After reporting two ways to customize your new timeline (see How to personalize the cover of the timeline ) today we announce a new applications that lists dozens of covers for our timeline.

The cover of the timeline is essential to give that touch of originality to our profile, it's the first thing you notice when someone visits us on Facebook, so it is a good idea to customize.

Facebook Timeline Covers collects the best covers, divided into categories, some customizable and ready for use on your profile. Clicking on Preview of any cover, you will see it enlarged as if it were in your journal, and clicking on Choose a few clicks you can put the cover on your timeline, through the application.

Some covers are also customizable, allowing you to add text to the images.

Small trick: if you do not want to use the application you can also click Preview, and then with the right mouse button click on the cover and save the enlarged image (only works with Internet Explorer), then that image you can go upload to your timeline.

Another application is Cover Photo Magic plus you can choose a cover that also allows you to customize it by entering your photo album on Facebook. You can choose between the covers and then select "Next" and choose which of your photos to include.

More and more people come and ask us for help like: Why don't I see my updates at all? How do I remove everything from the box at the top right? How do I not show everything I do to my friends?

Let's start by saying that the box at the top right of Facebook, the mini bulletin board that runs automatically and shows updates of friends, and more generally of the pages to which users have subscribed to the updates, you call the box, the ticker.

Also please note that this box is not visible to everyone, from the Facebook help center:

"The box updates is only visible to people with a certain level of account activity. If you do not see the box for updates, it's probably because you do not use Facebook much, so there is not enough because the content pane of updates may be useful. "

We have already reported on Tricksfacebook how to remove the ticker, but obviously the removal doesn't mean that your friends will not see your information in their ticker. In fact, the ticker only displays material that is already visible on your Facebook, it only shows updates in real time.

What updates are shown in the box to my friends?

When you publish content, which is a status update, a photo, a link and so on, you can choose the level of privacy: if this is public then people who receive your updates (either friends and subscribers) can see it, but if you set the visibility of the content to "just friends" then just the people who are your friends can see it. If the content is public, then when you click "I like" your friends will see it in the ticker of the updates that I like was clicked. If the content is only visible to friends then only friends will see action in common.

Can I hide my news from the ticker of updates?

Yes you can hide some recent activity, such as information about a friend's activities, games and other applications. All the control is from your profile (timeline).

Whether or not you have a new timeline, when you share on Facebook, for example, when you click "I like" on a page, go to your profile and click on X to the right of the news, you can hide it from your profile and you can also hide all future News of that type. Once removed from the box it will also be hide future updates.

If you want to hide that kind of news from your ticker follow these instructions:

1. Click on a news story in pane updates
2. Click on the menu at the top right
3. Select "Hide the news"

These and more information about how the ticker updates are available in the Facebook help center by clicking here.

For several weeks we have started to point out the best tricks for the timeline and we've also provided the best sites and applications to customize the cover image in previous articles:
How to customize the cover of your timeline
Two applications to customize the cover of your timeline

Today we add to list with two new websites that collect hundreds of covers and have them ready for you to use on your profile.

1. Cover Photo Finder

CoverPhotoFinder collects hundreds of covers and has them ready to be inserted into your timeline. In the upper right corner you can click on "Log in with Facebook" and authorize the site to use your account, then after you click "Use This Photo Cover" on the cover you choose it will put it on your profile.

Each user also has the ability to upload their own cover and add to the collection site by clicking on the arrow at the top right labeled Upload.

2. My profile cover

Another service is MyProfileCover which has several positive points compared to the competitor. The covers are classified into categories for easy reference, so you can browse among animals, cars, cartoons, nature, people, games etc..

To put the cover on your profile you must click download (see image at top of this article) "Click to download this cover." You can then load it manually in your timeline.

A negative aspect of the site is the watermark that is inserted to the right of every cover. This negative point is offset, however, with another unique service, the opportunity to apply for your cover. Each user can also add a comment to this page and ask for a customized timeline cover image.

What is the optimal size for profile pictures on Facebook? If the loaded image is too large the system will automatically shrink the image to maintain the standard proportions and in most cases the image is small and blurry, if the image loaded is too small it becomes scarcely visible.

Facebook does not indicate which both the right size for the images in profile, requires only that these do not exceed the 4MB of weight, so that they can be thumbnails. But they do not tell us anything further about the best format to use to make it clear that they are.

The site that we announce today allows you to create your profile picture long, with the maximum possible size of Facebook that is 180x450 pixels. This image is useful for pages ( in our example ) because it lets you enter text, logos or other items you want to share. It's also useful for those who have not yet updated the profile to the timeline.

