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Show your facebook fan page in multiple languages

While creating Facebook Fan Page apps, you might have experienced certain use case when you want to display the fan page in various languages ? I have noticed that many forums and blogs suggested to use <fb:restricted-to> FBML tag which apparently is deprecated. In this post, we are going

How to pass data into Facebook iFrame application

While you are developing Facebook application you sometimes need to pass data to the application. As a matter of fact iFrame cannot access data from the parent window. Hence you cannot access certain parameters from the URL using $_GET as a usual process. Facebook provides a way to pass certain d

Facebook Apps and Security – protect yourself

Everyone I know is either active on Facebook or addicted to it!. Why wouldn’t anyone be? It’s very simple (even my office peon has a Facebook account!) Earlier Orkut used to rule the roost, but owing the difficult interface & app barrage! it died a slow & painful death. However,

Show Facebook username on your page without using API

Facebook 's API is every changing and is a mystery sometimes. Today when I was dealing with one of my client, his requirement was to get User ID (UID) of a user without having to ask for "Access permission" from the user. However, this is NOT possible. Facebook does not allow to grab UID, they treat

Update your Facebook status using PHP and Graph API

In this article I am going to show you how you can update your Facebook status using simple PHP code and Facebook Graph API. This is the most naïve way to use this, you can extend this to make your own script to update your status from mobile, via cron job, via email or whatever you think makes sen

Instant Personalization – Facebook’s another privacy woe

Hey Guys, Yes, its facebook’s privacy setting again. Facebook introduced a new privacy setting called Instant Personalization which is by default enabled (in most of the cases)in your profile. According to facebook Instant Personalization - Lets you see relevant information about your friends

Export your Facebook data locally as HTML

Facebook contains your complete identity, since it has your pictures, friends, contact numbers etc. Have you ever thought what if your account gets hacked one day, or you just do not have access to it ? What if facebook is paid or getting facebook data becomes paid ? You can now, store all your f

Import your Facebook contacts into Yahoo and Gmail

Today you are connected to most of your friends via Facebook and not through email. Few years back, email was suppose to be the best way to connect to your friends & family. But what if you want to import all your contacts from facebook to your email service or let’s say you just need them. I

Phone number list of Facebook friends

I am going to share a small trick through which you can access the phonebook of your Facebook friends. You can see the friend’s phone number on info page, but what if you want the complete phonebook. Well to access the phonebook there are several ways, let us discuss them one by one. Direct URL

Free McAfee subscription with Facebook

Facebook is a social networking website which gives people the power to share their piece of mind with their network. It enables million of people to keep up with friends. The website is meant for effective flow of data among your social network but what if your personal data is made public on the n

Change Facebook theme using Camouflage

Facebook is one of the most leading social networking websites ruling the hearts of billions. The white background with blue detailing reminds us of Facebook but it has been a long time since we have been watching the same combination for ages. It has been quoted –“Be the change you want to see

Fruits name as status messages on Facebook

The Forbidden Fruit on Facebook (Only Girls) Long Ago, there was a time when fruits were actually fruits. The present scenario is that Apple and Blackberry are not just fruits; they are powerful communication tool. Following the same trend, many girls are keeping the name of fruits as their s

Gabtastik: An OS X Facebook client

The Facebook Sensation has traversed all over the world since it came into existence in 2004. Now almost every single person who uses internet in the world has a Facebook account. Facebook Introduced Live chat feature two years ago- A new way to communicate with your Facebook friends in real-time.

Facebook Pirates: Are you the one ?

Facebook is quite a phenomenon since 2004 when it began. There are about 58 million active users on facebook who frequently demands modifications on their facebook page for more fun. So here’s some good news for all Captain Jack Sparrow fans. Now you can really make your facebook page interact wit

Publish updates automatically on facebook fan page via site feeds

Some of you might be struggling hard to make it work and some already have this working. But lot of people have lately asked me on how to publish updates automatically to a facebook’s fan page. You can publish your site’s feeds automatically to your profile page and as well as on your business/f

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