Facebook Rolled Out Verified Accounts

If you are a public figure, and have a good amount of followers than twitter will give you a verification badge to tell the entire cyber world that you have a verified account.

Verified Facebook Page

A similar feature is now available for Facebook users too. But like twitter, this is not a service that will be available to every user, so that they can opt in on their own. This service is for featuring those who tend to have users creating fake accounts on Facebook.

ALSO SEE: Secure your Facebook account with trusted contacts
Give Real Gifts via Facebook gifts

Now, you an be sure about the user or page you are following is the correct one. So on a broader term it can be said this is for public figures, like artists, politicians, business personalities. Also, it will act as a filter for filtering out the real accounts.

Read about sharing your how you are feeling and what you are having, on Facebook status.

Add your feeling, what you are watching, having on Facebook

Facebook rolled out a new innovation to put a better status on your Facebook timeline. This feature is an extension to, who you are with (adding other users), place and photos.

The best part still is that you can add who you are with, and it will get appended to your status. Similarly, you can add location and photos for sure.

Feeling

Under feeling you can add a smiley with a word that exactly specifies how you are feeling. It has a range of predefined smiley's. But it still allows you to add anything custom, like adding a word in your own language and then choosing a closely related smiley. This time your status will show the smiley with your own custom word.

Facebook feeling

Now, because of this custom word addition the smiley list becomes endless.

ALSO SEE: Secure your Facebook account with trusted contacts
Forward your Facebook chat conversations
Facebook Rolled Out Verified Accounts

Watching

Well, this is not only about movies or TV shows. What this does is that, it searches for Facebook fan pages and upon your selection it adds them. 

But the selection is primarily based on the type of status you are adding. For example, if you are adding watching then the genre of Facebook fan page. But the search is not limited to this, that is, you can always add a book with "watching".

Watching on Facebook

Reading

Add books you are reading or any other page. You can add custom value in the book field. It even allows you to add a custom icon, just before the book.

Reading on Facebook

Listening to

Add the artist you are listening to. Here to you can add custom artist and select the type of music by selecting the proper icon.

I added my own name

Drinking

Add what you are drinking. Tea, coffe, or the best custom. And as it adds Facebook page, so you are always free to drink "titanic","The A Team", etc.

Eating

Add what you are eating. With this too you can eat almost anything but within the status.

Limitations of Facebook's new status innovation

The biggest limitation is that you can add one thing at a time. So, if you are watching a movie and getting bored or great, you cannot add both of these at the same time within a single status.

More Limitations

You cannot add any user. For example, you are "beating" somebody.
Learn more about Facebook here.

Most Beautiful company logo with concept

Logo represents every company. These logos are always beautiful, and where ever they stand they represent success. But ever wondered what was the concept behind making of every logo, how designers achieved them?

Here is a list of some of the logo, with the concepts behind them.

LG

In LG's logo there is a winking man, the dot is the open eye, L is the nose and the big G forms the other winking eye.

LG logo

City Direct

City Direct logo

FedEx

What is special in this one? Well, hard to find. But have a look at the arrow formed by the alphabets Ex. This arrow represents speed and precision.

FedEx logo

Apple

Apple's logo is formed  using a set of circles. The leaf is a result of intersection of two circles.

Apple logo

VAIO

The first two alphabets are formed using analog signal's representation, where as the last two IO formed by the digital signals representations, that is, 1 and 0.

VAIO logo

Martini House

The two martini glass that are forming the walls and ceiling of the house.

Martini House logo

Twitter

The blue bird is kind of synonym to twitter. But see the circles made to achieve the blue bird's unique shape.

Twitter logo

Ubuntu

The Ubuntu's logo represents the entire community from all around the world who have contributed towards the development of the Linux based Open Source Operating System.

Ubuntu logo

Sun Microsystems

Look for the four 'sun' forming each vertex of the logo.

Sun Microsystems logo

The Pros and Cons of HTML5 in Mobile Gaming

Mobile video games comes in all shapes, sizes, and experiences. From shooters to side-scrolling adventures, our smartphones have the ability to access literally tens of thousands of games in accordance to just about any preference. For the most part, iOS users' view the App Store as their number one resource for gaming seeking, while Android owners find their downloading home in Google Play, but there is another option for both parties. Unrestricted by operating system, and considered quite a controversial direction for mobile gaming is HTML5. 

Cross Platform

Also called browser gaming, HTML5 is a technology that deviates from the native app stores by welcoming cross platform gaming. As promising as it sounds, much of the gaming community is wholly opposed to HTML5 development. There are a few key factors in this debate. For one, gaming within a browser has some notable issues, performance being one of them. Complex animations have a tendency to render slowly in many mobile browsers making playing high-quality games an arduous chore. As an added blemish, on its own, HTML5 does not support native device features such as vibration, gyroscopic functionality, accelerometer utilization, and the camera use which limits the potential experience from the beginning. 

