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Completely Remove Facebook Questions In Firefox And Google Chrome
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The “Questions” feature in Facebook may be useful to some folks, but I don’t find it useful for a couple of reasons.
First, the questions are more geared towards fun and virality rather than usefulness. I agree that the nature of questions depends on the people you’re connected to but I have hardly seen anyone praising the usefulness of Facebook questions.
Second, whenever there is a world event like the Royal wedding or the launch of a new gadget, my timeline suddenly gets filled with dozens of irrelevant questions in which I have no interest at all. Worst thing is that the same question appears multiple times in the timeline, whenever there is a new answer or someone posts a comment to the question
And the notifications.“Mr X has answered Mr Y’s question”. After a while, this gets really annoying and the sad part is that Facebook does not allow you to block Facebook questions like you can block a particular application, game, invites or a user.
Here is what the FAQ page reads
As with other Facebook applications like Photos and Events, there is no way to turn off Questions.
If you’re fed up with the spammy nature of Facebook questions and want to turn off the clutter, try the Hide Facebook Questions extension for Google Chrome. The extension hides every evidence of the “Questions” feature so your news feed doesn’t get cluttered with polls.Once installed, you will need to refresh Google Chrome and the Questions feature will vanish from your timeline.
And so will the notifications that used to come when one of your friends answered a question asked by another Facebook friend of yours.
Firefox fans can try the more advanced FB purity add-on which lets you fix some other annoyances apart from hiding Facebook questions in Firefox. For example, FB Purity allows you to use the older Facebook commenting system, where pressing Enter or Return adds a new line to your comment, and pressing the “Comment” button submits the comment.
I would suggest FB purity add-on! & now FB purity add-on is also available for Google Chrome, Opera & Safari web browsers.
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Acer & Samsung Chromebooks Orders Start June 15 (Specs)
0Google is currently doing a Chromebook demo at their Google I/O conference. While that happens, here are the details on how you can get your hands on the Chromebooks:
- Orders begin June 15.
- Two OEM partners: Acer and Samsung.
- Chromebooks will be available for purchase via Amazon and Best Buy.
Specs for Samsung’s Chromebook: ($499)
- 12.1? (1280×800) 300 nit Display
- 3.26 lbs / 1.48 kg
- 8.5 hours of continuous usage
- Intel® AtomTM Dual-Core Processor
- Built in dual-band Wi-Fi and World-mode 3G (optional)
- HD Webcam with noise cancelling microphone
- 2 USB 2.0 ports
- 4-in-1 memory card slot
- Mini-VGA port
- Fullsize Chrome keyboard
- Oversize fully-clickable trackpad
Specs for Acer’s Chromebook: ($349)
- 11.6? HD Widescreen CineCrystalTM LED-backlit LCD
- 2.95 lbs. | 1.34 kg.
- 6 hours of continuous usage
- Intel® AtomTM Dual-Core Processor
- Built in dual-band Wi-Fi and World-mode 3G (optional)
- HD Webcam with noise cancelling microphone
- High-Definition Audio Support
- 2 USB 2.0 ports
- 4-in-1 memory card slot
- HDMI port
- Fullsize Chrome keyboard
- Oversize fully-clickable trackpad
More Details here [google.com/chromebook]
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How to Block tweets by a specific person or tweets under a #Hashtag?
1Everyone you follow on Twitter talks about a few things that you care about and a ton that you don’t. You don’t want to miss out but don’t have time to read everything.
“Slipstream” helps you hide what you don’t care about so you can read what’s relevant. It works seamlessly on top of Twitter.com via a simple button at the end of every tweet: “Hi de”.
Let’s make Twitter relevant, just for you.
Lets make it simple… You follow a couple of people on Twitter who are big fans of cricket and thus, whenever there’s a game happening anywhere in the world, your Twitter timeline gets flooded with tweets that are of least interest to you.
That’s just one example but there are plenty of other sources that add noise to your Twitter timeline – some people may be broadcasting their location through Foursquare, iPhone users do the same with Instagram pictures and then there’s the Royal Wedding happening that may have completely hijacked your Twitter feed.
Don’t you sometimes wish there were a mute button on Twitter that would let you temporarily block people from your timeline without having to unfollow them?
Some Twitter apps – Tweetdeck for example – do offer simple text filters (you can access them from settings) to help you hide tweets that either contain certain words, match an #hashtag or have been written by particular people.
However if you are not using any app but the regular Twitter.com website, you should check out Slipstream – a super useful extension for Google Chrome that cleans up your Twitter timeline automatically as you like.
It work this like. You’ll find a new hide link next to all tweets – you just have to click this link to define a new filter which may be something like hide tweets that contain the word #FF. Save the filter and you’ll never see another Follow Friday tweet in your timeline again.
Alternatively, you may also leave the text criteria blank and that will hide all future tweets from that particular user (just like the Mute button you were looking for). You can always disable / delete existing filters from the options menu. Simple!
Try Slipstream on Google Chrome (For now it’s only available for Chrome, Not for Firefox)
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Access Multiple Gmail Accounts In The Same Browser
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You have good flexibility with multiple Gmail accounts these days. Google have let people to access one account at one time. In fact you have access to one account in one browser at one time. Initially, it was an issue. As the next moment I wanted to have another account signed in, I had to log out from the previous and then log in from my other account. It was tough initially to manage this kind of situation. In fact I had to use either Google chrome to come upto this solution. But now, Google presents you with good facility of using multiple Gmail accounts for much time.
If you have multiple Gmail account then you can easily save enough time in going through the redundant cycle of logging in and logging out procedures. Gmail provides you with testing facility of Logging in with the multiple accounts. You can easily get access to sign in with multiple Gmail account from same browser. So how is this done?
Gmail Account settings
When you want that you shall be free to open two Gmail accounts from same browser, then you must do some setting changes in your Gmail accounts. When you go in to your Gmail Page, you will find a drop down box, which is there under My Account section in Gmail page. These features are also active in Google calendar, Google Reader and other Google sites.
Accessing more than one Gmail account at one time
When you need to access more than one Gmail account at same time, you need to perform some task. You have to visit the Google Accounts page. Inside that, you will find “Multiple Sign in” features and you need to enable that. Make sure that you have enabled that in good condition. When you go to enable them enable them, you need to check that your multiple sign-in feature is set to ‘off’. Now, you need to press on Edit and then you will see the option of changing the setting to ‘on’. You need to click on ‘on’. This will help you in making desired changes in setting of the account so that you can have multiple sign in from all your Gmail accounts at once. Juts after this, sign in your main Gmail account. You will find there is an arrow at the top of the email address that you have typed. There you will get a point that says ‘Sign in to another Gmail Account’. Now, you can easily sign inside another Gmail account in same browser too.
Two Gmail accounts signed in for advanced users
It is believed that multiple Gmail accounts sign in is for high end users but not all services from Google support this. For all those sites such as Picasa and other Google facility, you get signed in to the primary account by default, which you have opened in Gmail initially. Hence now, it is easier for you to easily log in to multiple Gmail account and keep in words with your official as well as normal clients at one side, whereas chat with your friends through other Gmail accounts.
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