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Holiday Facebook Layouts for Christmas
You can now take your holiday spirit beyond trimming the tree and decorating the house with lights. PageRage, the free Facebook layouts app gives Facebook users the ability to personalize their profiles with custom and pre-designed layouts.
So, what’s the catch?
In order to bring the holidays to your FB profile in layout form, users must install PageRage. Not to worry, the install is safe and very user friendly. The app is compatible with most widely used browsers like: Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox. PageRage is offered 100% free to FB users but be aware that the app is ad-supported, meaning, once installed, the app places advertisements on your FB account. The app does offer ad-free Facebook layouts though; upgrading to PageRage Premium for a one-time fee of $1.99 USD guarantees users an ad-free Facebook layout experience. Very thoughtful of them since more than half the population can’t stand ads. Thank you kindly PageRage! All in all, this is one spiffy Facebook customization app and what better way to celebrate the holidays than with a custom, colorful and free Facebook layout.
For more information about this new and innovative app, visit www.PageRage.com.
How to Get Rid of Annoying Facebook News Ticker
We’re pretty sure you know what we’re talking about when we say “Facebook News Ticker.”
No? What if we say the annoying news-feed-like window that sits directly on top of your chat window?
The new homepage ticker was pushed out by Facebook on Wednesday September 21st to all users of the social network. The new feature is programmed to give us more of a “news” insight into our friends activity (in real time) via Facebook. Creepy right? The news ticker shows when you have chat open, and if you close chat, it takes residence above the ads and everything else. Talk about a migraine!
Currently, this news ticker is not optional and we don’t know if Facebook will ever make it optional, fingers crossed. Until that happens, here are some nifty solutions to getting rid of that annoying Facebook news ticker courtesy of AllFacebook.com: Continue Reading »
Retailers Are Getting Creative On Facebook
If you are one retailer out of millions in the world, how would you go about separating yourself from the herd in order to get noticed?
Hipster fashion retailer Urban Outfitters has found a creative solution via Facebook to get the masses interested and coming back for more. The retailer’s new interactive campaign will enable Facebook fans to browse through Urban Outfitter’s fall catalog on the brands page. Genius!
Cool Infographic On Parents Who Spy On Facebook
We recently took a visit to AllFacebook.com and found an interesting infographic post by Jackie Cohen. The infographic (pictured below) show’s the contrast in number of parents who have joined the social network to just spy on their kids online behavior. After seeing the findings from this infographic, we were surprised that the numbers weren’t higher.
The infographic comes from OnlineSchools, which states that parents spying on their kids via Facebook maybe isn’t such a bad thing: “Children are vulnerable on social networks and many are on Facebook without their parents’ permission. That’s why many parents feel that they’re not snooping on their kids — they’re protecting them.”
Good point. If we were parents, wouldn’t we want to know what our children are talking about behind our backs? Or who is talking about them behind their backs? These questions bring up an important point, if parents are so interested on keeping their kids safe from harm, shouldn’t they just talk to them about it, person to person instead of finding out by Facebook? It’s obvious that with the rise of social networks, that the communication barrier between kids and their parents continues to grow larger and larger apart from each other.
Send “Like” Notifications for Your Facebook Page
Can you say hallelujah?!
Facebook has now released a feature to Facebook page admins where they can now add fans to their pages by sending notification to Facebook friends. This new feature is a bit more robust and convenient than the previously available “suggest to friends” feature, which was removed earlier this year. Admins now have the ability to search for friends by name or filter by recent interactions, group, and even friend lists. It seems that there isn’t really a limit to how many notifications you can send but be weary; Facebook has a thing out for Fan page admins who try to purposely spam users of the social site.
The cool thing about this new feature is that if a page has more than one admin, those admins have available to them the combined networks. We wonder too if Facebook Deals has become just as popular as fan pages now? The social site is growing and changing at a rapid pace; we are beginning to feel that trying to keep up with the network is becoming mighty hard. Do you agree?
Facebook Deals At a Glance
If you love daily deal sites like Groupon and Living Social, then you are definitely aware of Facebook Deals.
