Great Website for Developers & Programmers

If you are a programmer or a web developer who often needs to shuffle between writing code in multiple languages, check out searchco.de – this is an instant search engine for all programming related documentation and nothing else.

You type a function name and searchco.de will pull a list of all languages where that function is available along with the syntax and description. Alternately, you may prefix the function name with the language name – like jquery slide - to limit your search results to a particular language.

In addition to regular programming languages, searchco.de also indexes documentation for Windows and Linux commands.

However, if you are looking to search for code snippets or to debug problems in your existing code, Google’s Code Search is still your best friend. You can even find code using regular expressions, a feature that is not available inside Google's web search.

Google Code Search is part of Google Labs so am not too sure if it will survive once Google retires the Labs section altogether.

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Amazon’s Kindle fire launched for $199

Looks like Amazon has hit the sweet spot once again, this time with it’s Android based Tablet called the Kindle Fire. Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bazos unveiled the Kindle Fire tablet at one of the company’s press events and said that the Amazon’s e-commerce power will very well help the Kindle Fire tablet sales to go high and provide Apple’s iPad a tough competition.

Prior to this launch Amazon has already launched many versions of it’s now very famous and sought after reading device – The Kindle. So, going by this the company already has a lot of market experience when it comes to selling Tablets and as our gut feeling tells us – this new tablet from Amazon – “Kindle Fire” is here to stay. Now lets take a quick look at the specs and the features of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet:

Now lets take a quick look at the specs and the features of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet:

• 7-inch IPS panel / display with multi-touch support 
• 1024 x 600 pixel resolution at 169 ppi and 16 million colors 
• Gorilla Glass coating that gives that extra protection to the screen
•  dual-core CPU Storage:
•  8GB internal memory Weight: 14.6 ounces (Approx. 410 grams) 
• Runs on Android but has a really refreshing and different User Interface 
• Wi-Fi connectivity with Amazon Silkcloud accelerated browser. 
• Battery Life: Up to 8 hours of continuous reading or 7.5 hours of video playback in Wi-Fi off mode and requires 4 hours for a full battery charge 
• USB 2.0 Micro B Connector, 3.5 mm Audio Jack 
• 30 Day free trial of Amazon Prime which includes video streaming 
• Free 2 day shipping 
• Free Amazon Cloud storage – store all your books, music, magazines for free and delete when you are done with them.

However, on the down-side the Kindle Fire does not have a camera or a microphone. Also, the current version of the tablet does not have 3G but we are sure Amazon would be launching the 3G version soon!

The Kindle Fire tablet from Amazon costs US $199 which is just about Rs. 9600/- in Indian currency plus the shipping charges from US to India. The tablet will be available for everyone to buy from November 15th 2011. However, the pre-orders have already started.

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How to Make Windows startup Faster

 

Make your PC smart and fast

If  your Windows take really long to start-up, make Your windows startup faster by using some techniques. As you  know very well this problem mainly occurs regularly with windows XP as well as with Windows Vista.

Well, you are not alone with this problem but fortunately, with some minor tweaks, you can get your sluggish Windows to start much faster without re-installing Windows or adding any new hardware.

The logic is fairly simple. Your computer loads quite a few software programs and services during start-up (look at all the icons in your Windows System tray). If you can trim this list, your computer’s boot time will increase.

Windows Dusting and Cleaning
This is the best way to increase startup time by using  following steps:
1. Clean out the Registry: The larger your Windows Registry, the longer the OS will take to boot. My favorite Registry cleaner is ChemTable's $30 Reg Organizer, which is both a powerful Registry editor and a general Windows maintenance tool. If you don't want to pay to put things in order, try the less-powerful Easy Cleaner from ToniArts.
2. Use fewer fonts: Loading hundreds of system fonts takes time. If you have more than 500 fonts on your PC, remove a few. Sue Fisher's free The Font Thing utility will help you whittle your font selection down to size.
3. Add RAM
4.  Click on Start, then Run, and type "msconfig"
5.  Look under the boot.
6.  Uninstall all unrequired programs.
7. Delete tthe temporary files periodically from your computer to make the application run        faster.
8. Perform a scandisk to see that your computer hard drive is in healthy condition.
9. Always perform a Disk Defragmentation at least once a month.
"By Using an Utility Program"
You can use a free utility called Soluto and it helped reduce the start-up time of my Windows computer from 3.15 minutes to around 1.25 minutes. All this with a few easy clicks and without confusing the user with any technical jargon.
After Soluto  installation, it sorts your start-up programs list into three categories:

