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[Tip] Find Facebook Last Login Time & Location Details

September 21, 2010 by bharath

Facebook is undoubtedly the no#1 fastest growing websites in the world and no wonder it has made to the top 3 websites in terms of number of daily visits worldwide. It has evolved as such a nice platform for social networking, connecting with friends, sharing with friends and with those wonderful apps, the ease of using the site is just growing in a phenomenal manner. Popularity always brings envies too. The result: increasing number of phishing attacks on Facebook to get your login details. The only way you can save your account from being exploited is to never share Facebook account details on any where else. Even if you does this regularly, you would still be doubtful if someone else finds your login details without your knowledge and gain access to your profile. The only way you can sense a suspicious activity on your account is to monitor your account to see if there’s an unauthorised access from any where and from any device which might not have used by you. Here’s the tutorial on how to check your last login time and location on Facebook.

Find last accessed time & location of Facebook account:

1. Login to Facebook and click on “Account” dropdown menu on the top right corner of your screen. Click on “Account Settings”.

2. You will be taken to the Facebook “My account” page, where you will a number of tabs, each account for settings for different sections of Facebook. Click on Settings tab.

3. Find the “Account Security tab “under settings, you will have the account activity details listed under “Most Recent Activity”

You can find the last accessed time, location and the device from where your account has been accessed. You can even enable SMS or email notifications whenever your account is accessed from a new computer or mobile device, just select “On” radio button under “Login Notifications” and click Save button.

You might also want to read how to disable Facebook notification emails.

Airtel Offering Free Facebook Access Till August 31

July 8, 2010July 8, 2010 by bharath

India’s leading telecom operator Airtel in an attempt to make youth use its internet services via GPRS (Airtel Live), has announced a free access to the popular social networking site Facebook free till August 31, 2010. During this period, Airtel users can browse the mobile version of the Facebook site, which is currently available in English and Hindi. The company has also said the site will soon be available in five other Indian languages which include Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.

How To Activate:

Just type “FACEBOOK” and send as SMS to 54323 to get started you will soon receive a reply message with the following content:

Free browsing of Facebook! Click on http://m.facebook.com to enjoy Free. To avail the free offer, Save Airtel Live Setting as default. Valid till 31 Aug 2010

Please remember that browsing any site other than Airtel Live portal and Facebook would cost you (pay per data).To surf all the websites, you need to use Airtel RC 98 which gives you unlimited mobile internet (up to 2GB) for 30 days.

It’s worth to note that Uninor, another mobile operator, is also offering similar free (sort of) access to Facebbok, twitter and LinkedIn in a different way for it’s MyConnect unlimited internet users.

Via Airtel PR

[Tip] Top 4 Ways To Schedule Your Facebook Status Updates And Twitter Tweets

April 17, 2011July 2, 2010 by bharath

With the evolution of social media, so many new features are being added to the social networking sites so often to keep up with the ever increasing demand from the users to stay connected with their pals in the sites like Facebook and Twitter in a number of different ways. But we still feel that they are lacking some features. One such feature I think of is the ability to schedule the updates in the networking sites so as to respond faster to future events like birthdays, parties etc.

We understand how handy it could be if we are able to schedule Facebook status updates and the Tweets in twitter. Here are the list of such services (most of them are free) offering this feature.

1. Sendible

Sendible is the popular tool for scheduling emails, sms and updates for social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc. If you signup as a free user, you can send up to 100 updates per month using Sendible. You can also send messages to more than one site at the same time using Sendible.

2. LaterBro

LaterBro (funny name, isn’t it?) doesn’t require you to create an account at their site. You just need to login to the site using either your Twitter account or with your Facebook account. You can then schedule Facebook updates or tweets from multiple accounts.

3. Social Tomorrow

With Social Tomorrow, you can schedule Facebook status updates, fan page wallposts, twitter tweets and sms text messages. Note that there is a limit of 500 messages per month.

