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Facebook came, worked and swept away all other social networks. It’s one of the most preferred social network amongst teens and college students. It’s expanding well in other countries too. In India itself, it’s one of the top used social network however only after Google’s Orkut.

It’s always a pain to access all the features of Facebook, no matter how good Facebook is it’s user interface isn’t the best (as an active user of Orkut, I certainly feel so). However, now I present the list of best desktop applications for all Facebook fans :

1. Social.IM

The concept behind Social IM is that all your friends are on Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, AOL but each of them is on Facebook (not true actually, but still you get the idea of what they want to say). So, if you friend uses Social IM you’ll be able to chat with them and you’ll also get notified of various updates and pokes etc.

2. FizzBoost

By far the best application for Facebook. This application takes care of almost each and every feature of Facebook. It notifies you friend, groups, events, pokes, wall messages etc. It lets you view the updates from your friends and lets you update your status too. You can create new albums and directly upload photos to your facebook profile. It syncs your twitter account with facebook’s status, so if you use twitter then you don’t have to worry about updating the status on facebook, it takes care of that.

3. Facebook desktop client

Facebook Desktop client doesn’t do much but it constantly notifies you of new messages, wall posts, pokes, friend requests. It’s a nice and small application and keeps you informed about your friends. One of the neatly built application.

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I believe that one of the most small and useful feature of Windows Taskbar is Quick Launch toolbar. You can easily place shortcuts of most used applications, folders etc. so that they are just 1 click away from you!

However, when you are a heavy user of the computer and you add more and more shortcuts to quick launch, then you’ll realize that the space for the taskbar gets less. Well, to counter that problem you can easily drag the handle to left, so that two arrows come up like this >> and when you click on them, you get the whole list of shortcuts.

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There are many documents which are old and important but are of no use at this time and we just want to delete them , however we fear that they should not reach to prying eyes! There are many ways through which someone can recover a file or document easily even if you remove that file from the recycle bin!

However, there are many software which can easily help you in removing the files completely to a level that they can’t be recovered at all, even with the help of any data recovery software.

File Shredder is such free utility, which wipes the files beyond recovery and it lets you choose between 5 different shredding algorithms (each powerful than the previous one but slow too).

It also lets you easily wipe the whole free space from the hard-disk thus ensuring that no one can ever recover any previously deleted data. It’s one of the must have privacy tools for your computer.

Why go AOL?

American Online too has come up with choose after ‘@’ kind of email ids. Though the makers claim that they were the first to do it, we know that they dint, Mail.com has been offering this service from ages.

So like the usual MyOwnEmail kind, you have different categories to choose from depending on your interest. If you are interested in music, you can have a cool musically sounding email id and likewise in other fields as well. So if you don’t find your favorite name in other email services, try AOL.

Getting started with AOL :

Once you sign up for an AOL account, you can instantly notify all your friends with the new email id. This you can do by downloading the address book from your older email account. Once all email addresses are copied, AOL automatically notifies them. Added to this feature, the mails you had already received in your older email id will directly be downloaded to the new AOL account. This is done by a service called ‘TrueSwitch’. The service logins to your older account and transfers all emails including attachments to the new AOL account. It not only transfers old emails but also forwards all the new emails you receive in your old account.

Please note : TrueSwitch as independent service charges around 20 dollar/month for same but with AOL, its free.

What is it that AOL offers that is really special ?

The mail service is quite quick (again the AJAX based interface, but not as quickly as Gmail), though you might have server problems quite often. The server is very poor and most of the times you get to see the ‘Try Again’ in your browser. I liked the way they’ve integrated AIM in the service and just like GMail, it saves the chat history too. And one interesting feature is you can also send in text messages to your friends’ mobile phone as well.

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After getting inspired from DownloadSquad’s Time Waster of the Day, I thought that I’ll publish some feature of the day myself. And I started looking at various available options amongst the blogosphere. Found out that Time waster of the day is quite popular and featured download is even more popular because of LifeHacker.

So, thought that I’ll start something new and just then I came across a screensaver called Windows Shortcuts 2. I thought that it’ll be cool to have such a screensaver until I realized that this screensaver is paid!

Thanks to Try before you buy option, I downloaded the screensaver only to dishearten myself. It’s does nothing but rotates some low quality images as background and on top of it, it shows you the common windows shortcuts like ALT+F4 can be used for closing the open window, ALT+Tab can be used to switch between two windows!

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