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Facebook makes it easy to upload and share videos with your friends, but downloading videos from Facebook to your computer has always been a challenge.
There are a number of browser extensions and third-party add-ons that claim to assist you with downloading Facebook videos, but many of them are actually malware. That’s why I never recommend any of them.
As luck would have it, there’s a way to download videos from Facebook to your computer without having to install anything at all. [Read more…]
Question from Cindy H.: Hi Rick! I so love your tips! I have a question for you.
My boyfriend is in the Army and he’s currently stationed in Germany.
Is there a way to turn on Facebook Chat just for him so that my other Facebook friends won’t bother me during our nightly chats?
I have an Acer All-In-One computer with Windows 10 on it.
Thanks a lot!!
Rick’s answer: Yes Cindy, there is. And it’s really easy to do. just follow the steps below: [Read more…]
If you ever receive an offer or recommendation to download a free Facebook app called fbDOWNLOADER, I strongly recommend that you don’t.
The “pitch” sounds so tempting: “Download all of your Facebook photos and albums directly to your PC at one time. Even download the ‘public’ pictures of your Facebook friends and other photos that you have been tagged in.”
Sound like a great app, right? The pitch sounds so good in fact that a very well-known tech expert fell for it and recommended this app on her weekly radio show and on her website. [Read more…]
Hello again. I hope you had a great week!
Facebook has risen from its humble beginnings in Mark Zuckerberg’s college dorm room to become one of the most powerful and most-used entities on the Internet.
For example, did you know that Facebook now has over 2 billion registered users? That’s an astounding number considering there are only about 7.5 billion people living on the entire planet!
Even more astounding to me is how the folks at Facebook keep the site up and running as smoothly as they do given the mind-boggling number of people who are actively using the site at any moment in time. [Read more…]
Has your web browser started spawning popup windows that display a web page with the SPAM URL go.mobifoth.com?
If so, the culprit is likely the popular browser extension “Unseen”.
If you’re unfamiliar with this extension, you can read more about it in this post that I wrote a while back. [Read more…]