4. Hootsuite

Popular web based twitter client Hootsuite also offers scheduling Facebook and twitter updates. You can see all your scheduled messages under one column. It is an easy to use and already established service, strongly recommended.

Bing Facebook Map App Shows Your Friends Location On Facebook

June 15, 2010 by bharath

Bing Maps team has created a new app called “My friends”, which pulls your data from Facebook profile to show your friends locations on Bing maps.

Just open the My Friends application, login through Facebook Connect, select “Allow” to allow the Bing Maps to connect to your Facebook profile, that’s all you need to. Now the profile pictures of all your friends who have listed a “Current City” in their profile will be pinned to the map,

as you can see here:

It’s really fun to see all your friends location on a map like this, just click on the “+” sign that may appear above any of your friends profile pictures to see more friends located in that particular city.

Link: My Friends Map App @ Bing

New Orkut Upgrade Brings More Facebook Like Features

June 11, 2010 by bharath

Orkut team has yesterday announced minor upgrades to the Google’s social networking site, definitely in a attempt to catch up to the Facebook’s domination in the arena.This is evident since the launch of new version of Orkut with changes like enabling friends to comment on the status updates,auto-magic groups, file transfer in chat etc.

The new upgrade to the site will bring three feature changes:

# Scraps are now being replaced by conversations:

“From now on, all scraps you send to your friends will also show up in your profile, making it easy to start new conversations”

You can even comment on the ongoing conversations that any of your friends have already started, now this conversation will start appearing in your profile, much like that way how Facebook shows them up.

# Private scraps:

You can now send a private scraps to your friends which will be visible to only selected friends:

“To keep something secret, just send a private scrap to your friends, and just those people selected will see it”

# Privacy Levels:

Orkut has added privacy settings for each of the individual items like who can see content on your profile, who can send a scrap to you, etc.

“Every piece of content on orkut (a scrap, photo, video, etc) will be labelled with a privacy level, so you know who else is seeing it or not “

What do you feel about these new changes ? let us know.

Disable Facebook Notification Emails

May 12, 2010 by bharath

Many Facebook users while signing up, normally ignores to setup their notification settings that they normally ignore to setup notifications settings and as a result, they start receiving too many emails for various actions taken on Facebook involving that particular user.This at times may be annoying for those who usually spends good amount of time in Facebook involving in many actions in the social networking site.If you want to disable such notifications from Facebook, this is what you must do:

1. Login to your Facebook account , under the Account menu on the top right screen, click on Account Settings.

2. Now under the My Account, click on the Notifications tab.

3. Check against the notifications for which you want to notifications via email or SMS.Uncheck against all to stop receiving all email notifications.

That’s it, you will now be able to control your email and SMS notifications as you wish.

You might also want to read our guide on how to setup Facebook page for your site.

Create A Facebook Page For Your Website [How To]

May 3, 2010 by bharath

Facebook is undoubtedly the no.1 social networking site in the world.According to Alexa data, it’s next only to Google.It is very much true that majority of the traffic to the most of websites on the internet comes through Google mainly.Similar it is always essential for the website owners to look at sites like Facebook also as traffic sources for their blogs, provided they offer pretty good lovable content that the users on the Facebook like to read.Facebook has made it easier for all the webmasters to integrate Facebook into their sites easier courtesy the Facebook “Like”.

If you are a webmaster the you may be want to know how to create a Facebook page for your website or blog.So we are coming up with thus tutorial that will guide you to create a page for your site in Facebook in 10 simple steps.

Steps:

#1. Go to Facebook.com and login with your ID.If you don’t have an account yet, you must be living in another world, just come back to our world and signup for Facebook now.

#2. Go to Facebook create new page link.

#3. You will now find 3 options:

Local business
Brand, product, or organization
Artist, band, or public figure

Choose the 2nd option, and select “Website” from the drop-down menu.

#4. Give your page a name and click “Create Official Page”.

#5. Now you have created a simple page which is just having name nothing else.So we need to start editing the info about your website.

#6. Add a picture to your website page and edit other information as well from the Info tab.

