There is a free e-mail provider that offers facebook integration that we have found and will give your a ‘how to’ of how to set it up.

• Go to GMX website and click onto the facebook connect button in the top right corner, it doesn’t matter if you have an account with GMX or not. Log into your facebook accouint and click connect.
• If you already have a GMX email address, click the ‘use an existing GMX e-mail address’ Link and entre your details. If you need an e-mail address, go to the page that lets you set one up and create an account.
• To use the GMX Facebook widget you have to give it access to your accounr. Click the ‘Authorize’ button then ‘Allow access’ in the popup that appears.
• The facebook panel in your inbox displays the status of your facebook contacts, clcik ‘Refresh status’ to update them. You can comment on and ‘like’ others status’s by clicking the appropriate link.
• To make things easier you can even import your friends contacts list.
• GMX also lets you publish images directly to your facebook account.

Now lets be honest, we all have been tagged in an embarrassing photo/video on facebook. Want to know a way to avoid this simple mistake?

Well its very simple, just follow these simple steps.

1.Log in to your facebook account.

2.Click on your profile privacy page

3.Click profile information.

4.Click photo’s and videos of me and then select ‘customize’.

5.A box should then come up looking like this…

6.Select the option ‘only me’.

Thats done.

If you want certain friends then click the certain friends and so on. Very ssimple steps but a sure winner to avoid embarressments.

A lot of people are saying that their facebook is blocked at work or school, so how can you combat this? Well one website has done just that! A facebook site has created a secure proxy server keeping all data unrestricted so can be acessed at work or school.

Visit www.facebookproxy.net to use facebook at work, school or wherever you are blocked…..break the rules!!! :)

You might have heard about the Konami code that makes red blurry circles on your Facebook page. This might be one of the most popular Facebook hidden tricks. Here’s how to do it:

Press Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Enter key then press up & down & Magic circles will appear!

To stop them simply reload your page.

Facebook has one of the largest collection of user uploaded videos.You can download most of the videos from Facebook by using a client like SpeedBit or DownFacbook, just google them!

Easily create a photo collage from profile pictures of all your Facebook friends using a simple Facebook app called Photo Collage.

Open up the Facebook Chat and click on Friends List. Start creating a new list called BlockList. When the list is created, add those friends to the list that you want to appear offline to. When the list is complete, hover your mouse to the little green icon adjacent to the list and click Go Offline. You will then be offline to everybody in the BlockList.

There is a plugin that lets you do exactly that. StatusPress lets you display your status updates to a widget on your Wordpress blog.

No need to go to Facebook.com if all you want to do is use Facebook chat. You can do it right from your desktop using clients like social.im , Adium or ChitChat.

If you want to schedule your Facebook messages to be sent sometime in the future, Sendible is a great tool to do that. You can also use Sendible to schedule your status updates.

My Flickr is a Facebook application that lets you display your Flickr photos and photo sets on Facebook so your friends can view and comment on them without leaving Facebook.

Ever needed to download complete photo albums from Facebook? You can easily do it with either a Windows desktop

Do you love talking like a pirate? You can set your Facebook to appear like a pirate page by going into Current Language Settings and setting it to English (Pirate).

Make your status updates interesting by inserting cool symbols. Simply copying them from this list and pasting in your status updates.

Don’t have enough time to poke back friends who poke you on Facebook? Automate it with a Grease Monkey script called Facebook Autopoke.

Upload photos to your Facebook account directly from Picasa using the Picasa app for Facebook. You can also upload the Picasa captions and resize your photos before uploading them to Facebook.

Not everybody knows how powerful Facebook search is. Similar to any large search engine, Facebook search has a lot of advanced options to help you search like a pro. For example if you are looking for a person named John Marsh and filter your results down to only people who are married, you can try name: John Marsh status:married.

Facebook gadget for Gmail allows you to update your Facebook status right from your Gmail.

If you seldom have to leave Facebook just to go check your Gmail inbox, check out Fmail. It is a great application that lets you check your Gmail from within your Facebook inbox.

There is a simple tool that lets you find all your Facebook friends that are using Twitter so you can easily follow them. Search for FB140.

This is a great tip for people attending colleges or working in places that block Facebook, but allow you access to Microsoft Outlook. Simple install the FBlook plugin and access Facebook from Outlook.

This is a cool and fun trick. To display upside down status updates, simply head over to www.FlipText.org and type in your status. Then simply click on Flip Text and copy-paste the upside down text into your Facebook status box.

Wouldn’t you love to update your status on both Facebook and Twitter at the same time. Just install the Twitter application for Facebook. Once synced, your tweets including the #fb tag would automatically be posted as status updates on your Facebook.