How to set up your privacy settings on facebook so that your pictures and info doesn't appear on adverts.

One of the biggest problems with facebook at this present time is that they allowing their advertisers to use YOUR facebook pictures and other information on the adverts on facebook.This has become a big problem and a lot of users are outraged about it.

Thankfully there is a way to stop facebook from allowing them and their advertisers from using your information and pictures.I am going to show you exactly step by step on how to set your privacy settings so that a friend or even some one you don't know never sees your face on a advert again.

1.login to facebook,once logged in click on settings in the top right hand side of facebook then click privacy settings.

2.Now click on "News Feed and Wall"

3.Now click on the tab that says"facebook ads"

Now in the box next to"Appearance in Facebook Ads" click "no one" and then Save changes.

You have successfully set up facebook so that you do not appear in any of the adverts on the site.

How to Sync or Connect Your Facebook Events to Google Calendar to Get SMS Reminders of Friends Birthdays and Important Events.

This is a video tutorial I made on how to sync your facebook events like birthdays and other events to Google calendar.This guide then shows you how to set up Google calendar to send you notifications ether vie SMS or email to remind you of up coming events like your friends birthday.By doing this you will never forget a birthday ever again!


Please leave any comments on what what you though of the video!

How safe are you really on facebook-How a friends boy friend started a war online!

With the internet whether you are using forums,blogs,social networking or instant messaging you are going to talk to some rude and self proud people.I myself have had to put up with a few people who don't know what they talking about.

I must warn you that this is more a story and actually doesn't have that much to do with technology,gadgets and the internet.

Facebook as brought so many normally people to the internet on a daily basis to talk,share photos and so much more.Facebook has really showed the none geeks what the internet is all about and how fun it can be.Unfortunately when people mix troubles start due to online clashes and other problems.

A few months ago a good friend of mine started dating a guy who according to her was just amazing.A few weeks latter a few of my friends went to this girls birthday party which was being hosted at her house.My mates and I had got there a bit to early,in fact we were the first to arrive so we sat out side talking.She was so exited about her new boy friend and how cool he is and we were happy for her but then he arrived.

As this new biy friend walked into the door my freind said"I know that guy"I asked him where from and he said he had seen him around at the local shopping centre and that he commented on a photo of me on facebook.My friend did not seem very happy about this so I proceed to ask him what this guy had said.According to my friend this boy friend latter identified as Dane said that my friend looked like a gay or something along those lines.When my friend confronted him over facebook Dane was suddenly all sorry and apologies saying he didn't know it was him.

I didn't think much of this whole situation and Dane seemed like a nice guy however a few days latter I found out otherwise!I logged into facebook only to find that Dane had accessed all my pictures,status updates and comments vie my friends profile!That's right this Dane fellow went onto my friends facebook account and went through all my personal pictures,comments,status updates and just spammed everything!

Dane had gone through all my stuff commenting childish remarks and ridiculing pictures with myself in them.I was shocked,I don't want random"freaks"going through my information and doing what they please.I immediately deleted my friend off my account and SMSed her explaining why I had done so,She couldn't understand what was wrong with him going through my stuff on her account.

In other words,if you think you safe from these ignorant fools you wrong.There is always going to be a friend who will leave their facebook on or who will let their friends and family use the account and then things will go horrible wrong.

Even when you comment on a photo you are allowing others to see that and start up a argument,I call this the "I was first like" effect because when this happens to me I do the following,I type "I was first like 0_o and then I was like :D" and then never comment again...this turns the person trying to argue into a potato,he or she doesn't know what to say and when she or he does its to late!yes soon it will stop working and I wont be able not to comment but hey for now I was first like 0_o and then I was like :D.

I just felt like sharing this story with you.Its nothing big but it could become a big problem if something isn't done!

How to get your facebook Events onto google calander.

Welcome to this on-his-mind guide on how to sync your facebook events to your Google calendar.This is very easy and if you follow these instructions step by step you will have no problems at all.

You might be thinking"why would I want to do this?" well there are multiple reasons,one being that if you a user of Google calendar you want to know exactly when somthing is and not have to move back and forth between google calendar and facebook to find out.You want everything in one place so that you can organise and collaborate your schedule with others.

There are a couple of things you will need to do this,these things are as follows:
A facebook account.
A Google account.

1.Log into facebook,Once you are logged in click on Settings > Applications Settings.

2.A list of applications will show up,find the "events"application and click on it.
3.A list of all your events will show up.Now click on"export events" which is on the top of the page next to the explore events link.if you cant find it look directly under the profile button ;)
4.A box will appear that looks like the following:

Copy the link which is in that box and then go to your google calendar.
5.in Google calendar under the"other calander"box click add then add by URL.