Unlike Google Play for Android games and apps and the Apple App Store, there is no designated distribution outlet for browsers. Word of mouth is one way to spread popularity, but for HTML5 to really take off, there must be a well-known collective of easily accessible games and apps for users to explore and download. Plus, there are several issues that need to be addressed before HTML5 can gain more mainstream gaming cred: the fact that mobile gaming via browsers often features broken audio, that it doesn't allow for direct messaging via push notifications, and that it lacks an in app-payment solution are further blips on the HTML5 radar. 

Criticism

Despite a ton of criticism, it's not all bad. In fact, some experts believe that HTML5 will become prominent in the future of mobile gaming. Versatility is one huge factor. With a single code base, developers can deploy a game across a variety of devices with ease. This makes it possible for iPhone users to play along with Android users for example. Also, the click then play functionality makes for a smoother, faster experience. Rather than visiting the App Store or Google Play, finding the game, making the purchase, downloading the file, installing the app, THEN playing; HTML5 gaming is available with a single click. There are no plugins to worry about, no need to download anything or update the game prior to play, everything is done by developers live. 

Technologies Integration

Not to mention, browser gaming is a much cheaper alternative compared to native gaming. HTML5 is a free, open technology. The only cost is derived from the developers/designers needed for game production. As an additional note, many of the problems previously discussed with HTML5 can be solved with new innovations. With the use of tools such as the Cloud Compiler and JavaScript extension APIs, developers can override issues with distribution, monetization, messaging, and even the native device features. These workarounds nearly eliminate all of the main criticisms that have been thrown at HTML5, but many simply do not know about these resources. 

Apple Game VS Android Game

Right now, the battle between native gaming, that of Apple and Android-specific games, and gaming within a browser isn't much of a competition. The popular OS undeniably dominates the market but with all of the improvements and benefits of HTML5, browser gaming could very well become a serious contender within the mobile gaming industry. 

Author's Bio: Taylor Stein is an avid gamer, sushi lover, and overall nerd. After founding a gaming-related site of her own, GamerGirlTay.com, she went on to intern at G4TV, and is now a freelance videogame writer. This post was written in association with Big Fish Games, a developer of Android, iPhone, and iPad games.

Host feedburner feeds with your own domain name

Feedburner users are required to access their feeds via the feeds.feedburner.com URL. And thus all the feeds are accessed via feedburner's domain name.

My own feeds address was feeds.feedburner.com/blog/sectortechno which is now changed to feeds.sectortechno.com/blog/sectortechno. Feedburner allows its users to redirect to their own domain name. After setting up this you can access your entire feedburner account with your own domain name like I can now access using feeds.sectortechno.com.

How to redirect my feeds to my own domain name?

To set up the redirect you are required to perform the following two steps-

1. Set up CNAME in your DNS.
2. Set up redirect URL.

Set Up CNAME

Step 1: Launch Domain

Step 3: DNS Manager

1. Log in into your Domain Provider's account (GoDaddy in this case) and go to 'My Account'.
2. 'Launch' domains or expand domains by clicking the '+' icon and then 'launch' the domain from the list that you want to associate with Feedburner redirect.
3. Navigate to 'DNS Manager' and click 'Edit Zone'.
4. Scroll to 'CNAME (Alias)' and at the bottom of CNAME entries you will find 'Quick Add' button.
5. Click 'Quick Add' button.
6. Enter 'feeds' or any subdomain host where you like to host your feeds, (refer to Set Up redirect URL, step 4).
7. In the next 'Points to' field you are required to paste value you obtained from Set Up redirect URL step 3.
8. Set TTL value to 1 Hour.
9. Click 'Save Zone File'.

It will take be effective within 1 Hour (generally), sometime it may take upto 48 hours, but don't worry it will get updated within a single hour. So, wait before performing step 5 in Set Up redirect URL, you will encounter an error while in step 5 until you have your CNAME updated.

To kill the mean time you can try how to set automatic redirection from non-www to www domain name in Blogger, or learn how to change feed address or Set Up autopublish feeds to twitter.

Set Up redirect URL

Points to value: CNAME (Alias)

1. Log-in into your Google account.
2. Go to Feedburner's MyBrand.
3. You will find a list of three steps, copy the 'Points to' value from the yellow colored highlighted area. Value is like xxxxx.feedproxy.ghs.google.com, here lnvn6jn.feedproxy.ghs.google.com.
4. In the second step on 'MyBrand' page, enter your sub-domain where you will like to have your feeds redirected. Like feeds.sectortechno.com in my case. Now, you know that the data entered in Set Up CNAME, step 6 and here must be same.
5. Click 'Activate' button'.

Add another domain

In case you are running more than one blog and thus, you own multiple domain names with every blog using Feedburner. Then you can enter multiple sub-domains pointing to feeds by using 'Add another domain'.

What's left?

1. Well, you still need to update feeds address in your blogger. To do so navigate to access your blog, navigate to 'Settings' then 'Other', now enter your new feed address.
2. Furthermore, you are required to update your feed readers counter chicklet.
3. Update your subscription form.