#7. Go to page settings> find a section Notes under Applications.Click on Notes to open and edit notes.

#8. Under the Notes settings, click on Import a blog.

Enter your blog URL in the Web URL field (you can even enter your blog’s RSS feed address) and click Start Importing.

#9. Now you will be shown the preview of the imported blog.Click Confirm Import to finish this step.

#10. Now you are done with creating a page for your blog.You can also click on “Write Something about your page” link as shown in step #6 to write a brief introduction to your site page.Now your page looks like this, add yourself to the Facebook page by clicking the Like button.

May be you should also start following our blog in Facebook by clicking the Like button or by visiting Techrena Dot Net Facebook page.

Find Techrena.net On Facebook, Twitter & Google Buzz

May 3, 2010 by bharath

Ever since we have launched this blog, we have been striving continuously striving to helping you out in your day-to-day computer and internet use.We have recently celebrated first birthday anniversary of techrena.net jubilantly on March 27, 2010 at Hyderabad.

As we grow our blog, it’s our first priority to make it easy for our readers to connect with our blog in all possible ways.You can either subscribe to our RSS Feed (or receive via email), you can follow Techrena on Twitter or on FriendFeed or on Google Buzz.

If that isn’t enough for you, we have just created a Facebook page, adding which to your profile makes it much easier to connect to Techrena.net directly from your Facebook profile.Just click on the “Like” button that you see on our Facebook and you are good go to.Alternatively you can also find a Facebook Like Box apperaing on the sidebar, where you can find the Like button along with the number of connectors to the site right now.See you all on Facebook !

Microsoft & Facebook Launch Document Sharing Service Docs.com

April 23, 2010April 23, 2010 by bharath

With the advent of internet, day-to-day life is becoming much simpler.Would you have ever thought of creating office documents without even installing a Office software like Microsoft Office or Open Office.Thanks to the wide number of document sharing websites like Scribd, SlideShare and the most popular Google Docs which lets you create documents on the cloud and share them with the world.

Now a similar alternative service is coming up from Microsoft in association with Facebook.

Microsoft’s new document sharing website docs.com lets you create Office documents and share them with your friends in Facebook, courtesy Office Web Apps and the Facebook Connect.

You can upload Word documents, PowerPoint presentation & Excel spreadsheets etc., to Docs.com similar to the way do it in other online documents sharing websites like Google Docs.But Facebook integration helps you to share these documents with your friends.You can also grant viewing and editing rights to your selected Facebook friends so that they can edit your documents online, thus making collaboration easier (such collaboration also exist in Google Docs, if you can remember).

Your friends can discover the documents that you shared in the updates just like they discover your photos or videos that you have shared. You can also discuss with your friends about a doc via comments just like you would do with a status update or photo.

You just need a Facebook account to start with.You don’t need to install Office 2010 or you don’t need a Windows Live ID either.Doc.com service is still in private beta though you can use your Facebook account to get notification as soon it becomes publicly available.

Videos:

Getting Started For Docs

Docs for Facebook – Overview

Twitter Is Hitting 50 Million Tweets Per Day !!

February 23, 2010 by bharath

The world’s most popular microblogging site Twitter has revealed site metrics in a blog post earlier today.

As per the data chart provided, you can see that the number of tweets per day have been are on the rise exponentially and just crossing 50 million mark in Jan-Feb 2010.

The number of tweets per day have gone up from 5,000 tweets per day in 2007 to 300,000 in 2008, to 2.5 million per day in 2009, and now they have grown enormously to 50 million tweets per day (600 tweets per second on average).

These values are exclusive of the tweets from twitter accounts marked as spam.Twitter however has to go a long way to if it wants to beat the giant sites in its genre like YouTube that serves a billion videos every day and Facebook where users spend 8 billion minutes per day.

Search Engine Land blog has an interesting post comparing Facebook, twitter and the new bee Google Buzz:

Facebook status updates: 700 per second
Twitter tweets: 600 per second
Buzz posts: 55 per second