Optimize the time spent on Facebook by streamlining your news feed

December 27th, 2012 2 Comments

Optimize the time spent on Facebook by streamlining your news feed

Facebook login page

A lot of people complain that their Facebook news feed is now cluttered up and that they have to go through a lot of unwanted posts before finding any useful stuff. Well, Facebook has made a lot of changes of late to help you de-clutter your news feed and fortify your privacy. You can go through our previous post on simple tips to enhance your Facebook experience  to pick up some nifty tricks as well. In this post, we will give out some tips on how you can get only that information which you need, from people that you want in your news feed.

1. Sort Your Friends :

Friends sort

Facebook lets you sort your friends akin to Google Plus. Just go to your friends profile and move your mouse to the friends button situated next to messages. It will reveal a drop down menu where you can add that friend to close friends or acquaintances. They will not be informed of this changes.  Under the settings button you can also specify what kind of updates you would like to see from them. You can set it to show all updates or only when they post statuses or photos.  No more updates about games or fortune cookie apps cluttering your News feed! You can completely stop posts from a person by unticking “Show in News Feed”.  This way you don’t have to unfriend anyone as well.

2. Create Groups :

Facebook Groups

You can create groups for specific persons to share only some information with them. For example a book reading group or a group for friends who stay in your society. You can  set the group visibility to secret so that no one else can see the posts made within the group. You can create groups by selecting “Create Group” in the left hand panel from your main news feed.

3. Set email alerts :

Notification settings

Rather than constantly checking the Facebook app on your smartphone or Tablet and draining its battery or the site on your desktop and getting distracted, set email alerts for notifications. You can do this by navigating to account settings,  notifications and then manually setting what you want to be notified about and how you want to be notified.  You can even opt to get text messages on your phone. This way you never miss an update and save up on valuable time too.

So these are some useful tips that should help you to streamline your news feed as per your preferences and keep abreast of your updates without having to visit the site constantly. Do you have any tips that you would like to see here? Do share these with us in the comments.

 

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Try Flickr Pro free for 3 months

December 26th, 2012 4 Comments

Try Flickr Pro free for 3 months

Flickr Pro 3 months offer

If you are another ticked off Instagram user who is still fuming after their recent terms of service muddle, Flickr has a holiday offer to entice you. Flickr is offering their Pro service which normally costs $24.95 a year, free for 3 months. This will let you upload unlimited photos though with a file size of 50 mb, unlimited HD videos though capped at 90 seconds or 500 MB, unlimited viewing of your entire library and the ability to download high resolution photos among other features.

By comparison, the free service only lets users view the recent 200 images, limited photo uploads of only 300 MB  per month and only two video uploads per month among other restrictions.  If you are an existing Flickr user, you will get to use Flickr Pro free for 3 months on signing up.  New users don’t have to register using a credit card or enter any other billing information as well. The Flickr mobile app has also been recently updated with new image filters. Do note that this offer does come with a disclaimer :

Note:  To avoid abuse of our unlimited storage, we do monitor accounts for excessive usage. Yahoo! limits the number and size of photos allowed from an account within a given timeframe. While our goal is to ensure that everyone benefits from unlimited storage, Flickr is not intended to be used as a content distribution network.

You can use this migration tool to transfer all your photos from Instagram to Flickr.

Would you be willing to give Flickr Pro a try? Or are you still sticking with Instagram? Share your thoughts with us here.

Sign up for the Flickr Pro Holiday offer.

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