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The Best Facebook Apps You Might Not Have Tried

Kris — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:52:09 +0000

There are a list of obvious things that make Facebook great. Connecting with friends, uploading photos, addictive games, yada yada yada. But one of the best things about Facebook doesn’t often appear on the list. That would be the apps. Some of the apps make your life a little easier, some are informative, and some are fun distractions. Here’s a list of great apps that you might not have used:

Sketch Me

Sketch Me takes your profile picture and turns it into a pencil sketch. It’s cool if you’re getting bored with all your old pics, or are just one of those rare few who looked better in ashen grey.

IQ Test

There’s a lot debate about how accurate IQ tests really are at measuring a person’s intelligence (you can be a musical genius and not know a damn thing about math) but it’s still fun to see how you measure up by the “normal” standards. Facebook’s IQ Test gives you a set amount of time to answer some challenging questions, and then you get your score. Anything over a 100 is something to be proud of.

Daily Horoscope

Remember when you had to rifle though the newspaper for your horoscope? How primitive can you get? The Daily Horoscope app delivers your message from the great beyond right to your Facebook account. Now you’ll be able to find out if today is a good day to go for that raise without getting ink on your hands.

iLike Concerts

A must have app for any music junkie, the iLike Concerts app gives you a listing of all the live music that’s going to be performed anytime soon. You can check out when your favorite band is coming near you or find something to do on a boring night.

Quiz Monster

Quizzes are pretty fun, but sometimes you would like to take one that asks questions that relates more to yourself. Quiz Monster allows you to create your own quizzes and share them with friends and family. Find out whether anyone really listens to what you say.

Books

Books is a great application for any literary fan. They give you a check list of books you’ve read, a to-do list of books you are going to read, and the ability to check out your friends library. You can also write reviews and make recommendations, possibly saving another soul from the horror of Twilight.

Family Feud

The classic game show has finally come to a computer near you. Everyone knows the rules to Family Feud. You try to guess what a 100 people said as they answered the survey questions. Earn big bucks and try to beat the timer, and you don’t even have to get felt up by Richard Dawson to do it.

Typing Test

Typing Test is a great way to find out how many words you can type per minute or to try and improve you current speed. Are you a hunter and pecker? Do you use only your index fingers while scanning the keyboard for the next letter? A couple of minutes a day with this app could improve that.

Tarot

Tarot cards are what fortune-tellers use to divine your future. You’ve seen them before, cards with the pictures of death, except death isn’t actually a bad thing. Now you don’t have to go to your local physic or buy your own pack to get a reading.

Pittsburgh Steelers

I’m not a big sports fan. Kind of hate sports actually. But I know I’m kind of alone on this, so I thought I should include one sports app. And in honor of my brother, I chose the Pittsburgh Steelers. Test your friends to see who knows more about the team. Not a Steelers fan? I don’t care. There’s an app for every team.

Bingo!

Bingo! Not just for little old ladies anymore. You can play real time Bingo against your friends and family or complete strangers, without dragging yourself to the local church basement.

Drink It Up

I’m not going to judge your life here or anything, but if you are spending your time playing virtual Bingo, maybe you should consider drinking more? It gets even better. Drink It Up!

That’s part 1 of the best Facebook apps. Comment below on which apps should be in part 2.

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Facebook-Related Websites

Aleya — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:47:44 +0000

For Facebook addicts out there, sometimes spending all your time on Facebook just isn’t enough. Sometimes you need even more social networking in your life despite all the games you play on there and groups you join. In that case, here is a list of Facebook-related things that you can use to enhance your networking and your Facebook-obsession.

Humor

The more FB friends you have the more puzzling, ridiculous or even stupid content you might be likely to come across. This is because as your network grows you are including less and less people that you would spend an endless amount of time with – you know ‘Friends’ – and more and more acquaintances. And when you don’t have that affection that makes you tolerate your friends, then you become less biased. Hence places like Failbook and Lamebook. These websites are a haven for whistle-blowers who like to call other people out on their social hiccups.

