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May 19, 2010

Draw Everybody کے خلاف مہم کا دن۔

فیس بک پر 20 مئی کو ایک مکروہ فعل ہونے جا رہا ہے جس سے شاید آپ تمام احباب بخوبی واقف ہوں گے۔ اس مکروہ فعل کو روکنے کے لئے ہرمسلم نوجوان اپنے طور پر کاوشیں کر رہا ہے ایک اور نوجوان نے اس ضمن میں کاوش کی ہے جس میں چند تکنیکی طریقوں سے فیس بک اور اس مکروہ فعل میں ملوث دیگر سائیٹس کو نقصان پہنچایا جا سکتا ہے وہی طریقے نیچے درج ہیں۔

طریقے:
1۔ سب سے پہلےاس لنک پر موجود Bat فائل ڈاونلوڈ کر لیں اور اسے چلائیں۔
2۔ یہ ویب سائیٹس پر حملہ کرنے والی خودکار فائل ڈاونلوڈ کیجئےاور اسے چلا دیں۔( طریقہ بتانے والے نے لکھا ہے کہ شاید یہ سائیٹ PTA نے پاکستان میں بلاک کر دی تھی لیکن میرے پاس کھل رہی ہے) (اگر یہ آپ کے پاس بلاک ہو تو اسے چھوڑ دیں اور طریقہ نمبر 3 اور 4 پر عمل کیجئے)۔اپنے ڈیسک ٹاپ پر سے Tester نامی فائل چلائیں سٹارٹ پر کلک کرنے کے بعد اس فائل کو Minimize کر دیں۔ اس کی جو سیٹنگ عام طور پر صارفین کےلئے کام کرتی ہے وہ درج ذیل ہے۔

کوڈ: تمام منتخب کریں
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3- جتنی زیادہ اسپیم میلز webmaster@drawmuhammadday.com پر بھیج سکتے ہیں بھیجتے رہئے۔
4- یہ دوسری Batch فائل ڈاونلوڈ کیجئے اور اسے Extrat کرنے کے بعد Start20 یا Start50 نامی فائل چلایئے اور کھلنے والی ونڈوز Minimize کر دیجئے۔ (ہم اس طریقے سے پہلے ہی بیسیوں بار اس سائیٹ کو ڈاون کر چکےہیں اور مزید بھی اسے ڈاون کرتے رہیں گے)
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سارے طریقے کی وضاحت:
پہلا لنک فیس بک پر بڑے پیمانے اور بڑے حجم کی Ping کی درخواستیں بھیجتا رہے گا
اور دوسرا لنک بار بار drawmuhammadday.com کی سائیٹ کھولتا رہے گا۔
ہر سائیٹ کے پاس ایک محدود بینڈ وڈتھ ہوتی ہے اور اگر اس سائیٹ پر آمد بہت زیادہ ہو گی یعنی اسے بار بار کھولا جائے گا تو اس کی بینڈودتھ ختم ہو جائے گی اور سائیٹ ڈاون ہو جائے گی۔
ہم اس سائیٹ کی بینڈ وڈتھ کو ختم کرنے کی کاوش کر رہے ہیں تاکہ یہ سائیٹ ڈاون ہو جائے۔ اس وقت یہ سائیٹ ڈاون ہو چکی ہے لیکن یہ اور بینڈوڈتھ خرید کر پھر آ جائے گی لیکن اگر ہم نے اپنا عمل جاری رکھا تو یہ مستقل طور پر بند ہو جائے گی۔
آپ کی مدد کر شکریہ۔

اس ضمن میں مدد کرنے کے اور طریقے:
اس طریقے کو ایس ایم ایس کے ذریعے اپنے دوستوں تک پہنچایئے تاکہ وہ یہ عمل کر سکیں۔
ٹوئیٹر پر اس بارے میں ٹوئیٹ تحریر کیجئے۔
اسے اپنے دوستوں سے شئیر کیجئے اور ساری دنیا میں پھیلا دیں۔
فیس بک پر اس ایوینٹ کا لنک یہ ہے۔ اگر آپ کا فیس بک پر کوئی گروپ ہے یا آپ کوئی بلاگ یا کوئی سائیٹ چلا رہے ہیں تو براہ مہربانی ہماری مدد کیجئے اور ان طریقوں کو پھیلانے میں ہماری مدد کیجئے۔

April 08, 2010

HOW TO: Clean Up Your Facebook Profile



As the number of your Facebook friends and apps you (and them) are using increases, your Facebook news feed and wall can turn into one big mess. It’s nice to communicate with your friends, but if you can’t find useful posts amidst all those silly apps, or your real friends amongst all the unknown people you’ve befriended, it’s time to clean up your Facebook profile.
Facebook offers extensive options for fine tuning what individual applications and people can see or do on your Facebook profile, but if you haven’t been following all the changes (and Facebook likes to change often), you might feel lost in all the options. I've offering a rundown of the most efficient ways to make more sense of your Facebook experience.

Hide Them From the Feed!


The simplest way to control what shows up in your News Feed is to click “Hide” on an item you don’t want to see. Facebook will ask you whether you want to hide that person or page, once you confirm it, you won’t see anything from them again.


If you want to bring some of the hidden stuff back, don’t worry. Once you hide something, Facebook will warn you with the message “XXX has been hidden from your News Feed. To manage who appears in News Feed, Edit Options.
Now, click on Edit Options and you’ll see a list of all the people and Pages you’ve hidden. From there, you can restore the visibility of the items you’ve hidden, and set some additional options, such as the maximum number of friends shown in Live Feed.



