Maybe there's a really important message waiting for you in your Yahoo! Mail account. Maybe, because you don't know. You have forgotten your password.

If you have not also forgotten the answers to your secret questions or have a secondary email address added to your Yahoo! Mail account, help is available.

Recover a Forgotten Yahoo! Mail Password

To reset your Yahoo! Mail password if you have forgotten the phrase or cannot access your account:

• Go to the Yahoo! Password Helper page.
• Make sure I have a problem with my password is selected.
• Click Next.
• Type your Yahoo! Mail email address under My Yahoo! ID is:.
  • You can also enter just the user name part (what comes before, for instance, "@yahoo.com").
• Now type confirmation code from the image or audio playback under Type the code shown.
• Click Next.
• If you have specified an alternate email address for recovery:
  • Type your alternate email address under Send a message to my alternate email address:.
  • Click Next.
  • Open the email from Yahoo! with the subject "How to reset your Yahoo! password".
  • Follow the Reset My Password link in the message.
  • If you want to answer your secret question:
    • Make sure Use my secret questions. is selected.
    • Click Next.
    • For each question:
      • Enter the answer beneath the question.
      • Click Next.
• Type the desired password under New password: and Retype the password:.
• Click Next.

You can then change this password to whatever you like (and will remember); it is best, of course, to use a strong password.

Below are the steps required for disabling or enabling Internet cookies in all major browsers.

Tip: Realize after cookies have been disabled some web pages will not work properly or allow you access.

Microsoft Internet Explorer users
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox usersNetscape usersOpera users

Microsoft Internet Explorer users

Deleting cookies

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x users can delete cookies by clicking the "View" menu, "Internet Options" and clicking the button "Delete Cookies."

Viewing cookies on your hard drive

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x users running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000 can delete or view cookies on the hard drive by opening the "C:\Document and Settings\<user>\cookies" folder, where <user> is the name of your account used to log onto the computer.

Other Internet Explorer users may locate the cookies in one of the below directories.

• Windows 95 and 98 users - C:\Windows\Cookies
• Windows NT users - C:\WinNT\Administrator\Cookies

Disabling cookies

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x users can disable or manage their cookie settings by clicking the "View" menu, "Internet Options",  and selecting the "Privacy" tab.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x users can disable cookies by clicking the "View" menu, "Internet Options," "Advanced," and select "Never accept cookies" or "Warn me before accepting cookies."
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x users can disable or warn for cookies by clicking the "View" menu, "Options", "Advanced" and select "Never accept cookies" or "Warn me before accepting cookies."

Enabling cookies

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x and above users can enable or manage their cookie settings by clicking the "View" menu, "Internet Options",  and selecting the "Privacy" tab.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x users can enable cookies by clicking the "View" menu, "Internet Options", Advanced" and unselecting "Never accept cookies" or "Warn me before accepting cookies."
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.x users can enable cookies by clicking the "View" menu, "Options", "Advanced", and unselecting "Never accept cookies" or "Warn me before accepting cookies."

Google Chrome users

1. Click on the "wrench"   or "Menu"  icon, which is located near the top-right side of the browser window and
2. Click Settings.
3. At the bottom of Settings click Show advanced settings
4. In the Privacy section click the Content settings button

Within the Content Settings you'll be able to Allow local data to be set (recommended and enable setting), Keep local data only until I quit my browser, Block sites from setting any data (disable), and the option that allows you to manage each site cookie settings.

Mozilla Firefox users

Deleting cookies on your hard drive

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 users can delete the cookies on their hard drive by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Options", clicking the "Privacy" button, and under "Cookies" click the Clear button.

Disabling cookies

To disable Mozilla Firefox 1.0 cookies, click the "Tools" menu, "Options", clicking the "Privacy" button, and under "Cookies" uncheck the "Allow sites to set cookies" option.

Enabling cookies

To enable Mozilla Firefox 1.0 cookies, click the "Tools" menu, "Options", clicking the "Privacy" button, under "Cookies" check the "Allow sites to set cookies" option.

Netscape users

Deleting cookies on your hard drive

Netscape 7.x users can manage and delete cookies by clicking the "Tools" menu and then "Cookie Manager."

Disabling cookies

• Netscape 4.x users can disable cookies by clicking the "Edit" menu, "Preferences", "Advanced", and select "Warn before accepting cookies."
• Netscape 7.x users can disable cookies by clicking the "Tools" menu and then opening the "Cookie Manager."

Enabling cookies

• Netscape 4.x users can enable cookies by clicking the "Edit" menu, "Preferences", "Advanced", and unselect "Warn before accepting cookies."
• Netscape 7.x users can enable cookies by clicking the "Tools" menu and then opening the "Cookie Manager"

Opera users

Opera users can manage, disable, and enable their cookies by clicking the "File" menu, "Preferences", and selecting "Privacy."

Below are steps and help with what to do when you've forgotten your Facebook password. Keep in mind this document and Computer Hope will not provide the steps to hacking into any Facebook account.