6.A white box will appear which looks like a search box.In this box you must past the link you got from facebook.It will look something like this:

Click add.

You have successfully transferred all your events to Google docs!

How stable is facebook?Popular social networking site facebook hardly ever goes down?

I have been a active user of facebook for over 2 years now and to my knowledge I have never had a problem connecting to the social networking site.That's right I have never ever gone to facebook.com to be turn away with a page that is down or anything similar until tonight.

Tonight I was told by a mate to check out facebook but to my shock I got the following screen error" Sorry, an error has occurred.We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.".This got me thinking,I often go on twitter and the sites down for maintenance in fact I have even been blocked out of my online email which is hosted vie Google(Gmail email) but I have never been shut out of facebook before.

In my opinion this is an amazing thing,facebook is growing at amazing speeds and has never gone down for me!

If you don't think facebook is growing why don't you carry on reading:

1.According to facebook they have More than 200 million active users.This is not your Mother who created an account and never logged in again!This is users who are very"active" on the social networking site.

2.More than 100 million users log on to Facebook at least once each day

3.Average user has 120 friends on the site

4.More than 5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide)

5.More than 30 million users update their statuses at least once each day

6.More than 8 million users become fans of Pages each day

7.More than 900 million photos uploaded to the site each month

8.More than 10 million videos uploaded each month

9.More than 1 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared each week

10.More than 2.5 million events created each month

11.More than 35 million active user groups exist on the site

These stats are mind blowing!I must admit I have given facebook a lot of bad publicity but they have done a awesome job so far and hopefully they will keep it up.

How to resize pictures-How to make photos smaller to Upload to the internet

Welcome to the on-his-mind Guide on how to resize pictures to make them smaller.Often you may want to make a picture smaller in size so you can upload pictures to the internet faster and save on bandwidth.Often uploading a picture which is 2meg takes long and when uploading a whole album it takes ages!To save both bandwidth and time you can resize your pictures so that when uploading them to facebook and other sites it wont take long and viewing the pictures online will be much quicker.


How to resize pictures
1.Download a tool called Image Resizer Powertoy by clicking here. this file is only 0.5mb and wont take long to download.If the link above does not work please look at the bottom of this article on other places to download it.

2.Once you have downloaded the tool double click on it.A instillation will appear,follow the on screen instructions and once the tool is successfully installed go to step 3.

3.Find the picture you would like to resize and right click on it.A box will appear,In this box click"resize pictures"

4.A new window will appear that will say"You can create resized copies of one or more selected pictures and store them in the current folder."select what size you would like the picture to be.If you are unsure of which size you should use I recommend using medium. You can also manually select the size by clicking on the "advanced" button and a custom size will appear bellow"handheld PC"

5.Once you have chosen your size click ok and you will notice a new picture will appeared in the same folder the picture you wanted to resize was in.The resized picture will say Medium if you did the medium resize and so on and so forth.

6.You have now successfully resized a picture! You can resize multiple pictures at once by simply selecting all the pictures you want to resize and then doing exactly the same steps mentioned above.

Here is an example of how much smaller the picture becomes after using this tool.
On the left is the picture that has not been resized and on the right the one that has!



Other download links for Image Resizer Powertoy
ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/WinXP/XP Power Toys/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
ftp://ftp.ku.lt/pub/Windows/systems/XP/PowerToys/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
ftp://ftp.jaring.my/pub/microsoft/powertoys/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
ftp://ftp.qut.edu.au/pub/mirrors/microsoft/powertoys/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

How To Stop facebook From Sending You All Those Unwanted Emails.

Facebook is a very popular social networking site that has millions of users all over the world.One of the biggest problems with Facebook however is the unwanted email notifications it sends you when ever some one else does something on facebook that you are friends with. This is a guide on how to set your facebook account to ether never send you any emails again or to turn on and off certain email notifications.

Social networking guide on how to disable email notifications on facebook!
1.log into facebook and click on the settings button on the top right side of the screen next to logout.

2.Go to the notifications tab by clicking on the notifications heading that looks like this.


3.Go through the list and turn on and off the notifications you would like to be sent to you vie email.I did not want any email sent to me vie facebook so I set them all to off.

4.Once you have finished changing your email notifications you must save them by going to the bottom of the page and clicking on the "save changes" Button.

You will now only get specific or no email from facebook although they do say that"Even if you turn off all notifications, we may sometimes need to email you important notices about your account."