• No-brainer – remove these programs from start-up with giving a second thought.
• Potentially removable – another list of start-up programs that may also be removed   provided you know what these programs do.
• Required – Certain programs and services are required to run Windows properly and therefore should not be removed.

Depending upon the software app, you may then either choose “Pause” to completely remove that app from the start-up queue or choose “Delay” when you want the app to run automatically but not immediately at start-up. Soluto will launch the “delayed” app once the boot up is over and your system is idle.

You can also hover the mouse over any program name and Soluto will display the number of seconds that the app adds to the start-up time. And don't bother about making mistakes because Soluto has a useful "Undo all" feature that will restore the start-up list to the original state with a click.

Once you are done classifying your start-up programs list, reboot the computer and you should notice a difference between the start-up time.

Where to download Soluto?

The official site for Soluto is soluto.com but in order to download the program, you should head over to mysoluto.com.

Alternatives to Soluto

If you are tech-savvy, you can also use a utility like Sysinternals Autoruns to manually prevent all the non-essential Windows processes and programs from running at start-up.

Just uncheck all the Autorun entries and Services that you don't wish to load at startup and reboot your system. You’ll however need a separate program to get the “delay” feature which is so handy in Solute.

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Happy Birthday Google - 13th Birthday

Happy Birthday Google

What were you up to 13 years ago? Maybe you were perfecting the ideal AIM screen name. Or you might have been surfing the “WestHollywood” neighborhood of GeoCities. Chances are, you had been using Yahoo! or AOL as your primary search engines. But Google’s debut on this day in1998 would change the World Wide Web forever.

On September 4, 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin filed for incorporation as Google Inc. — they had received a $100,000 check from an investor made out to Google, Inc., and needed to incorporate that name so they could legally deposit the check.

Prior to the launch, Page and Brin met at Stanford in 1995, and soon decided to launch a search service called BackRub in January 1996. They soon reevaluated the name (and the creepy logo) in favor of Google, a play on the mathematical figure, “googol,” which represents the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes. The name embodied their mission to create an infinite amount of web resources. And that they did.

Since then, Google has become a household name to billions of people worldwide. You’ll overhear senior citizens command their grandchildren to “google” the price of foot cream. You’ll witness toddlers punching the screen of the latest Android phone. And chances are, you’ve navigated the circles of Google+ (if not, let’s get you an invite already).

We’d like to guide you on a trip down Google lane, presenting the key products and acquisitions that were born in the first Google garage office, and innovated in the Googleplex. In the comments below, please share how Google has had an impact on your life, and join us in wishing Google a happy birthday!

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Google's green: energy efficient computing

"Better web and Better for the environment"

"Google prides itself on its green operations and puts great effort into cutting down energy use as much as possible and using renewable energy for the power it does need."

Google efforts for Green: 

• Google spent €200 million ($273 million) for its new data center and two years converting an old paper mill factory into a state-of-the-art data center.
• And it was well worth it, the company will save a lot of money on energy bills thanks to the use of seawater for the cooling and the colder climate in the area.
• Google chose the site of an old paper mill that shut down in 2008 due to lack of demand. The mill already had a huge seawater cooling system built, to keep the machinery cold.
• Now, Google has converted the cooling system to keep its thousands of servers from overheating. Google used a water-to-water exchange in the data center and relies on the low ambient temperature to do most of the cooling.

Google've worked hard to reduce the amount of energy our services use. In fact, to provide you with Google products for a month—not just search, but Google+, Gmail, YouTube and everything else they have to offer—our servers use less energy per user than a light left on for three hours.

They’ve learned a lot in the process of reducing our environmental impact, so they’ve added a new section called “The Big Picture” to our Google Green site with numbers on our annual energy use and carbon footprint.

