HOW TO: Disable Facebook's Lightbox effect/ Facebook's Photo Viewer

At first, I thought it was awesome to have the lightbox effect in Facebook, then after a while, it became really annoying I think, for most of us. fortunately, WE HAVE AN ESCAPE ROUTE FOR THAT!!

Just get the extension for Google Chrome or addon for your Mozilla Firefox!

You may think why it does not work after you have installed the extension/addon. Just close your Facebook tab and reopen a new tab for Facebook, it should work.

 Facebook Lightbox Killer For Google Chrome

 Facebook Lightbox Killer For Mozilla Firefox

To manage your Google extensions, click -> Tools -> Extensions.

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UPDATE: 1/4/2011

You can also manually delete the "&theater" at the end of the URL to disable the lightbox effect manually.

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New Skype 5.0

Try the new Skype 5.0 now!

There's a new interface now and it is now integrated with Facebook so you can check the latest status updates and call all in one program!

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• Google's own URL shortener

• Self-help: Bad sound quality in iTunes?

• AppUp Your Netbook. Laptop and desktop too!

• Khan get enough of Wikipedia? Now there's Khan Academy

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100th Post - How to add Facebook's "Like" button at the end of your blog post

This is TechKnew's 100th blog post!!

How would you like this button below to appear at the end of your EVERY blog post?

All you need to do is:
1. Go to Design > Edit HTML in Blogger.

2. Tick the Extract Widget Templates.

3. Search for 

4. Copy and paste the code below right after the code: 

<iframe allowTransparency='true' expr:src='&quot;http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=100&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&quot;' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:40px;'/>

Titbits:

Google has a new product: Google Music Search (available in the US only, but you can have a look at it at the moment).

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Google Chrome and Gmail - Drag and Drop

TechKNEW has a new layout & Google News has been updated

Google Chrome - Tips on Omnibox

Google Chrome - Open a New Tab

New Google Labs Feature in Gmail - Message Sneak Peak

Life on LINE

Google Chrome - How to Solve the Aw, Snap Problem! 

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