Here's how to use the site and crop your photos with the size and format best for Facebook:

1. Coupled with this site: http://profilepicturemaker.com/long-height-facebook-profile-picture-maker.jsp
2. Click on "Load Photo" to select the image to be uploaded from your disk or click on "use webcam" to take a picture with your webcam.
3. Use the bar left and right to zoom and adjust the alignment.
4. From the controls at the bottom you can also add effects and adjust color, saturation, brightness, contrast and hue.
5. When finished you can download the photos by clicking on "Download pic" (do not rename the image is saved as "xxDont-rename-this.png") or by logging in to Facebook, you can send it directly to your page by clicking on "Login to FB "and" send to FB."

The image is saved with optimal size and format that is 180 px wide, 450 px in length and as a Portable Network Graphics (PNG).

With more than 800 million users and 900 million objects with which they interact (including pages, groups, communities and events), with millions and millions of daily posts that are published and shared with Facebook, means it has long been the biggest and most popular worldwide database of information and public opinion.

For these reasons, the search engine on Facebook is an excellent resource for finding users or pages but it's primary use is to find public status updates, links, notes, photos etc..

For some time now websites like OpenBook allows you to search public posts to find what Facebook users think of a particular topic. We can then look what they think of a product, service, company, and so on.

Today we want to tell you about a project similar to this. Facebook search lets you search on Facebook without being registered with the site. It's not necessary that you be a registered user on Facebook to access its database of public information, now you just visit: http://facebooksearch.com and search between public updates of people and pages.

Some examples? Here's what users are thinking at this moment about the Superbowl or what they saying publicly.

Here at TricksFacebook we often share programs and extensions that at most customize Facebook, some are only compatible with certain browsers and some are compatible with all other browsers, but are too invasive, or users hate the customization options.

From several years of research that we carry out this blog, after trying every trick created for the popular social networking loved and hated by all, we now want to show you the best programs to customize your Facebook, and we made sure that they're free and compatible with the best browser.

In reality, what we're about to suggest is not new, they've already been discussed in several of our articles articles, but they have been renewed, some have changed names and the some software has become everyone's favorite to maximum personalization of our Facebook experience.

We are talking about Social Fixer (also known as first and as Better Facebook Minimalist extension for Chrome), and a free extension available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and also as a script for Greasemonkey that removes some "trouble" from Facebook and part of exciting new features, enhancing the practice site.

Features and functions of Social Fixer

• Tabs (Tab) in your news stream. The updates you receive from your friends, pages, applications and games will be grouped in tabs to be easily organized. The posts of your friends, those to whom you are most interested in, will be the homepage, all the others (which you can read later) will be the other tabs.

 

 

• Themes. You can install different themes, skins, and custom layouts. You can change wallpaper, color styles and images used. And for the more experienced, you can also add CSS and customize it how you want!

 

 

• Hide what you have already read. Re-read things several times? If you've already read an update of a friend you can hide it without necessarily having to hide all future updates of that friend.

 

• Larger images on mouse over. Just pass your cursor over any image to enlarge, without having to click on the photo or link.

 

 

• Highlight the new user. Just check the post to see what comments you have not read, it will be highlighted and will save you valuable time.

 

 

• And much more ... How about notifications when you're removed as a friend from your friends, filtering to customize your news feed, automatic removal of recent activity from your profile, and more.

 
These are just some of the functions of Social Fixer, for a complete overview, visit this link.

You can download from the Social Fixer official website. Here are direct links to the extensions for each browser:

Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Opera
Greasemonkey

On this blog we are the first to report several applications to add items to your Facebook profile, some of these are become your favorite applications and other pass into oblivion.

In fact some of the services offered by thousands of applications on Facebook can be of interest to you, many other apps are often tried once or twice and then forgotten... and the same happens with games.

The problem is that every time you authorize an application, we give the permission to access our personal information, often photos and videos, the possibility of publishing the timeline, see our list of friends, etc.. Our Italian Blogger is a true advocate of privacy and he already informed us all over 2 years ago on his blog. But here today, He and I (American author) renew our invitation to you to remove unused applications.

Follow this link to Facebook to remove them: http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications

I also want to refer you a site that collects links to the pages of the most popular social network applications and services on the web: http://mypermissions.org/

By visiting it you will have the ability to remove unused applications related to your account on Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Instagram and Flickr.

As the slogan of MyPermissions states: "Start 2012 by Taking 2 Minutes to Clean Your Apps Permissions."

