Tech Ravings

FaceBook Chat allows you an option to appear ‘offline’ if you do not want to be bothered by chat messages of your FaceBook friends. ‘Going Offline’ means turning off the FaceBook chat completely and as a consequence, you are unable to see who all in your contact list are online. ‘Online Now’ is a FaceBook app that lets you remain invisible to others while allowing you to see who all in your contact list are online.

There are various catchy quizzes available on FaceBook network which are pretty interesting to try. Even though most quizzes’ result is ridiculous, they are quite funny and entertaining. If you are a quiz lover, you can then actually make use of the social utility to create quizzes that can be played around with your FaceBook friends. You do not need to be a tech savy or a good programmer for making your own quiz. FaceBook simplifies the process of creating quizzes by giving free quiz creation apps like Quiz Creator.

The most convenient way to view photo album is by using ‘Next’ and ‘Previous’ buttons for changing photo. This is where a photo slideshow comes in very handy. Now if you wish to apply the same convenience to your FaceBook photo albums, you can use PrettySlide.

Having many login IDs and passwords is good as far as security is concerned. However, it may cause huge hassle when you own many accounts like on Google, YouTube, Myspace, Yahoo, etc. with each having different login IDs and passwords. You may forget the username and corresponding password for an account and if this happens, you will definitely be in great trouble.

FaceBook Photo Album is a great way to save photos of friends, family and interested things. Saving those photos to your hard disk is easy in case you need them for a purpose other than sharing on FaceBook. However, downloading all images from your FaceBook Album gets really tough when you have a huge collection of photographs or your internet speed is slow. Users, in such condition, can use a FireFox add-on called Facebook Photo Album Downloader (FacePAD).

If your FaceBook friends are quite active and addictive, you will notice a bombard of quizzes, friendship requests, game requests, app requests, events requests and group invitations. These invitations and requests will surely fill your FaceBook main News Feed home page and request page. This is a kind of legitimate spam if you are not keen to respond to these invitations, quizzes or requests.