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PSA: Enable This Setting to Password Protect Facebook Payments Facebook has been quietly rolling out a feature that allows you to send money to your friends via Messenger. By default, however, there's no password or PIN protection at all for your payments. Here's how to enable it. Facebook's send payments feature is rolling out now, and it's displayed so prominently, you might have discovered it by accident. The button is directly next to the text box on the desktop, and it even turns any dollar figure you type into a clickable link to send money. That's neat if you want to share payments. However, Facebook requires no authentication of any kind by default for sending money. If you already have a payment method associated with your Facebook account (say, for spending money in apps), this could make it pretty easy for someone with access to your logged-in Facebook account to send themselves or someone else money. To prevent this, follow these steps...

Here Are Some Cool Facebook Extensions To Make It More Fun Are you done with sharing pictures, links and statuses on Facebook already? Don't rely on the developers of the social networking site to get something new for you every day. Try out these cool hacks and extensions, using which you can surely have some more fun interacting with your Facebook friends. 1. Download an entire album So you love the travel album that your friend uploaded? But isn't downloading one pic at a time cumbersome? If you want to download the entire Facebook album, try downloading the extension called Bulk Download Images. This would enable you to download the album at once, saving you the time and trouble. 2. How Dare They? Although it sounds creepy, but sometimes, you really want to know if someone has removed you from their friend list. Instead of going through your friend list and challenging your memory, try installing an extension called Unfriend Notify for Facebook, and g...

Facebook Messenger Now Only Shares Your Location When You Ask It To Last week, we mentioned that Facebook Messenger shares your location with every message, granting some people access to that information using a Chrome extension. Facebook changed things today so you only share your location if you choose to send it in its own separate message. While it was fairly easy to turn off the location sharing feature in messenger before, a lot of people were unaware that messenger logged your location with each message in the first place. Now location sharing really is completely optional because you can only send your location if you tap the More icon (the three dots), followed by the location pin. That will send a map of your location in its own separate message. Facebook also makes it very clear that your location data is not being gathered at all unless you choose to use the location sharing feature: Messenger does not get location information from your device in the ...

Facebook’s Messenger Platform Gets Its First Game Facebook Messenger’s quest to own all the ways you connect with friends is now expanding to games. Today I spotted “ Doodle Draw Game ” in the Messenger platform app list, and Facebook says this is the first true game available since the platform launched in April. Initially, Facebook only allowed content creation apps like GIF and sound effect makers on the Messenger Platform. The closest thing to a game was Talking Tom, which lets you choose a cartoon avatar to deliver your video message. But before the platform’s launch, sources told me Facebook was interested in eventually expanding it to a broader set of experiences including utilities and games if test data looked good. Last month The Information reported Facebook was actively considering how games would fit in Messenger. Facebook tells me “ Currently, we think Messenger Platform is best suited for apps that focus on content creation and curated ...

Facebook F8 App Appears To Leak Messenger As A Platform, Parse For IoT A notification just sent out by the official app for Facebook’s F8 conference later today reads “The Garage and Demo areas are now open! Just revealed: Parse for IoT, Messenger as a Platform, and the Teleportation Station.” The alert seen by Multiple people seems to indicate that Facebook will reveal a version of its mobile app building suite Parse for “Internet Of Things” devices. It also appears to confirm my scoop from last week that Facebook will announce a Messenger platform at F8. We’ve reached out to Facebook about the exact meaning of the notification. Facebook previously said that all its major products would see announcements at F8, including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus, along with Parse and Messenger which the notification hints at. Judging by the notification’s text, it may have accidentally been sent early when it should have gone out mid-day tomorrow after the F8 k...

Facebook, Oculus And The Future Of Virtual Reality Imagine a scene: You’re in your chair at home, the latest Oculus VR headset encircling your head, and you use its voice recognition feature to access Facebook. Facebook’s virtual reality newsfeed appears in front of you — a three-dimensional, horizontally-scrolling wall of cards. Each card contains a virtual experience, and much like the auto-playing videos in Facebook’s newsfeed today, each of them offers a few moments of the experience on a loop. The first card is from one friend, who uploaded a video (filmed with a consumer-friendly VR camera) featuring her three-year-old daughter and the family dog chasing each other in circles. It’s cute… and not what you’re looking for. Instead of using a mouse or a finger-swipe to scroll through a flat, one-dimensional newsfeed, you lift your arm and make a swiping gesture to the left. The next experience in the queue is from your best friend, who u...

WhatsApp Says It’s Not “Permanently” Banning Users From Its Service, Just Blocking Third-Party Clients Quite a few reports circling the web this week appear to indicate a tightening of WhatsApp’s policy toward the usage of third-party WhatsApp client applications. That is, word has it that those using an unofficial app will be banned from WhatsApp for life . However, that’s not exactly the case, WhatsApp explains. In fact, there’s been no larger policy shift since we last reported on the now Facebook-owned company’s crackdown on third-party app usage earlier this year. As you may recall, in January, WhatsApp began banning users from its service when they were found to be using a third-party (unofficial) WhatsApp mobile application. In order to be allowed back into WhatsApp, users were asked to uninstall the offending app from their phone, then download the authorized version of WhatsApp from the app store instead. The company also explained the policy...

