Now that you have got your personalized Facebook URL, its time you should start working on improving the page and make it more presentable to the visitors. Remember, the job is only half done.

Benefits of a Facebook Personalized URL:

• Its SEO friendly. So if someone ‘Googles’ you, there are high chances that your Facebook profile page comes in the top ten results.



• People get to know you as to who you are, where you are from, interest levels, skill sets, etc.
• It helps you build an image in the Facebook as well as the internet community (self branding).

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After the initial announcement of Facebook’s Vanity URL feature, Tweets, innumerable blog posts with speculations, tricks and tips, updates, guides, etc. got published as if “Facebook is giving away Domains for FREE”. This post by Anil Dash rightly reflects the hype that was created for this Facebook feature launch.

Why The BUZZ? Branding. Unique Identity. Easily searchable in search engines.

Anyways, I successfully created my vanity URL with no probs which is http://www.facebook.com/ramnath.banerjee You may also view my profile at http://www.facebook.com/ram.nath.baner.jee since FB have the same problem with identifying periods as in Gmail. Also wonder how this URL got created.

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Most of us must be having multiple instant messaging contacts like GTalk, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, etc. When required to be online in more than one of above accounts we have to use a seperate IM client for each which later becomes difficult to manage. And most importantly they cannot be used as a collaborative tool and hence not 2.0 ish.

Qnext is an advanced, easy-to-use P2P based software that lets you sign in to 7 IM accounts simultaneously! Most importantly it lets you communicate, collaborate and share digital content (music, images, files, foldes) too in real time.

BTW its FREE!

Here are some of the reasons why you should switch to Qnext instead of using your favorite instant messaging client:

1. Simple and stupid setup and registration process
2. Supports IM for iChat, GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and MSN
3. Adding an IM account is fast, easy and hassle free
4. Includes all the functions your favorite IM gives
5. Spell checker is available (disabled by default since in a chat client it will be hardly of any use)
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Dear Twitter,

I am using your excellent service for quite a while now. So far it has been a nice experience for me. Thanks to all of you for the hard work!

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Did you know that Internet Explorer 7 or earlier versions (IE 6, IE 5.5, IE 5, etc.) was limited to a download limit of 2 at any instance. Which means when you enter a web page URI in your browser’s address bar and click on ‘Go’ your browser sends a maximum download request of 2 to the server from where the web page is getting served. In other words whether the web page contains images, style-sheets, scripts, swf objects, etc. a maximum of two components can be downloaded at a time in parallel per hostname as per HTTP/1.1 specification.

With the launch of IE 8 the maximum number of download requests got changed to 6 which means faster browsing experience compared to its previous versions. The reason Microsoft changed this is because of the faster internet connection speeds now a days.

Increase this download limit 10 and speed up your Internet Explorer (You must have IE 5.5 or higher version)

There are two ways to do that:-

The Easier Way:

1. Download the Fix This Program link from the Microsoft KB (don’t worry since you are downloading the program from the Microsoft website)
2. Run the program and you are on!

Doing it manually:

This requires a bit of registry edit. If you are comfortable with editing your system registry, go to this link, browse to the “Let me fix it myself” section and follow the steps.

Happy browsing ! BTW which browser you love the most?

A lot of us wish to be online in Yahoo Messenger with multiple user accounts. It is possible to open multiple instances of GTalk at the same time as I have explained before. But is that possible with Yahoomessenger as well? Yes it is.

To log in to Yahoo Messenger with multiple user accounts you have to edit the Windows registry. Forget it; just follow these simple steps:

• Go to your Windows Start menu » Run
• Type regedit and hit enter
• Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER » Software » Yahoo » pager » Test
• Now click New on the Edit menu, and then click DWORD Value
• Type Plural, and hit the enter key
• In the right pane, right-click Plural, and click on Modify
• In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, type 1 under Value data.

That’s it! Now run as many instances of Y! Messenger as you wish to and login with your various accounts.

Happy chatting !

Related IM Tips & Tricks -

• 17 Reasons Why You Should Use Qnext as your Instant Messenger
• How to run Multiple GTalk messengers at the same time?
• Detect invisible yahoo messenger users

Wondering whether your image is re-produced somewhere else in the web without your permission? OR Wondering whether the image you are seeing appears anywhere else on the web? Well in both cases you have to use Google Image search or manually visit web pages which again is a tough ask. The solution to this is TinEye, a reverse image search engine with over 1 billion images in its index (and growing). TinEye is in beta and was created by Idée Inc.

Check out this video to understand how this reverse image search engine actually works:

To learn more about how TinEye works, benefits of using this web app, etc. please check its FAQ section.

There are various ways you may use TinEye. It can be a Firefox/IE plugin, a bookmarklet (which can analyze all the images inside a web page). You may also upload an image or use the image URL to check. Please check its plugin page for more details.

So next time before using copyrighted images think twice !

You may wish to be online with your multiple GTalk accounts. That means you need to run multiple instances of GTalk at the same time. But how do you do that? Follow the following simple steps:

1. Locate you GTalk shortcut. You should be able to find it in your desktop itself. If you deleted it go to Program Files, locate the googletalk.exe inside the Google folder, right click it and Send to Desktop.
2. Right click the shortcut icon and locate the ‘Target’ input box.
3. At the end of the input box type /nomutex
   (example: “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex)

Now create as many instances of GTalk as you wish to !

Recommended Tips & Tricks -

• 17 Reasons Why You Should Use Qnext as your Instant Messenger
• How to run Multiple GTalk messengers at the same time?
• Detect invisible yahoo messenger users

Are you thinking of removing Twitter friends who doesn’t add any value and may be treated as junk?

Then you may ask yourself “how do I remove those dormant friends from my list”? Looks like a very tedious job right? Not at all! The following are a few applications that you may opt to use to do that. Ofcourse all are FREE, use the Twitter API and easy to use.

1. Nest Unclutterer

Nest Unclutterer protects your privacy from marketers and businesses by blocking followers who are already following too many people. It removes followers who have been inactive for a given period of time or create a whitelist of users exempt from any rule-based actions.

2. My Cleenr

To use My Cleenr you need to enter your Twitter username and password and it gives you the last twitted status of all the friends you are following. It also gives you a delete option beside each friend name. If you wish to unfollow simply click on the delete link.

3. Twitoria

Twitoria gives you a list of all the friends you are following based on a given criteria. Your criteria can be inactive for a week, 2 weeks, month, and so on. Based on your criteria it generates a list from which you may unfollow a particular user/users.

• How Do I Remove Or Delete My Twitter Account?
• How To Create A Twitter Like Logo?

Twitter Bar is a Firefox extension that allows you to twit from your Firefox address bar. That means you need not open any webpages or any apps to post to Twitter! Sounds strange?? Here’s how it works ..

Simply type what you want to twit in the address bar. You will also be able to se the number of characters left (as in Twitter) in the address bar itself. Once done click on the ‘+’ sign. (A confirmtion box will appear but you may uncheck the check box so that it doesn’t appear again) That’s it! Long URLs are now shortened by http://is.gd/ before being sent to Twitter.

A small Twitter icon sits to the right of your address bar. Clicking the Twitter icon when visiting a webpage will send a tweet containing the URL of the webpage you are currently viewing.

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