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Keep your favourite video as Facebook profile picture instead of Image

Friday, September 9, 2011|

Raj Kumar.G

Since the launch of Facebook its been chaos. People are experimenting so many things to crack open Facebook, but they never give up. Are you tired of seeing your static profile picture on Facebook, Now you can have video of yours saying hello to your beloved friends on Facebook using a simple well known app FlipSG. This app lets you config your Facebook profile to video profile.

Lets get started: What do you need?

A Facebook account [LOL]
Plugin for the video stream
See yourself on Facebook profile

In very simple steps, let’s go through this tutorial:
Step1: Log into your Facebook account. Do these as I keep instructing, click http://www.facebook.com
Step2: Visit the application which is provided by Flipsg. Click here: FlipSG

Step3: Choose the plugin for your respective browser.

Step4: Then the plugin installs and asks you allow then to restart your browser, in my case I have used Mozilla Browser.

Step5: You need authorize this app to access your profile information. Click here

Step6: Facebook will ask you to login into credentials with your flipsg profile view enabled. And allow this app to access your profile.
Step7: Now to have a video, you need to either have a flipvideo or you use another way which I recommend. You need is Profile maker app. Limitations your video quality might vary if you don’t use flipvideo.
Step8: You have two option for creating a video, either using Webcam or a video whose size limit is 10mb.

Step9.1: Using webcam as its pretty fast. Click on Webcam part. The Adobe flash setting asks you to allow access of your webcam. Then, RECORD – STOP/PLAY – UPLOAD!
Step9.2: Using uploading method, it will ask for video file path. Make sure that the video is of highest quality, short, and <10mb. Supported formats flv, mp4, mov, mpg, wmv, ovi, 3gp.
Step10: Voila! GREET your friends with a warm video welcome! View you Profile for a preview.
Your friend also need the plugin to be installed otherwise it doesn’t work on his computer. So, make sure that before you create the video profile you download the plugin!

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