Hug your friends via Facebook with Like-A-Hug vest

We have seen all sorts of weird and silly devices, and today we have a inflatable west that works with your Facebook account.


Melissa Chow, Andy Payne and Phil Seaton, from MIT have designed Like-A-Hug vest, and this vest will allow your Facebook friends to hug you – via Facebook. In order for someone to give you a “virtual hug” they just need to like your photo, status update or video on Facebook, and Like-A-Hug vest will inflate inwards, allowing you to “feel” the hug. Of course, you can also hug a person back by squeezing and

Easy Ways to Remove Spams from Facebook

In these days the porn video irritates so many people on Facebook. It has been automatically appeared on your friend’s walls.

In such away you are astonished what’s your friends posing on your wall. If you click once on the link it will be automatically appeared on your friend’s wall. This is a virus or so called spam with a somewhat nude picture.

The virus is the following posts, which has a tag line dare to check this bizarre. Peeps, it’s really irritating.

How this Spam Works:

Firstly clicking on the link will spam your friend’s wall with the link with your name and then it will send you to the page which is quite similar to the mention here. Afterwards it will ask you to install an extension in Chrome or if you are using Firefox then it will ask you to install some plugin for the video.

How to control over This Spam:

For Firefox Users:

Step 1: The first step should be to open browser > Click on Options > Select Addons or Press Ctrl+Shift+A

Step 2: Click Remove button beside YouTube Extension or anything like it.

Step 3: Reopen the browser after doing this

For Chrome Users:

Step 1: Open Browser > Click on Spanner Icon (settings) > Tools > Extensions

Step 2: Click on Remove button beside Extension YouTube

After completing the above steps just to make it sure you should delete all the existing cookies and caches of the browsers.

Prevention of Spam posts on Wall:

For avoiding of such spam  or porn videos you should not click on this sort of links or videos instead report them as spam. Until the spam has been taken care of properly it is suggested that everyone should disable the option where others can make posts on timeline. In order to block this facility for all those in the friends list, follow the instructions given below:

Open Privacy settings > How you connect > who can post on your timeline > Change it to “Only Me”

It really works to avoid such type of spam.

[VIDEO] Yeahh!! It happens on Live Television! – Facebook Scam

I must admit I had never heard of Marika Fruscio, when this scam spreading on Facebook was first brought to my attention.
But a quick check on Wikipedia revealed that she is a model and Italian TV hostess, whose biggest contribution to popular culture is that she had something of a wardrobe malfunction on live TV during a soccer show called "Diretta Stadio".
Clearly, the spammers behind the latest scam spreading quickly across Facebook were better acquainted with Miss Fruscio than me. I think perhaps I would like to keep it that way.
Here's the message that is appearing on many people's Facebook newsfeeds:

Yeahh!! It happens on Live Television!
[LINK]
Lol Checkout this video its very embracing moment for her

I suspect they meant "embarrassing" rather than "embracing", but spelling has rarely been scammers' strong point.
And it doesn't seem to matter if you recognise Marika Fruscio or not. I suspect she isn't known outside of her native Italy, and yet the messages are appearing on users' Facebook pages around the world, enticing their online friends to click to see more.
Anyone who regularly reads the Naked Security site will know only too well what's likely to happen if you click on the link, but for those of you who are uneducated about scams, here's what happens next.

Your browser goes to a webpage which claims that it's about to show you a video of the mighty Marika Fruscio falling from grace on live television.
Interestingly, on this occasion some of the graphics are not rendering properly - perhaps the imgur website which is serving the real graphics in this instance is aware that its images are being abused and so have removed them.
The page wants you to click "Jaa", and claims that doing so will verify your age. The truth is that it will do nothing of the sort.
The scammers want you to "share" the video with your Facebook friends before they'll let you watch. The message is in Finnish and - you guessed it - "Jaa" is Finnish for "Share".

And here comes the payload. If you share the link with your friends, thus helping it spread virally across the Facebook social network, you will then be presented with an online survey. The scammers earn commission each and every time a survey is completed - now do you see why they were so keen for you to help them spread the link around?
Fortunately it's easy to remove the scam from your Facebook page.

Maybe if folks showed a little more restraint when presented with a sexy messages on their Facebook newsfeed these sorts of scams wouldn't spread so quickly.

How to avoid auto Publishing on your Family/Friends Walls.....