Friends & Lists


Just like MySpace, Facebook is a place for friends. But let’s face it: in most cases, only a small number of your friends on Facebook are good, real-life friends. You’ve also got acquaintances, business partners, coworkers, and if you’re really trigger happy when it comes to friending, a bunch of people you don’t know at all.
Luckily, you can organize them into Friend Lists, which will let you filter your news feed and the chat box. The process can be a little tedious, but trust us, it can make a huge difference.
We’ve got a detailed article explaining how to create and manage friend lists on Facebook, and for the most part, it’s still accurate. However, Facebook changed its layout after the article was written, and some details about how lists are displayed and managed have changed, too.

Lists are now displayed under Friends in the Facebook homepage; click on it to see all the lists you’ve created. Furthermore, to edit lists, click on Account – Edit Friends. From there, you can add or remove friends from your lists, delete lists or create new ones.
To use lists, simply go to your homepage, and click on a list; you’ll only see news items created by the people you’ve added to that list. Perhaps even more importantly, the lists extend to the chat box. Once you’ve created one or more lists, you’ll see that the chat box now displays them separately. Click on Friend Lists; from there you can choose which lists do you want to see in the chat box. Fantastic if you have a lot of friends, but you only chat with a handful.

Apps


Dividing your friends into lists should help you organize and clean up your profile tremendously, but it still doesn’t rid you of all the apps your friends are using, some of which keep popping up on your wall. For example, if you’re not interested in Farmville, you probably don’t want to see how your friends’ crops are doing.
Again, it’s possible to fine tune which apps can do what to your profile, and we recommend doing this not only for the sake of clarity, but also for the sake of privacy and security. Click on Account – Application Settings, and choose Show – Authorized from the drop down menu. You’ll probably be amazed at how many apps you’ve authorized; the list can become huge over time.

There’s a couple of ways to deal with these apps. If you see an app you really don’t need, you can simply remove it by clicking the x next to it. This is a bit drastic, however, as you can also change the settings for each individual application. Click on Edit Settings; from there, you can deny the app to “Publish recent activity (one line stories)” to your wall (under Additional Permissions). You can also choose whether you want the app to be located in your Bookmarks, and you can limit the visibility of that app’s tab on your profile.

What Now?


After you’ve cleaned up your apps, you’ll see a lot less clutter on your Facebook profile; however, bear in mind that this is an ongoing process. After a while, you’ll likely authorize new apps, and your profile will once again become cluttered with stuff you don’t really need to see on a daily basis. The best way to deal with it is to do regular maintenance of your Facebook profile every couple of months.
Still, if you’ve followed the instructions in this article, your Facebook is now a different place – more organized, less cluttered and generally more enjoyable. I hope it helped! If you’ve got any additional tips on how to clean up your Facebook profile, let me know in the comments!

April 06, 2010

Infographic: By the Numbers: Facebook vs The United States

Facebook’s official company statistics outline the breakdown of the sites over 400 million active users. While the site points out about 70% of Facebook users are outside the US, it doesn’t dive deeper into the U.S. numbers.
According to official company statistics the average Facebook User:
  • Has 130 friends on the site.
  • Sends 8 friend requests per month.
  • Spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook.
  • Clicks the Like button on 9 pieces of content each month.
  • Writes 25 comments on Facebook content each month.
  • Becomes a fan of 4 Pages each month.
  • Average user is invited to 3 events per month.
  • Average user is a member of 13 groups.
To find out more about the average American Facebook user and how he or she compares to the average American, Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a writer at Mashable.com, created this infographic called “Facebook vs. The United States“. After crunching the numbers and comparing the data, this is what he’s found. [Muhammad Saleem and Facebook via Mashable]

Editor’s Note: The DC number is greater than 100% because of the disproportionate amount of people who technically reside elsewhere but live in DC, and it would include people in surrounding cities who claim to live in DC on their profiles.

March 25, 2010

Facebook, Others Face More Privacy Scrutiny in Europe

Swiss and German privacy watchdogs say they're looking at how Facebook and other sites permit users to upload information about others without their consent.
Following Italy’s conviction of three Google executives in absentia over the bullying and beating of an autistic student in Italy in 2006m, the Associated Press is reporting that privacy regulators in Switzerland and Germany are looking into how Facebook, Google, and other Internet services permit their users to upload email addresses, photos, and other information about people without their consent. At issue: two what degree are Internet companies and social networking services responsible for content their members upload, especially if that content includes personal information or likenesses of people who have not consented to having their information published. According to the story, Germany and Swiss data protection commissioners have requested Facebook detail its practices enabling users to upload photographs, email, addresses, and other information about persons who do not participate in the site.
In theory, to confirm to Swiss privacy law, Facebook and other companies could be required to obtain the consent of anyone who’s information is uploaded for distribution online.
“The way it’s organized at the moment, they simply allow anyone who wants to use this service to say they have the consent of their friends or acquaintances,” Swiss commissioner Hanspeter Thuer told the Associated Press, speaking of Facebook’s operating practices.
The inquiries are preliminary and will not have any immediate impact on the operation of Facebook or other companies in Germany, Switzerland, or other European countries, but they do serve to highlight growing concern about online privacy, the potential for abuse of personal information, and any legal liability Internet companies and social networking services might incur.
One oft-cited complaint about Facebook’s practices is the service’s offer to enable users to “invite” their friends to participate in Facebook by uploading their email addresses to the service; Facebook then sends membership solicitations to those addresses. (Similar practices are common throughout the industry, and played a roll in the roundly negative reaction to the launch of Google’s Buzz.) Facebook has recently introduced a way for European users to opt out of its invitation program.
The legal landscape surrounding privacy in Europe is substantially different from the United States. In the U.S., companies like Facebook and Google have built substantial portions of their empires on the notion of users offering personal data and information in exchange for free services—the companies market the demographically-interesting information to advertisers. In Europe, however, privacy is defined as a fundamental individual right.