Cyber scammers circulating fake messages on WhatsApp WhatsApp users across the world are being targeted by cyber scammers who are circulating fake messages inviting users to test the new calling feature that fills the phone with dangerous malware. WhatsApp users across the  world  are being targeted by cyber  scammers who are circulating fake  messages inviting users to test the new calling feature that fills the phone with dangerous malware. If users click on the link, they are taken to another website where they are asked to take a survey on behalf of the popular messaging service, according to the  Daily Star.  However, the survey forces people to download applications and  software  that might contain dangerous malware. WhatsApp has not announced the calling feature officially. However, some users claim to have used it.

If You Run A Facebook Page, Expect The Like Count To Drop Soon Do you run a Facebook Page? Heads up: your page’s “Like” count is probably going to drop a bit soon, and it’s totally not your fault. The short version: Facebook is changing the way it’s counting likes, subtracting any accounts that have been either manually deactivated or “memorialized” after its owner passed. It’s something that probably should have been done since the beginning — but since it wasn’t, it’d be easy to think your Likes had dropped because of something you’d done. One thing that’s important to note: it seems that this only accounts for profiles that have been manually deactivated. Likes from profiles that could be considered “inactive” because the user just hasn’t logged in for a while will continue to count. The shift won’t happen immediately; Facebook says it’ll roll out in “the coming weeks.” So how many Likes might you lose? It’s tough to say. While Facebook says to expect a...

Facebook adds new gender option for users: fill in the blank Facebook users who don't fit any of the 58 gender identity options offered by the social media giant are now being given a rather big 59th option: fill in the blank. "Now, if you do not identify with the pre-populated list of gender identities, you are able to add your own," said a Facebook announcement published online Thursday morning and shared in advance with The Associated Press. Facebook software engineer Ari Chivukula, who identifies as transgender and was part of the team that made the free-form option, thinks the change will lead to more widespread acceptance of people who don't identify themselves as a man or woman. "We're hoping this will open up the dialogue," Chivukula said. Alison C.K. Fogarty, a gender identity researcher at Stanford University, said giving users control over the words describing their gender is a significant step in social recog...

Google Acquires Facebook Marketing Startup Toro Toro , a startup that helps developers promote their apps on Facebook , just announced that it’s been acquired by Google. The company was originally known as Red Hot Labs, and it’s led by Amitt Mahajan and Joel Poloney. They previously co-founded MyMiniLife, which played a key role in the creation of FarmVille (and was acquired by Zynga ). Mahajan and Poloney told me last fall that the company’s aim was to make launching and optimizing a Facebook ad campaign as easy as possible for mobile app developers by automatically creating and testing “hundreds of variants” for each campaign. In its announcement, Toro writes that joining Google will give team members access to more resources and distribution, allowing them to “continue our mission of making the lives of app developers easier.” If you think this might shift Toro’s focus away from Facebook, well, looks like you’re right. The company says it will cont...

Whatsapp Tricks and tips That you must know The Whatsapp Messenger is an application that has been voted as being one of the top messenger applications by most users thus far.  When it comes to having an extensive list of premium features and overall messaging capabilities, the Whatsapp Messenger is known for having them all and being very user-friendly at the same time. There are even many different Whatsapp tricks that can be used in order to enhance the efficiency and overall operational quality of this particular application. Best Four Whatsapp Tricks 1)Becoming an Official Spy One of the most popular Whatsapp tricks that are currently being used is the opportunity to become a spy .  You can use this particular Whatsapp trick to spy on the activities of someone else’s account within this specific program.  In order to take full advantage of these capabilities, you simply just need to adjust the settings within the rooted device. ...

Prevent Fb Accounts from Being Hacked – Basic tips There are a lot of ways to lose control of your Facebook account. You may get hacked and ultimately loose Control over your facebook account Certainly this is not the end of the world, but be aware that you can also be the victim of an attack by malicious softwares and hackers causing much more damage on your ​ ​Facebook account. It is very important to Prevent Fb Accounts from Being Hacked. Indeed , while no software installed on your local system, there is nothing that your local antivirus can detect and your account may be hacked in one-of- hand trick, leading to all sorts of hassles and problems . So today in this article we will discuss some Basic Tips to Prevent Fb Accounts from Being Hacked. Tips to Prevent Fb Accounts from Being Hacked 1)Application Permission Whenever on Facebook you answer a quiz , install a Facebook game, or add any application , you will be forced to go through ...

Retrieve Deleted Facebook Messages,Photos and Videos  Today we will see H ow to Recover deleted facebook messages ,Photos and Videos and much more on facebook. Basically its a Facebook Feature which not many people are aware of and hence i will be writing this tutorial to let you guys know about this amazing feature/Trick that Facebook Provides. Many a times We Delete Messages,Photos or Vidoes from our profile which is not intentional but once we do , we can not undo it. and its gone forever. But wait, There is a saying: Nothing is Lost, until MOM can’t find it , Likewise in this case even if you delete anything from your facebook account, you can get it back. Facebook have all your data in their archive which you can download too. Retrieve Deleted Facebook Messages,Photos and Videos Follow the Below simple steps to Know how you can get back and have access to your deleted messages, photos,Videos and all other data of your facebook profile. Ste...