Hover over upper right of post to pull down menu and you might see a "revoke publishing rights"; otherwise hit the main pulldown menu on blue facebook bar at top of screen then" Account settings" and from list at left "Apps" and find app name then at right of app name select "edit" and change there.

How to Deal with this  Scam ?
 
If you follow the scam through to its completion, then you are likely spreading the very same scam message to your friends. They will need to remove the scam message by clicking the small “X” located in the top right hand corner of the post on their wall. You also need to run a complete system scan on your machine to make sure the code didn’t infect your system. Another good idea is to check your web browser to see if you have any rogue browser extensions / plugins installed and remove anything suspect.
If you or your Facebook friends are falling for tricks like this, it’s time to get yourself informed of the latest threats.

Photo filters are coming to Facebook?

After a recent privacy and sharing update on Facebook, Facebook is working hard on new improvements, and according to the reports, this update will  focus on photos and photo filters.


Facebook seems determent to add photo filters support, and after failing to acquire Instagram, it seems that Facebook is developing its own filters. As for the Instagram, it’s an app similar to

Facebook rolls out facial recognition worldwide

Facebook is constantly trying to improve its features and speaking of new Facebook features, Facebook has just introduced a new facial recognition feature.

As you may remember, we already wrote about upcoming tag suggestion feature for Facebook that should make tagging of your friends a lot simpler and easier than before. In fact,

Facebook introduces new Send button

Now we have a chance to see a new Facebook feature – a new Send button on websites along with the Like button, and this new Send button will improve the functionality of Groups and it should replace the old email to a friend button.

When you click the Send button, a pop-up will appear that allows you to send the article that you’re reading to your friends, groups, or to a specific email address.

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Facebook Founder Allegedly Sold Half of his Company for Just 1,000 Dollars

We usually don’t cover global tech stories, but this is huge, so we thought our readers might get interested in reading this.
Well, the headline might look crazy to you, but the fact is that Paul Ceglia, initial partner of Mark Zuckerberg (the founder and CEO of facebook), is claiming to have 50 percent financial rights over Facebook, based on his initial investment of USD 1,000 – that he made back in 2003.

This way, Paul Ceglia is potentially the luckiest investor in the history of tech world. He, may get as many shares in Facebook as Zuckerbeg has – based on his 1,000 dollars investment that he made in facebook in early days.
Paul says that he has the copy of contract with at least one dozen emails, which facebook says are fake, to prove that his initial investment is legit and he is rightful owner of facebook shares (exactly equal to Zuckerberg’s) valuing around 10 billion dollars.
It all started back in 2003 when Zuckerberg shared his idea of year book (later called as facebook) with Paul and asked him for fund injection, which Paul agreed and paid 1,000 dollars to Zuckerberg against 50 percent

Facebook phone – INQ Cloud Touch on sale now

The much pronounced Facebook Phone form INQ, INQ Cloud Touch, is finally released and is now available for $489. This cool facebook Phone was rumored back in February 2011 and is now finally launched.

As the name suggests, it is basically a smartphone made for Facebook lovers. It has lots of exciting features relating to Facebook. The INQ Cloud Touch runs on Android 2.2, packs a 3.5-inch 480×320 display, an 800MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 processor, a five MP camera, FM radio, GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth.
The homescreen shows all of Facebook’s newsfeeds from your profile. It also lets you access many other Facebook features like Facebook Chat, Places, Facebook Messages,

20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know

If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more..
This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

How To Hide Your Facebook Profile

Update: Yes, this is a bit of an anti-social move. But it is what I needed to do to start getting more value out of Facebook personally. I am very open online and talk to people I have never met often, especially through Twitter. This is more about segmenting for me, and of course not for everybody.
More and more people are looking to make their Facebook experience more of a personal one. There is a lot of noise out there and Facebook can get pretty loud if you have not been very descerning about the friendships you have requested over the years (high school friends, coworkers, Farmville friends, etc).
If you have decided to start trimming your Facebook relationships, one of the next step possible steps is to limit who can add you as a friend in the first place.
I recently did this because most of the friend requests I get are for professional reasons. Most of these connections fall into three buckets: readers of my blog, people I meet at conferences, or people that hear me speak.
I want to keep my personal Facebook experience relevant but I also want to maintain these professional relationships since people were kind enough to show their interest.  The solution that was right for me was to hide my personal profile in search and to establish a professional page for myself where people can stay in touch with my social media writing and speaking.
Going through this process, I found out that hiding your personal Facebook profile form Facebook search was not very easy. I have gone to the trouble for you, so here is a simple step by step for how to hide your Facebook profile:

