How To Rename Facebook Page Vanity URL [Quicktip]

Have you ever created a Facebook Page but found it necessary to change the page name after? Well, you are not alone, in fact many businesses face the same situation in the midst of figuring out the best name to put on their Facebook Page.

If you do not already know, Facebook Pages only allow name changes to be made to your Facebook page as long your fans or ‘number of likes’ is not more than 100. The general idea is that on the 101st Like onwards, no more name changes are allowed, no matter how big a spelling error you have made on your Facebook Page name.

However all is not lost. There’s a chance for you to change your Facebook Page name even with more than 100 Likes to your page, but it’s subjected to Facebook’s approval.

Recommended Reading: 10 Tips & Tricks For Your Business’s Facebook Fan Page

Renaming Facebook Page (With Less Than 100 Likes)

Since the FB Timeline for Pages was only launched recently, some of you may still be using the old Facebook Page for your businesses. Therefore in this tutorial, we will guide you on how to rename your Facebook Page in both classic Facebook Page as well as the new FB Timeline for Pages.

1. If you are still using the classic Facebook Page, go to your Facebook Page and click on ‘Edit Page’.
   
2. If your Page is on Timeline, go to your Page and click on the button ‘Admin Panel’.
   
   Then click on ‘Manage’ and go to ‘Edit Page’.
   

Now on the left menu, go to ‘Basic Information’.

When you are already in the Page, look for ‘Name’ and change the existing Page name with your preferred new name. Click ‘Save’ and that’s it.

Renaming Facebook Page (With More Than 100 Likes)

For whatever the reason you may need to change your Facebook Page, but find it unable to do so since you have amassed more than 100 Likes. Head over to this link and fill up the form. Fill up the ‘Current Page name’, ‘Desired Page name’ and provide the ‘Link to Page’ of your current Facebook Page.

On the dropdown menu, please select the best reason why you want to change the Page name. Click on the ‘Send’ button to submit to Facebook.

Take note that there is no promise that Facebook will immediately make the changes for you, but logically, provided that you gave them a valid enough reason for the changes to be made, Facebook will make the change.

Conclusion

Changing your Facebook Page name is not as hard as you may think, but please also be reminded that the ease of it all is only applicable to pages with not more than 100 Likes. When you have reached 101 likes on your Facebook Page, the changing of the page name will require approval from Facebook. When all else fails, you may need to sacrifice this page and create a new Page.

What is your experience in renaming the Facebook Page? Have you tried submitting the form before?

Update:

A week after we posted this article, Facebook has revised their acceptance in vanity URL change request, and now you can no longer request for a change, however, you are allowed to request to change your page name i.e. if your current page name is ‘MyWeb Technology’ and you want to change it to only ‘MyWeb’ as part of your company’s branding strategy, you may send a request.

To request for change of page name, go to your Manage > Edit Page > Basic Information page. If you have more than 100 likes, you will notice there’s a new link next to your Page name that says ‘Request Change’, click on that link.

Now you will be redirected to the change request form, fill up the form with the current page name, desired page name and the reason why you want to change your page name.

Once the form is submitted, Facebook will send an email requesting you to provide supporting document if required.

10 Tips To A More Professional LinkedIn Profile

Regardless of whether you are in business, trying to put your startup on the map, new to the working world or focus mostly on non-profit work, LinkedIn is a very good networking tool to help you achieve your professional goals.

A hunting ground for headhunters, HR managers and new businesses looking for partners or opportunities, it will do you good to have a professional LinkedIn profile set up, to let you take advantage of this.

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Unlike on Facebook, where profiles could be made up and are more suitable for personal networking rather than a professional one, LinkedIn encourages users to provide a highly professional look to their resume and/or profile on the networking site. Here are 10 things you can do to enhance your LinkedIn profile for a more professional look.

1. A Detailed Profile Is A Strong Profile

A LinkedIn profile is similar to a work resume, where you display your past education information, work experience, skills, current work position and profile picture. You can follow LinkedIn’s Profile Completion Tips when editing your profile.

Besides that, adding a profile headline and summary would be real helpful to make an impression.

The headline gives yourself a professional ‘identity’, a front that may or may not showcase some of the more detailed parts of your profile, hidden away from viewers who are not connected to you. Asummary would bring out your personality which can complement your Curriculum Vitae (CV) if an employer were to view your profile.

It’s also important to use keywords in your headline, summary and throughout your entire profile. The keywords could consist of your main passion or profession and will help your LinkedIn profile turn up more often on search engine results.

