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23 September, 2012

How to make infinity symbol(∞) on facebook?

Previously, I posted about how you can make Infinity Symbol(∞) on any text editors on your PC or Mac. So, If you wants to put infinity symbol on your Facebook status update or wants to use it inside chat you can use the same trick I posted earlier. It works fine on facebook.

If it doesn't work and you are still not able to post (∞) infinity symbol on facebook. Then, I find one better tool which quite useful, called i2Symbols. It contains lots of symbols and emoticons. It also contains the infinity symbols under the Math-I tab. You can able to share your symbols with just one click to facebook and Twitter. There are few sharing option available, you can directly able to share or copy paste it or use it as an image. i2Symbols also available as Google-Chrome Extension & Firefox add-on for the faster access.

Some Keyboard shorcuts for Symbols:

There are other symbols which can be inserted into chat, messages, status or into comments. These symbols directly typed by using ALT Button.

How to use ALT Facebook Symbols:

Press and hold left ALT key on your keyboard.
While holding Alt key enter one of the codes below to get the corresponding facebook symbol.
You need to use numbers on the right side of the keyboard for entering code, not the numbers on top, otherwise they won’t work.

SYMBOLS:

Alt + 1 ☺

Alt + 2 ☻

Alt + 3 ♥

Alt + 4 ♦

Alt + 5 ♣

Alt + 6 ♠

Alt + 7 •

Alt + 8 ◘

Alt + 9 ○

Alt + 10 ◙

Alt + 11 ♂

Alt + 12 ♀

Alt + 13 ♪

Alt + 14 ♫

Alt + 15 ☼

Alt + 16 ►

Alt + 17 ◄

Alt + 18 ↕

Alt + 19 ‼

Alt + 20 ¶

Alt + 21 §

Alt + 22 ▬

Alt + 23 ↨

Alt + 24 ↑

Alt + 25 ↓

Alt + 26 →

Alt + 27 ←

Alt + 28 ∟

Alt + 29 ↔

Alt + 30 ▲

Alt + 31 ▼

Actually these symbols are called ALT symbols which is not specific for facebook, but it is works on all web. Do you know any other keyboard shortcut for symbols? Then, share in comments!

18 September, 2012

How to convert web pages into MP3s?

SoundGecko converts web pages into MP3s so you can listen to them on the go. Click the toolbar button when you're viewing a page you'd like to have read to you, and choose 'Add to SoundGecko'. The add-on will convert the text into audio and email you a link to the file.

Read more @ http://web.appstorm.net/how-to/personal-media/turn-any-article-into-a-mp3-with-sound-gecko/

The Transparent Desktop Trick

This tiny but eye-catching tool lets you create the effect of having a transparent monitor. Take a photo of the area behind your screen, and put your monitor back into position. Use the software to turn the display magenta, and then take a second photo (from the same position) of the screen itself. Load the images and the program will arrange the background so it looks as if you can see right through the monitor.

Download : littletinbox.co.uk
Min requirements: Windows XP/Vista/7
File size: 125KB

How often should you scan your PC?

Theoretically, once you've installed your anti-virus software on a clean PC, you should never have to scan it. Almost every anti-virus product worth its salt provides two main types of protection: on-access and on-demand. On-access protection provides continual monitoring of your computer, whereas on-demand is essentially a scan that you either run yourself or schedule for later (perhaps to run overnight).

If the on-access protection is any good, it should detect threats as they reach your computer. It can then repel them before they take hold. However, the worrying truth is that anti-virus software can be slow to react, which means a new type of threat may be able to worm its way onto your PC without your security product noticing anything amiss.

Eventually the anti-virus program may download an update that informs it about the malware now tunning on your PC. A scan could highlight its presence and aid its removal. Unless you are suspicious that a threat is active on your system, then scanning your PC once a month should be enough.

14 September, 2012

SPEED UP YOUR PHOTO DOWNLOADS

Download Facebook photos faster

Backing up your Facebook photos protects them against hacking and loss, but if you've got lots of them it can take hours. Save yourself time and trouble by installing fbDownloader (fbdownloader.com), which can grab hundreds of pictures from the social network in a matter of minutes.

Install the program, making sure you decline each of the unwanted extras, then enter your Facebook login details and grant it access to your account. You can choose to allow 'Only me' to view fbDownloader's activity and to prevent it from posting on your behalf. Decline whether you want to download all your Facebook photo albums or one of your friend's collections and click 'Download album'. you can also download all the pictures in which you're tagged. Remember that, because Facebook resizes photos, the downloaded images will be smaller than the originals.

Download Flickr photos faster

You can download Flickr photos manually by right-clicking them, selecting a size and then right-clicking again to choose 'Save image as' (although only Flickr Pro users can access their original files). But if you want to download lots of photos at once, it's much faster to use a batch downloader such as the brilliant Bulkr (clipyourphotos.com/bulkr). This Adobe AIR-based Desktop app lets you browse all the images from Flickr photostream, choose the images you want to download and select the size at which to save them. You can also browse and download other people's photos.

Download Picasa and Google+ albums

Picasa Web Albums and Google+ Photos make downloading your pictures much easier than rival services and let you save them at full size. You can speedily back up whole albums at once by clicking the Actions menu in Picasa Web Albums and choosing 'Download to Picasa'. In Google+, click the More menu and choose 'Download album' to save all your photos in a compressed (zipped) folder.