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Google takes down Facebook Customizing extension F.B. Purity from Chrome Web Store
Facebook Customization browser extension, F.B. Purity available for Chrome browser on Web Store has been taken down by Google citing policy violation and informed developer to not to use “irrelevant, misleading or excessive keywords... More of this article »
Fix Facebook not showing Link Preview
Sometimes, when you try to share a link to your Facebook page or profile, Facebook doesn’t show the link preview, it just displays the site URL, here is how you can fix this. What is a link Preview? The information for each... More of this article »
Disable Facebook’s desktop Notifications in Chrome
If you’ve allowed Facebook to show desktop notifications in the Chrome browser, here is how to disable or turn them off. Push notifications are everywhere, sites nowadays show notifications to users with their consent in modern... More of this article »
Kaspersky Releases Friend or Foe App for Facebook
Security folks at Kaspersky lab has released a new smart social security app for Facebook, Friend or Foe in beta allows "users to assess just how “valuable” their friends are, and even shows what others think of them. The... More of this article »
Facebook to discontinue Messenger for Windows and Firefox on March 3
Facebook has decided to discontinue its Messenger apps for Windows and Firefox, this comes into effect from March 3, this year and they’ll stop working from that daytime. You’ve no other option but to uninstall them,... More of this article »
Facebook Turns On HTTPS by Default for all Users
Your browser now communicates with Facebook using a secure connection by default. Two years back Facebook has introduced option for users to connect to their site using secure connection, now they’ve enabled HTTPS by default for... More of this article »
F-Secure’s Safe Profile Beta to inform Facebook Users about Safety and Privacy Issues
Security vendor F-Secure has made Safe Profile Beta app for Facebook users available for feedback. This app let them access all safety and privacy issues in Facebook account from one place. Without need for you to keep up with the... More of this article »
Firefox 22 Nightly Adds Services Tab to Add-ons Manager
Add-ons Manager in Firefox browser generally offers four panels: Get Add-ons, Extensions, Appearance and Plugins where we more often access Extensions and Plugins tabs. In Firefox 22 Nightly build a new “Services” tab has... More of this article »
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall 2013 Update Adds Facebook Privacy Scan and Do Not Track Features
ZoneAlarm Free Firewall version 11 for 2013 which we’ve covered back in November 2012 got the first update in new year which has added two new features:Facebook Privacy scan and Do Not Track. This version has also added support for... More of this article »
Now Any One Can Message you on Facebook, here is how to Prevent them from Reaching Inbox
Don’t want your Inbox in Facebook account to filled with messages from other people you don’t know?, setting Facebook Message filtering to Strict filtering does the trick for you. Facebook made changes to their Messaging system... More of this article »
Bing Wants You to Connect to Facebook to Download its Homepage Image On Your Computer
Bing now officially allowing users to download their daily image to Computers’ but you need to allow Bing to connect to your Facebook account for that, are you ready for that?, currently this feature is available to users in U.S... More of this article »
How to Use Facebook Messenger for Firefox
Mozilla integrated Facebook Messenger into Firefox as part of Social API and many more social services will be integrated into Firefox which soon can happen, if you’ve enabled Facebook Messenger in Firefox lets us see how to use... More of this article »
Turn on Facebook Messenger for Firefox and Test It Right Now
Few days back Mozilla announced in their future releases blog that they’ll allow Firefox beta users to test Social API with Facebook Messenger. And let me tell you Facebook Messenger for Firefox page is live on Facebook website you... More of this article »
PrivacyFix Aim to Fix Privacy Issues in Facebook, Google and other websites
PrivacyFix an extension for Firefox and Chrome is available for download released by Privacychoice org where it clams to fix privacy issues in Google, Facebook and other websites. Pricacychoice says “Facebook sites are revenue driven”.... More of this article »
You Can Now Share Files from Dropbox in Your Facebook Groups
Dropbox announced in their blog that you can now you add/share files from Dropbox inside Facebook groups or send shared folder invitations to your Facebook friends. You can see this feature live today in Facebook groups, but first... More of this article »
What is Facebook Desktop Plugin? How to Disable or Remove it?
