Techglimpse

How to automatically enlarge thumnails on websites?

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:05:14 +0000

Most of the time thumbnail images doesn’t provide clear view of the entire image. Sometimes we are in need of enlarging it to view them clearly. Now, this is made simple using the browser extensions. Both the Firefox and Google Chrome browsers have an extension that automatically enlarges the thumbnail when you move the mouse over it. This really saves you lot of time.

How to automatically enlarge thumbnails on the websites?

1. Firefox Browser : Download and install the add-on named “Thumbnail zoom“.

Chrome Browser: Download and install the extension named “Hover zoom” from the Chrome web store.

2. Restart your browser for the extension to work.

3. That’s it. Now you can hover your mouse over the thumbnails to enlarge it. Note: Not all the sites allows to enlarge the thumbnails. Hover zoom will add an icon to the address bar of the website, which indicates that it works on that particular site.

Hover thumbnail extension

How to find out a super fan of your Facebook Fan page? : Booshaka!

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:09:52 +0000

Do you own a Facebook page? Have you wondered to know who is your top fan? Top fan is someone who liked your Facebook page and contributed through posts, comments and likes. If you would like to know and recognize your top fan, then you should definitely try out the application called Booshaka. Booshaka, an application with a catching quotes as

Your super fans are your best marketers.

Marketing on Facebook is not about the rap but the rapport that you have with your fans.

Booshaka provides a way to identify and recognize your fans, yeah! super fans! The system ranks your fans by assigning them with points based on their participation in your page. Posts, comments and likes has weightage of one point each. Higher the participation, higher the points are. Fan who participates rarely will earn less points. And consistent activity over time is more valuable than repeatedly performing the same action, such as clicking the Like button on every post.

Booshaka ranks your fans

The application also helps the page owners to add a tab as “Top Fans” in their page. The application performs rankings for a page at the end of each day. The rankings are reset at the end of each month. So every fan in your page will find an opportunity to climb to top of the leaderboard.

Booshaka Leaderboard

So, what you do wait for? You should be right there now to recognize your super fan! If you don’t mind, tell us about your super fan in the comment section below.

Top 10 quotes in Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook IPO letter

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:09:07 +0000

For many users, Facebook is a just a forum where they socialize with people, catch up with friends, share and of course have lots of fun. After the Facebook issued its first IPO a week ago, few said Facebook now has a money making model. But Mark Zuckerberg says “We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services”. This was one of the quote that was picked out from the Facebook IPO letter.

Here are the ten quotes from Mark Zuckerberg’s IPO letter.

We often talk about inventions like the printing press and the television – by simply making communication more efficient, they led to a complete transformation of many important parts of society. They gave more people a voice. They encouraged progress. They changed the way society was organized. They brought us close together.

People sharing more – even if just with their close friends or families – creates a more open cluture and leads to a better understanding of the lives and perspectives of others.

We think a more open and connected world will help create a stronger economy with more authentic businesses that build better products and services.

We expect governments will become more responsive to issues and concerns raised directly by all their people rather than through intermediaries controlled by a select few.

We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

The hacker way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete.

If we want to have the biggest impact, the best way to do this is to make sure we always focus on solving the most important problems.

We have a saying: “Move fast and break things.” The idea is that if you never break anything, you are probably not moving fast enough.

In a world that’s changing so quickly, you are guaranteed to fail if you don’t take any risks.

We believe that a more open world is a better world because people with more information can make better decisions and have a greater impact.

How to know whether your account has been hacked? – Hack Notifier

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:21:59 +0000

Are you worried or suspect that your account has been hacked? Hack Notifier will alert you instantly, in case if your account becomes victim of a hacker. According to the stats from hacknotifier.com, 8,908,879 accounts around the world has been hacked. Hacknotifier.com, just takes your email address as an input to verify it against its database and alerts you when it is hacked. All you need to do is, just go to Hacknotifier.com and enter your email address in the input box. Hacknotifier, takes just less than a minute to review your account status. The below image indicates that email address “mail@example.com” has been compromised at least once. The alert message also links to the related article where the hack information is published.

: Hacknotifier alert

The site also provides two subscription protection plans, one is $5 per month which doesn’t have an instant SMS alert and other plan is of $10 per month which can instantly alert when your account is hacked.

: Hack notifier protection plan

How does Hacknotifier works?

According to the reports from Hacknotifier, hackers hack a website and publicly release complete databases of accounts. HackNotifier allows you to check if your email was ever involved in any of these leaks. The site keeps constantly updating its database and check for new intrusions. If your account has been hacked, you will be intimated by an email or via text message.

: How hacknotifier works

How to hide Facebook ticker without using browser extensions?

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:12:22 +0000

It’s been a year since Facebook introduced the news ticker. Like many other features, Facebook didn’t provide an option to disable the news ticker. But there are few extensions that can help you to remove the news ticker from your profile. Refer to our tutorials on extensions that allows you to remove the news ticker.

Fortunately, no more extensions are required hereafter. After a year, Facebook has introduced an option to hide the news ticker from your profile. Here is how you can use that facility.

Take a look at the image below, you can find a small arrow located at the header of the news ticker. If you can’t see the arrow icon, then probably try closing your chat window. Mouse over the arrow and you will notice a tool tip as “Hide ticker”. Click the arrow and you are done. Toggle it again to view the news ticker.

