Know the Various Facebook Applications and Features

Facebook is the highly popular social networking site. The user-friendly features and applications get the public hooked to its website 24 hours. Facebook already has a number of special features which you can find them in its website.

Facebook Features: Few of the Facebook features are:

Like: It is one of the features developed by Facebook through which users can click the “like” button on the site for status updates, comments, photos, links posted by friends and ads that gives a positive feedback to the things you care about and also to connect to the things you like. The like button is located at the bottom of the content and when a user clicks this 'like' button a notification appears to the friends 'news feed' with a link back to that website.

Facebook Notification: It provides alerts and updates when an interesting activity happens on Facebook. These activities include likes and comments, friend requests, messages, invitations to events and posts in groups. When a new notification comes it appears like a red bubble in the upper left corner of the site.

Photos: This feature enables users to share and tag people, brand, product on uploaded photos on Facebook and to share these photos with the people in your life. You can also edit photos and share albums. With photo privacy, you can limit to a few friends for viewing photos and can choose who to see them.

Messaging and inbox: This feature enables users to send messages to any number of people connected in the website to maintain a conversation. The message can be deleted after reading it from the inbox of the user. It also provides the facility of instant messaging, emails and regular messaging.

Wall: The wall feature is used for posting messages, sending images and leave small gifts on the user's profile and allows the user to see the posts along with the date and time of the post.

Poke: This feature is used in order to attract attention of another user for a specific purpose. The poke icon will appear on the user's home page and the options remove poke and poke back will appear when we receive a poke from someone.

Facebook Applications:
The following are some of the Facebook applications.

Jobster: This application will let users of Facebook in searching for jobs and connects them with people, provides information about opportunities that is necessary for developing their careers.

Facebook Horoscope: With the zodiac sign of your date of birth, the horoscope will appear on your Facebook wall.

Events: It is a social utility that helps know about the upcoming events, sending invitations and responding to invitations and offer social gatherings in a community.

If I Die: It is the first Facebook app that enables users to create a text message as final status update to share last words with family, friends on Facebook that will be published after you die. The tag line of the app is “What will you leave behind?”

With the growing popularity of these features, Facebook is coming up numerous unique and attractive features to keep its users more excited.

All You Need to Know About Alpha-Lipoic Acid or Vitamin N?

Vitamin N, also known as Alpha-lipoic acid, is a fatty acid found naturally inside every cell in the body. It is needed to produce energy for normal functioning of the body. Alpha-lipoic acid converts glucose into energy.

Alpha-lipoic acid  is also an antioxidant that neutralizes potentially harmful substances called free radicals. Free radicals can damage cells, organs and tissues in the body, making it harder for the body to fight  infections.

Other antioxidants work only in water or fatty tissues but Alpha-lipoic acid is both fat and water-soluble which means it works throughout the body. The uniqueness of  Alpha-lipoic acid is that it is an antioxidant and appears to be able to recycle antioxidants such as vitamin C and Glutathione after they have been used up and may help regenerate these antioxidants and make them active again.

Glutathione is an important antioxidant that helps the body eliminate potentially harmful substances. Vitamin N increases the formation of Glutathione.

Alpha-lipoic acid is made by the body and can be found in very small amounts in foods such as spinach, broccoli, peas, Brewer's yeast, Brussels sprouts, rice bran, and organ meats. Alpha-lipoic acid supplements are also available in capsule form at health food stores, some drugstores, and online. You have to take Alpha-lipoic acid on an empty stomach for maximum absorption.

Alpha-lipoic acid is changed into DI-hydrolipoic acid in the cells of the body. Alpha-lipoic acid is not the same as alpha linolenic acid, which is an omega-3 fatty acid that may help heart health There is confusion between Alpha-Lipoic acid and alpha linolenic acid because both are sometimes abbreviated ALA. Alpha-lipoic acid is also sometimes called lipoic acid.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud Computing

Cloud computing, being a new technology, a lot of developments and trials are still going on. Like any other technology, cloud computing also has its own advantages and disadvantages. Some of the major advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing are discussed below.

Advantages of cloud computing

Efficient
Cloud services are very efficient as all the services are tested before they are deployed in the cloud.

Fast
Cloud computing services are fast, because service requests and delivery of services are done through Internet connection. The data flow on the connection should be regulated and thoroughly monitored for a fast and efficient performance.

Easy maintenance
Maintenance is all done by the service providers. Users need not worry about the backups, updates etc.

High availability
Information on cloud can be accessed from anywhere and any device provided, the user has an Internet connection and the application on their devices can access the cloud. This makes the information on the cloud available to the user and can be accessed from any place.

Cheaper
Services available on cloud are cheaper, because users follow pay-per-use policy. We also know that the most of the services on the public cloud are free. Users need not buy the full software, their updates and backups. They just pay for the service they are using and stop paying for it when they are not using the service.

Disadvantages of cloud computing
Varying cost
Cost varies from time to time and depending on the type of service. Thus, it is quiet complex for the user to get to know of the cost every time it changes.

Loss of control
All the services of the cloud are monitored and maintained by the service providers and the user cannot have control over the service and the cloud, except using it.

Constant internet connectivity
Request for the service and delivery of the requests between front end and the back end always done through the Internet, without which transactions cannot be performed.

It is a good practice to update individuals or organizations with latest technologies emerging these days. But it is equally important that it should always be kept in mind the security of the confidential information. All the data stored on the cloud should be backed up. If in case the computer breakdown, the cloud should be able to retrieve the data from the place where it has backup.

There is another major issue to be solved with this cloud computing. Usually any company will have access to some of the client's confidential data. If the company is using the cloud storage fr storing the data, the client's data would go public on the cloud and accessible by the hackers. This effects the client's business. So, the companies should first let the client know and take approval before their data go on cloud.

To overcome the problem of loss of control, it is a good to own the private cloud and appoint the employee who can manage the data which is secure for any organization and the cloud will be in the control of the company.   

Cloud computing is a technology that minimizes the cost and tedious work of maintaining. So, getting the assurance of security from the service providers, cloud computing is adoptable.