SOFTWARE TIPS

How to Get the Classic Photo Viewer in Facebook

The Facebook photo viewer now displays pictures in a dark pop-up window. Here’s how you can switch to the classic layout.

 
Facebook has rolled out a Google+ style photo viewer that displays user comments and ads next to the picture in an overlay window. Thus, you don’t have to scroll the page to read the comments and the photo viewer adjusts itself as you re-size the browser window.

Switch to the Old Layout of Facebook Photos

If you are viewing any photo in Facebook and would like to use the classic layout – where photos are displayed on a separate page and not inside a pop-up – you can do that in a couple of ways:

• While the photo viewer is active, press F5 on your keyboard (or hit the “reload” button in the browser) to refresh the Facebook photo page. This should open the photo without the overlay.
• Or go to address bar of your browser, remove the string “&theater” from the photo URL and hit Enter.
• Or the easiest option is that you hold the CTRL key while clicking the thumbnail of any photo on Facebook and this should open the corresponding photo in a new tab but without the lightbox effect.

Compare Junglee Prices with Flipkart and Infibeam

Does Junglee offer better deals than Flipkart or Infibeam? This bookmarklet will let you compare prices of books on Junglee with Flipkart and Infibeam.

 Students can win a trip to France. Entries to be submitted by March 31 Amazon today launched Junglee.com in India today and, in its current form, Junglee is more like an online marketplace where you can quickly compare prices of books, electronics, music, apparel and other products offered by hundreds of online and offline retailers in India.
Several shopping stores in India – including Homeshop18, India Plaza, Shoppers Stop, Fabindia, Microsoft Store, Future Bazaar and many others – have added their product catalogues to Junglee so it becomes a little easier for the consumer to research product prices from one central place.

Is Junglee Cheaper than Flipkart or Infibeam?

As you may have noted, the two most popular shopping sites in India – Flipkart.com and Infibeam.com – are both missing from Junglee.com. These sites might have better deals to offer than Junglee so I have a written a simple bookmarklet that lets you compare prices of books on Junglee.com with that of Flipkart and Infibeam in one go.
Is Junglee Cheaper
To install the bookmarklet, simply drag the “Is Junglee Cheaper” button from this page to your browser bookmarks toolbar. Then open any book page on Junglee.com and click the bookmarklet to instantly know the price of that book on Infibeam and Flipkart.

Prevent Twitter from Auto-Converting Words into Hyperlinks [Trick]

If there are two words separated by a dot (or period), Twitter will auto-convert them into a clickable hyperlink. You can however prevent that.

 If a tweet contains two words that are separated by a dot (or period), Twitter – and the various apps like Tweetdeck – may sometimes interpret that combination as a web address and will auto-convert the words into a clickable link wrapped inside a t.co URL.This is helpful is most cases because you can safely avoid writing http:// in your tweets and Twitter will still convert all the included web addresses into hyperlinks.
However, if you want Twitter to display URLs in plain text and not convert them into hyperlinks, here’s a simple trick – just replace the period (or dot) symbol in your tweet with its ASCII equivalent (.) and Twitter would display your message without conversion.
For example, if I were to tweet – “is twitter.com down?”,  the modified tweet will read like “is twitter.down?” and Twitter will show that link in plain (non-clickable) text.

It’s a simple trick but the only problem is that some apps, like the Twitter app for iPad, do no correctly handle ASCII codes correctly but that should get fixed with time.

Add a Facebook Like Box without the Branding

Learn how to customize the layout of the Facebook Like Box with simple CSS styles. You can even remove the Facebook branding from the Like Plugin.

 The Facebook Like box placed on your website /blog is probably the easiest way to attract new fans to your Facebook page.
And the same rectangular box can even help convert casual visitors to your site into regular ones. That’s because the photo pile inside the box will show visitors pictures of their friends who are already fans and when they seen a known face, it could increase their relative interest in your site.

Customize the Facebook Like Box with CSS

Facebook offers a simple Like Box plugin that you can easily integrate into your website using either JavaScript or IFRAME. You can customize the border color, the height and the width of the Like Box but, officially, nothing more.
That said, if you would like to add a background color to the Like Box to better match your site’s color theme or if you would like to completely remove the Facebook logo and other branding from the box to make it less crowded , you can easily do that with the help of CSS.
To get started, copy the code below and paste it anywhere inside your website template. Change the URL in Line19 to point to your own Facebook page and you’re done.

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<style type="text/css">  .facebookOuter {     background-color:#F4F4F4;     width:250px;     padding:10px 0 10px 10px;     height:250px;     border:1px solid #CCCCCC;   }  .facebookInner {     height:250px;     overflow:hidden;   } style> <div class="facebookOuter">  <div class="facebookInner">   <div class="fb-like-box"       data-width="245" data-height="290"       data-href="http://www.facebook.com/digital.inspiration"       data-border-color="#F4F4F4" data-show-faces="true"       data-stream="false" data-header="false">   div>  div> div> <div id="fb-root">div> <script>(function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];   if (d.getElementById(id)) return;   js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;   js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); script>

Now the boring technical stuff.
The default background color of our Facebook Like box is #F4F4F4 but you can use any other web color (change values in Line 03 and Line 20). Similarly, if you want to have a more wider or taller Like box for your website, you can need to change the width and height values defined in lines 4, 6, 10 and 18.
The above example uses the JavaScript version of the Facebook Like box though the same can be applied to the IFRAME version as well. In that case, you need to replace Line # 17-21 with the IFRAME tag.

Position Windows on your Desktop using the Mouse

Sometimes, may be for the purpose of taking screenshots, you want to place program windows at specific locations on your desktop. The mouse can help.

 
A quick tip. If you want to position windows more accurately on your desktop, you should use the arrow keys on the keyboard instead of the mouse. Here’s how.
While the program window that you want to move is in the foreground, press Alt + Spacebar to open the menu and then hit the “M” key. Now use the arrow keys to move that window around on the desktop. The window will move by 11 pixels in the direction of the arrow key per click.
You can then hit the Enter key to place the window at the new position or hit the Escape key to return the window to its previous location.
This shortcut has been around since XP and is especially handy during screencasting when you have to align windows perfectly inside the limited recording area.