How to find out who views your facebook profile ?

by Colin Graham 4. November 2010 10:44

The simple answer is that you can't...

There are quite a few applications that claim they can tell you who views your profile most / who's looking at your profile etc .. but they work based on you're friends' activity with your profile (who comments, likes, writes on your wall most.)

Some are very random and therefore inaccurate. Facebook protects people's privacy - it would not allow you to see who's viewed your profile.

This is the statement in which Facebook address this issue on its Help Center page:

Is there any way to see who has been viewing my profile? Can people see that I looked at theirs?

Facebook does not allow users to track profile views or see statistics on how often a particular piece of content has been viewed and by whom. Third party developers, however, may offer applications that provide some of this functionality. Please keep a few things in mind when using these, however:

  • Applications cannot track profile views for users who simply visit another person's profile. Facebook has made this technically impossible
  • In order to be tracked by an application, you must explicitly agree to allow the application to access your information.
  • Adding an application that provides this functionality is purely optional. If you do not want to participate, please do not add the application to your account.

On one hand this means that you can’t know who is looking at your profile, but on the other one, it also means that you can snoop without worrying about being discovered.

Facebook have said the stalker apps will not work and that we shouldn’t pay any attention to any apps that say they do work.

“Don’t believe any applications that claim they can show you who’s viewing your profile or photo, they can’t said Facebook before adding “we’re aggressively disabling those that claim they can”.

 

 

 

   

 

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Facebook | Social Media

How to take a screen shot with the iPhone / iPad / iPod Touch

by Colin Graham 21. October 2010 19:54
  1. To make a screenshot with the iPad/iPhone, simply pressing the power button down and then press the Home button. Then the screen shot is made, and in the photo app to find. The process is actually exactly the same as it is with an iPad or iPod Touch.
  2. Click the Power button on the top right corner of your iPad, and while holding it down, click the button iPad.
  3. You will see white click and hear a camera flash on the screen. Now, open the application photos on your IPAD.
  4. You the screenshot you just took the form of thumbnails. Click on picture to see the screenshot.
  5. The best way to transfer a screenshot to your PC or Mac is the e-mail to yourself. To do this, press the arrow button on the top right corner of the screen while you see the screenshot.
  6. Email Photo Select.
  7. Mail automatically opens with the image attached to a message. Simply fill out the address you want to send, give the email a subject and enter the information you want in the message body. Then click sending.

 

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iPhone/iPad

Advantages and Disadvantages of SQL Express - Database Building

by Colin Graham 20. October 2010 13:31

From time to time we get asked the question " Why do we use SQL Express rather than full SQL Server for our databases ? "

Well to be honest its a valid question and one that has many answers - in short however there are a few main reasons.


1) SQL Express is free of charge as opposed to its bigger brothers and sisters - therefore making it the preferred choice for most websites. The bottom line is that if your website needs a bigger database then quite frankly you should be getting the traffic that will give you the financial muscle to purchase a larger database.

2) We develop using microsoft technologies and we can interact between SQL & Visual studio seamlessly - avoiding those large numbers of open windows and third party programs that are just annoying. In short it is a more efficient build for us to use Microsoft Technologies.

3) There is a limit to the data storage capacity of 4GB but in reality this is ample for most websites. Only the larger Ecommerce sites will need more than this but again we can migrate to the larger engine when required  - keeping startup costs low for the customer.

4) Again there is a limit to the number of CPUs that Express Edition can use on a server but again for most websites this is not an issue.

5) The reality is that if we feel you need a larger database based on previous traffic reports for your website or expected traffic then we are more than happy to put you onto a full copy of SQL Server.

6) Later you can upgrade it easily to standard/enterprise edition and take advantage of features like Replication, Mirroring, Log Shipping, Clustering, Database Partioning, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS.

7) We also have extensive experience in MS Access and MYSQL so if you have a query about these other databases we are more than happy to offer advice.

 

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