It was last November when Facebook unveiled their mobile “check-in-deals” program and in April, a site-wide version of their deals program was unleashed on 5 US cities. Since the start of Deals in November, millions of mobile users have taken advantage of great deals in their area. When Facebook users check-in on their mobile phone, users will be notified automatically when a deal is nearby; convenience is a luxury that all Facebook users can afford now with Deals.
Facebook has a distinct advantage over its popular competitors like Groupon and Living Social, because they have their own platform to work off of, which happens to serve nearly 700 million people. With Deals on Facebook, advertisers already know what you like to eat, what music you listen to, places you visit and what brands you love. The only downside about Facebook Deals may be that it is too specific to a user. As for Groupon, the deal site searches deals happening depending on your location, which is more flexible in giving you more options for deals to choose from.
PageRage Now Offers Ad-Free Facebook Layouts
The popular Facebook layouts application, PageRage now offers their users ad-free Facebook layouts through PageRage Premium. Super cool! If users were already using PageRage, they can now upgrade, if they wish, to PageRage Premium with a one-time purchase of $1.99 (USD). Once PageRage Premium is purchased, users will experience an ad-free version of PageRage via their Facebook profiles. Signing up for PageRage ad-free Facebook layouts is easy and took us only 3 minutes to do.
The first step in getting started is to visit www.PageRage.com and click on the “Get Premium” button on the left-hand side of the homepage. By clicking on this button, the website will direct you to the PageRage Premium page where you can learn more about what the new program can offer you. Next step is to click on the big green paint splash to get started. After clicking, you will notice a form appear on the Premium PageRage page. This step in the process is asking you to sign into your PageRage user account or to create a account if you haven’t already done so. After logging in or signing up to your PageRage user account, you will now fill out a short contact form and provide credit card payment information in order to pay for PageRage Premium. This PageRage ad-free Facebook layouts service accepts most credit cards and processes all payments through PayPal to ensure safe online shopping. Once your payment is successfully processed, you can now select or create Facebook layouts to your hearts content without the distraction of ads when surfing your online social profile.
Celebrate Memorial Day with PageRage Facebook Layouts
The Memorial Day holiday weekend is almost here and we have discovered a cool way to show individual patriotism in honor of the holiday.
Many of us use Facebook to showcase ourselves, catch-up with friends, and share pictures of good times had. The only thing missing from Facebook, we think, is the ability to customize your personal profile. Although Facebook users are not able to customize their profiles by tampering with the site’s individual html code (like you could on Myspace), there is a very simple way to get around this little bump in the road. Enter, PageRage. PageRage is a browser plug-in application (not available as a Facebook app) that allows users to skin their profiles with pre-made or user created Facebook layouts.
How it works: Visit www.PageRage.com and install the free plug-in. The PageRage app is compatible with the following browser types: Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. Once PageRage is installed, you will have access to all Facebook layouts within their online library and let us tell you, it’s massive. There are thousands, upon thousands of Facebook layouts to choose from. There is also the option to create your own Facebook layouts using their top of the line CYOL tool. Once you have created or selected a layout to your profile, simply log into your Facebook account, navigate to the profile tab and hit the refresh key. You will now see that your Facebook profile is customized with a PageRage Facebook layout. So cool!
Tagging Fan Pages in Your Facebook Photos
Stay in “the know” of everything related to Facebook and Facebook layouts. There’s no need to stray, so why not stay?
If you have ever had the chance to meet a celeb and take a picture with them, you wonder, how can I tag Rihanna in my picture on Facebook?
Great news! Just a few days ago, Facebook released a new feature that allows you to tag Facebook fan pages (aka celebrities, brands and music pages) in your photos. So cool! Not only is this a great way to show off your awesome pictures to friends, giving you more bragging rights, but this new feature also gives fan page owners free advertising. As seen in the photo below, you tag a fan page just the way you would tag another person. Once you tag a fan page, the tagged photo will show up under the fan pages photo’s tab for other fans to see. A page can be tagged in a photo even if you haven’t “Liked” it. Pretty spiffy huh?