2. Temporarily Turn Off Activity Broadcast

If you’ve had LinkedIn for a while and have already connected with people, updating your profile will fill their feed and your ‘Wall’ with update notices. This means that if you happen to choose to update your LinkedIn with ‘old details’, for instance, if you are finally coming out as the HR manager that you are, your connections will think that you’ve only gotten the job recently.

By turning off your activity broadcast temporarily, you can silently update your LinkedIn profilewithout letting the world know.

To do this, go to ‘Settings’, and under ‘Privacy Controls’, you should be able to see ‘Turn on/off your activity broadcasts’.

Click on that and another overlay window will appear allowing you to uncheck the option.

After saving these changes, other users won’t be able to see every detailed profile update you’ve made. You can choose to leave it off or turn it on after you’re done editing.

3. Proofread Your Entire Profile

Just like any other thing used in the professional world, you wouldn’t want your LinkedIn profile to have any sort of grammatical or spelling errors. You should also word your profile summary and important information effectively so that it is communicated to the reader without confusing them (something learnt from communication school).

Try putting yourself in the eyes of the reader and see if you understand what your profile is about. It may also be helpful to have someone screen through your profile for a second opinion or to point out any errors that you may have missed out. Basically, treat it like how you would treat a job resume.

4. Do Not Lie About Anything

We don’t want to sound like your mother, but lying is not tolerated in the professional world, especially when you can easily get caught. This is also true for information on your LinkedIn profile with details like your education and job history.

Not only is it very easy to check and confirm just about anything on the Internet, it is also a sign of how ethical (or non-ethical) you are. Appearing untrustworthy is never good for business.

5. Customize Your Profile URL

By default, your LinkedIn profile URL will consist of random alphanumerical characters. However, you can elect to have a customized profile URL by going to Settings > Edit Public Profile > Customize Your Public Profile URL.

Pick the name you would like to display on your vanity URL. Your profile URL will bear your name, something like ‘linkedin.com/in/JackDoe’. You can even take it a step further by making sure that your vanity URL for LinkedIn, Facebook and Google Plus are all the same, for added coverage.

6. Have The Right Profile Picture

If you wouldn’t have an Instagram-style photo or a picture of your cat doing something fitted on your resume, don’t put that as your profile photo on your LinkedIn account either. While you can have fun and go crazy with your Facebook Timeline covers or Google Plus covers, it’s probably good to tone things down a bit and think through how you want to portray yourself to your potential clients.

Having a high-quality, recent profile picture of yourself, that appropriately describes your role in your industry will be the safest bet.

7. Use LinkedIn Badges On Your Website

LinkedIn has a few different designs of profile badges that can help you promote your LinkedIn profile to the world.

To find these badges, go to ‘Settings’ and then click on the link to ‘Edit your public profile’. To the right, you will see ‘Profile Badges’. Clicking on ‘Create a profile badge‘ will bring you to another page where you can choose from the many designs available.

You can use the HTML codes of these badges to use on your blog, website or other forums that you frequently use. When users click on these badges, they’ll be automatically directed to your LinkedIn profile.

8. Be Active In LinkedIn Groups

Groups on LinkedIn is a place for members to share and participate in a professional setting in a specific industry or area of interests. There are plenty of groups for job seekers your university alumni, specific professions and a variety of associations from all over the world.

Being actively involved in these groups could lead you to make new connections and maybe land a new job, especially since job listings are a common sight in these groups.

9. Personalize LinkedIn Email Requests

When trying to make a connection with a fellow professional, you have to send them an email request. The request is already standardized but it’s always a good idea to personalize the notes. The receiver would at least get an idea of who you are and if you are up to it, you can even cut to the chase and suggest a business meeting with the person.

10. Use LinkedIn Applications

LinkedIn has applications which you can add to your profile to enhance your profile in different ways. For instance if your profession is a full-time blogger, than you might want to add theWordPress app to your profile which lets you sync blog posts with your LinkedIn profile.

If you make or edit great videos and want to show it off on your profile, you could use theSlideShare or Box.net app that enables you to embed videos in your profile.

Bonus Tips

1. Add LinkedIn To Your Email Signature

A great way to get connected with clients or people you’re working with is to add your LinkedIn profile link to your work signature. This indirectly increases the exposure to your LinkedIn profile, helping you to make connections, even when you aren’t actively doing so.