6 Things You Absolutely Need to Know About WhatsApp Web The internet is ablaze with tales of WhatsApp’s triumphant foray into the lands of the world wide web. Yes, the headlines are right, there’s a WhatsApp for ‘web’. As always, that’s not the whole story. And here at Guiding Tech we pride ourselves with telling the whole truth. So that next time you’re having a conversation with your slightly less nerdy friends, you can slam their misconceptions and feel better about yourself. Also, when was the last time a service coming to desktop made so much noise? Usually it’s the other way around. Maybe it’s time to accept that even in the post-PC world, a majority of the work force still sits in front of a computer for 8 hours a day and they’d rather reply to annoying group messages and test new flirting techniques without picking up their phone every 36 seconds. Also, let’s see how long it takes for web.whatsapp.com to make it to your office computer’s block list. So...

Facebook is working on virtual reality versions of its apps Will Beyoncé share her world with you? Facebook is building versions of its apps in virtual reality, according to Chris Cox, the company's head of product. Speaking at Recode 's Code Media conference in Dana Point, CA, Cox told interviewer Peter Kafka that Facebook VR is on its way. "We're working on apps for VR," he said. Cox didn't describe the apps in detail, but imagined a world where users will be able to share their current environment with other users using an app. He imagined that it could become an everyday way of sharing. "You'll do it. Beyoncé will do it," he said. (He was using Beyoncé as a generic example of a celebrity.) But don't expect them any time soon. "A while" is as specific as Cox would get when asked to suggest when we might be able to try Facebook in virtual reality. "We're a long way away from everyone having those...

Whatsapp Web – Use Whatsapp in Google Chrome Browser We all Know that we Can Use Whatsapp on our Windows PC using Android Emulators like Bluestacks. That is an old story Right? But Now you can Use Your favorite Messaging app on your Google Chrome Browser too. Lately we have seen many updates in Whatsapp like 2 blue Ticks that shows read receipt. This time They have announced that Whatsapp will be available as Web Client for Google Chrome Users . Unfortunately if you are a Firefox Fanboy, then you might just want to use Google Chrome to use Whatsapp in Google Chrome Browser . Likewise, IOS Users will also not be able to use the Web client. Ok, so now Lets jump in to the point see some Steps to use Whatsapp web Client. How to Use Whatsapp in Google Chrome Before moving on with the Steps let us first have a look at things you will need. Latest Version of whatsapp installed in your Android. Google Chrome Browser Installed on your PC. Internet ...

How to Turn Off the Annoying Chirping Sounds In the Facebook App Over the last couple days, an update for the Facebook app on iOS and Android has been rolling out. You may have noticed one very distinct change: weird chirping sounds. Here is how you can turn them off in iOS and Android. Facebook has a history of adding sounds nobody really wants, and this update is fits right in. With the new update, whenever try to refresh your feed, you get what appears to be the call of an exotic bird of paradise . If you hit a new tab, you get a light, popping noise, and a different popping noise for hitting back. If you find the new sounds annoying, or someone around you does (they do), it's pretty easy to turn it off. For iOS, go to More > Settings > Sounds, and toggle it to off. For Android, go to the three-lined icon at the top right > App Settings > Sounds, and toggle it off. Now you can browse your feed in peace.

How to Set Up a Facebook "Legacy Contact" for When You Die Today, Facebook made it possible to add a "Legacy Contact," or someone who can gain control of your account and memorialize-or delete-it in the event you pass away. Here's how you set it up. Nobody likes to think about their death, but it's something that we all must prepare for. Though it's a little morbid, this new system makes it much easier for family members or friends to take care of your Facebook account in unfortunate circumstances. Whoever you assign your legacy contact will be able to post things that appear at the top of your memorialized Timeline, respond to requests from friends and family members that may not have been connected to Facebook beforehand, and update profile pictures. You can also set it up so that your Legacy Contact can download an archive of your photos, posts, and profile information for safe keeping (no private messages will be saved). Of cours...

How to Use Whatsapp in Google Chrome Before moving on with the Steps let us first have a look at things you will need. Latest Version of whatsapp installed in your Android. Google Chrome Browser Installed on your PC. Internet Connection in your Phone & PC. Step 1: Click Here or Copy paste this URL  https://web.whatsapp.com  in the address bar of your Chrome browser and hit Enter. Step 2: You will see QR Code which you will have to Scan from your Phone, So open Whatsapp on your Android, Go to Menu > Whatsapp Web and Scan that QR Code on your Computer Screen. If you don’t see Whatsapp Web option then you need to Update your Whatsapp. Step 3: Thats it you just need to Scan that QR Code to pair Whatsapp on your Phone and Whatsapp Web Client. If everything goes Right, then now you will be able to see your Messages on your Web Client in Google Chrome. Remember to have UptoDate Version of Whatsapp on your Phone and also Keep in mind that your phon...