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Brain Hack – Spinning Girl
Mar 4th
The spinning girl is very common illusion. If you have never come across such a thing, I bring to you: The Spinning Girl (echos).
As the name suggests, it is a GIF image of a girl spinning. But take a look at it. What do you see? Is she’s spinning in the anti-clockwise direction for you? I always see her going anti-clockwise. If you keep staring, she might suddenly change the direction. It isn’t very easy to visualize for everyone. One method works for me always (described below). During the first few tries you might have trouble getting a hang of it. Soon it will be a breeze to make her spin in the direction you like.
The method:
1. For Anti-clockwise direction – If she is already doing it, skip to the 2nd point. Otherwise, look away from the monitor preferably on the right side of your monitor. Now using your peripheral vision concentrate on the image and think of it spinning in the anti-clockwise direction. Don’t look directly. Now when she starts doing that slowly change from peripheral to direct vision. Done. If it doesn’t work, try shifting from peripheral to direct vision suddenly.
2. For Clockwise direction - If she is already doing it, skip to the 1st point. Otherwise, scroll down till the point where you see only the lowest part of the image (the end of her shadow). Her shadow must have already started to spin in the clockwise direction. Concentrate if it is not happening. When it starts happening, keep staring and concentrating on the shadow and very steadily start scrolling up. Now slowly start focusing on the girl. She’ll be doing clockwise circles.
With enough practice and two of these images kept side by side, you’ll be able to see both directions at the same time. This will take time.
note: Since people everywhere are fascinated by brain hacks and optical illusions, online articles claim it as a test to find if you are right or left brain do it to gather attention. It makes no sense. It is a plain optical illusion based on how your visual cortex sees it. It has nothing to do with hemispherical dominance.
Related articles
- Peripheral vision (marciokenobi.wordpress.com)
- That Was Hard (dna100.blogspot.com)
Tag someone with a different name on Facebook
Nov 18th
A little trick with the Open Graph ID on Facebook lets you tag anyone with a different name/word. To do this you’ll have to figure out the Open Graph ID of the person you want to be tagged. Most of the pages who do not have a custom username have their IDs in the URL of that page. See the address bar when you have the page opened.
1. Find the Number. If it isn’t there, skip to Step 2
2. If you don’t find the number there just add the “Graph.” before the URL and press enter. If done on a correct page you’ll get a page which will have the ID of that person.
3. Use this code to tag:
@@[0:[186995576381:0: Your Text Goes Here]]
Replace the number with the person/page you want to be tagged with the word. The text to be displayed can be changed to anything.
TIP: For a Blank Status use:
@[0: ]
Reblogged from [TUTKIUN]
Backdoor Trick to Enable Facebook Timeline (If you haven’t done it yet!)
Nov 14th
How to enable FB Timeline for your profile (if you haven’t done it yet!) in just 8 simple steps.
1. Search for the “developer” app in the search bar above. Make sure before doing this you have a phone number confirmed. You can check this by going to Account settings>Mobile.
2. Allow the app to access basic information from your account.
3. Click on the “Create new app” button. Top right.
4. Use a unique app name and app namespace. Tick I agree.Click continue and type in the captcha.
5. Click on “Open graph” in the left side bar.
6. Fill in the blanks in the following page and click “get started” button.
7. Click on the “save changes” button at the bottom of the next pages. No need to edit any content. Click on “finish” at last.
8. Now go to your profile and see a new box that says “enable timeline” Enjoy 
The video here shows the steps:
Related articles
- Facebook Announces Timelines and Improvements to Open Graph (hubspot.com)
- Backdoor to the New Facebook – Timeline (cayobuay.com)
Easy Way to Schedule Facebook and Twitter posts
May 31st
Let SocialOomph, Sendible and HootSuite not confuse you with a little too many features. They do provide you with an option to schedule your posts and also several other services. They sure are some nice places to check out. But if you are searching for a real easy way to schedule your posts on the social web….
LaterBro lets you schedule twitter and Facebook posts with a simple UI, no separate sign-up or other unrelated stuff. Try it here.
Come back tomorrow to find out how to use cool new characters and symbols on Facebook that make your posts express themselves better.
Related articles
- Review of HootSuite to Manage Social Media (wordsellinc.com)
- Share Anything, Anytime, Anywhere with Sendible [MakeUseOf Giveaway] (makeuseof.com)
- 5 Free Methods To Schedule Facebook Updates (makeuseof.com)
Google +1 button
Apr 6th
Like the ubiquitous Facebook ‘like’ button, Google has launched an experimental feature ‘+1 Button’ 
. It is basically a recommendation service that for the first phase of release will only be limited to the Google search page. Later it will be another button all over the web (expected) that will enable you to share the stuff you see online. Google would definitely work hard to avoid privacy issues that it faced just after a few days of release of Buzz.
To enable it for your Google account you can visit the Google experimental page in Google Labs and click on join. Remember you cannot use two experimental services at a time.
Note: The +1 button will take some time/days to appear with your search results. Be patient.
Meanwhile have a look at the video.
via [Official Google Blog]
Related articles
- Google’s +1 Button takes on Facebook’s Like (pratyushkp.wordpress.com)
- Google Goes Social (again?) (viralblog.com)
- +1 For Google’s Social Media Plan (unionstreetmedia.com)