2. Connect LinkedIn With Twitter

Under your LinkedIn profile Settings, you can choose to connect your account with Twitter where you can either display Tweets on your LinkedIn profile, or share LinkedIn posts on Twitter.

If you want to display only certain Tweets with your connections on LinkedIn, you can use the #in hashtag on your Tweets where only those with that hashtag will be displayed on your LinkedIn profile.

Getting Facebook Home On Unsupported Android Devices [Quicktip]

After releasing its redesign of their new News Feed the Facebook team released a new Android launcher called Facebook Home. So far, Facebook Home is only supported on a few phones: HTC One X, One X+, Samsung Galaxy S3 and Galaxy Note 2.

But if you really, really love Facebook and cannot wait for deployment of a wider spread, then have we got just the post for you.

Getting Started

If you already have Facebook app and Facebook Messenger installed, make sure you have them uninstalled first.

To install Facebook Home, download the modified APK of Facebook app and Facebook Home(FB_HOME.rar) as well as the Facebook Messenger (com.facebook.orca.apk) with chat fix.

Once downloaded, extract the .rar file. We recommend B1 Free Archiver (which is free). With that installed, open the app and look for your downloaded rar file. Tap FB_HOME.rar once and chooseExtract here.

The extracted files should contain com.facebook.home.apk and com.facebook katana.apk.

First, look for com.facebook.home.apk. Tap on it and choose Install.

Click Next and install.

Repeat the same steps for com.facebook katana.apk and com.facebook.orca.apk.

After installing all 3 files, open up Facebook app and login to your account.

Once you reach the home page, you will see a button saying ‘Finish Setup’. Tap it to launch the Facebook Home launcher.

Choose Home and is up to you whether you want to set it as the default android launcher or not.

And there you have it. Facebook Home on your android.

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Enabling And Disabling Facebook Home

If you want to opt out of seeing Facebook Home all the time, go to your Facebook app home page and head to ‘Settings’.

Scroll to the bottom and you will see ‘Enable Facebook Home’. Untick it to disable and you’re done.

How To Skip Windows 8 Or 8.1 Login Screen [Quicktip]

The login screen is an important security feature present and used in all your laptops and mobile devices. But if you work in a secure environment and are the sole user of your computer, you might think about taking liberties when it comes to skipping the login screen. On Windows 8 orWindows 8.1 there is a way to bypass the lockscreen.

There is a way to set up your computer to automatically sign in into your account upon a restart. All it takes is a few steps to setup this automatic login for Windows 8.

Enable Automatic Login

The first thing you need to do is to open Run by pressing WIN + R keys. Next type in netplwizand click OK.

Untick "Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer". Then click on Apply to bring out a window pop up.

In this pop up, you have to fill in User name, Password, Confirm Password according to your Microsoft account or local account details.

Note: If you’re using Microsoft account (e.g hotmail.com) for the user name you have to type in your email address instead.

Click on OK and you’re done. Restart your PC and you will see your PC automatically login to Windows.

How To Reset Mac OS X User Password In Recovery Mode [Quicktip]

Let’s assume you’ve forgotten your OS X user account password and there is simply no way for you to enter your account in your OS X. Well, it happens to everyone at some point, especially if you have just updated your password and can only remember the old password, not the new one.

First, don’t panic. Secondly, check out this quick tip on how to reset your OS X user account password. It will require you go in to OS X Recovery mode. Once you have your password reset, make sure to have a backup of all your passwords somewhere else that is not in your Mac.

Enter OS X Recovery Mode

To boot into OS X Recovery, the first thing you need to do is to restart your Mac. While restarting, hold down CMD + R until the Apple logo appears. If you time it right, you will enter the recovery mode.

What you need to do next is to go to Utilities > Terminal to open a Terminal. In Terminal, typeresetpassword and press Enter.

You will now be presented with the Reset Password window. Next, select your OS X drive. From the drop-down under "Select the user account:", choose the user account that you want to reset password for.

Type in your new password, re-enter it and try not to forget it this time. You can also choose to write down a hint in the "Enter a new password hint for this user (optional)", just in case.

Once you’re done, click on Save. You will be prompted with this message saying that your user account password was reset but your keychain is not. Just click OK and close all windows.

Now click the Apple icon at the very top left and choose Restart. You can now enter your account with your new password.

