These eight freebies will streamline interfaces, help you share photos, and use social networks more effectively. (Go to find.pcworld.com/69466 for the downloads in this section.)
Tired of Facebook’s cluttered interface and Twitter’s boring one? Sign up with Brizzly to give both services a simple, classy makeover. You can still tweet and retweet, write on walls, and do all the other core Facebook/Twitter stuff. www.brizzly.com
Everyone loves sharing photos on Facebook, but downloading shots from a friend’s album is a hassle. Facebook Photo Album Downloader, aka FacePad, is a Firefox add-on that let’s you grab entire albums (including event and group albums).
Want to make shopping online a group sport? Add a book-marklet for the beta service FriendShopper to your browser. When you see something on the Web that interests you, click the bookmarklet and save the page, share it with a friend, or do both. www.friendshopper.com
The ultrastylish Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Client for Facebook delivers not only usual Facebook elements but also a cool animated photo grid and a better photo-uploading tool. It’s currently a “developer preview,” so expect a few bugs.
Outlook lets you link photos to contacts. And most Facebook users have profile photos on their accounts. How shall the twain meet? Use OutSnyc, which copies photos of your Facebook friends onto matching contacts in Outlook.
Photograbber runs independently of your browser, and downloads photos tagged with your name or with the names of your friends. It’s great for rounding up snapshots that land in other people’s albums without your knowledge.
The browser-based beta Splitweet lets you tweet to one or more accounts simultaneously: read, reply to, and share updates from users you follow; and track mentions of any "brand” names you want (your company’s name, a competitor’s name, a product lind, and so on). www.splitweet.com
Don’t want to run a full-blown Twitter client (like Tweet-Deck)? The outlook add-on Twinbox brings tweets to your inbox and has a toolbar for updating your status, retweeting, sending direct messages, and performing other tasks.
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