Is Google + really poised to kill Facebook.... Read it out to know

The first impression of Google+ is good, but for many people it looks like a Facebook with Group Video chat. At first glance, Google Plus appears to be a derivative of Twitter and Facebook. People are even claiming that, it will fail like Buzz. But I have different thoughts.

           Google+ is better than Buzz and is poised to give Facebook folks the sleepless nights. Steps of Google towards a social network seems promising. Google+ comes with clean design and with some exciting features like Circles, Hangouts, Huddles, and Sparks. Circles let you share things with your desired group of people. Hangouts let you have group video chat with your friends and family members. Sparks let you search your favorite topic, and lets you add those topics in your interest list.
     Google has always wanted to be a king of Social Networking, after Orkut and Buzz that failed to catch up and sustain themselves to the competition. Google has today launched the new Google + Social networking engine. In a simple attempt a black bar appears at the top of the google pages with a +you button.

One of the most notable services in the Google+ networking is the Circles. What this basically lets you do, it that it allows you to select your group of friends and assign them into groups (or circles) then when yo post updates you can select who all you want to update.

                        Hangouts is one of the killer features of Google+. Hangout is sort of group video chat. You click on the Hangout button and invite members of a certain group/circle, by sending them a notification. And it’s easy to use this feature. It’s directly challenging the number of video chat products like Skype. And Facebook don’t have this feature. “Sparks” button lets you to explore your interests; it’s like bookmarking your favorite pages. The +1 Google button is integrated to your Google+ profile, which can be considered as Facebook Likes.

Google has gone all out by launching the mobile app along with the service, which for one has an instant uploads folder which would upload all your images on the Google+ account in a private album and you can share those images with your status.

Google+ is still in a limited trial mode and looks like all their invites are gone, we will have more on this soon !

Facebook's database is getting sloppy and dirty

While Google dealing with overwhelming signups. Facebook is throwing up Database Down messages on a bunch of accounts. This was sent in by one of my readers and we've been receiving numerous reports. Either Facebook is cranking up their powers to deal with the new Google Plus on the block, or their database has left the FB building and signed up with Google Plus, or George Hotz found their server room. Hopefully services should resume quickly, there's a lot of liking to be done. I guess Facebook  is finally feeling the heat

How to Add Extra Emoticons or Smileys to Facebook Chat

Bored with Facebook chat? Well there are many reasons that may give you this feeling. Facebook chat is simple and clean there are no environments and additional smileys as provided by Yahoo Messenger.
If you want more smileys to express yourself with Facebook friends, Emoinstaller will be handy. Using this application is simple and can be done with following steps.

• Download Emoinstaller, It has multi browser support hence before installation you must close the browser you want to integrate with it.
• Once it is installed you can open Facebook from the integrated browser and open chat.

•  The emotion icon can be found at bottom left corner of the chat box.

• Click on the icon to get variety of emotions to select from.

•  To display Emoticons, Emoinstaller must be installed on both sides.

 If you do not like this application and want to remove it, go to Firefox addons and disable the addon.

What is Facebook Questions & How to Create Facebook Polls

You may have noticed another button on Wall Status updates called “Question“. Facebook has rolled out this new feature which lets user ask questions to your friends and get answers right there.

This is similar to Yahoo! answers or Quora which are dedicated portals for asking questions and getting answers for them. Good thing about Facebook Questions is your question get instant exposure to all your friends and network which makes faster response possible.

Many have a habit of taking recommendations from friends on facebook and Facebook Questions does solve the purpose by allowing you to provide options or create polls online.
So, just click on Share Question Button, Ask your question and Poll options are optional which can be linked to some Facebook Fanpage too.
It is clear that the service is not intended as a rival to Quora, basically because the areas are quite different. Quran focuses on questions answered by a panel of experts and, therefore, to create a knowledge base, however, Facebook finds the conversation between friends, that is, something more casual, for example, which place will you go for vacation this summer?
Recently Facebook Places became available for India and now about Questions, I would say- Overall, a nice feature introduced by Facebook to add more interaction.

How To Change The Default Blue Color of Facebook

From the very first day Facebook is obsessed with the color blue. Till date there is no inbuilt option for a user to change the default blue color to a user defined custom colors. Now Firefox users can change the default color of Facebook and strike off the draggy wall.

How to set custom Facebook Colors

1. Please make sure GreasesMonkey is installed in your Firefox and is enabled. If you don’t have it please download and install it here.
2. When you have Firefox and Greasemonkey download and install the Facebook Color Changer user script.

3.Now, when viewing any page on Facebook simply right click on the  Greasemonkey icon on Firefox and navigate to Userscript command –> Customize Facebook Color.

4.Select the colours you’d like facebook to be, click “Set!”, and you’re done.

From next time on you will not see the boring blue color of Facebook any more and you can change it on weekly or daily basis to get a newly painted Wall every day. If you completely want to revamp the look of Facebook then you may try Facebook Themes.

Download Facebook Color Changer

Facebook: How to disable New Photo viewer and get back Old version

Facebook continues to innovate in new and different ways. However, its latest addition has come under a lot of fire. The all new photo viewer for Facebook has not found universal love. Most of its users are instead finding it cumbersome. Today we show you the two simplest ways to get rid of it.

Visit the preview page of the desired photo.

 

Go to the address bar of the browser. 

At the end of the address, there is &theater – delete it.  

 

Or simply press the F5 key.
Whichever way you prefer, the end result is the same. We get rid of the all new photo viewer.