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Posting empty facebook status | Facebook Trick

This is a simple trick which allows you to post empty facebook statuses or comments ( yes, they are not allowed by deafult). Steps- Just type “@[0:0: ]” or “alt+0173″ and you are done. You can google for many more facebook short code or symbols. A simple facebook trick.

Display your latest tweet without a plug-in

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If people like your blog, they would probably also enjoy your tweets. Displaying your latest tweets on your WordPress blog is a good way to gain new subscribers. A plug-in can do that, but for such a simple task, I prefer a hack. This one grabs your latest tweet and displays it on your blog. This ready-to-use code can be pasted anywhere in your theme files. Just don’t forget to change the value of the $username on line 4. The $prefix and $suffix variable can be used to insert a title, and the div element can be used for further CSS styling. // Your twitter username. $username = "TwitterUsername"; // Prefix - some text you want displayed before your latest tweet. // (HTML is OK, but be sure to escape quotes with backslashes: for example href=\"link.html\") $prefix = " My last Tweet "; // Suffix - some text you want display after your latest tweet. (Same rules as the prefix.) $suffix = ""; $feed = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom...

Create a Page that shows twitter updates on your blog/site

Twitter is the best way to publicize and advertise your blog or site and to stay in touch with followers. We already showed you how to display your latest tweet on your blog, in your sidebar for example. Another good way to introduce readers to your Twitter updates is to create a dedicated page for displaying your tweets, using the powerful “Page template” WordPress option. To perform this hack, you need to know how to create and use page templates. If you’re not familiar with this, this article will tell you all you need to know. Here’s the code to create a Twitter page template. Paste it in a new file, name the file something like twitter-page.php , for example, and then add it to your blog. view source print ? 01 02 03 /* 04 Template Name: Twitter page 05 */ 06 07 get_header(); 08 09 include_once (ABSPATH.WPINC. '/rss.php' ); 10 wp_rss( ' http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15985955.rss ' , 20); 11 12 get_sidebar(); 13 get_footer(); 14 ?> This c...

10 awesome hidden features of Facebook

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Facebook hacks or mods to reveal hidden features. We share 10 awesome hidden facebook features that usually are there right on our social networking page but we ignore them. Facebook that we'd share with you. 1. See people's limited profile without adding as a friend Suppose you wanna add someone in your Facebook friends but you can't view his/her profile. What you gotta do is send a message like  hello to the one who's profile you want to see. When that person replies you can easily view his/her Facebook profile without having him/her to add you as a friend. 2. Recover hidden Facebook friends Often it occurs that that you remove your noisy Facebook friends, only to realize later that you need him/her badly. Well, don't you need to worry, if you know where to look for. In case you've no ideas just follow as I say To get the list of your hidden page go to the Home page then scroll your browser all the way to the bottom. Look for link Edit Options and Cl...