Make sure your cookies are enabled

In order to log into Facebook you must have your Internet browser cookies enabled. See the system information tool if you're not sure if your cookies are enabled or disabled.

• How do I enable or disable or delete Internet cookies?

Reset your password

Like most online services Facebook does have a password reset and recover tool to reset your password. By visiting the links below you can reset or recover your password.

https://www.facebook.com/recover.phphttp://www.facebook.com/reset.php

Reached maximum times to reset error

If you've tried resetting your password or have tried logging into your account multiple times without success your account will be temporarily locked as a security measure. Wait a few hours and try logging into your account again.

Trying to access a deceased users account

• Delete deceased persons e-mail, Facebook, or other account.

My Facebook account was hacked

Finally, if you believe your account was hacked or someone else changed your password without your permission you'll need to go through the Facebook Help Center in order to resolve this issue.

Tip: Often when an account is hacked you should still be able to reset the account password using the above suggestion.

Can you send me my Facebook password or username to my e-mail address?

No. Computer Hope is not affiliated with Facebook. If the above steps do not help you in getting your Facebook password visit the Facebook Help Center for additional assistance.

Adding your blog to your Facebook profile is a great way to promote your blog and drive traffic to it. When you add your blog to your Facebook profile, each time you publish a new post, a snippet of that post appears on your profile's home page as a status update. Every friend that you're connected with on Facebook will automatically see that snippet on their Facebook status updates page where they can click on it and visit your blog to read the rest of the post (and if your Facebook profile is public, everyone in with Internet access can see it).

Follow the steps below to add your blog to your Facebook profile.

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: 5 minutes

Here's How:

1. Step 1: Visit your Facebook Profile page and select the "Settings" tab under the "What are you doing now?" status update box.
2. Step 2: Under "Stories Posted by You", you'll see, "You can automatically import activity from YouTube, Flickr and other services to your profile." You need to select the "other services" link.
3. Step 3: Select "Blog/RSS" on the far right side of the page.
4. Step 4: Enter the complete URL for your blog.
5. Step 5: Your blog feed is automatically imported to your Facebook status updates. Next time you publish a post on your blog, check your Facebook profile, and you'll see that post appear as a snippet on your Facebook profile page as a status update. It's that easy to spread the word about your blog using your Facebook profile!

Tutorial: How to Create a Facebook Application to Get an App ID for your Website or Blog

Facebook has updated the way you integrate your website into its Open Graph, and how you set up Insights, Facebook’s analytics tool, to see how users are interacting with the social plugins — primarily the Like Button and the Comments Box — you’ve added to your website’s pages.

In this tutorial, I will describe the steps necessary to integrate your website with Facebook, by getting an App ID for your site and adding the Open Graph meta tags to your site’s pages.

Setting up your Website as a Facebook Application

First, you must set up your website as a Facebook “application” which provides you with an Application ID you use to integrate your website into Facebook’s Open Graph, so you can add Facebook’s Social Plugins to your site.

RELATED: How to Set Up Your Website or Blog with Facebook Insights for Domains

Installing the Facebook Developer Application

The first step in creating an application in Facebok is to install the Facebook Developer application.

To do that, log in to Facebook and then visit the URL http://facebook.com/developers.

If this is the first time you’ve installed the Developer Application, you will see the Request for Permission dialog show below:

Click the Allow button to proceed.

Creating the Facebook Application for your Website

Now that you have the Developer App installed, click on the Create New App button.

Give you application an “App Display Name” (the name displayed to users).

For purposes of this tutorial, you don’t need to have a “Namespace”.

Click the “I agree to Facebook Platform Policies” box; then click the Continue button.

On the next screen, enter the security phrase and then click Submit.

There are a lot of options you can tweak related to your application. In this post, we are going to focus on the basics needed to get your website set up with a Facebook App ID.

The Settings Tab

This is where you do the basic set up for your app.

For the purposes of this tutorial, you need to concern yourself only with the Basic Settings which will suffice for setting up your website as an application to get an App ID.

OK, there’s your App ID! You’re almost there. Your App ID is the value you’ll be using to integrate your website with Facebook’s APIs so you can add the Social Plugins (Like Button, Send Button, Comments Box, etc.).

For the purposes of this tutorial, you won’t need your “App Secret” value.

Second, notice the “edit icon” below the App Secret. You don’t need to add an icon. If your website has afavicon, it will be displayed next to your site’s URL in Facebook Insights.

Basic info:

• App Display Name: Make this the same as the original value you provided;
• App Namespace: Leave blank;
• Contact Email: Where you want Facebook to send emails regarding your app;
• App Domain: just put “mydomain.com” where “mydomain.com” is your website’s domain URL (TLD);
• Category: Select a category from the pulldown list (optional).

Cloud services

This is not applicable for a “website” Facebook application.

Select how your App integrates with Facebook

It’s here where you tell Facebook that your App is a website or blog.

