How to Disable Facebook Timeline

For all those Facebook users out there who opted for the Facebook Timeline feature but didn't quite like it, here's a simple solution on how to get your old profile back.

Step 1: Head to the Facebook Developers page where you originally created an app to enable Timeline. Click "Edit app."

Step 2: The only way to remove Timeline is to delete the app. Click "Delete app" in the left sidebar.

Once you confirm the app deletion, your Facebook Timeline will be disabled.

Wasn't it simple? But there's a slight problem. eventually, Facebook will mandate Timeline for everyone, and when that happens, expect a lot of backlash.

How To Show Ads Only On Post Pages

Earlier today Mohamed Rias posted a great hack in his blog for Blogger blogs. It is a modification of Ramani's expandable post hack which display a thumbnail along with the post summary. So for those who use pictures or photos extensively in their posts, this hack would be very useful. First, it would help increase the CTR as only as summary of the post would be visible on the main page, and to view the entire post the reader needs to click on the "Read more..." link which would take him to the post page. Secondly, it would help increase the aesthetic beauty of the blog by displaying the thumbnails.

Now while I was talking with Rias about this hack, I saw a slight glitch in it. For those who use Adsense, they would only be able to display a maximum of 3 posts on the home page. That is because whether you add the Adsense ads from Blogger Dashboard, or directly into your Blogger template, it would be displayed outside the "Read more..." link. And you can display only as maximum of 3 similar Adsense ad units on a single page. So when I pointed it out to Rias, he said why not show the ads only on the individual post pages, which was a brilliant idea as then one can apply the hack that Rias had posted and display more than 3 posts on the home page. I tried it on my test blog and was successful. And here's how to show Adsense ads only on the post pages in case you too would like to try the same.

Go to your Blogger Dashboard and then go over to your Layout page. From there click on Edit HTML. Check Expand Widget Templates and find the following line of code :

<data:post.body/>

Now place the following line of code right after the above line :

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
Parsed Adsense code here
</b:if>

After adding that, save your template. Now when you would view the home page of your blog, no ads would be visible, but on the individual post pages the Adsense ad would be visible below right below the post.

I would like to thank Rias for such a brilliant hack.

[P.S. The above hack works not only for Adsense ads, but also for Chitika and Adbrite ads. Before trying out either my hack or Rias' hack, be sure to backup your template. And you can parse your ad codes from here.]

Backup Firefox Passwords (Manually)

Every once in a while there arise a need to re-format out computers. One of the main reasons being that, over time our system becomes slow due to code rot. And during these situations, our main concern remains data backup.

Now data backup is still rather easy, you can simply burn all your data on a CD or a DVD with the help of a CD/DVD Writer and a Burning Software. But what about backing up the username and password of all the sites that you have setup on Firefox? If you are worried about this then I have got good news for you. Taking a backup of these is just the matter of a few minutes.

All you need to do is, go over to your Firefox profiles folder on your computer. You would be able to locate your Firefox profile folder from here. Inside your Firefox profile folder there would be another folder with a random name. Inside that folder select the files key3.db, signons2.txt and signons3.txt and take a backup of those files (preferably on a CD/DVD). The next time you install Firefox after formatting your computer, simply go over to your Firefox profile folder once again and paste those 3 files. Wasn't it simple? If you want, you can also transfer them to your laptop or any other computer where you want to have all the username/password data for your Firefox profile to be available.

Now if you are worried about how to take a backup of your bookmarks or export them to another browser, since Firefox 3 saves it's bookmarks as a JSON file by default, then here's how you can do that. And if you are a first time visitor, then subscribe to my RSS feed.

How To Locate The Firefox Profile Folder

Being able to locate your Firefox profile folder can be a bit tricky, yet it's very useful to know it's whereabouts. Here are the locations of your Firefox profile folder on different OS.

Windows 95 (without Desktop Update)
C:/Windows/Mozilla

Windows 95 (with Desktop Update)/98/Me
C:/Windows/Application Data/Mozilla

C:/Windows/Profiles/<Windows login/user name>/Application Data/Mozilla

Windows NT 4.x
C:/Winnt/Profiles/<Windows login/user name>/Application Data/Mozilla

Windows 2000 and XP
C:/Documents and Settings/<Windows login/user name>/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles

Windows Vista
C:/Users/<Windows login/user name>/AppData/Roaming/Mozilla

Unix
~/.mozilla/

Mac OS X
~/Library/Mozilla/

~/Library/Application Support/

You can also consult this Mozilla Knowledgebase article for further details.