Whenever possible, They use renewable energy. We have a large solar panel installation at our Mountain View campus, and we’ve purchased the output of two wind farms to power our data centers. For the greenhouse gas emissions they can’t eliminate, they purchase high-quality carbon offsets.

By investing hundreds of millions of dollars in renewable energy projects and companies, we’re helping to create 1.7 GW of renewable power. That’s the same amount of energy used to power over 350,000 homes, and far more than what their operations consume(Says Google).

Finally, Their products can help people reduce their own carbon footprints. The study (PDF) we released yesterday on Gmail is just one example of how cloud-based services can be much more energy efficient than locally hosted services helping businesses cut their electricity bills. 

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502 Google Sever Error

Google has been down. It will rise again soon, but if you are also getting a 502 error message then you may be wait for such a time.

Many of us are getting 502 or 503 error screens. Some users are also reporting that their Google Apps accounts have also been reduced. Other products such as Google Chat, appear to be affected by rolling cuts.

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Google Plus covering the social market

Google's latest offering ' Google Plus' is steadily gaining ground in the social networking space, so far dominated by Facebook , with the internet giant's social network attracting about 20 million visitors in the initial three weeks and nearly half of these visitors hailing from US and India .

According to estimates by research firm ComScore, Google Plus had 19.93 million unique visitors between June 29 and July 19 period.

The top two countries in this estimate are the US and India. Of the 19.93 million visitors, 5.31 million were from the US and 2.85 million from India.

Another 0.87 million users came from the UK, 0.71 million from Germany and 0.50 million from France.

"I have never seen anything grow this quickly," vice president of industry analysis at ComScore Andrew Lipsman said.

Google Plus, launched on June 28, is Google's answer to rival Facebook.

It lets users post photos, messages, comments and other content from a selected groups of friends.

The service was started as a field trial and the project is by invitation only, which means people can join only if a current member invites them.

Eventually, Google plans to incorporate features of Google Plus in its other services, such as its YouTube video site.

Google CEO Larry Page had last week said that Google Plus had more than 10 million users.

Page said there are "more opportunities for Google today than ever before".

It will be some time before Google catches up with Facebook's scale of more than 750 million users. The other popular micro-blogging site Twitter has more than 200 million registered accounts.

Through 'Google Plus', the internet giant aims to garner a share in the lucrative social networking space that has so far been dominated by the Mark Zuckerberg led popular site.

The service has features like 'Circles', 'Sparks', 'Hangouts' and 'mobile'.

Through Circles, Google targets Facebook's features in which a user's information is shared by default with a large number of his or her friends including their work colleagues and acquaintances, rather than only their close personal friends.

Its "Huddle" feature lets users send text messages to several different people at once, known as group texting.  

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India offers billion dollar opportunity for Apple

India is a hub of nearly all the big players of tech industry. But Apple still has to gain ground over here. While iPad is creating ripples all over the world, India is gradually warming up to tablets.

Analysts are estimating that India can be one of the biggest emerging market opportunities for the iconic iPad and iPhone maker in near future. Analysts believe that India is a $9.4 billion opportunity for Apple in four years.

Budding markets, including India, could add up to 63 per cent of Apple’s mounting sales between now and 2015, representing as much as $70 billion in additional revenue.Over $9 billion revenue milestone in India signals Apple selling 98 lakh iPhones, 57 lakh iPads, a little over 3 lakh Mac desktop computers and nearly 5 lakh Mac laptops, according to a source.

Apple will also benefit from its relationship with telecom carriers in India. It currently share relationship with Bharti Airtel having 156 million subscribers and Vodafone with about 130 million subscribers. Interestingly, these carriers together can offer Apple access to nearly 300 million mobile phone subscribers, who could be potential owners of Apple products.

However, some analysts are arguing that the estimation is grossly excessive.

Apple targets a niche audience and has not yet been successful with its tablet PC, iPad.

Now, Apple is going more aggressive in its approach and is planning to launch cheaper products aimed purposely at emerging markets. Let’s hope, unlike in past, Apple doesn’t ignore India in its future big launches.

