video again. - Admin (CosmoCyber)
Facebook export works only if you have chat enabled. - Admin (CosmoCyber)
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The most important principle for Facebook is that every person owns and controls her information. Each person owns her friends list, but not her friends’ information. A person has no more right to mass export all of her friends’ private email addresses than she does to mass export all of her friends’ private photo albums. - Facebook
There’s however a simple (and perfectly legal) workaround that can help you easily download all your friends email addresses from Facebook’s walled site.
1. Create a Yahoo email account. Even if you have an old one, create a new one so that the imported contacts are clean. You’ll get a confirmation screen that looks like this, below. Click on import contacts “Get Started” link and then choose Facebook.
2. Authorize Yahoo in the Facebook pop up and then wait a few seconds. You’ll see a confirmation screen like this:
3. Ok, you’ve now imported the names and email addresses of all your Facebook friends into Yahoo. Now just click “tools” in Yahoo mail and export. CSV format is a good format for uploading to Gmail or your desktop contact book. Save the file to your desktop, and you’re done.
4. Enjoy your new contacts. You’ve just done something that Facebook says you have no right to do, using tools provided by Facebook.
Tips –
Do not use Chrome for this, it doesn’t appear to work in that browser. - Admin (CosmoCyber)
If Yahoo! is unable to import your Facebook Address book, open your Facebook page and choose “Application Settings” under Account. Next remove the “Yahoo! Contact Importer” application from your Facebook profile and try the steps mentioned in the video again. - Admin (CosmoCyber)
Facebook export works only if you have chat enabled. - Admin (CosmoCyber)
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
ISP is Limiting your Download Speed ?
ISP is Limiting your Download Speed ?
Sometimes speed seems to go down while you are watching videos on YouTube or are trying to download files through a torrent client, even though you have a fairly good Internet connection at home and regular websites load pretty quickly in your browser.
If you observe such a speed pattern quite frequently, chances are that your ISP could be rate limiting your traffic for certain bandwidth intensive operations. To give you an example, if your regular download speed is 100 kB/s, YouTube videos could be streaming at a speed of 30 kB/s due to rate limiting by the ISP.
Is your ISP is limiting your download speeds?
You can run the Glasnost test in your browser to determine whether or not your ISP is following any such tactic to manipulate your download speeds for specific sites.
The test uses a Java applet to compare your regular download speed against the speed at which Flash videos get streamed to your system. Other than videos, it can also compare the download speed for email attachments (via POP and IMAP), normal HTTP based file transfers, torrents and binary downloads from Usenet servers.
You should consider running these tests at different times of the day since some ISPs may be limiting speeds only during peak hours.
Note: Check & Stop any other downloads that might be running in the background for more accurate results
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Sometimes speed seems to go down while you are watching videos on YouTube or are trying to download files through a torrent client, even though you have a fairly good Internet connection at home and regular websites load pretty quickly in your browser.
If you observe such a speed pattern quite frequently, chances are that your ISP could be rate limiting your traffic for certain bandwidth intensive operations. To give you an example, if your regular download speed is 100 kB/s, YouTube videos could be streaming at a speed of 30 kB/s due to rate limiting by the ISP.
Is your ISP is limiting your download speeds?
You can run the Glasnost test in your browser to determine whether or not your ISP is following any such tactic to manipulate your download speeds for specific sites.
The test uses a Java applet to compare your regular download speed against the speed at which Flash videos get streamed to your system. Other than videos, it can also compare the download speed for email attachments (via POP and IMAP), normal HTTP based file transfers, torrents and binary downloads from Usenet servers.
You should consider running these tests at different times of the day since some ISPs may be limiting speeds only during peak hours.
Note: Check & Stop any other downloads that might be running in the background for more accurate results
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Friday, November 26, 2010
How Big Really
How Big Really
It often becomes a bit easy for us to visualize the size of an area if it is shown relative to something that we are already aware of.
Based on this idea, BBC has launched a new site called Dimensions where you can visualize the scale of important historical places and events by overlaying them on a map of a location that you are already familiar with.
For instance, you can set your city as the starting point for the Great Wall of China to understand how massive it is. Or if you wish to know how much distance did the astronauts walk when they first landed on the moon, simply overlay that area to some familiar neighborhood.
There’s a map of Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan where Laden was thought to be hiding sometime. Once you see that area relative to your own location, you suddenly realize how big it is.
Note: Dimensions is a prototype built by BERG for the BBC. We make no guarantee as to its accuracy, reliability or performance.
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It often becomes a bit easy for us to visualize the size of an area if it is shown relative to something that we are already aware of.
Based on this idea, BBC has launched a new site called Dimensions where you can visualize the scale of important historical places and events by overlaying them on a map of a location that you are already familiar with.
