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How To Get Facebook Graph Search

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Facebook Graph Search LogoIf you are an active follower of Social Media news, you must be aware of this new tool Facebook is launching: Graph Search. Facebook Graph Search is a new search tool from Facebook that lets you do personalized search queries in your Facebook friend network. Confused? The video below will be helpful in clearing the air:

So in a nutshell, unlike a web search, Graph Search will search among your Facebook connection and network to answer your search queries.

How To Get Facebook Graph Search:

Facebook Graph Search is out in beta. Which means it is not available to everyone. But no need to get disheartened. You can apply for a beta invite and can use it before your friends. Follow the steps below to get Facebook Graph Search beta invite:

  • Go to the following link: 
  • Scroll down till the end.
  • You will see a notice: Try Graph Search Beta. Click on the Join Waiting List.
    Facebook Graph Search Beta

Tip:

As you might have noticed that it says that Facebook Graph Search is available for a limited English (US) audiences. To ensure a quick invite, change your Facebook language and the language you speak in your profile to English (US).

Enjoy Facebook Graph Search :)

Box is offering 50 GB Cloud Storage free for Android Users

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No, it is not a hoax but true. The popular cloud storage service Box (earlier known as Box.Net) which generally offers 5 GB of free cloud space is now offering 50 GB for free in a limited period offer.

What you need to do:

  • Register for an account on Box if you do not have one already
  • Get the Android app for Box.
  • Log in to your Box account from your Android phone
  • You should see a message as in the pic below

Remember, it is a limited time offer. So hurry up!

 

How to get rid of spams in gmail

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Tired of Spam in your Gmail? Spam annoy anyone especially when they are repetitive. One of my gmail account was constantly spammed by some online shopping website which I had used once. More frustrating was that email had no option to subscribe. Another major spammer was an online Casino sale which I had never used as far my memory goes.

In this tutorial we will see how to use “filters” to combat spam. We will apply filters to the spam which are repetitive and come on a regular basis. [Read more…]

Microsoft Social Network SOCL goes in beta, book a place for yourself

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Microsoft Social Network SOCLFew months back we saw that Microsoft accidentally published its own version of Social Networking site Socl.com. They took down the site in few days but it seems they are back with their project renamed from Tulalip to socl (pronounced as social).

Socl is in fact not a new social networking site that wants to compete with Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus. Instead it is more like where users can collect interesting stuffs from web at one place and share it with their friends. [Read more…]

How to get the new look of Gmail? [Quick Tip]

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With the ongoing changes in Google products (top bar in Google search page, new Google Docs look, new You Tube look etc) Google finally released the new look of Gmail to public. The new look is (surprisingly) available to everyone unlike the regular habit of releasing the new features to a few chosen beta users. [Read more…]

How To Solve: apt-get install Error in Ubuntu

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Problem:

An Ubuntu user often comes across an error (shown below the paragraph) while try to install an application using apt-get in the terminal, using synaptic or Ubuntu Software Center. This simple error may trouble a beginner Ubuntu User. The error looks something like this:

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? [Read more…]

How to get the New Facebook Profile: Timeline

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has been toeing the Google Plus line for past few weeks and it launched a number of new features today (22 Sep 2011) at . One of the those new feature is called Timeline which gives your profile a totally new look (which resembles a bit to WAYN profile).

Salient features of the Timeline Profile:

  • A large photo on the top of the profile
  • Below is the general information, status update box and the latest activities on Facebook
  • Your friends will also be able to see your past activities (this is why the name is Timeline)

This video gives a better understanding of the Timeline profile:

How to get the New Timeline Profile:

The Timeline profile is still in beta but users can sign-up for it. So if you want to enjoy this new feature before most of the other users visit this page: Make sure that you have logged into your Facebook account. Click on Sign Me Up button on the bottom right of the screen.

The Facebook timeline is live now. Here is how to get it:

Go to

And there click on Get Timeline at the bottom of the page.

Enjoy the Timeline. :)

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Get 150 Google+ (Google Plus) invite [Update]

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Google has recently allowed users to send 150 invites (How to send 150 Google+ invite). People who still have not got their Google+ invite can try the below link.

Remember only 150 people can use this link. So try to be one of those 150 people. See you on Google+.

Additional Links from the generous readers of this blog:

Invite:

Clicky:

Justin:

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Stas:

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Death:

 

If you got your invite then please share your invite link so that others can enjoy Google Plus. Thank You.

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How to get Google Music Beta Invite from outside US

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I was craving to try for Google Music Beta since it’s launch but as it is only available for people of USA (why only USA?), all the time it irritated me with We’re sorry. Music Beta is currently only available in the United States. But then as you know “there is a will there is a way”, I managed to get an invite. All I did was to use the a US Proxy to request an invitation. I got my Google Music Beta invite in 3 days. Apparently once you get the invite, Google doesn’t bother from where your accessing it i.e. all you need to do is to use a US proxy and then once you get the invitation, it is yours to use it. To simplify the process in steps:

  • Use a Google proxy site. I used http://www.ultrafastproxy.com/
  • In this site, scroll down a bit to find a field with a Browse tag on it, enter music.google.com
  • It will open Google Music page under the proxy
  • If you have security features enable in the Google account, you might have to answer the security question to verify that this a legitimate login
  • Now here you request for an invitation for an invite
  • Wait for 3-4 day to process the invite request
  • Once you get it you can access it from anywhere across the globe

You can also download the Google Music Manager, which is available for Windows, Mac and recently for Linux, to upload your own music to its cloud storage. You can upload upto 20,000 songs. But make sure that the music which your are uploading is legal. Uploading illegally downloaded music files will be deleted from the storage. One more thing once you get the invite, you can also send two invites to your friend.

Other Proxy Sites:

If the proxy site suggested earlier doesn’t work, you may want to try one of these:

Question, suggestions and feed back are welcome. Enjoy your music :)

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