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Google Plus is now open for everyone

After being invite-only for nearly three months, Google+ is opening up to everyone.

Writing on its official company blog about the 99 improvements that have been made to the product since launching, Google’s Vic Gundotra wrote, “We’re ready to move from field trial to beta, and introduce our 100th feature: open signups.”

Today’s update also comes with big improvements to Google+ Hangouts, including the ability to use them on Android devices (version 2.3 and higher). It also includes search, which is a hybrid of content shared on Google+ and results from around the web. “Just type what you’re looking for into the Google+ search box, and we’ll return relevant people and posts, as well as popular content from around the web,” Gundotra wrote.

SEE ALSO: Google+ Hangouts API for Developers

Google+ invites were in high demand when the service first launched in July, and the service attracted 20 million visitors in its first month. Since then, however, the service seems to have lost some of its luster, with a controversy around brand pages fanning the flames.

Facebook has also launched a number of features that challenge what were initially selling points of Google’s offering. The leading social network revamped Friend Lists and made changes to the News Feed, both of which bring Google+ Circles-like functionality to the site.

Now that Google+ is open to everyone, we’ll see if the service can regain the momentum it had earlier this summer.

Google Indication to Launch of Google Plus to everyone.

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Google Wallet launches: Say goodbye to traditional wallets

Google has officially launched 'Wallet', the first pay by phone service 

Google Wallet is an Android app that makes your phone your wallet. It stores virtual versions of your existing plastic cards on your phone. Simply tap your phone to pay and redeem offers using near field communication, or NFC.

Ahead of other companies, Google Wallet launched first on the Samsung Nexus S on the Sprint Nextel network. Also partnered in the initial scheme are Citibank and Mastercard.

As other Android phones are fitted with the NFC (near field communication) technology, more like services will appear on the market.

Google also said today that it has licensed NFC technology from other major credit card companies: American Express, Visa, and Discover. This means that upcoming versions of Google Wallet will support those credit cards as well.

"In the future, our goal is to make it possible for you to add all of your payment cards to Google Wallet, so you can say goodbye to even the biggest traditional wallets," said Osama Bedier, vice president of payments at Google.

How It works

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Think Web Colors in Hexa-decimal Numbers with RGB

If you've ever customized the design of your blog, social network profile or a widget, you've probably encountered HTML Hexadecimal color codes. 

Here is a simple guide to help you recognize web colors more quickly from their RGB codes.

In a typical web representation #RRGGBB, the first 2 digits denote red, the second 2 digital are for green and while the last 2 digit represent the blue shade. 

Each number denotes the strength of that particular color - FF0000 is only red (no green, no blue), 00FF00 only green (no red, no blue). If all colors are present in equal strength FFFFFF, you get white, if no color is present 000000, black.

If you want to "darken" a color, you need to move the color towards black 000000. That means880000 is darker than BB0000 that is darker than FF0000.

Similarly, if you want to "lighten" a color, move towards white FFFFFF. So, FF8888 is lighter thanFF4444 that is lighter than FF0000.

Color combinations are dictated by the "strongest" color. So BB8844 is a reddish shade, 33CC00would be a little green, and 777777 gray (since it has no strongest color).

If you're uncomfortable with *Hexadecimal arithmetic, you could use the standard Windows calculator in scientific mode to perform such calculations.

*Hexadecimal numbers use 16 unique symbols (0-F) as opposed to the Decimal number system's 10 (0-9), and to make up for the extra 6 characters, the English alphabets A-F are used.

RGB Color Model 

The RGB color model is an additive color model in which red, green, and blue light is added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additive primary colors, red, green, and blue.

The main purpose of the RGB color model is for the sensing, representation, and display of images in electronic systems, such as televisions and computers, though it has also been used in conventional photography. Before the electronic age, the RGB color model already had a solid theory behind it, based in human perception of colors.

RGB is a device-dependent color model: different devices detect or reproduce a given RGB value differently, since the color elements (such as phosphors or dyes) and their response to the individual R, G, and B levels vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, or even in the same device over time. Thus an RGB value does not define the same color across devices without some kind of color management.