Tastes

If you’re having a hard time finding things to link to your personality in order to fill your Facebook profile there are places you can go to to find or even create your own likes. Likey, My Likes and Go Like Us are all places that users have been going to in order like incredibly specific statements, for example:

Twilight: A hormonal girls decision between bestiality and necrophilia. Like

The world can’t end in 2012, I have a yogurt that expires in 2013. Like

Another means of showing your personality is Feeder FM that allows you to share the music you are currently listening to on Facebook.

Professional

If you would like to use Facebook in a business-like manner there are several places that you can go to – and this list is certainly not exhaustive, simply a sample of what is to be found out there in Internetland. You can hire people to do it for you on Social Cubix or use application like Pagemodo to make pages, Facebook Tabsite to customize your page’s tabs and Root Music to create a fan page for musicians.

Security

For those who were shaken by the recent privacy scare related to Facebook, there are sites out there with your interests at heart. Privacy Defender and Sophos are examples of places where you can adjust your privacy settings or learn best practices without navigating all the corners on the Facebook website to find what you are looking for.

FB IRL

Pixable is means of taking your Facebook photos off-line in order to create a real photo album on this old-school means of recording things called “Paper” or something. Apparently our ancestors used things called pens and pencils to draw dinosaurs on there or something – the details are all very fuzzy. However, if you like vintage stuff, you can use Pixable to go from digital to analogue.

Jargon & Information

If you would like to understand of the terms that are used on the website you can visit this Facebook glossary called How Do I Facebook for terms and definitions. Facebook Craze keeps track of all the different Facebook tagging games that are out there as well as other memetic forms of Facebook use.

Happy Facebooking!

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Public Video Chatting – Google Wave 6rounds Extension

ilan — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:04:06 +0000

Do you have a Google Wave account?
Join this wave and try out 6rounds video chat experience!

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How to use 6rounds Google Wave extension

natasha — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:14:29 +0000

Since 6rounds video chat was chosen as the first Google Wave video extension a couple of weeks ago, many people have asked me how to install and use the 6rounds ‘Google Wave’ extension.

If you want to install the extension so that it is easily accessible, you can just go to the Wave Extension Gallery and install it – the 6rounds video chat experience is the 3rd one there, right after the YouTube video. This way, every time you want to video chat with one of your friends, all you have to do is press the 6rounds favorite icon (which looks like this little image over here – and the extension will be inserted into your wave.

After you have inserted the gadget into a new or existing wave, you may take a seat, and then wait for someone else to take a seat opposite you. As soon as someone else has taken a seat opposite to you, the application will open up, and the video chat experience will begin connecting. This should only take about a few seconds, which will give you time to check yourself out in your webcam. Now, the video chat experience will open up, and you will see your webcam on the right, and your chat partner on the left. You can then begin by familiarizing yourself with the menu, by moving your mouse over to the right side of your picture.

In case you didn’t get the chance to watch our demo of our video chat Google Wave extension, here it is for you once more (and yes that is me).

Some people have asked me what some of the “wavey” features to our extension are.
Well here’s a brief summary for those interested:

Firstly when using wave there is no need to create a 6rounds account. We pull your existing ‘Google Wave’ profile information automatically, and allow you to enter a chat without having to enter any additional data. The extension allows multiple people within the wave to have rounds (video chat’s) simultaneously, and shows the others in the wave who are in a round and with whom they are talking to. Using the wavy playback feature, members that are in the wave or that join the wave in the future, will be able to playback the history of rounds performed.

In the future, once you have taken a snapshot in a round, you will have the opportunity to not only share it with your social networks, but also to share it with the other people within the wave. This means that others that are in the wave, but not participating in a round, will see a live feed of all the snapshots that are being taken (in real time). These snapshots will also be part of the playback feature.

As you know, this is just the tip of the iceberg and we have many more applications and features to add to not only our wave extension, but also rounds.com, but if you have any “wavey” feature ideas that you’d like to share with us, we warmly ask you to leave them in the comments section below.

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