Ever since Facebook updated its profile layout to the Timeline format, users have been slowly making the transition.  We are slowly getting used to the new format but have found one cool feature that we think will win a lot of Facebook fans over.  The coolest thing about the new Timeline profile is the ability to feature a personal photo in the “Cover Photo” section of the timeline.

Many users are taking full-advantage of this new feature by adding their own personal photos or downloading images direct from the web.  By adding a cover photo to a Timeline profile, it really makes a difference and adds a personal touch that the old profile format wasn’t capable of achieving.

If you’re looking for free Facebook cover photos, check out some of our favorite cover photo resources listed below:

1. Inspirational Facebook Cover Photos
2. Dress Up Your Profile with Free Facebook Timeline Cover Photos
3. 9 Awesome Facebook Cover Photos
4. 8 Free Custom Facebook Cover Photos
5. 5 Ways to Customize Your Facebook Timeline Cover

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.

While your at it, scope out some of the Holiday themes we found on their site; these definitely put is in the holiday mood!

Whether you’d like to believe or not; the truth kinda hurts especially when it comes to online dating.  SNAP put together the infographic below based on data from the 50,000-plus members of the “Are You Interested Facebook app” who use its mobile app on a daily basis.

The findings are not quite shocking as they are impressive:  61 percent of its users believe they are more likely to hook up on a mobile dating app than on a traditional dating site.

Why mobile dating over traditional dating sites you ask?  Well, if you think about it, more than half of our days are spent with our mobile phones.  With mobile phones and wireless internet, the more likely we are to keep in constant contact and in this case, keep in contact with possible matches via a mobile dating site.

Take a look at the SNAP Interactive infographic for Mobile dating:

Visit PageRage today to search for other Ghoulish Halloween Facebook layouts and to learn how you can get started on customizing your Facebook profile with layouts!

Do you prefer Ghoulish layouts or traditional Halloween layouts?  Let us know in our comments section below!

Many Facebook users have been looking for an app that will give them the ability to customize their profiles like they could on Myspace.  First thing first, Facebook is nothing like Myspace so how you go about customizing your profile with images, color or text is completely different.

How is it different you ask?

• Myspace allows users to insert their own html code; Facebook does not allow users this kind of access.
• Myspace is about creative expression; Facebook is about uniformity.

So, if you can’t insert html code on your profile page, how do you go about personalizing your FB profile?  Believe it or not, the answer is simple and doesn’t require html coding or magic pixie dust.  The only way to go about customizing your FB profile, at the moment, is through a browser application, that once installed, gives the appearance of having made changes to your FB profile.  The safest and best working Facebook layout customization tool out there to use is PageRage.  PageRage is a free, yet ad-supported (PageRage also offers ad-free layouts) browser app that allows you customize your FB profile with layouts and backgrounds.

Below we have provided some examples of PageRage Facebook layouts and this is just the tip of the iceberg! Visit www.PageRage.com for more information on how to go about customizing your FB profiles today.

Like many, we tuned into the f8 conference a week ago and were introduced to the Spotify music app for Facebook.  Once installed on your desktop, the app shares your music choices via Facebook, which allows your friends to see what your listening to and can join in and listen to your music list.

Spotify even goes as far as allowing users to enable private listening if some of your personal music choices are on the embarrassing side.  For example, I have an unexplainable love for the Backstreet Boys but I am a little too embarrassed to let this secret out.  With Spotify, you can enable the “Private Listening” feature for any song that you feel shouldn’t be shared amongst your Facebook friends.  Founder Daniel Ek comments that the feature is part of a new desktop client and is designed to “temporarily hide your guilty pleasures” and works just like your web browser’s private mode.

Me likey!

Are you currently using the Spotify app and if so, have you enabled the “Private Listening” feature yet?  Leave your feedback in comments section below!

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:

1. Adjust the size of your browser window           

By adjusting the size of your browser window to a smaller view, the news ticker will (magically – we wish) disappear.

2.  Post-Its are key!       

It will take not just one, but two post-its, because one is too thin and you can still see the news ticker movement from underneath.  It’s not a realistic option but it works for now.

3.  Maximize chat window

This is a somewhat good solution to the ticker but with this solution, another issue arises: chat box.

4.  Switch to Myspace

Quite a desperate solution but with Facebook expecting to release more profile updates, Myspace doesn’t look so bad after all…

5.  Quit Social Media Altogether

It’s not a difficult feat to accomplish but for the other 99.9%, we just can’t quit you Facebook…

What do you think of Facebook’s news ticker feature?  Have you discovered ways of getting rid of the darn thing?  Share with us in the comments below!

Facebook will be rolling out a new site feature, which will allow users to choose exactly what they want to see in their individual News Feeds.  With this new feature, you can block certain friend shares from showing up in your News Feed.  Everyone has that one annoying friend who posts every hour; with the Subscribe button, you can block out this friend completely and easily.

Keep in mind that this new feature is opt in only (at the moment).  If you would like to opt in for this feature, you can do so here: http://www.facebook.com/about/subscribe

The Subscribe button will also allow users to hear directly from people their interested in but don’t know personally – like artists, businesses, and political figures.

The only slightly freakish quality about this new Subscribe button is that you can hear from people, even if you’re not friends and vice versa.  We don’t quite understand why you would want to hear from someone if your not friends with them.  This defeats the whole purpose of not being friends with that person, right?

All in all, this new feature gives Facebook users the ability to tweak their News Feed stories and make them more customized to their liking.  Although there is more freedom in this update for users, be mindful of the “Public” feature if you like your life and Facebook statuses to stay private.

Have you opted in for this new feature?  Do you see yourself using it?  Let us know in the comments below!

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!

Urban is the first retailer to utilize the interactive service introduced by Enter: New Media, a digital media agency specializing in fashion, retail and entertainment.  The questions running in our minds is, why didn’t anyone think of this sooner?  This service is, without a doubt, needed by all fashion retailers who manage pages on Facebook.  As a fashion enthusiast, I love the fact that I can visit Facebook and scan through retailer catalogs without having to navigate outside of the social network.  I am on Facebook constantly and the ability for me to check and see if my favorite store added more fall pieces to their collection by just visiting their fan page is key!

I sure hope that more and more retailers adopt this service as Urban Outfitters has to make all our lives that much simpler.  Moreover, looking forward, it would be awesome to see fashion retailers adopt shopping services directly to their Facebook pages too.  Shopping on Facebook would be the ultimate, wouldn’t it? Anything is possible, only time will tell and I cannot wait!

Have you checked out Urban Outfitter’s interactive catalog on Facebook?  If so, did you find it more convenient than having to scan an old school catalog?  Let us know in the comments section below!