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Facebook's counter attack against Google+ new gaming feature

Facebook unleashed 3 cool features that allows you to easily find new Games and play with your friends, this is a great step against the New gaming features rolled out by Google+ . the first one is the addition of the "New game ticker" , which allows you to see a seperat stream of your friends gaming activities, their scores and achievements. you can also control who sees your activities with each individual apps, by going to privacy settings. The next feature interests me more that is they have introduced a "Bigger screen for games" , making it more interesting to play with. And the third feature comes in handy if you use a lot of apps and games. It is " Bookmakr your favorite"  option with which you can keep the best ones at the top of your bookmarks on your homepage. it really is good to see these new features added by facebook . wonder what comes next..  =)

Google+ is now offering Games watch-out Facebook !

Google+ to make it more fun and playful to use have added new games in it like the once in Facebook. Well its not available for all right now, but soon it will be available for all =). With these new addition of Google+ you'll be able to play with your friends in your circle and share updates about game for those who are interested to hear about it. ie you wont be bugged by game updates like in Facebook . When these feature is available for you, you'll get to notice a new game button on the top near to the circle button clicking the game button enables you to see the latest games updates from your circle, you can browse the invites you got, and checkout the games played by your friends recently. Here is a list of some of the Games available in Google plus Google is taking good steps to make Google+ fully functional before its wide release and with the addition of Game feature there is a greater chance that Google+ will soon replace Facebook in the up co...

Show me more.. Twitter rolled out 2 new features

As we all know Google plus and Facebook are now standing in front of the rest of the social networks  , Twitter has rolled out two new features to make it more engaging than before, with these new features you can see if someone favourites or retweets one of your tweets, you can also learn which tweets are more interesting and inspiring to the people you follow. The first one helps you see what's going on Twitter in relation to you. To access this feature allows you have to do is to open the new @username tab thus replacing the mention tab, and you'll be able to see which of your Tweets are Favorites, the latest retweets ( of your tweets), Tweets directed to you, and your new Followers . The other one is the Activity tab who's porpose is similar to that of Facebook notification and Google pus notification  . It shows the latest source of discovery by highlighting the latest Favourites, Retweets, and Follows from the people we fo...

Twitter enabled the photo sharing Feature

Now we don't need to rely on third party apps such as TwitPic or any other to share pictures in Twitter  . Yes thats right Twitter has now enabled the Photo sharing feature which makes sharing photos to your tweeps easy How to share photos When you click inside the Tweet box on your homepage or on the New Tweet button , you will see two small icons in the lower left hand corner, one for adding your location (a compass), and one for uploading an image (a camera). we can upload any image that is 3MB or smaller

A faster way to message on mobile.. Facebook Messenger!

Today Facebook has launched a new Messenger which helps to simplify how messages work, and gives you a faster way to message youre friends and small groups  messenger is a separate app so using single and click you can send receive new messages. And these messages are delivered as notifications and texts so you're friends are more likely to get it right away. Facebook Messenger How to get Messenger Messenger will be available for iphone and  android starting today here is the link [ Download Messenger ] i strongly believe that this will soon replace the default text message service , what do you think about it ?

6 Sexy Chrome extensions for Google plus power users

1 Plus one any thing This extension adds the ability to +1 most of the pages on the web,This extension is perfect for Google+ since it lets you share any page with your friends without waiting for the webmaster of the page to add the +1 button! Note that this wont work on private pages, when you visit a private page and try to +1 it the extension will show a red "!" exclamatory icon instead   [ Install it ] 2 Surplus Surplus shows notification even if you are not in Google plus or other Google services , and on click it shows the notification in a pop up which is similar to the Google plus notification , you can post or respond within the pop up, other than that it shows Desktop notifications , have notification sound even you can switch between multiple accounts [ Install it ] 3 +Comment toggle +Comment Toggle hides any comments to posts within your Stream and makes them available if and when you actua...

Grab you're Facebook app for mobile

That's wright Facebook has launched new Facebook for every phone app , which offers a very fast access to Facebook This app allows you to upload photos , find friends using you'r phone contact list, checkout news feeds manage apps, view photos etc this app is optimized for less consumption than other java apps available. The best part is that it comes with 90days free data trial , ie you don't have to pay for visiting Facebook via this app , this is limited to few data carriers Get it now To download this app all you have to do is visit http://d.facebook.com/install using you'r mobile device

Get Google Plus Invitation

Haven't got the invitation yet ..? wait no longer get it from here and start circling So whats the catch. before we sends the invitation you have to 1. Tweet this post & Follow @TricksOverdrive 2. this post & our Fan page on Facebook 3. Subscribe to Tricks Overdrive via e-mail newsletter or via Rss Feeds 4. And post a comment with you're e-mail id in it once you do all the steps above you'll get the invitation in minutes

Video calling enabled in Facebook

Sometime an emoticon just isn't enough. With afce-to-face video calling, now you can watch you'r friends smile, wink and LOL ... yep that's right now you can do it all in facebook Before you can call you're friends, you need to complete a quick one time setup Go to www.facebook.com/videocalling [ go ] there you'll see an option 'Get Started' click it , now select a friend from the chat box the download the setting , Then click on the Set Up button and one the setup is complete you can select a friend from the Chat box and to start the video chatting click on the video icon on the top right of the chat box , or Go to you'r friends profile where you'll see the call button between message and poke button Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Safari supports this facility Even if you don't have a webcam you can make video call, you'll be able to see and hear you'r friends but they will only be able to hear you