All Entries Tagged With: "Facebook"
Mobilink Cricket Knowledge Contest: Jazz Cric-IQ2
Mobilink Jazz is always at the forefront to bring something exciting for cricket fans all across the nation. This time around as Asia Cup 2010 commences today, so does Mobilink Jazz Cric-IQ2 ; a trivia contest that challenges cricket knowledge and gives all cricket lovers a chance to win cricket bats signed by Pakistan cricket stars.
In order to participate in the lucky draw for 20 signed souvenir bats, answer questions that test your Cricket IQ.
Mobilink [...]
Osama’s Profile Disabled: Facebook
Facebook has shutdown the profile of Al-Qaeda’s leader Osama Bin Laden, after a security expert raised the issue with the website’s US owners.
Reports says, Osama bin Laden had a Facebook profile and Facebook page named “The leader of the Mujahideen, Osama bin Laden”, and according to the reports, he was using it as a platform to give speeches to Islamic militants and show them videos.
In regards to the decision, Andrew Noyes a Facebook spokesman said [...]
Facebook: Automatically Sharing Your Data – a New Privacy Policy
Facebook has again made some changes in their privacy policy before launching its new features at F8. The biggest and the major change Facebook is making in its privacy policy are involving third-party websites and applications. There have been rumors that on certain third party websites Facebook is planning to opt users into an easy form of Facebook Connect. One would agree that this is a valiant change which [...]
How To: Cancel Facebook Friendship Request
If you have sent a friendship request to someone you don’t want in your friend’s list by mistake and you are worried about how to revoke the request then this article will guide you to a way with which you can do that easily. Normally, if you send a friendship request, it stays in the requestee’s account for unlimited time and he/she can view your profile without even accepting your offer. This could cause some [...]
HOW TO: Add Photos or Block Someone on Facebook
It does not matter if there is someone whom one does not wish to find as someone has added you as a friend and is harassing you. A time can come when you want to block someone on Facebook. The Facebook network provides an extended privacy and security policies and makes it easy to block anyone.
Blocking someone on Facebook
You can learn easily, how to block someone on Facebook by following the steps below;
1. Log in [...]
Facebook Facing Loads of Problems
Facebook has been slow today due to server isolation issue. Right now, people are facing 404 errors, slow loading of pages, image uploading issues and many more. Facebook seems to work fine sometimes and dead slow the other moment.
Most common issues currently faced are:
Photo upload failure
Very Slow loading
CSS related errors on specific pages
Crashing Firefox (3.5.8)
And many random errors
Facebook Tweet can be viewed in the picture below which states the reason.
More updates will follow soon.
Pakistan’s First Flash Game ‘Fly By’ on Facebook
I am not a big fan of Flash games but my brother and millions of other people are. I usually see my brother play Zynga games but never activate the app on my Facebook. Pakistan has also step into the Facebook Flash Games and developed a game named as ‘Fly By’. There is nothing extra ordinary but still its a good effort from Pakistan flash game designers. About the game, you fly an air craft [...]
Facebook Beats Yahoo: Now the 2nd Most Visited Site in US
Web analytics firm compete.com disclosed that Facebook is bigger than Yahoo (in terms of traffic) in United States. Started in 90s yahoo was the world’s number 1 portal of the world for years. Two years back Google crossed Yahoo to become the world’s most visited website. Facebook a relatively newbie in the industry raised the alarm for Yahoo last month.
Yahoo acquired 133.45 million visitors from United States with Facebook behind a little with 132.13 million visits. [...]
Facebook Rogue Anti Virus Email Alert
Facebook, the biggest social media portal is under attack. According to Panda Labs a mass of emails have been sent to Facebook users pretending to be from Facebook team to update “User Agreement”. 16,000 such emails have been detected since yesterday says Panda labs.
Email message with subject “ UPDATED ACCOUNT AGREEMENT” comes with an attachment “AGREEMENT.ZIP” which contains “AGREEMENT.exe”. Users are required to download and install the application in order to update their user agreement.
Actual [...]
Facebook Cut Short of Power in Palo Alto
Facebook is undergoing power cut off in Palo Alto. A small plane crash earlier today seems to be the reason for the power cut-off.
According to the KTVU “a twin-engine Cessna plane crashed abruptly after take-off from the airport hitting the transmission lines 377 feet above the ground. All three passengers were killed in the crash. The plane crashed into a South Palo surrounding. No injuries were reported on ground. Accident took place at 7:50 a.m. [...]
Add Facebook to Your Gmail – Chrome Extension for Gmail Introduced!
Facebook is not supported by Google Buzz which is criticized by many people even though it supported Twitter, Flickr etc. Google has yet to decide anything about this in near future.
However, someone decided to take matters into his hands and came up with an extension for “Google Chrome” which lets you add a “Facebook” button right into your Gmail. Facebook icon could be located right under the “Buzz”. This Add-on adds Facebook messages into your [...]
Facebook Chat is Everywhere Now
Facebook has recently been coming up with different additions and is altering things. Facebook launched support for AOL’s chat client AIM earlier today even though it still is in beta phase.
Few hours ago, Facebook launched their support for almost all chat clients with the help of most common technology “Jabber (XMPP)”. Jabber is an open messaging protocol and is supported by most IM programs.
Jabber implementation was announced in May 2008 and the work restarted in [...]
