IT News

An Unofficial way to ‘dislike’ things on Facebook

By Muhammad Iqbal at 6 November, 2009, 6:45 pm

Facebook’s “like” feature has been around since February, but the massive social network never provided users with a way to quickly voice their opinions going the other way. French developer Thomas Moquet took matters into his own hands by creating a cute (albeit useless) Firefox extension that adds a dislike button to Facebook, letting users [...]

Read More >>

Eight billion minutes spent on Facebook daily…!

By Muhammad Iqbal at 25 October, 2009, 4:16 pm

More than 8 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day, Facebook executive Mike Schroepfer said in a talk Wednesday at the Web 2.0 Summit here. Some 2 billion pieces of content are shared every week, and 2 billion photos are uploaded each month–1.2 million [...]

Read More >>

How to Hide Highlights in Facebook Sidebar…!

By Muhammad Iqbal at 25 October, 2009, 4:00 pm

A while ago, Facebook introduced a section of Highlights in its right sidebar which shows the most commented photos, coming events, notes and what others are doing. Highlights section got a neutral response from everyone. Some liked it, but others found it as an addition to the ever growing clutter on the Facebook homepage[...]

Read More >>

Google Calendar Reminders on Desktop..!

By Muhammad Iqbal at 22 October, 2009, 5:55 pm

Google Calendar is one of those Google Services which has made my life very easy. Since, I’m quite a forgetful person, I use GCalendar to keep reminders about important commitments, birthdays, events etc.
I have enabled SMS and email reminders for my Google Calendar entries, and yesterday I’ve found another tool that could bring Google [...]

Read More >>

Facebook Desktop Application….

By Muhammad Iqbal at 14 October, 2009, 10:50 am

There are many applications that lets you use Facebook on desktop, but not all give you a nice interface with almost all the Facebook features built in it.
Photo Uploader for Facebook is actually an Adobe AIR Facebook desktop application that lets you upload photos by simply drag-and-drop, but along with features to make a [...]

Read More >>