For instance, you can set your city as the starting point for the Great Wall of China to understand how massive it is. Or if you wish to know how much distance did the astronauts walk when they first landed on the moon, simply overlay that area to some familiar neighborhood.
There’s a map of Tora Bora caves in Afghanistan where Laden was thought to be hiding sometime. Once you see that area relative to your own location, you suddenly realize how big it is.
Note: Dimensions is a prototype built by BERG for the BBC. We make no guarantee as to its accuracy, reliability or performance.
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Backup Gmail Inbox Online
Backup your Gmail Inbox Online
If you want to backup your emails from Gmail to the local computer, enable POP3 access in your Gmail settings and then use a desktop mail client to download a copy of all your messages from the Google cloud to the local disk.
Why you should backup Gmail to the cloud?
If you are not a huge fan of desktop applications or if you think that setting up a Gmail backup plan involves way too much effort, you can consider creating a backup of your Gmail account in the cloud itself. Before we get into the details, here are three situations where an online backup of Gmail messages will come handy:
Reason #1 – If your main Gmail account gets hacked, you will still have access to all your previous emails.
Reason #2 – If you delete an important email from your Gmail Inbox by mistake, you can easily retrieve it from the online backup. Google Apps Premier has Postini to restore deleted emails, here you’re getting that facility for free.
Reason #3 – If the Gmail service goes down, you will still be able to read your older emails. Gmail outage won’t affect work.
Backup your Gmail Messages Online
There are three services that can help you automatically backup your Gmail (and Google Apps) email accounts online.
The first and most obvious choice is Gmail. Create a new Gmail account and under Settings –> Accounts and Import –> Check mail using POP3 –> Add POP3 email account, enter the email address of your main Gmail account that you want to backup.
Within an hour or so, the online mail fetcher program will pull messages from your main Gmail account and will copy them to your new “backup” account. In my limited testing, I found that Gmail’s mail fetcher left all the messages that were either “read” or have been previously downloaded by another POP3 client so it’s not “true backup.”
That brings us to another alternative – copy your Gmail mailbox to Windows Live Hotmail. While you can add a Gmail account to Hotmail using POP3 (just like Gmail’s mail fetcher), there’s a much better and reliable option out there for copying emails from Gmail into Hotmail and it’s called TrueSwitch.
Setup a new Hotmail account and TrueSwitch, an awesome web-based email account migration service, will copy all your emails and attachments from Gmail to your new Hotmail address. If you have a relatively large Gmail Inbox, the backup process might take up to 24 hours but you’ll get an email as soon as the transfer is complete.
Like Gmail, Hotmail too offers “expanding” storage so it can possibly fit your large Google inbox as well. You can then add your Gmail address to Hotmail (click “Add an email account” in the sidebar) and this will ensure that new messages that land in your Gmail inbox in the future are also saved in Hotmail.
That said, both the services discussed above have one common drawback – they’ll always backup your entire Gmail mailbox and you cannot limit the backup process to a specific set of folders (or labels in Gmail). So if you have a fairly large mailbox and don’t want to backup each and every Gmail folder (or label), try Backupify.
Backupify, can backup your online accounts (including Gmail) to Amazon S3 and a unique point about Backupify is that it lets you specify labels that should be included in the backup process. The messages are stored in the cloud as EML files that you can view inside Outlook or, you can change the .eml extension to .mht, and read the file inside IE.
Backupify supports XOauth so you can add your Gmail account to the service without having to share your Google Account credentials. The advantage is that Backupify will scan your selected mailbox folders every single day for new emails and will archive them automatically.
Note: Try TrueSwitch,Backupify & other 3rd party tools at your own risk.
CosmoCyber is not responsible, if your Gmail account is compromised.
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If you want to backup your emails from Gmail to the local computer, enable POP3 access in your Gmail settings and then use a desktop mail client to download a copy of all your messages from the Google cloud to the local disk.
Why you should backup Gmail to the cloud?
If you are not a huge fan of desktop applications or if you think that setting up a Gmail backup plan involves way too much effort, you can consider creating a backup of your Gmail account in the cloud itself. Before we get into the details, here are three situations where an online backup of Gmail messages will come handy:
Reason #1 – If your main Gmail account gets hacked, you will still have access to all your previous emails.
Reason #2 – If you delete an important email from your Gmail Inbox by mistake, you can easily retrieve it from the online backup. Google Apps Premier has Postini to restore deleted emails, here you’re getting that facility for free.
Reason #3 – If the Gmail service goes down, you will still be able to read your older emails. Gmail outage won’t affect work.
Backup your Gmail Messages Online
There are three services that can help you automatically backup your Gmail (and Google Apps) email accounts online.
