One hidden feature for Firefox that you may not know is its ability to become an iPhone. In fact this article is a world first (never published) and so you’re now the first to know!!! What do I mean by that? I mean every web page that’s designed for iPhone to view will be displayed exactly like an iPhone, and operate exactly how an iPhone would behave.

The advantage for an iPhone Emulator is that for WebApp developers, they can test their work without folking out $299 for an iTouch or more for an iPhone. I know there’s a fake iphone test site out there which basically is a shell that doesn’t work for all the sites. For example when you login to Facebook, iPhone has a very different look and feel than your normal browser view. For other curious souls they can also do the same of to see what iPhone apps are capable of.

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Facebook is a great place to share your photos with friends. In fact, it boost over 100 million users. The photos facility, albeit not as flashy as Flickr or Smugmug, provides a powerful way to manage and upload your photos.

In the new Facebook, you can also see your most recent photos uploaded display prominently in the mini feed. The feed is definitely not mini and it entice your friends to go to it. That’s great. But how do you make a slideshow that will allow your albums to be played automatically? Surely grandma isn’t gonna sit there and click 1000 times with her arthritis, is she? Here’s how…
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If you have read the article about dealing with relationship issues on Facebook, you maybe glad that ending a friendship may be a bit easier on the soul. Let’s take a look at how you’d end a friendship on Facebook properly.

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Relationship ain’t easy. But online relationship could even be harder. Quite often I see friends of mine posting their relationship status to celebrate their love. This is unquestionably a good way to express affection. It’s sweet…but then things may not always go the way we want to… Anyhow, here’s a complete guide at the relationship management (lifecycle) on Facebook…

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If you have read part 4 of my article, and you definitely should, and now part 5 is an extension of that. Remember that most Facebook apps requires you to accept granting permission for your information to be provided to the other side. And that, supposedly they agree not to store that information but we had severe doubts about it. Well, here is how to get your information transferred right under your nose… And a real demonstration of how I lost all my personal information by doing what I thought to be safe and innocent enough…installing a Facebook app like everyone else does, and here’s what follows…

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Facebook just had a FACELIFT, many of you may or may not already know. Facebook had worked on it for months so that it’s 80 million user base can benefit. There’s quite alot of changes…good changes I must say… You can switch to the new user interface if you choose to. Read on…

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By now we probably have scared you away because the amount of things you haven’t done to protect yourself from the age of the social media world. However, you may find this to be much easier to digest now than when something goes wrong. By now you should be careful about what to enter into your Facebook profile and status. However, how do you exactly use Facebook? Are you ones than roam around installing every applications you could get your hands on, playing every game online that’s available?

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Part 3 of this series gets into another peril of social networking. Whilst the first 2 parts dealt with friend requests (from the outside), you’ll also need to deal with the existing friends (on the inside).

By now, if have collected alot of friends and you thought, “this is cool. The net is about sharing, I share my info, and my friends so the same, we get to be in touch and know what’s happening with everyone including birthdays, email address or mobile phone numbers”. Right, you have probably entered most of the interesting info including that time you kissed your best friend’s girlfriend in the Favorite TV show column. But what do you know about the data that’s being stored?
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Hey would you normally hand over your private information such as names, addresses, birth dates, phone numbers, email address and other personal information to strangers? Of course not. But wait, you may already have!!! Facebook is the world’s largest online social network that boost 250,000 new members each day, and 60,80,100 millions of users that’s growing by days. Chances are we enjoyed the site because we can find out what’s happening to our friends and family.

If you read part 1 of the article you’ll know how easy it is to gain access to other people’s profile. Well, here’s another simple exploits…
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 I came across one of many sites with questions such as the following: “Kristina Vi June 25, 2008 – 11:25am: does anybody know how i can HACK into a private Facebook account?” Looking at the messages I see a growing trend of people who desired to get into other people’s business. Perhaps they’re acquaintance that aren’t close enough to be friends, or they’re looking for their potential dates’ secret profile, or worse they’re after your identity for identity theft. In the coming few articles, we’ll look at the implication of Social Networking as it relates to your privacy, what to look for and how to be careful. We’ll look into real scenarios of how your security maybe compromised, unless you’re careful.

The 64,000 dollar question: what does it take to gain access to someone’s profile?

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