After the launch of Google plus this week, Facebook definitely had huge plans. Here is one of the new feature from the Facebook  – “Facebook Video Calling”, powered by Skype. All those rumors on the video calling feature on Facebook were true. Facebook published some of their plans on their blogs – “A few months ago, we started working with Skype to bring video calling to Facebook,”, “We built it right into chat, so all your conversations start from the same place. To call your friend, just click the video call button at the top of your chat window”. The chat box interface would change and you would have video, settings and close icons on top of the chat bar

How to get ‘Facebook Video Calling’ ?

Well as of now this feature is not available by default. All you have to do is click this link Facebook Video Calling and click on get started. Then a plugin is popped up, download and install the “Facebook Video Call Setup”. Now you are all ready for a video call, click on the video icon on top of the chat box or the “Call” button on your friends profile page to make a call. Here is an example of the video call.

Here is a screenshot of  a notification in the chat box when you couldn’t pick up yours friends call.

The Facebook Video Calling promo:

The interesting update is the “Use Facebook as Page”, which enables the user to use his own page as a home page just like a profile home page.

After you click on the “Use Facebook as Page” you’ll be asked to which page you wanted to shift. Selecting a page will take you to the page view.

Here is the screenshot of the page view. It include news feed, insights of the page and other tabs similar to that of profile home page.

The page switch even include  the recent members of the page and notifications.

Until you switch back to your profile view to stay on the page view.

Its pretty sure that Facebook is trying to all  type of users for personal and commercial usage.

Hoping for a better Facebook in the future

Here are the two applications :

• Pic Scatter.
• Schweppes Profile App.

Pic Scatter

Pic Scatter created by Till Haunschild is one of the amazing application i have seen in the recent days.

This application Pic Scatter allows user to upload images into its interface and it produces the sliced images within no time. It even has some of the settings such as zoom settings changing the position of the image etc.

Here is the screenshot of one of my image :

After its all done just click on “Download Pictures” and now upload your pics to your profile and follow the step 5 of Method-1 in “Customizing Your Facebook Profile“.

Schweppes Profile App

Schweppes Profile App is an Facebook application unlike Pic Scatter. Compared to Pic Scatter, Schweppes Profile App has fewer options.

Add Schweppes Profile App to your Facebook account. Go to the app upload your image and you have setting such as zoom settings, pic rotation etc.

Here is the screenshot of the app in action :

In this app you dont need to save your pictures into your disk. Schweppes saves your pics directly into your photo album.

There are still many applications just made for the “New Facebook Interface” to make the profile page of the users creative ! I find Pic Scatter and Schweppes are one of the best applications among them.

Facebook  revealed that it was launching a revamped version of messages in November, 2010, Which combined SMS, messaging, chat and e-mail into one interface.

This new Facebook messages features you a personalized Facebook.com e-mail address like Chaitanya@Facebook.com, where if a friend of mine sends me a mail to this particular e-mail address i would receive it in my Facebook inbox.

Facebook  acquired FB.com last year from the American Farm Bureau Federation.  According to Reuters at its annual meeting in Atlanta, the non-profit ‘American Farm Bureau Federation’ revealed that it earned $8.5 million on the sale of fb.com to Facebook.

Way back the Facebook URL was TheFacebook.com, then Facebook acquired Facebook.com at $200,000 in 2005 which is 42.5 less than what actually the company spent on FB.com.

To obtain a profile like mine all you gotta do is follow any of these two methods :

Method – 1

1. Select a pic such that its resolution is high and crop it in such a way that your face fill up the pic like the one below.
2. Crop it to 700x500px with tools like Photoshop, GIMP such that you start slicing from your forehead like the below pic.
3. Now slice the pic as per dimensions marked in the below pic.

1. After slicing the pics save them into a folder and put the 200px image as your display pic and the 5 parts of 68px into your album.
2. After uploading all the five 68px pics into your album tag them in such a way that the 1 numbered slice  is tagged first then 2nd slice is tagged second, Continue the same procedure for all the pics. Finally the 5th slice is tagged last.

Method – 2

1. Here instead of just picking up the pic and slicing it simply download this PSD Template and import your picture.
2. Now, goto ‘File’ in menu and select ‘Save for Web And Devices’.
3. By clicking ‘Save’ the pic is sliced automatically as u set it in the step-1.
4. Follow the upload and tag procedure as in Method-1.

Now all you have is a very awesome n creative Facebook Profile !

[Via Labnol]

Another council member, Todor Hristov, got fed up with the warnings and the game playing and made a formal proposal to remove Kerin from the council, and in the proposal wrote that Kerin should be removed because he “needs more time for his virtual farm”, as reported by Novinite.com.  When it came time to vote, the score was 20-19, according to AOL Games who is also covering the story.

Dimitar kerin was part of the 51 person council of Plovdiv, which is the second largest city in Bulgaria defended himself by claiming that other people in the Council had higher levels than him. Kerin was adamant in his defense, saying that he was not the only one on Farmville in City Hall.  He pointed out that a fellow councilman was at level 46 compared to Kerin’s own level 40, somehow assuming that this constituted a rational defense.

Addiction to Farmville can ruin your jobs, studies. So beware guys make sure u play the game only when needed not all the time

Here are the screenshots of my home page before and after using FB Purity.

Before :

After :

Here’s how to install it :

Firefox Users :

• Install Greasemonkey script from Morzilla.
• Install FB Purity from the main site (FBPurity) under Firefox.

Chrome Users :

• Just install with a click, Go here for link under Chrome.

Safari Users :

• Install SIMBL.
• Install Greasekit addon.
• After installing both SIMBL, Greasekit go here and find the FB Purity link for Safari.

Opera Users :

• Open browser go to Tools > Preferences > Advanced > Content > JavaScript options, then chose the directory where you want to store Greasemonkey scripts
• Get the download link from the main site.

Thanks to author who had made this