Plugins in browsers add features to browser for e.g Flash plugin in browser lets you view flash videos and Java Plugin lets you run/access Java based apps, websites and games in browser, where there to has to be some reason for an... More of this article »
McAfee Social Protection App for Facebook Now Available
McAfee has released a beta version of McAfee Social Protection app for Facebook users which prevents others from manipulating your photos i.e. they can’t download, print, copy and use printscreen to capture photos shared by you to... More of this article »
How to Automatically Publish Blog Posts to Facebook
Google’s Feedburner and other services allows us to publish blog posts to Twitter automatically, it seems happening of this is bit difficult in case of Facebook because Facebook’s official method of auto publishing posts isn’t... More of this article »
What is FacebookUpdate.exe? Can We Disable It?
Facebook recently released Standalone Messenger for Windows, which lets you use Facebook without being on the Facebook site, but you still need to login to Facebook website in your Browser to log in to Messenger. Have you noticed FacebookUpdate.exe... More of this article »
Choose Facebook App Permissions With OOptOut Chrome Extension
If you install any Facebook app, you must allow that app to access some of your Facebook account information such as of your profile’s, posts in news feed, photos and videos you shared, the app can post updates on behalf-of you,... More of this article »![Image for RealPlayer 15 Lets You Access Your Facebook Videos [Offline Installer]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/RealPlayer-with-Facebook-Videos_thumb.png)
RealPlayer 15 Lets You Access Your Facebook Videos [Offline Installer]
RealNetworks gone social by releasing RealPlayer new version with Facebook Video capabilities and other news features, what the Facebook Video is all about? RealPlayer collects Facebook videos posted by your friends and pages... More of this article »
How to Invite Your Friends to Diaspora
We ’do feel Diaspora, Facebook’s alternative late in making their service available to social media lovers (still it’s in private alpha, wonder how many are using Diaspora now through their invite system), Google+ cashed in the... More of this article »LikeJacking Eraser Deletes LikeJacking directly in the HTML of the Page
“LikeJacking” aka ClickJacking is a malicious technique used to lure Facebook users to like a page (not intentional) by clicking anywhere on a page which then posted to your wall and your friends will click it and that’s how... More of this article »
How to Access Your Twitter and Facebook Updates on Google+
Finally Google has successful social network, Google+ (isn’t it ?) still a long way to go as it is still in Beta. Google Plus can give some tough competition to Twitter and Facebook if you’re addicted to Google+ and don’t want... More of this article »
WOT Beta Version Now shows Its Reputation Icons for Links on Twitter and Facebook Too
All the browsers installed in my Computer have WOT extension installed which allows to surf the web with confidence, those green reputation icons always make me/any user feel safe. Till now WOT doesn’t show its reputation icons for... More of this article »
Facebook to Provide an Option to Access Its Service Entirely Over HTTPS
If you’re a twitter or Facebook user you may have heard the buzz about Firesheep in the past which allows to hijack Facebook and Twitter users account via Wi-Fi connections, today Facebook added an option to access Facebook... More of this article »
MP32FLV : Upload MP3s to YouTube and Facebook
You heard right guys!, MP32FLV is a cool online service that lets you to upload MP3 files to YouTube and Facebook. This site allows you to convert an MP3 file and JPEG image to a video and then automatically uploads to YouTube or Facebook. Update:... More of this article »
Now Facebook and Google Users able to Sign-in to Yahoo Without need of a Yahoo Account
Still Yahoo Mail is the mostly used email service , Yahoo wants to attract more users to use their Yahoo network by allowing Facebook and Google users to sign in to Yahoo with their Facebook and Google IDs. To access Yahoo Services... More of this article »
Tweetbookr : Access Twitter, Facebook and Flickr Accounts from Your Desktop
Tweetbookr is Adobe AIR based application allows to connect to Twitter, Facebook and Flickr accounts directly from your desktop. With Tweetbookr you no longer need to trawl through three different social sites such as Facebook, Twitter... More of this article »
Faveous : Aggregates All Your Favorites from Twitter, Google Reader,YouTube and Facebook in One Place
Are you in difficult to find your favorited items on Twitter, Google Reader, don’t worry Faveous which is in Beta collects all your favorites from Twitter, Google Reader, (and soon YouTube and Facebook “likes on links” ) in... More of this article »
Facebook Runner Shows Time You Spent on Facebook
With more than 500 million active users on Facebook, users spend most time on Facebook where you can use that time for other productive things if you’re willing to get out from addiction from Facebook, Facebook Runner extension for... More of this article »
PostPost.com – Turns Facebook into a Newspaper
If you can’t able to check your Facebook News feed daily, Post Post is for you which collates all photos, videos and articles into a newspaper much like paper.li does for Twitter. With advanced search technology powered by... More of this article »
