Facebook Tips

Facebook Tips | Security and Style

ryepdx — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:37:06 +0000

Two tools in this post, plus a video to help make up for the lack of updates in the past couple days.

For these first two hacks, you need Firefox with Greasemonkey.

Once you’ve installed Firefox, you can get GreaseMonkey here.

Alright, hack number one involves styling profiles. Although there is no way yet to stylize your own profiles for others to see (keep checking back here and we’ll tell you when that becomes available), with GreaseMonkey you can colorize your own Facebook experience.
Here’s the script:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/3626

Second, there’s the Facebook Toolbar. This handy plugin attaches itself to your toolbar in Firefox 2.0 and alerts you whenever something happens in Facebook. No more obsessive checking every five minutes!
Here’s the link:
http://developers.facebook.com/toolbar/

Finally, here’s a video about keeping your profile secure. Don’t let yourself get hacked!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B677hoo7uXA

Facebook Tips | Auto Login

ryepdx — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:35:51 +0000

There’s a wonderful plugin for Firefox called GreaseMonkey. You’ll need to install that to do this trick.

Basically this script will keep you logged in to Facebook until you clear your browser’s cache. Once you’ve installed GreaseMonkey, go get the script here. It’s that easy.

Facebook Tips | Viewing Bigger Profile Pictures

ryepdx — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:53:45 +0000

Ever been annoyed by those tiny “friend preview” thumbnails that Facebook shows you when you’re trying to figure out whether to add someone or not? Wish you could see bigger versions of those tiny stills without breaking out the magnifying glass?

FacebookASCII.com has your solution here.

Facebook Tips | 5 Most Useful Apps

ryepdx — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:23:30 +0000

On Facebook these days there seems to be a never ending deluge of app requests, always coming in and clamoring for your attention. Most of them are junk apps. Utterly useless except as a source of income for its creators. You know these apps: these are the quizzes and endless clones you see sitting in your inbox each day.

To help you make the most of your Facebook experience, here are the the five most useful apps we know of at present.

Facebook Mobile: This program lets you send and receive messages and comments, upload new photos, and look up friend’s phone numbers, all through your mobile phone.

My Flickr: Share your Flickr photos on your Facebook profile.

MediaMaster Radio: Lets you rip your CDs and then stream them live for the enjoyment of all your Facebook friends.

YouTube Video Box: Share your amazing or favorite YouTube videos on your Facebook profile. They can’t help but watch!

Twitter: Keep all your non-Facebook friends updated on your Facebook ramblings.

If you have an app you think should be on here, mention it in a comment below!

Facebook Tips | How Facebook Started

ryepdx — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:06:25 +0000

Facebook began in February 2004. Mark Zuckerberg, then a student at Harvard, noticed that his school did not publish a directory of all the students and their photos like other schools did. He decided to fill this need by creating Facebook. Within a few weeks of the website’s launch, most of Harvard’s students had accounts on the social networking ’site. The website quickly grew to include members of other nearby colleges, allowing students from other campuses to connect and communicate easily. Peter Thiel, the co-creator of Paypal, was so impressed with the website that he invested $500,000 into it. By December, the website had over 1 million users. Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard and set up shop in Palo Alto, California.

Since then, Facebook has become open to everyone. It still shows its roots in young professional culture, though: over 4 million of its users are from the 25 and older crowd. It also encourages the formation of groups along intellectual and geographical lines by making it nearly impossible for users to get much use out of the website without joining a geographical, corporate, and/or school-specific network.