1. Find Your Privacy Settings

Login in to Facebook.com and click on “Account” and then “Privacy Settings” in the top right

2. Find Your Connection Settings

Snak : The latest must have keyboard for Facebook Geeks

Facebook has become the largest social network giant of the world. With every passing day, Facebook users are increasing at an exponential rate. With this increasing pace, there needs to be ways that makes access to Facebook easier. Such resources (either softwares, apps or hardware) are always welcomed by the millions of users.

 

This new keyboard has been made to make life much easier for the average Facebook user. Social Keyboards has just released the Social Network Access Keyboard (SNAK). It is just like a regular USB keyboard, except that it packs an extra 19 hotkeys for you to instantly access all the different features of Facebook. You just need to install a software on your PC that comes with it to make it work with Facebook and there you go, very simple.

Facebook Breakup Notifier Tells You When He/She is Single

“You like someone. They’re in a relationship. Be the first to know when they’re out of it.” That’s the tagline for Breakup Notifier, an amazingly simple way to keep track of someone’s relationship you’re secretly stoking. The application works simple, it lets you log in, check off the friends you’re interested in and then once they change status of relationship it will email you.

10 Cool Facebook Status Tips and Tricks

With Facebook‘s ever-changing layout, and the fact that other social sites are encroaching on its real-time update strangle-hold, it’s easy to forget that there are some pretty nifty tricks you can pull using your humble Facebook status.
We’ve pulled together 10 great how-to tips that will help you get the most out of your status update, from official features to apps, Easter eggs, jokes and more.
Perfect for newer Facebook users, or anyone who is looking for a refresher, read on and let us know the ones you like in the comments below.

1. HOW TO: Add a Dislike Option to Your Status Update

2. HOW TO: Hide Status Updates From Certain People

3. HOW TO: Pre-Schedule Status Updates

4. HOW TO: Tag People in Your Status Updates

5. HOW TO: Add Symbols to Your Facebook Status

6. HOW TO: Turn Your Status Updates Into a Word Cloud

7. HOW TO: Have Fun With Facebook’s Humorous Language Options

8. HOW TO: See Status Updates From Around the World

9. HOW TO: See Your Status Update Stats

10. HOW TO: Play a Trick On Your Friends in Your Status Update

 

New Bing toolbar comes with Facebook support

Although we’re seeing less toolbars in newer browsers these days to keep things simple, Microsoft is still trying its best to keep them, and in fact, Microsoft has released a newer version of its Bing toolbar for IE with some new features.

The latest Bing toolbar will make certain tasks a lot simpler and faster, and we should also notice that Bing toolbar now comes with a Facebook button. With this button, you can check your Facebook

Trick To Install/Change Themes on Facebook with Stylish

Orkut gives you the option to change your profile theme but world’s most popular social networking website doesn’t provide you the ability to change theme of your profile.
 I am giving you Trick to /Change themes on facebook and 45 beautiful facebook themes.If you are using facebook colour changer script then disable it from greasemonkey before using this Facebook theme trick.
This trick has following requirements

• Mozzilla firefox browser
• Stylish Addon

So here is the complete tutorial on how to install themes on facebook
1.     Open firefox browser.If you donot have you can download it here
2.     Now Download Stylish addon for firefox by clicking here.
3.     After installation is complete restart your browser
4.     Install Any of the themes below by clicking on the image
5.     To switch between the themes you have installed on your firefox browser goto Tools>Addons>Stylish and disable all other themes except the one you want.
Best 45 Themes for facebook

transparent Green colour 2009 theme

 

Facebook is now the world’s second most valuable internet company

You probably know that Facebook is the most popular site in the United States, but have you wondered how much Facebook is actually worth? Latest research tells us that Facebook is now the second most valuable internet company in the world.

According to Bloomberg, it seems that Facebook is the second most valuable internet company, right after Google. Previously, Facebook was in third place behind Amazon and Google, but now Facebook stands second, valued at $82.9 billion. As for no.1 – search engine, Google is valued at  $192 billion. We must mention that Facebook’s most noticeable jump in value came from 1.5$ billion investment from Goldman Sachs that was made in January.