Bing Again : Popular Bing Search Results Liked on Facebook
Bing Again is a search engine, displays Bing search results according to popularity for that query on Facebook, or we can say as most number of Facebook likes for that query. Unique feature of Bing Again is, search... More of this article »
Facebookvideos.org : Facebook Videos Search Engine & Downloader
Facebookvideos.org is Facebook videos search engine allows to find videos hosted on Facebook. Users can search for any video, by entering a query related to TV shows or movies or Anime, etc.. This service searches, pulls all... More of this article »
Facebook Password Recovery Master
We’ve recently covered about TwitterPasswordDecryptor which recovers twitter accounts passwords stored by browsers, Facebook Password Recovery Master similar to it recovers lost or forgotten Facebook accounts passwords stored in... More of this article »
How to get a Diaspora Invite
An alternative to Facebook launched called Diaspora claims to offer the users more control over what they share, with criticism over Facebook’s privacy issues, everyone interested to know and access how Diaspora is different... More of this article »
WidgetBlock extension blocks all widgets/Content Served from Social Sites on websites in Google Chrome
Inspired from popular social site Mashable, lot of blogs placing widgets from Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Facebook likes and share buttons. These widgets or third party content served from sites such as Facebook, twitter... More of this article »
How to turn off your Facebook Email
Your Facebook public user name will be username of your Facebook email, by default any can one can email to you at [email protected], If you want to control who can send you Facebook messages and email here is how. Related How... More of this article »
How to get an Invite for Facebook Email/Messages
Facebook announced yesterday messaging /Facebook email allows to user to talk to his friends via SMS,Chat, email or messages. Facebook also providing @facebook.com email address for whoever wants one. Facebook says message is not email,... More of this article »
“F1 by Mozilla Labs” Allows to Share Links Fast on Twitter and Facebook
F1 by Mozilla Labs is not a URL shortener instead this extension allows to share links on twitter, Facebook, and Gmail from with in the browser, from any webpage fast and easy. F1 by Mozilla Labs automatically shortens... More of this article »![Image for Download A Parents’ Guide to Facebook, Helps in Optimizing Teens Safety and Privacy in Facebook [PDF]](https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/A-Parents-Guide-to-Facebook_thumb.png)
Download A Parents’ Guide to Facebook, Helps in Optimizing Teens Safety and Privacy in Facebook [PDF]
Parents are you worried about your children sharing their personal information without knowing privacy and security issues in Facebook, good news for you, ConnectSafely in coalition with iKeepSafe announced the publication of ... More of this article »
Snip.ly : Capture and Share Best Snips from any Page
Snip.ly a new online service allows to snip highlighted text on a page and share with users on twitter, Facebook or in an email. All you need to do visit Snip.ly enter URL of the page you want to Snip, highlight the text on the page... More of this article »
How to turn off or disable Facebook Profile Search and Liked Results in Bing
Bing partnered with Facebook to bring more personalized results for Facebook users. Bing is currently rolling out Facebook profile search and liked results features in their search results as part of the deal as announced in their... More of this article »
Use HTTPS for Chrome Forces Twitter and Facebook sites to use HTTPS
Whole Internet is shouting about Firesheep extension that allows to hijack twitter and Facebook accounts as Facebook and Twitter sites use HTTP which allows session hijacking for hacker by stealing cookie from users on open Wi-Fi networks.We... More of this article »
BitDefender’s safego App Protects Users From Facebook’s Privacy and Security Issues
Yesterday we covered how Firesheep allows to hijack Facebook and Twitter accounts and how to protected from that.With Twitter and Facebook sites security is always a concern as there were supposed to more privacy issues with Facebook.BitDefender... More of this article »
Firesheep Extension allows to Hijack Twitter and Facebook Accounts, Force-TLS protects this happening from Firesheep
If you are a active Twitter and Facebook user you may have already heard the buzz about Firesheep Firefox extension created by a developer,Eric Butler which allows to hijack twitter and Facebook accounts by stealing cookie information... More of this article »
How to download a Copy of your entire Facebook Profile in a Zip file to your Computer
Facebook now allows to download your complete Facebook profile data in a Zip file to your Computer with single click.That downloaded file will be in HTML format for easier browsing.”Download your information” feature on Facebook... More of this article »
How to remotely Log out of Your Facebook Account
Much like Gmail allows to remotely sign out of Gmail from other sessions Facebook added new security feature, Remote log out of Facebook account that allows users to find and log out of other sessions if they are logged onto Facebook... More of this article »