Do you publish different content on Facebook, some current and important and others (such as the various "links") less important and sometimes stupid? Before the launch of the timeline we probably didn't care that much about old posts, but now with the arrival of the timeline we must be very careful and review all the posts that have been published in the past, remove the less important things and just leave things there that we don not regret publishing.

WARNING : Do not try the services listed below if you do not understand what they are. You may remove, forever (no possibility of recovery), the content published on your Facebook.

Why is it important to review the old posts we've published?

The new Facebook timeline allows you to scroll back in time with only a few clicks thus making all content published by us available to your friends (or anyone depending on privacy settings).

For example, if in the past we have spoken ill of a person, company, service ... and now we want to delete that content because we've changed our mind about that person and/or if this became our friend, or if the company ended up calling for an interview and so on.

Application for Android

Exfoliate is an application for Android devices that allows you to delete all content posted on our Facebook profile older than a certain date. The application does the dirty work for us, and gradually remove all posts, links and photos (you can choose which content to remove) the oldest of 3, 6 months or one, two or three years .... Who cares about the bottom things published years ago?

Now Available for Android users only but should get to the App Store for iPhone OS devices shortly.

Clean My Wall

CleanMyWall is a javascript that allows you to delete posts older than a certain date. To prove it you need to bookmark this link. (Drag this link on your bookmarks bar or right click and choose to add to favorites). Now visit your profile and click on the favorite you just created, a guided process will guide you in cleaning your profile.

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More greasemonkey scripts: you can run other scripts on the browser to clean up our profile, but unfortunately none of these have recently been updated since the introduction of the timeline. Examples: History Purge Facebook and Facebook: Clear All Activity.

2012 is starting well, with a new plugin that enables all to return to the old Facebook chat with friends lists, the ability to be online or offline for only a few of these, and all the old functionality that was lost when the Facebook upgrade introduced the sidebar.

We were the first to give you a way to see the old chat and among the first to report that the extension that allowed users to go back to the old chat, removing the annoying sidebar. Unfortunately, these methods have not work for several months and we were forced to use the new chat. We had to get used to something that wasn't comfortable and even still it is an app that the majority of users do not like. Until now.

It's called REfacechat, and is developed by the Italians to whom we give a thumbs up for this project. It 'a free extension available for the most common browsers: Firefox, Chrome, Safari and even Internet Explorer.
 

List functions REfacechat

1) The old chat will return as of July 2011. Your friends will be grouped into lists just as before.
2) For each list of friends you will have the option to be online or offline.
3) The chat will recharge faster.
4) Displayed will only be friends who are online and available to chat.
5) The sidebar will be disabled.
6) You will receive a notification style msn messenger when a friend comes to Facebook.
7) Links to the profiles of friends with whom you are chatting.

In short, this app is a must-try and one we here at tricksfacebook.com support.

You can download the extension from http://www.refacechat.com/ Here are direct links:
Google Chrome
Mozialla Firefox
Apple Safari
Microsoft Internet Explorer

While wandering around through the center of Facebook Developer's site we found a little trick that many have had not noticed. Some basic information of each user are readily available to all (even by those not on Facebook) by visiting a simple URL.

The URL of which I speak is the open graph of the Facebook API: http://graph.facebook.com/

Just enter after the slash / the username or ID of the object (which is this profile, a page, group, or an application) to discover some basic information.

Suppose you want to try this trick with Mark Zuckerberg's account, we just look for his name on Facebook to find out that his user name is Zuck. Then we visit http://graph.facebook.com/zuck and obtain this information:

"Id": "4" - This is the ID of the user (we had already revealed 5 ways to find it, but this new method is much faster and easier)
"Name": "Mark Zuckerberg" - Full name
"first_name": "Mark" - Name
"Last_name": "Zuckerberg" - Surname (in case he also set a nickname there would be another field called "middle_name"
"Link": http://www.facebook.com/zuck, - The link to his profile on Facebook
"Username": "Zuck" - His username
"Gender", "male" - Sex
"Local", "en_US" - The language in which Facebook displays. No more special then use tricks like this to find out what language your friend uses Facebook.

This information can be displayed for every user on Facebook. If the user has not set the user name, use the profile ID.

Example: = http://facebook.com/profile.php?=123456 ------> http://graph.facebook.com/123456

The same trick applies to pages, useful as in the previous case if we find the ID of the page quickly. Here, for example, the URL for our: http://graph.facebook.com/trucchi.consigli.guide