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Apple Becomes World’s Second Most Valuable Brand — After Google [STUDY]

Apple‘s brand is worth $39.3 billion, or 33% more than it was at the start of the year, according to a study from consulting firm Brand Finance.

The London-based company looks at a company’s cash flow and other financial metrics to assess the worth of its trademarks and other intellectual property. At the top of the heap is Google, whose IP is worth $48.3 billion — and likely more after Thursday, when the search giant bought another treasure trove of patents from IBM. (Big Blue itself is currently in fourth place.)
Microsoft slipped to third place, a hair’s breadth below Apple at $39 billion — although Windows 8 may change that equation.
This marks the first time, according to the report, that the world’s top four most valuable brands are all tech companies. Coming in just below them: Walmart, GE, AT&T and Coca-Cola. A couple of banks with slipping reputations — Wells Fargo and Bank of America — round out the top 10.

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Top 10 Browsers

If you are surfing Net & require to make use of feature rich browser then you have so lots of options to select from.Choosing the best for great experience, you will must know about all browsers.To help you select best, today we have come up with the list of top ten browsers with their features.

1. Mozilla Firefox :

This browser is perhaps the world’s favorite browser. The top multinationals have decided to keep it as their default. It is open source browser with the worldwide support from a community of developers and testers. The main features of this browser are:

• Private Browsing
• Instant Web Site ID
• Built-in Spell Checker
• Customization with around a million themes available for free from its official website
• Ships with almost all linux distributions

 

2. Chrome :
This is managed by Google. It is fastest of all browsers that are available today. It main features are:

• Flexible Tabs which can be placed anywhere
• In Built Download Manager
• Private Browsing
• Online Task Manager
• More Secure
• Webshots of last websites visited

3. Internet Explorer :

This is perhaps our first web browser that we might have experienced. It is maintained and developed by Microsoft. The main features of this are:

• Compatibility with older versions so that the visibility is not an issue
• Grouped Tabs
• Private Browsing
• Grouped Tabs
• Web Slices

4. Opera :

This browser is claimed to be the fastest on the planet. This was developed by the telecom company Telenor. The main features of this browser is:

• Visual Tabs
• A number of Addons are available on its official website
• Faster internet surfing even on slow connections
• Content Blocker for young and sensitive audience
• Download Manger with Torrent support

 
5. Safari :

This is developed by Apple for its macintosh Operating System. Some of the features are:

• Private Browsing
• Bookmark Integration with Address Book
• Built in password management feature which is only available in Mac only
• Mail integration
• Inline PDF Viewer
• Tabbed browsing

6. Maxthon :

It is a freeware software that is developed by some firm in China. It was developed mainly for Microsoft Windows. Its main features are:

• Link Validator
• Tabbed Surfing
• Adobe Flash and ActiveX object support
• Programmable mouse gestures and mouse chording.
• RSS Reader

7. Flock :

It is a social networking web browser that is built for Facebook and Twitter. It is an open source project with many contributors all around the world. Its main features are

• Integration of all the social networking account into this single browser
• Support for the sharing for videos, photos and links
• Feed Reader to accommodate all the types of feeds
• Support for third party Firefox extensions

8. Avant :
It is an extremely light and fast browser that is developed by Avant Force. Its main features are:

• In built RSS Reader
• Private Browsing
• Flash Animator Filter
• AD/Pop-up Blocker

9. Deepnet Explorer :
It is the only browser with a phishing alarm along P2P connectivity. The other main features are:

• In built RSS Reader
• Private Browsing
• Automatic Form Filler
• File Sharing Support
• Mouse Gestures

10. Phase Out :

It is a freeware that is used for the ultimate space exploration. The various features are:

• Pop-Up Blocker and Clean-Up Tools
• Integrated Advanced Search Tool Bar
• Tabbed Web Windows
• Automatic search function on page not found error (404)

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Make Great Apparel for Website

As we know that designing is the best feature for an online site and it depends over designers art of creation. In Delhi professional web design services are not limited. There's plenty of companies offering web design and web development services around India.