Hide the facebook ticker

How to hide Facebook Questions and Polls : Kill Facebook Questions extension

8 Top interesting facts you should know about Facebook !!

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:05:06 +0000

Facebook yesterday feb 1st filed for a $5 billion IPO. Here are some of the information which the company has filed in its S-1 form, published by the SEC. The complete S-1 Form available here : Click Here

1. IPO Listing Details

NASDAQ ticker name: FB
Date founded: 2004
Lead IPO underwriters: Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs

2. Facebook Employee and Active Users

Number of employees: 3,200
Number of monthly active users as of December 31, 2011: 845 million
Number of daily active users as of December 31, 2011: 483 million

3. Facebook Profit

Net profit in 2011: $1 billion
Revenue in 2011: $3.711 billion
Revenue in 2009: $777 million

4. Facebook Cash Balance

$3.9 billion: Facebook’s cash pile in 2011
$305 million: Facebook’s cash pile in 2008

5. Faecbook Revenue shares

Percentage of revenue derived from advertising in 2011 : 85 %
Percentage of revenue derived from advertising in 2010 : 95 %
Percentage of revenue derived from advertising in 2009 : 98 %
Percentage of revenue derived from Zynga in 2011 : 12 %

6. Mark Zuckerberg’s Renumeration

$1.49 million: Mark Zuckerberg’s compensation in 2011
$30.9 million: Sheryl Sandberg’s compensation in 2011

7. Facebook Challenges ahead

Risk Factors: Increased mobile engagement — Facebook’s over 400 million mobile users are a threat to the company, because ads and commercial content are not displayed on Facebook mobile apps.

8. Future Uphills

Competition — Facebook asserts that its competitors (listed as Google+, Cyworld in Korea, Mixi in Japan, Orkut in Brazil and India and vKontakte in Russia) could pose a risk to the company’s future revenue by making it more difficult to locate Facebook in search or by “integrating competing social networking platforms or features into products they control such as search engines, web browsers, or mobile device operating systems”.

The third generation BMW F12 (convertible) and F13 (coupé)

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:13:28 +0000

BMW had unveiled information and pictures of its concept 6 series cars in September 2010 at the Paris Motor Show. The third generation BMW F12 (convertible) and F13 (coupé) are scheduled to be released this year. The vehicle is powered by two petrol engines and a diesel engine – a 6 cylinder twin power turbo engine which will produce 320 hp (239 kW) in 5800 rpm and the F12(650i) will be powered by a V8 twin turbo engine which will produce 407 hp (303 kW) in 5500 rpm.

Here are few awesome pictures of BMW F12.

Unofficial Google image search based on your creative drawings

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:04:18 +0000

Do you want to search an image which is in your mind and couldn’t express it in words ? then check out the “unoffical Google Image Search by Drawing”. This free tool lets you simply draw a very rough picture of the visual you are looking for and performs a reverse image search on it in Google Image Search. For artists, designers, illustrators, bloggers, or anyone who needs to express an idea with a picture, it could be a great time saver indeed.

Unofficial Google Image Search by Drawing lets you draw a picture, drag and drop a photo from your computer, or take a picture. It then searches the web for similar-looking images.

Does it work?: it might work fairly well for signs or symbols or simple line-type drawings. For more complex illustrations a text search may be the better option.

Examples: See the image below

Franz Enzenhofer, an Austrian developer, created the tool. Give it a shot and tell us in the comments how it worked for you.

You can put your art and search here :

How to convert Facebook timeline into a timeline movie?

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:30:24 +0000

Very quickly all the Facebook profiles will be timeline enabled, according to the news from Facebook. But still, the Timeline is not popularly accepted by many users. The reason is that it looks bit complex and bit confusing too. In order to make it popular and to let the users know about the benefits of timeline, Facebook has partnered with Definition 6 and has come up with a new way to create a movie using your Timeline. Just in three steps, you are right there with your movie. Here we go,

How to create a Facebook Timeline movie?

1. Go to Timelinemoviemaker.com

: Timelinemoviemaker

2. Click ”Make your movie” button.

3. Log-in to your Facebook account and grant permission for the application to access your profile.

4. That’s it, your movie should be ready in another few minutes.

Of course, you add sound track to the movie and choose the photos that you wish to feature in the video. The complete look and feel of the movie is left to the user’s choice.

Have a look at the sample Facebook Timeline video created by a user evansls@youtube.

Hope you enjoyed creating your timeline video, do share your videos in the comments section below.

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Top 7 benefits “beyond the basic” Google Employees enjoy at their office

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:11:45 +0000

Google, the search engine Giant is cashing out the tech talent from its employees by providing the beyond the basic benefits at its Mountain view headquarters. Google ranked the no. 1 company to work for in the Fortune’s list earlier this month.

Googleplex – the 26-acre campus at Mountain view headquarters is offering every amenity the employee could ask for. As executive chairman Eric Schmidt wrote in an explanation of Google’s benefits, “The goal is to strip away everything that gets in our employees’ way [..] Let’s face it: programmers want to program, they don’t want to do their laundry. So we make it easy for them to do both.”

Some employees would be really worried of the paycheck for their perks. But for them too not to worry as googlers get good money out of other perks also. In fact, they probably make much more than most people. According to Dice Holdings, the average tech employee in Silicon Valley makes over $100,000 per year. To put that in perspective, consider that, according to Reuters, half of Americans earned less than $27,000 in 2010.

Find out the google’s way beyond the basics : http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/lifeatgoogle/benefits/#bwbb