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Facebook Confirms Removal of Suggest to Friends Feature from Pages

Facebook removed the Suggest to Friends link from Pages last week when a bug caused the feature to load incorrectly. However, an article in the Help Center confirms that the option will not be returned to users, and that they should now use the Share button to ask Friends to Like a Page. The closing of this viral channel should reduce Page suggestion spam, but may also stunt the growth of Pages unless they pay for more ads.Admins will still be able access the Suggest to Friends feature on their own Pages,  Users can’t access the feature, but can instead use the Share button, located at the very bottom left Pages. The Share button allows users to make a post of the Page to their profile, “which may appear in their friends’ News Feeds”. Users can also opt to Share directly to specific friends via Message, and can send up to 20 of these at a time. The most likely reason for this change was that page administrators were typically the only people likely to use the tool. This also pre...

Top 10 Ways to Watch ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Live Online for Free

The biggest cricketing event of the decade The ICC World Cup 2011 will begin on 19th February 2011 with co-hosts India and Bangladesh facing each other at Dhaka and the final will be held on April 2nd 2011 at Wankhede, Mumbai. The ICC cricket world cup 2011 will be broadcast live on ESPN, Star Sports and Star Cricket channels. The complete list of channels broadcasting the world cup in different countries has been published. In case you prefer to watch cricket online , there are some real good options out there which we are listing down below. Note that you are advised to check your local laws before attempting you use the below links. The links are provided as they exist on the inter-webs. Top 10 Ways To Watch World Cup Cricket Live Online for free   cricvip.com   -has multiple links and multiple ways to watch world cup. cricvid.com    -has multiple links and multiple ways to watch world cup. crictime.com   -has multiple links and multiple ways to ...

How To Remove Tagged Photos from Top of New Facebook Profile

The New Facebook Profile now comes with some cool improvements. It involves a stream of five photos displayed at the top of user profile. The photo streams shows the recently tagged photos or photos from profile picture album of the user. Facebook hasn’t yet any option to disable and remove the photos at the top of the profile. But you can remove a specific photo from appearing at the top of Facebook new profile. This will help you to clean the photos from any wrongly untagged images, pictures of spam nature, or simply photos that you don’t want others to see directly on Profile page Procedure to Remove Tagged Photos on Top of New Facebook Profile 1) First login to your Facebook account. 2) Roll over your mouse on the photo and click the “x” that floats in the top-right corner. 3) Now the photo will be hidden from view. but you can still find the photo on your photos page. 4) Another way: You can change your privacy settings, so that nobody can see the tagged photos at the ...

Google Scribe to Improve your Text Typing & Spelling

Google Scribe is a text completion service offered by Google. Now you can use Google’s auto-completion powers for more than just searching. This new service lets the web fill out your sentences for you in a dedicated editing tool. Apart from it, Google Scribe auto-types anywhere on the web with a bookmarklet. Google Scribe is very beneficial for those users who have typing problems. The program includes the quick related text suggestion or phrase completion suggestion prompted based on the information users have typed in a document. This will reduce the typing mistakes of the users. You can see these suggestions in a pop down list. You just need to select the related word/phrases by pressing enter or the relevant number key. The language menu allows you to choose your preferred language. You can find the language menu in the toolbar above the text area. The program by default, shows the suggestions of user type. You can change the option from “Always” to “On demand”, if you want only...

How To Create a PDF in Mac OS X Leopard

Do you want to create a PDF in Mac OS X Leopard? As we know Mac OS X Leopard comes with built in support for creating PDFs which is one of its great features. If you don’t know how to create a PDF in Mac OS X Leopard then simply follow the step by step instructions posted below using which you will be able to create a PDF in Mac OS X. Now follow the steps carefully. INSTRUCTIONS STEP 1.  First you have to open any document that you would like to convert to PDF. STEP 2. From your applications File menu you have to choose Print or you can use “Command+p” to print. STEP 3. Now you have to click PDF button after the Print dialog box opens. STEP 4. From the dropdown menu simply select Save as PDF.   STEP 5. Now simply name the PDF file, then select its location. You can enter filename in the Save As field. Now enter Title, Author, Subject and Keywords. after that simply click ok button. STEP 6. Now you can find a PDF of your document has been saved in the lo...

Read Gmail Emails on Windows Live Messenger

Windows Live Messenger 2011 and older versions give you (via your passport.net account)   the opportunity to read your Gmail emails without actually leaving the Messenger interface. This is especially useful in those cases where you don’t want to terminate a chat or the user you are chatting with just sent you an email. Such a feature, is also available on previous, old Windows Live Messengers , but despite this a lot of users still do not know about it! Funny how people get stuck on criticizing about the new features available on WLM2011 instead of learning what the Microsoft chat interface can offer you! However, in this article I will show you how to easily read your email (not only those belonging to your Gmail account) on Live Messenger (msn) in a couple of steps. Login to  http://www.passport.net Scroll down the page and reach the section which says “Use an  email address you already have”. Click the Get started now link. Fill in the email address a...

FreeOCR – Extract Text From Scanned Images

You might have encountered a situation where you need to “digitize” stacks of text documents such as contract agreements and written notes. Although it is fairly easy to use a desktop scanner to convert the documents into the digital format but have you wonder if the output from the scanner is processing ready? The free Windows-based Optical Character Recognition (OCR) application – FreeOCR is the helpful tool which allow you to convert a scanned document into electronic files containing readable text. In contrast to the scanned image, the files generated by FreeOCR are processable by word processors to support functions such as text search and editing. FreeOCR is a relatively small application with simple GUI to scan a document and convert it into processing ready text files. FreeOCR is a great alternative if you do not wish to install the huge companion software that usually bundled together with the scanner. Here are the features of FreeOCR: Scan a document from any Twain or Wi...