But when you go in for your site make it a point to choose a designer who knows the basic of designing and propose you with the various designs. Web design Delhi ought to tell you the professionals and cons of all. In the event you have require a flash website designed no worries... Our web design suggests different web design services which will give you the same result as any other simple HTML site. Some people have a preference to go in for a company that is next-door to them. And a client be supposed to ... because without a doubt you can tell then what you require and they will tell you whether that type of design is feasible or not? For example, in the event you live in Florida then it is better to go for a custom web design. Web design services include design, content formation, and streamlining, programming and complete development of site. So on basis of these things they will tell you whether your idea is feasible or not? There's dissimilar things they must keep in intellect while selecting a professional web design company as like web design * They ought to have team of knowledgeable people in the field of designing. * Here web design says expertise in development of anything from simple to multifaceted e business based web site. This comprises Logo Designing, Graphics Development, banner Designing, Templates designing, Simple and Complex animations, Custom Website design, Real-Estate website development, E commerce based site, Online store development, Online payment access integration, Database Driven Website, Online Community Development, Corporate Website Development , and Search Engine gracious website. *A professional web organization will make sure that the net site designed by them has least amount of flaws, and runs effortlessly and professionally. Their main aim with the pioneering design is to provide the users with great visiting understanding. * Web design suggests in the event that they have worked for numerous clients do check the reviews. You can ask for contact number of people for whom they have done the net site and check for their after website development services. * Most prominently check their portfolio and see how they work in fields of both designing and development. Fallow these basic steps and enjoy with great web design service.

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Why CSS is good for Google

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are used to separate the stylistic elements of a page such as layout, colour and fonts from the content of the page such as paragraphs and images. We call this Separation of Content from Presentation. If you don't understand CSS at all then you may decide not to use it for your site. However I would suggest that the advantages to be gained from using CSS, not just for Google, are well worth the time invested in learning it.

So why is CSS good for Google?

• CSS allows for smaller file sizes
• CSS allows you greater control of page structure
• CSS allows you to hide certain content from browsers while it still gets picked up by Google

CSS allows for smaller file sizes

By taking styles out of the HTML page and putting it into a standalone (imported) style sheet (.css file), you can reduce the overall amount of code in your web pages. Pages with less code have smaller file sizes and Google prefers pages with smaller file sizes (many other search engines do too).

Though Google doesn't offer specific advice on this matter, the search engine optimisation community is generally agreed that 100KB is a good upper limit for page sizes. 

CSS allows you greater control of page structure

CSS allows you to structure your document according to HTML standards without comprimising the look-and-feel of the page.

Google rewards pages that are well structured, though many designers choose to ignore standards and guidelines as much as possible, because they (incorrectly) believe standards lead to bland pages. Using CSS, designers can create attractive pages with much flair.

CSS allows you to hide content from browsers while it still gets picked up by Google

Using CSS you can hide content from certain browsers in certain situations. For example you may have some content that you only want to appear in print, or you may want certain content to only be shown on screen and not in print (such as page navigation). The advantage is that Google will still index all of the content and you will still get the benefit that content brings. 

Browser Compatibility

If you are new to CSS, be aware that different browsers still interpret CSS standards in different ways, while some (very) old browsers don't read CSS at all. Ensure that your CSS is as cross-browser compatible as possible, and that your HTML pages look acceptable even without CSS.

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Add a Subscribe Button to your Facebook Profile

Share Your views and hear from people even if you are not friends, through Subscription Button on Facebook.

Facebook has recently launched Subscription Button on 14/09/2011 that allows you to follow updates, news, pictures, etc of public regardless of the fact that you are not Facebook friends.

Now onwards users will begin to see Subscription Button along with “Message” and “Poke” Button on Facebook Profile.

Subscription button is placed on the top-right corner of each of your friends profile. You can choose to receive each and every updates or only the important updates from your friends profile,this is one of the best way to keep a tight control for different types of friends that you have on Facebook.

You can also confirm that you really want to share the stuff to non-friend public or not. To check just visit your profile click “View As” button and then on “public” link to see what is being updated in your profile are Public.

Subscription Button can be used in many of the different ways.

You can also use it to:

• Choose what you see from people in news feeds.
• Hear from people, even you are not friends.
• Let people hear from you, even if you are not friends.

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