Download Your Facebook Data for Free


You recently lost your Hard Drive and along with you all your snaps! Worst of all you haven't taken any backup for the same. So they are as good as lost, aren't they? The answer is NO! Not if you have posted them on Facebook.

Did you know that you can download a copy of all your Facebook data on your local Hard Drive, for FREE, without having to install any software. This data includes all your photos, videos, albums et al. Isn't it something!

Here's how you can download a copy of all your Facebook data:

Get Your Facebook Timeline, Now!


Facebook Timeline is the new offering from Zuckerberg stable where you get to look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It’s like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts. Why can't you see this on your Facebook page? Well, its not made public yet. But for the readers of tech'd, you can have a special invitation for Facebook Timeline waiting for you on your Facebook homepage. Want to know how? Here's what you need to do:

1. Log in to your Facebook account.
2. Enable developer mode, if you haven’t done that already. To enable Developer mode, type "developer" (without the quotes) into the Facebook search box, click the first result (it should be an app made by Facebook with a few hundred thousand users), and add the app.

How to Enable Peek feature in Windows 7


So you have got Windows 7 installed on your computer/laptop and now you want to check out the eye-candy that it has to offer you. You have heard all about those Shake, Snap and Peeks from the stable on Windows 7 and now you wanna try them yourself. But hey, what happened, your system doesn't responds to the Peek feature! Is something broken? Has it not been enabled?

So with a heavy heart you head over to the Microsoft website to find a solution to your problem but guess what, even they don't show you how to enable Peek feature on your Windows 7 system. Surprised? Don't be, welcome to the world of Microsoft!

Easily Transfer Files Across Clouds


Do you happen to use cloud services like Google Docs, Dropbox a lot? Wouldn't it be great if you could maintain all your cloud services using a central app? Ladies and gentlemen, meet Otixo.

Otixo is an impressive web-app that lets you access files stored across different cloud service from a central location. To get started, you associate your Dropbox, Google Docs, Picasa, Amazon S3 and other online accounts with Otixo and then you can easily move or copy files between any of your accounts via simple drag-n-drop.

How to Create a Site Using WordPress (not a Blog)


One of the most used and most versatile blogging platform, WordPress can also be used to create a website and not just a blog!

Yes, its true that you can actually create a full-fledged website using WordPress. How? Here is a slideshow from Sara Rosso which will teach you how to do this amazing thing.

Integrate Google+ with Blogger

In fewer than 4 months since its launch, more than 40 million people have joined Google+, making it a living, breathing space for social connections and sharing to thrive.

So, earlier today, Google announced the integration of Google+ with Blogger! With this, you would be able to integrate your Blogger profile with your Google+ profile. In addition to giving your readers a more robust and familiar sense of who you are, your social connections will see your posts in their Google search results with an annotation that you've shared the post. Plus, bloggers who switch will automatically get access to the Google+ integrations the Google team be rolling out in the future.

Generate Your Own QR Codes


QR Codes gives us an interesting way of storing and exchanging text information inside images. These images might look like a total gibberish to the human eye but the information contained inside the image can be extracted instantly on the desktop or a mobile phone using free decoders.

Now you might say that "big deal! what did we have bar codes for?" But unlike the more popular bar codes, a QR Code can store data in both the vertical and horizontal directions and hence have more storage capacity per unit area. Moreover, the QR codes are readable from any direction and that data stored inside QR codes can be restored even if the corresponding image is partially damaged.

Since the QR codes are becoming a rage, why not get one for your website! Well, there are numerous online services which would let you generate your own QR codes, but here are a few which I found to be very reliable and with one of them you can even generate a colored QR code!

Indian Video goes Viral on Facebook

This video on Facebook called "5 Days of Facebook" depicts a story of two school friends – a boy and a girl - who meet on Facebook after several years later. The boy find an old classmate on Facebook, sends her a friend request and the split-screen video illustrates his expectations from that add request versus the reality.

Several copies of the video exist on YouTube and one of them, with 100k+ views, has already made it to the "most viewed videos" chart on YouTube India for this month.

The music video is in Hindi but even if even you don’t know that language, you can still make sense of the video from the visuals. Like!

I Love Ice Cream Sandwich


It’s here! Android 4.0, code named Ice Cream Sandwich, was announced Tuesday night by Google and Samsung at a press gathering in Hong Kong. The first phone to run Android 4 is the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, which will be available next month. But the good news is that the SDK is available right now at the Android Developer web site. Let’s take a look at the top features in the new operating system.

1. Ice Cream Sandwich has a more consistent look and feel than its predecessors. Designer Matias Duarte (former designer of WebOS) says that "While people like and need Android, they didn’t love Android". So he gave the user interface a complete makeover to make it "enchanting, easy, and powerful". New widgets, new gestures, context sensitive action bars, more discoverable commands - these are just the tip of the iceberg.

2. The Android 4.0 OS has new system font. It sports a new type face called "Roboto" which was designed especially for high resolution screens like the one found on the Galaxy Nexus.

Alienware M17x - A Colossal Gaming Laptop


In the world of gaming laptops, the Alienware M17x is colossal. Large is lovely in this case, and it looks like that the M17x has been a result of a good many hours of laborious designs.

The outer shape is generally the same as M11x and M14x with the front of the laptop angling forward and the powered on embedded lights give out the impression of a sports car bumper. The laptop's rubberized finish is well done and looks pretty sleek. The inside body also has the rubberized finish, except for the bezel around the keypad that is brushed aluminium burnished to a darker hue.

The laptop's keypad is lovely - the keys are well spaced, and the feedback from the keys are exactly the right amount for all of them. The keys are backlit beautifully and so is the trackpad - it has a backlit rim around it. Although the trackpad accuracy is good, a dedicated mouse is required for serious gaming.

Hack Facebook in Less Than a Minute


Facebook has multiplied like a wabbit in heat since the time it came into being. There has been lots of changes, controversies, speculations et al. Whatever you do, you simply can't ignore it.

But how secure Facebook really is? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Does those passwords protection and security questions makes it enough secured to post your personal data online?

Reach Out to Readers Using The Slide


If you are wondering how to increase you page views than here is a simple solution from SimpleReach, the Slide.

The Slide is a compact piece of code which, when added to your site/blog, "slides" a discreet window at the bottom right of the screen after the current article has been read. The window comes out with a recommendation to read a related post.

There are different ways of uploading the slide onto your website, the easiest is perhaps uploading the WordPress plug-in. But don’t worry, the slider has a manual code installation so it works 100% with other websites and services.

Windows Marries Android, Thanks to BlueStacks


Thanks to the folks at BlueStacks, you can now run your favorite Android Apps on your Windows PC! The BlueStacks App Player, which is still in its alpha stage, lets you run several preloaded Android apps, install up to 26 others, and sync apps from an Android phone to your PC.

Installing the app might take a few attempts. But after it has been installed using it is a breeze. The app places an Android gadget in the upper right corner of your screen. Clicking on the gadget opens a menu from which you can launch any of the preloaded Android apps, including Bloomberg News, Bubble Buster, Words Free, and Drag Racing, along with six others.

The apps themselves launch in a full-screen virtualized version of the Android operating system, so they run smoothly. The only obstacle that you might encounter is that since the apps are designed for a touch screen device, running them on a desktop computer with keyboard and mouse would be a bit of a pain. Using a laptop with a multitouch pad would be a better option though. Overall, the integration with Windows via a simple desktop gadget proved to be clean and seamless.