Once you’ve filled in your website or blog URL, click the “Save Changes” button and you’re done!

Your website is now an “object” in Facebook’s Open Graph, with its own App ID.

NEXT: How to Add the Open Graph Meta Tags and Social Plugins to your Website.

OR: How to Integrate your WordPress Website or Blog with the Open Graph and Add Facebook’s Like Button & Social Plugins

A picture is worth 1,000 words, and an animated one takes up half your afternoon. Recently, those animated pictures, Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), have taken over the internet. Clips from television shows or a cat being drug by a leash can capture your attention for hours or be strung together to form a story that words could never describe.

What is GIF?

GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format, as they are image files that are compressed to reduce transfer time- therefore changing their format. A GIF is a special file that contains a lot of images set up like a flipbook, multiple images appearing in sequence to create the impression of movement. According to About.com Social Media Guide Leslie Walker’s tutorial on the idea of the GIF, she mentions “In a blog post, Katherine Martin, one of the dictionary's lexicographers said that "to GIF" transcended the noun form, GIF, to become a popular verb. Walker says the verb “to GIF” is defined by the dictionary as "to create a GIF file of an image or video sequence, especially relating to an event." GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format, as they are image files that are compressed to reduce transfer time- therefore changing their format.

Where did it come from?

Walker also writes the technology that creates the animated GIF files is complex, dating back to the ‘80s. The most widely recognized animated GIF file is “GIF89A,” which is a special version of the average GIF format. “GIF89A” contains the information for timing of each image for the flipbook effects. This is an image-display-cycle that works to show each individual images sequentially to create the impression of movement or animation.

How does it work?

GIF animation, while difficult to actually do without the aide of a site, isn't very high-tech; the images tend to appear grainy, jerky or both. Also, GIFs have a very limited color palette so they're not as photo-realistic as actual quality photos- and much less than high-definition video. But every major web browser supports the animated GIF format, which has helped these moving images go mainstream online.

How do you make an animated gif?

GIF creation is easy for just about everybody, because of the wide variety of sites available to create GIFs on your behalf. Googling “Create GIF” can point you in the direction of several sites that can make GIFs for you, such as Picasion, Gikr, GifNinja and many more.

If you want to instead just find ready-made GIFs for free, then you can search a few key sites to find tons of free GIFs. One of the most popular choices, according to About.com Web Trends Guide Elise Moreau, is a ‘subreddit’ on Reddit that’s entirely dedicated to sharing funny GIFs, which you can access at Reddit.com/r/GIFs/.

Another site to check is where a lot of the image-based (including GIF) shares on Reddit are hosted, Imgur.com, a free image sharing site. If you want choices, Photobucket has a page dedicated to thousands of animated GIFs. All of the above are free GIFs that you can download and use at your leisure.

Animated Gifs on the go

Creating GIFs is not something that is limited to your desktop. You can use your own images and videos or you can upload some from the Internet. The most popular app for your smartphone or other device is GIF Shop. Even though it costs 99 cents, it offers a variety of ways to both capture your images and animate them.

How does it work with Facebook?

It doesn’t. If you try to upload a GIF to Facebook, a still image of the first frame will appear. However, there are three ways to try and outsmart the system.

1. Make a Youtube video look like a GIF.
2. Use a third party app on Facebook like Animated Picture. For this app, you do not use your own files. There are hundreds sorted out in different categories to choose from.
3. Post a link to the GIF. Yes, the still image will show up, but a description will accompany it. Yes, it may take more time, but your friends will be curious as to what it entails.

But, if the GIF you want to upload is not a moving picture, it should work just fine. If you have a GIF image that is a nonmoving image, you should have no problem uploading it to Facebook. According to the Facebook Developers page, GIFs are one of many file types allowed for uploading to the platform. Other supported image file types include JPG, PNG, PSD, TIFF, JP2, IFF, WBMP and XBM images.

Why not?

No one is for sure. What we do know is that it’s not about jpeg size. In Facebook’s duel with Google Plus, it relinquished the jpeg requirements for pictures. This is where the much desired unlike button could be used.

https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=1325... 

Overview 

You choose who can see basic information like your hometown or birthday right when you edit your profile (timeline). Click the Edit button at the top right corner of the page, then use the audience selector next to each piece of information to choose who can see that info. 
Anyone can see your public information, which includes your name, profile picture, gender, username, user ID (account number), and networks (learn why). 
Only you and your friends can post to your Wall (timeline). When you post something, you can control who sees it by using the audience selector. When friends post, whether people can see it depends on your Wall (timeline) privacy setting selection. 


Tools 

As you edit your profile information, you can control who sees it by using the audience selector. 
Before photos and posts that you’re tagged in appear on your profile (timeline), you can approve or reject them by turning on Profile (Timeline) Review. 
To choose who can see your tagged photos and posts after they appear on your profile (timeline), use the Profile (Timeline) Visibility privacy setting. 
To see exactly what your profile (timeline) looks like to other people, use the View As tool.