9 Tips To Help You Keep Your Windows XP Safe After End-Of-Life

Microsoft Windows XP will no longer be receiving anymore security updates beyond April 8, 2014. What this means to most of us who are still on the 13-year-old system is that the OS will be vulnerable to hackers taking advantage of security flaws that will never be patched.

According to Net Applications, 30% of the world’s PCs are still running on Windows XP. That is a huge bulk of the market, a portion that cannot be neglected. Microsoft and other security vendors have been actively encouraging users to migrate to the latest OS, where security updates are regularly issued, but for some people, this is not possible.

No matter what their reasons are, even though they may run into security risk because of the ended support, there are several ways to mitigate most of risks and to reduce the chances of being attacked. Here are 9 tips to help you survive the end-of-life for Windows XP.

1. Back Up Everything, Every Time

Not a tip specific to Windows XP but a valuable one nonetheless. It should be emphasize that although the tips here will help you mitigate risk, they will not eliminate them and therefore,having a regular, working backup is crucial in case anything goes wrong.

Make sure you back up what you cannot afford to lose, properly and securely if case your XP machine runs into an exploit that could corrupt your data. XP doesn’t come with its own backup tool but there are multiple ones available online.

2. Keep Your Antivirus Updated

XP may not be getting any updates anymore but that doesn’t mean that it won’t be getting antivirus updates. The majority of security vendors will still be providing update to their softwarerunning on XP, including Microsoft’s own Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE).

This won’t help you if an exploit targets a vulnerability in the operating system but will protect your system from day-to-day malware.

3. Don’t Use Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer 8 was the last version of IE to be released for Windows XP. The OS never got a newer version of the web browser so XP is stuck with an outdated and unguarded attack gateway via browser.

If you are on Internet Explorer, but have the option to change to another, more modern and secure browser, consider changing to browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Unlike IE, these browsers are still being maintained for XP and will be for the near future.

4. Remove Java, Adobe Flash And Reader

Many security breahes nowadays use third-party plugins as an attack vector, with Java, Adobe Flash and Adobe Reader being the usual suspects. If you are not using any of them on a regular basis,remove them completely and you will remove the biggest attack vector on your computer.

However, if you still need them because of the good work that they do, compromise by installing only the Java functions you need; opt for HTML5 or use click-to-flash add-ons to replace Adobe Flash and do consider third-party PDF readers that are available for free online.

5. Choose Your Software And Keep It Updated

Installing third-party software will always introduce a new attack vector into your PC so choose what you install carefully. Remove those that are no longer being used. Also, make sure you keep those programs updated as developers will always add in bug fixes and patches with the latest updates.

6. Always Scan Your USB Drives Before Connecting

Perhaps the most common way to spread malware is via the unassuming USB drive. Computers you find in colleges and cybercafes are common victims of USB-transmitted malware as they are passed around unawares by one user to the next. If you have no idea where that USB drive has been, always scan it before using them with your XP machine.

7. Use A Limited Account

A study done by Avecto states that 92% of severe vulnerabilities reported by Microsoft can be mitigated by removing admin rights from your account. An attacker can only execute an exploit if they can get the access to do so and using a Limited account is the easiest to block them.

Consider creating a Limited account (find out what a Limited account is here) for your day-to-day activities as most of the time you will only be using your admin rights to install or update programs on your computer.

8. Use XP In A Virtual Machine

Here’s another reason many users are reluctant to upgrade their Windows XP to a newer OS version – they lose out on the third-party software that they are using on their Windows XP because a newer version is not available on the latest OS; or they have to repurchase a newer version.

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If this is the case with you, consider running third-party software on a virtual machine. This will put the OS in its own self contained system within your computer. Microsoft provides a free "XP mode" for those who have Window 7 Professional and above. If you don’t have the version required, try VMware Player, which is free for personal use (you will need a copy of XP to install).

9. Disconnect From The Internet Completely

When all else fails, and you are bent on keeping your XP machine unchanged, consider cutting off all connection between your computer with the World Wide Web. If you take this route, you can ignore the majority of the tips mentioned above. If the only reason you are running XP is to support legacy software or hardware and you don’t need the internet, simply disconnect.

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This will remove virtually all the ways that an attacker can exploit your computer. If they can’t reach it, they can’t attack it.

Conclusion

By following these simple tips, you will be able to reduce the risk of your XP machine being compromised. However, the best way to be safe is to move on to a modern operating system. If the newer Windows isn’t to your liking, consider switching to a Linux distro as they have advanced a lot when it comes to ease of use, plus they are generally safer than the Windows family.