10 Facebook Apps To Boost Your Brain Power

Rishabh Dev — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:23:54 +0000

Now that the Facebook app directory is missing(Yes, it is), Here is a list of Facebook apps for the brain :

The list includes apps that help increase your brain power, and at the same, are addictive, fun & social. IQ tests are not included since they're just a test of your brain and do not, as such, train your brain. Here are 10 such apps - not supposed to be in any order -

#1Brain Buddies

Tests your brain in 4 areas - Memory, Logic, Calculation & Visual - and compares the results with friends. It works best when you repeat the test every few days. It is also a good way of knowing what your brain is most dominant in and what you need to work on.

#2 Who Has The Biggest Brain?

An alternative to Brain Buddies.Has mini games in the same areas as Brain Buddies though the games are a bit different.

#3 MindJolt Games

This is a huge collection of games - Just browse the Puzzles and Strategy sections for brain games.

#4 Chess

The most popular chess app on facebook. Improves your strategy & tactics. Features include Customizable chess pieces & board colors - Option to play against the computer or player - In-game chat - Player Stats.

#5 Mahjong Zen

Works on your memory. Also helps to refresh your mind. You can also try a second version of the same game - Mahjong Zen 2 - which has different game play modes.

#6 Sudoku

The classic puzzle game from Japan - good exercise for your brain. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids that compose the grid contains all of the digits from 1 to 9. The app also has a challenge mode - to play against your friends.

#7 Kakuro

A "cross-sums" variation of Sudoku. Builds on your logical thinking and your mathematical skills. I personally find it to be more addictive than Sudoku. If you too are done with Sudoku, Kakuro is what you need.

#8 Reversi (Othello)

A very unique abstract strategy game. The player's goal is to have a majority of their colored pieces showing at the end of the game, turning over as many of their opponent's pieces as possible. Revello is another alternative app for the same game.

#9 Logic Puzzle Starters

A collection of logic puzzles including Pic-a-Pix, Sudoku, Fill-a-Pix, Sym-a-Pix, Hashi, Link-a-Pix, Battleships, Nurikabe, Slitherlink. Fun to solve, leaves you asking for more.

#10 Logic Games

Helps improve your logical thinking ability. Not really popular, but has some difficult puzzles to solve.

Bonus - Check out BrainJizz for some really awesome Brain Teasers & Puzzles

Also Check out our list of 5 Extremely Hard Brain Teasers You Probably Can't Solve

Basic FBML for everyone

Rishabh Dev — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:25:29 +0000

In this post, I discuss basic FBML that everyone can use for their Facebook profiles. FBML, like HTML, is the Facebook Markup Language. It is basically used by developers who create facebook applications for us.

However, we can also use FBML on our facebook profiles in boxes & tabs. This allows us to embed music, video & flash in the profiles.

First you gotta have an app which allows you to use HTML/FBML for your profile.

Note : You really need one of the apps listed on the link above to use the FBML given below.

1. The FBML Photo tag

Though Facebook does allow the html tag, the cosserponding FBML for this is

The FBML tags are also associated with attributes. Now, the above tag with attributes would look something like...

Now, the 12345 thing is the api of the image. This is when you're adding an image from facebook itself. Lets say you have a pic in one of your albums that you want to showcase on your profile in a box.

You'll need to check out the api of that image. For this, you just need to get the url of the image...

It would look something like...

facebook.com/photo.php?pid=39597&id=100000031343773

Now, the thing in red is the api of the image. I would then use this with the FBML tag to get...

which is the FBML tag for my image.

2. The FBML Music tag

This tag allows you to add any song to your profile...

Its the tag.

The tag with its basic attributes would look something like...

3. The FBML Video tag

This lets you add a video frm yutube into your facebook profile...

Simply use the tag as defined below. The

The thing in green is the video id on youtube. It looks something like this on youtube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrjyy_0SipU

Hence, if i embed this video on facebook using FBML, it would look something like...

But again, you need one of the apps here to do this. Enjoy!

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