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How to Merge Facebook Info into Google Contacts

· 3 min read

First we use a web-based tool called “Friends To Gmail” which collates the data from your Facebook friends such as Name, Birthday and Biography information (currently this does not support Phone Numbers).

  1. Open Friends to Gmail
  2. Click on “Connect With Facebook
  3. Login/Authenticate using your Facebooks data, you might want to select the security settings for this transactions to allow only you to see any information posted.
  4. Click Next
  5. Friends to Gmail will then go through and collect your friend’s data; it will then list all the data in a huge frame.
  6. Using your mouse left click the first part of your friends data and drag the mouse down to the bottom select the data as you go once everything is selected right click a highlighted part and left click Copy.
  7. Now we need to paste it as a file Google Contacts will be able to read, the easiest way to do this is to open up Notepad. Click Start
  8. Click Programs
  9. Click Accessories
  10. Click Notepad
  11. Right click in your brand new Notepad document and left click Paste
  12. Once your data has been pasted into the Notepad document click File, Save
  13. Save your document in an easily accessible replace and name it “facebook.csv”
  14. Now we head to Google Contacts
  15. Click More
  16. Click Import
  17. On the Import Contacts dialog select “Choose File”
  18. Locate and select your facebook.csv file and click Save
  19. Click Import
  20. Google will now import the data from Facebook into its database and create a new contact group.
  21. Click on the new contact group on the left (which should be named depending on the date/time) and click Find & Merge Contacts up the top.
  22. Google will then display a list of changes to contacts you already have and allow you to merge the changes into the new contacts.
  23. Once done you can remove the Group and you have now imported your contact information.

 

If you have an Android phone and want to import your friends profile pictures from Facebook to Google Contacts, good news there is a free utility you can use.

First you need to head to Google Play and download a tool called Contact Picture Sync to your Android device.

  1. On your Android device, open Contact Picture Sync

How to use the KWorld DVD Maker 2

· One min read

To operate this device, you need to have to have installed Cyberlink DVD Producer that came on a CD with your device.

  1. First plug in the DVD Maker 2 (USB) device into the supplied External USB Cable and plug that into the computer, then connect the USB device into the component outputs on the device, for example VHS machine you are trying to copy from.
  2. Open DVD Producer
  3. Press the Direct to DVD button (at the top)
  4. Put in a Blank DVD into your DVD R/W drive
  5. Click Next
  6. Make sure the right Recorder device is select and press Record.
  7. Press End Record to finalise and finish the recording. Make sure that if you are recording from a VHS machine to make sure that the VHS is rewind and press Play when recording.

No Sound in Chrome

· One min read
  1. **Open **Chrome
  2. In the address bar (the area you put a website address in) type in: chrome://plugins/
  3. Under the Plug-Ins, underneath Flash click Disable
  4. Navigate to the webpage you were having issues with sound on, you should now****hear it.

Note: Can cause some Flash animations not to display. Install the latest Flash Player.