Select All in Facebook

Are you a regular user of ‘Applications’ or ‘Causes’ in Facebook? If yes, then you must have found it really irritating to select all (up till the limit) of your friends from your list when you want to send them invites, messages etc. Well its not going to be a pain anymore.

First of all go to your application in Facebook and when you get the screen to invite all your friends what you generally do is click their icons, one by one.

Here, instead of clicking each one, all you need to do is copy the following code and paste in your address bar and you’re good to go:

javascript:elms=document.getElementById('friends').getElementsByTagName('li');for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === 'object'){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

Tell me if this works for you and if it has helped you. Again, you cannot select all more than the limit, but it selects all up till the limit. Hope you find it useful. If you've liked this post, click here for free updates.

Inspirers: Shourya Saluja

This is the first of my Inspirers series of posts. This is to highlight and showcase special people who from an ordinary life make extraordinary things, through their ideas, determination and talent. The first post here is about a 17 year old boy, Shourya Saluja. I read about him this morning in the Times of India and I thought that I must share this with you.

Shourya Saluja, a Class 12 student of Bangalore’s Indus International School is devising a curriculum For Classes IX to XII which will create awareness about cyber safety. While most kids his age are freaking out on social networking sites, he’s rather wary of dangers lurking within these. Now, he’s developing a curriculum on cyber security with the help of Infosys which will be taught first in his school and later perhaps adopted by CBSE.

"Children disclose too much information in their profiles, they upload photos and accept random people as friends just to increase the number in their friends’ list. They don’t know what dangers this can lead to," said Shourya. Kids will also be taught how to protect themselves from dangers like phishing messages, things to look after in a Local Area Network (LAN), internal security. Shourya plans to rate the success of his programme after six months and then seek the Central Board of Secondary Education’s approval to include it in the curriculum. He says he got the idea when his 10-year-old sister asked him to create a Facebook profile with all her information. "I realized that many children are ignorant about consequences of this," he said.

While I searched the net for more info about this inspiring kid, I came across one more of his positive endeavours that will help society. Shaurya organised a Squash workshop, which was conducted by Satinder Bajwa, Harvard University Head Squash Coach, with proceeds going to a Squash academy that coaches rural children. “The best way to promote sports is through communities. If we can support the needy through such initiatives, even better,” says Shaurya. The proceeds will go to Khelshala, an organization in Attawa village in Chandigarh, which was founded by Bajwa himself with the aim of making squash accessible to underprivileged children in the villages nearby. A good squash player himself, Saluja plans to train further and play professional squash. He was ranked ninth in Malaysia, where he lived a few years back, in the Under-15 category at the Kuala Lumpur Junior Open Squash Championship 2007.  After moving to Bangalore a couple of years back, he has been participating in interschool and state championships.  His other interests include basketball, judo and football.

I’m sure Shaurya has more plans and ideas up his sleeve, that willgeneral brighten up this society more. Imagine if we could all take measures to imitate his work in the way we can. Are you an expert in singing? Couldn’t you train your watchmen’s children to sing if they’re earning just to pay for the singing classes? Imagine the speed at which our country will develop if all of us share our powers. Shaurya is a name truly deserved. Keep it going…

You can find Shaurya on Facebook or Twitter… but yes, I guess he will add you only if he knows you well. You can also visit the Khelshala Fan Page on Facebook.

Courtesy: The Times of India, Mangalore, Monday August 2nd, 2010 and Citizen Matters, Bangalore

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Why Digsby is the best...

Today, even though every email site, every social network site has its own chat application embedded within, we still prefer a desktop application, so that we have one universal access to all our friends on all our chats across Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, Gmail, Facebook, etc. And how can we forget Twitter! Now which is THAT application which can combine all of this? Digsby it is! Digsby combines all your email accounts, IM accounts, multiple facebook and twitter accounts!! It also manages your LinkedIn, MySpace, AOL accounts, etc. What better reason do you want to use Digsby! I have been using Digsby for more than a year now and my green pal just getting better! Well, here are the merits and demerits and "possible upgrades" of Digsby:

Merits:

• Brilliant and simple UI for all your IMs


• Can organize and reorganize all the chats and IM accounts, friend lists, etc


• Notifies new mails, can delete or mark them, even without reading!


• Pops the new tweet (with sound) at the corner of your screen, without you even bothering to open twitter!


• Pops all facebook updates (with sound), on which you can comment and "like" immediately just there, without opening the site!


• You can keep account icons in digsby panel, in the task bar or both! :-)


• These are just the basic ones. To know more go the official site of Digsby and its free!

De-Merits:

• For Facebook, it has got a bit-cluttered space


• The Twitter space is cluttered too, but it also has another UI which is the best and most simple! There's only one column for tweets, mentions and directs and you can also see a separate view of them.


• No Keyboard Shortcuts (especially needed for Twitter)

Improvements:

• Keyboard Shortcuts!


• 'Facebook Notification' Alerts (Not just status updates, application updates, other wall updates etc)


• Better and clearer UI for Facebook and LinkedIn. Twitter UI is good... just need a keyboard shortcut (than the double click!)


• Do not re-shorten the already shortened URLs

Why is it better than Seesmic , HootSuite , Sobeez , and the rest?

• For me, desktop clients are better than those on the web! Plus, HootSuite is comparatively much slower than any of these apps. So HootSuite is out of the window!


• I don't want to install two-three applications for various account types. Digsby manages EVERYTHING! Emails, IMs, Twitter, FB and many others!


• Seesmic and Sobeez are very good. I haven't used either of them extensively, however I have tried them once! Both are pretty good for what they have to offer.


• But they only manage Twitter and FB accounts, while digsby manages so many.


• Also, digsby is FASTER than all! The refresh rate is pleasant and whole functioning is smooth! The crude AIR interface of Seesmic Desktop and Sobeez is pretty slow!


• If we only compare the Twitter and Facebook accounts, then Seesmic can be better than Digsby! But as I said, I'm looking at the entire package here.


• Adding and managing of accounts is so simple and fast! All just in one window! No confusing multiple windows!


• Everything from font, to theme, to pop-up sound, to individual screen names are customizable!

These are my views. Its not that I have completely ignored the other apps. I have given a fair chance to all. But ever since I've started using Digsby I've never stopped loving it! Do try out Digsby and tell me what you think.

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