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Facebook Timeline : It’s Different
7Yesterday I was cursing Facebook for blatantly copying Google+ features. It copied Smart Lists feature from Google+ circles and the feature of Commenting From Sidebar. Today Facebook unvailed Facebook Timeline a new killer interface for your own profile. It provides a look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. With this feature Facebook is really like a Book – A book of your life on Facebook.
My words can not express it. Here are few screenshots of Facebook Timeline:
Facebook Timeline : Status Posting
Facebook Timeline: Friends and Likes
and finally the Full Page View:
Facebook Timeline : Full Page
This feature is only available to facebook developers for now (You need to be in developer mode). But there is a trick we can use to get an invite for it in 9 simple steps :
1. We go to our facebook page and log in.
2. Now we enable developer mode (If you are already a Facebook app developer – skip this), for this, type “developer” into the Facebook search box, click the first result (developer app), and add the app.
3. Go to developer app (usually Facebook it opens by itself when you add it).
4. Create a new app. Give your new app any display name and a unique namespace you see fit. Read and Agree to Privacy statement.
5. Make sure that you’re in your new app’s main settings screen. You should see your app’s name near the top of the page
6. Look for the “Open Graph” in Left Sidebar, and click the “Get Started using open graph” link.
Create a test action for your app, like “read” a “book”, or “eat” a “sandwich”
7. This should take you to an action type configuration page. click through all three pages of settings (Next Next Next.)
8. Wait couple of seconds
9. Go back to your Facebook Home-Page. An invite to try Timeline should be waiting at the top of the page
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You can follow above given procedure to get the timeline now or you can wait few weeks.
After getting the timeline, you will have the option to edit and publish it right then else your timeline will go public in a week.
Just after trying this feature for an hour or so, I’m simply in love with it. Facebook just did something innovative. Do try out and leave comments. Did you like it?
Don’t sell the old PC
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Few days ago at home, my father decided to sell our old computer for 5000 bucks.
Don't throw me!
There is nothing wrong with it, it sports a Pentium 4 1.9Ghz processor, 512GBs 256MBs of DDR RAM, Intel 845 based Gigabyte motherboard, a Pinnacle-PCTV stereo TV-Tuner card and 40GBs of PATA harddisk. It is still alive in the sense that it turns on and off but it’s too outdated to run any new applications. It is my first computer which we bought in 2002. Needless to say many good (and a bad memory involving bike-accident) are attached with it. For me it is a friend who taught me many things. I wasn’t just ready to part with it.
So I convinced my father that this computer is still worth keeping.
If you too have an old computer which works; I bet it can still serve you for few more years to come. Don’t throw it away, here are few ways to reuse a not so obsolete Computer.
Make it a single purpose computer : Clear out all the programs and keep only one or two which performs some specific functions. For example you can make it a Web-Surfing kiosk. All you need is a basic Operating System (Linux works best) and a web-browser (Chromium is very light).
Upgrade : If it is not too old you can probably upgrade few hardware components to make it run marathons again (not literally of course). A simple RAM upgrade or addition of a Graphic Card will give your Computer a huge performance boost. An upgrade is much better than purchasing a whole new system again!
Turn it into a media server : That’s what I did! For this you need to clear all unnecessary data from computer and install the latest version of your preferred operating system (Windows if your family is going to use this) with all patches. You will also need a fast internet connection for downloading all those TV-Shows and music from iTunes. USB TV-Tuners are cheap, you can get one to record your favorite TV shows. Upgrade your hard-disk to at least 320GBs and get a wireless router. Once everything is installed and your router is ready and turned on setup a network. Access the media from any laptop in the house.
Your computer will thank you for these extra years of life. 