Deleting Old Profile Pics & Cover Photos From Facebook

Facebook… A well known social networking site that you are using from a long time. Maybe you are one of those people who loves to change their profile picture and cover photos regularly. Anyways, changing your pictures is a good idea and not a bad thing, but sooner you will have a huge gallery of profile pictures and timeline cover photos. In old days, there was an option to remove photos from your profile picture album but now as Facebook got new a design this option is removed for ‘Profile Pictures’ and ‘Cover Photos’ album. That simply means there is no straight forward way to delete old and unwanted photos from your profile picture and cover photos album. So how to delete them?

The trick is

Process is quite simple. Just open your ‘Cover Photos’ / ‘Profile Picture’ album. Once you open album, you will see all photos in grid view.

Now right-click on the photo you wish to delete and then select Open link in new tab from menu.

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Creating A Simple Database Application In Visual Studio ’10 (Drag & Drop Way)

There are already thousands of tutorials available on the web for doing this exercise. There are thousands of videos on YouTube also.  Each one claims that, the exercise will result into a small database.  But they use a lot of code and a lot of columns in their example and generally those types of code and columns results into confusion for any new programmer. So I am going to explain you ‘How to create your first database VB app’. In this tutorial, we will create a small database i.e. we will create an address book with only three columns (ID, Name, City).  Rest all steps will be performed by drag and drop, no coding is needed.

This tutorial is quite simple and will help you a lot.

Steps:

Since we are building application with Windows Form Control, we will use ‘Windows Forms Application’ as our template.

We have given name as ‘dbapp’. You can choose anything as name.

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AddHandler vs AddType : Apache Directive

Just from last few days while stumbling on the web for Branding a website, I came across something called as ‘Using custom extensions to brand your website’. Topic was quite interesting hence I tried to implement it. In first implementation, I got an error and I found that Apache is not serving file properly. Rather than executing file at the server, Apache send it to browser as it is and which results into download of the file at My PC. Again when I started digging more in this topic, I found something new called as Apache Directives. A directive defines how a file will be treated by Client or Server. The error was related to directives, I got answer to my question, I changed my directives and everything started working fine.

AddHandler and AddTypes are two directives which define how file will be treated by apache. Proper use of them will result into desired output while improper use may break server and can result into security risk also.

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DeEgger Embedder: Hide Private Files Within Images, Videos Or Audio (Media Steganography)

Do you have some private files in your computer or want to send files privately to your friends? Here is a best app for you. Deegger embeddeR allows you to embed your files into images, video and audio. Once you embed the file in one of them (say you embedded file in an image) then you just handover that special image file to your friend. Your friend will use Deegger embeddeR again to separate image and embedded confidential file. Even by mistake any third person got that special image which contain files, then also he will not know what is embedded in it. He or she will see image only and no any traces of hidden embedded files. DeEgger made transfer of secrete data very simple and secure. Deegger embeddeR is a free steganography (Embedding one file in another) software is designed to merge two or more files together, supports a wide range of file extensions you can hide and lets you create the bogus file in AVI, JPEG, MP3, MP4, PDF, PNG and lots of other formats also.

Entire process is quite simple. What you need to do is

  1. Select Your Host file via drag and drop or using browser button
  2. Select the file which you want to embed via drag and drop or by using browser button
  3. Click on Combine
  4. Now a dialog will come which will allow you to store the embedded file on your disk.
DeEgger Embedder
DeEgger Embedder
That’s all. Now your file is completely hidden in the hist file and secure from third person. Now you need to transfer that file to your friend.

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Programmatically Set Proxy Settings In Visual Basic

Proxies are very useful while developing application especially in those who need internet connection. Proxies are used according to applications requirement and organization needs. Always a developer wants to create a proxy connection for his or her application only and not for whole PC. There are many tutorials available on the web which might help you in doing this task but most of them deals with registry entries and hence proxy connection is applied to whole computer. While some tutorials deals with application only proxy, but they are very hard to get found on this huge internet.
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Create A Unique Password For Every Site You Use

Password, Password, Password, it is the key to all of your online account. When ever you register on any site you need to enter your secrete password. We use a lot of sites on daily basis. Many of us do have a number of email accounts for different purpose. Rather than keeping new password for each and every account what many people do is, they use same password each time for simplicity, but it not advisable. Generally we do not share this passwords with anyone, but some times it may happen that your friend or most closed person may able to predict it, just by looking at keyboard while you are typing your password. It is always suggested that, create lengthy, complicated and unique passwords for every website that you use but that rarely happens in practice because these complex strings would be nearly impossible for anyone to remember.

Some (or you can say many few, even I am not) people use on password management software which encrypt and store all your passwords in a database which is protected by a single password. Whenever you enter your master password, you will get access to all your stored user logins and passwords.

But still both of the solutions are not suggestible. Just think, What will happen if somebody else other than you got master password of your password manager. There are few online password managers are also available which will store your password online. But still they are not recommended, since the passwords are stored online. Now you are in complex situation. What to do now?

Here is simple solution on that is Password Chameleon.

Password Chameleon
Password Chameleon

Password Chameleon is an online tool. You can call it as password generator rather than password manager. As said, Password Chameleon is password generator, It do not store any of your password in their database, rather it will generate a complex password according to your input.

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Getting Most Out Of The SkyDrive: Part 2

As we know, SkyDrive is a cloud storage service provided by Microsoft and comes at free of cost with each Windows live account. SkyDrive provides 7GB of free storage and if you are old customer of SkyDrive then you might have 25GB of storage. In old days SkyDrive was accessible only with it’s web interface but two weeks ago Microsoft launched their official desktop app of SkyDrive for Windows and Mac based PC’s.

Just a few days after launch of SkyDrive, I wrote a post on Getting most out of the SkyDrive. That post featured some common things what you can do with SkyDrive. If you have missed that post then here is outline for you

  • Use it as storage
  • Move your My Documents to SkyDrive
  • Use to sync files between two or more PC
  • Use as backup

You can read full post by following this link.

Apart from this, while stumbling on the web for cloud storage, I found a new useful trick which can be done with SkyDrive. This can be done with Google Drive and Dropbox also but SkyDrive comes with more storage than Dropbox and Google Drive hence we are doing it on SkyDrive. Many of you have 25GB storage while some may have 7GB, 7GB storage is quite big than 5GB of Google Drive and much bigger than the 2GB of Dropbox.

Many of you already installed and started using SkyDrive from your PC using SkyDrive app. The SkyDrive app creates a folder on your PC and synchronize all files from that folder. You can cut, copy, paste files and folder in or out from SkyDrive. Once you pasted a file in that folder it will be uploaded to cloud and also will be synced to all other devices connected to your account.

Now the trick

Imaging SkyDrive mounted as a drive on your PC!

Really, that’s a great thing. If you able to mount SkyDrive on your PC as a drive then you will no longer to find that special folder. You can access SkyDrive straight away from My Computer with few click.

So how to do this

For this purpose you need to download a software named as Folder Drive. Folder drive is a small utility which lets you mount/unmounts the folders as drives on your PC. Just you have to download, run, select folders, assign drive and then simply hit create drive. That’s all.

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