Now days we all are addicted to Google let it be a developer, businessman, architect, engineer or any other professional person. Its use has been intensified in every walk of life. Also with its massive data chunk and billions of indexed web pages, one has to effectively provide a search query (keywords) to get the desired search results.

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Facebook Command line interfaceEver wondered whether you can access Facebook via command line? Is there any command line interface (CLI) available for those people who like to stick with terminal window? The answer is fbcmd.

fbcmd is command line application available for Linux flavours as well as Windows. I admit, accessing Facebook through browser window or mobile devices is a lot easier. but, what’s the typical use-case of fbcmd is- you can now schedule your status updates to be published at particular time with help of cron jobs. Sounds cool..isn’t it?

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Facebook TaggedHave you noticed that blank status on friend’s profile? or someone in your friend’s list tagged with some different name?

Curious..? Well, here are those awesome tricks..

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facebook bugs in new interfaceFacebook recently launched a bunch of enhancements that impressed most of us. The series of changes like smart lists, chat, timeline just put Facebook ahead of it’s competitors. But, there are few bugs in new interface which Facebook team might have missed.

I have already reported these to Facebook and probably they might have started working on them. but, I thought you might be interested in what are those bugs.

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FacebookVsGoogleThis is a guest post from Michelle Foster who writes about cheap web hosting at Web Hosting Search.

Facebook haѕ grown from a small project bу somе college kids іntо а billion dollar company. Yes, іt іs thе story of dreams аnd super success. It haԁ the rags tо riches story and no wonԁer the Facebook story has bеcоme so popular thаnks to movies likе “The Social Network”.

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Technology Stack of Google, facebook, twitter
Even wondered what technologies are used for large web applications which have millions of unique visitors and have 1000s of requests per second. Which programming languages are making it happen, handling such peak amount of load at a time. We were curious about it and thought lets figure out what beneath the nice slick interface, who is handling the business logic efficiently. Here is what we found, a compiled list of technologies stack used at various web applications.

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Google plus InvitesGoogle just launched its new Facebook thing: Google Plus. And it’s invite-only. But people aren’t exactly killing each for Google Plus invites. Oh, how times have changed since the Gmail Invite Gold Rush.

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TaggedTagging someone in your friends list on Facebook, publishes his/her full name in the status update on Facebook. But, recently Facebook enhanced their feature so that you don’t need the “@” symbol, or your friends full name.

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Google Analytics CookiesGoogle Analytics is a widely used service by site owners and webmasters to gather statistics about visitors. Google provides an useful documentation of analytics cookies stored. But, that documentation doesn’t actually provides what exactly stored in the cookie.

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google chromeSlowly and steadily Google Chrome browser is turning into a full fledged web OS. Gradually they are reducing the need of desktop applications which are bulkier in size, OS dependent and takes a lot of processing power. Though web apps have some limited features, but they are able to fulfill the basic needs and installation is just of one or two steps.

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