The first and most obvious choice is Gmail. Create a new Gmail account and under Settings –> Accounts and Import –> Check mail using POP3 –> Add POP3 email account, enter the email address of your main Gmail account that you want to backup.
Within an hour or so, the online mail fetcher program will pull messages from your main Gmail account and will copy them to your new “backup” account. In my limited testing, I found that Gmail’s mail fetcher left all the messages that were either “read” or have been previously downloaded by another POP3 client so it’s not “true backup.”
That brings us to another alternative – copy your Gmail mailbox to Windows Live Hotmail. While you can add a Gmail account to Hotmail using POP3 (just like Gmail’s mail fetcher), there’s a much better and reliable option out there for copying emails from Gmail into Hotmail and it’s called TrueSwitch.
Setup a new Hotmail account and TrueSwitch, an awesome web-based email account migration service, will copy all your emails and attachments from Gmail to your new Hotmail address. If you have a relatively large Gmail Inbox, the backup process might take up to 24 hours but you’ll get an email as soon as the transfer is complete.
Like Gmail, Hotmail too offers “expanding” storage so it can possibly fit your large Google inbox as well. You can then add your Gmail address to Hotmail (click “Add an email account” in the sidebar) and this will ensure that new messages that land in your Gmail inbox in the future are also saved in Hotmail.
That said, both the services discussed above have one common drawback – they’ll always backup your entire Gmail mailbox and you cannot limit the backup process to a specific set of folders (or labels in Gmail). So if you have a fairly large mailbox and don’t want to backup each and every Gmail folder (or label), try Backupify.
Backupify, can backup your online accounts (including Gmail) to Amazon S3 and a unique point about Backupify is that it lets you specify labels that should be included in the backup process. The messages are stored in the cloud as EML files that you can view inside Outlook or, you can change the .eml extension to .mht, and read the file inside IE.
Backupify supports XOauth so you can add your Gmail account to the service without having to share your Google Account credentials. The advantage is that Backupify will scan your selected mailbox folders every single day for new emails and will archive them automatically.
Note: Try TrueSwitch,Backupify & other 3rd party tools at your own risk.
CosmoCyber is not responsible, if your Gmail account is compromised.
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Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Undo Send
Undo “Send” in Gmail
Note: The feature is hidden from most users who don’t know where to look, so here’s a quick guide to avoiding social and workplace faux pas with the click of a button. Be aware that the feature is part of Gmail Labs, though. That means it’s still in testing and it might not always work as intended - CosmoCyber
Since the Undo Send feature is part of Gmail Labs, you’ll have to navigate to the Gmail Labs page to activate it. Load up Gmail (Gmail) and look in the top-right corner of the page. Between your e-mail address and Settings you’ll see the green Labs icon.
Find "Undo Send" among the list. (Picture Below)
Customize Undo Send’s Duration
By default, Gmail gives you a 10-second window of time in which you may undo a sent e-mail. You can change that to five, 20 or 30 seconds by going to Settings.
How it Works ?
Write and Send Your E-mail
Now you have either five, 10, 20 or 30 seconds to undo your sent e-mail, depending on what you selected under Settings.
As soon as you hit Send, a subtle line of text will appear above your Inbox saying “Your message has been sent.” It will be accompanied by a few extra options. Among them is “Undo.” Click that within the allotted time and your faux pas will be prevented.
Click the “Undo” Button After You Send
“Sending Has Been Undone”
You’ll immediately be taken back to the e-mail composition page, and your e-mail will be in draft form, unsent and ready for further editing.
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Note: The feature is hidden from most users who don’t know where to look, so here’s a quick guide to avoiding social and workplace faux pas with the click of a button. Be aware that the feature is part of Gmail Labs, though. That means it’s still in testing and it might not always work as intended - CosmoCyber
Since the Undo Send feature is part of Gmail Labs, you’ll have to navigate to the Gmail Labs page to activate it. Load up Gmail (Gmail) and look in the top-right corner of the page. Between your e-mail address and Settings you’ll see the green Labs icon.
Find "Undo Send" among the list. (Picture Below)
Customize Undo Send’s Duration
By default, Gmail gives you a 10-second window of time in which you may undo a sent e-mail. You can change that to five, 20 or 30 seconds by going to Settings.
How it Works ?
Write and Send Your E-mail
Now you have either five, 10, 20 or 30 seconds to undo your sent e-mail, depending on what you selected under Settings.
As soon as you hit Send, a subtle line of text will appear above your Inbox saying “Your message has been sent.” It will be accompanied by a few extra options. Among them is “Undo.” Click that within the allotted time and your faux pas will be prevented.
Click the “Undo” Button After You Send
“Sending Has Been Undone”
You’ll immediately be taken back to the e-mail composition page, and your e-mail will be in draft form, unsent and ready for further editing.
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