All services will remain active and functional with the older address, but still to show off you must update. Access all feedburner tutorials here.

Google Buzz is shutting Down

Google announced the closure of its Google Buzz (a social networking, micro blogging) service in October 2011. Google will take final step towards shutting down Buzz on and after 17th of July 2013.

Google Buzz Logo

A backup copy of entire Buzz account will automatically get saved on Google Drive. But space consumed will not be charged against Google Drive storage.

Backup can also be taken using Google Takeout, a service to take backups of all or any selected Google service. 

What data will be backed up?

1. The first type of file will be private, only accessible to you, containing a snapshot of the Google Buzz public and private posts that you authored.
2. The second type of file will contain a copy of only your Google Buzz public posts. By default it will be viewable by anyone with the link and may appear in search results and on your Google Profile (if you've linked to your Buzz posts). Note, any existing links to your Google Buzz content will redirect users to this file.
3. Any comments that you made on other users' posts will only be saved to those users' files and not to yours. Once the change described in this email is final, only that user will be able to change the sharing settings of those files. This means that if you have commented on another author's private post, that author could choose to make that post and its comments public. If you would like to avoid that possibility, delete all your Buzz content now.
4. The new Google Drive files will only contain comments from users who previously enabled Google Buzz, and the files will not contain comments that were deleted prior to moving the data to your Google Drive.

SOURCE: Google Buzz subscription mail.

Secure your Facebook account with trusted contacts

Facebook accounts have great security features, but still users may get hacked, banned by Facebook or sometimes they loose their passwords because of saving their credentials with browsers auto save or in some rare cases while attempting to change their passwords. 

Along with this, the recovering options like email and phone number are not available or are out dates. So, you no longer have access to these. But still you can recover your account by creating a list of trusted accounts.

Facebook Security Settings

ALSO SEE: Forward your Facebook chat conversations 

How to hide your friend list in Facebook?

How to add trusted contacts in Facebook?

1. Log in into your Facebook account.
2. Navigate to 'Security Settings' tab in 'Account Settings'.
3. Click on 'Trusted Contacts'. Select 'Choose Trusted Contacts'.
4. Choose your trusted contacts from your friend list and then click 'Confirm'. You are required to add 3 to 5 contacts.
5. You will be prompted to enter your password to confirm trusted contacts list.

Facebook's choose trusted contacts

You can edit this list any time in future. Add new users or delete them.

How to recover Facebook account using trusted contacts?

Reset Your Password

1. From Facebook homepage click 'Forgot your password' or when you'll get the wrong password error you can select 'forgot your password' from there.
2. You'll be asked to enter an email address or phone number. Enter your alternative email or just enter any valid looking email address. It is not required in the process.
3. In the next step ask your trusted contacts to access facebook.com/recover. They will receive your recovery codes. You are required to collect them over phone by calling your trusted contacts.
4. Enter these codes to access your account.

Ask Your Trusted Contacts

NOTE- Don't make unnecessary users or un-trusted users your 'trusted contacts' in Facebook. They will receive notification that you have added them as your 'trusted contact'. This security feature will get misused.

How to hide your friend list in Facebook?

Not only friends, but family members, acquaintance  classmates, colleagues  co-workers as well are now beings added as you Facebook friend list. It is quite common to find even the users you once shook hands with or sometimes you don't know them at all.

With these conditions, there comes a need to hide your contact list or Facebook friend list. Or make it visible to only a specified users. You can always customize how your friend list's visibility.

Hide Facebook friend list

How to hide your Facebook friend list?

1. Log-in into your account.
2. Open you profile.
3. Click on 'Activity Log'.
4. Under 'Photos', 'Likes', 'Comments' hit 'more' to access the entire navigation list. And the select 'friends'.
5. Hit the button next to the question "Who can see your friend list?".
6. Select 'Public' to make it visible to everyone but still requires the other user to be logged-in, 'Friends' to make your friend list visible to your friends, 'Only Me' on your can see your friend list, and 'Custom' to make list visible to specific selected users.

In 'Custom' there are two options, 'Share this with' and 'Don't share this with'. You can enter a list of selected users from your Facebook friend in both the options. First one will make sure that only the users you selected will have the privilege to see your friend list, the second option when selected will make sure that the specified user list cannot see your friend list.

Top 5 Bluetooth headset

Bluetooth headset is the most common gadget for mobile phones today. This headset is very popular because is can really make your life easier. You can drive, shop, walk or just clean your house with them on. At first, people used them just to answer and take calls, but today, you can listen to music, even dictate text for SMS on your mobile. Due to their popularity, there are many models, sizes and brands. Here are one of the best headsets on the market: 

1.JAWBONE ERA

Jawbone ERA is one of the best mono headset on the market. It goes in one ear and it is so comfortable you'll forget about it after few hours. It is compatible to almost every mobile phone, iPhone, Blackberry or Android phone. You can pair up to 8 devices and have 2 active Bluetooth connections. It has 10 mm wideband speaker for excellent sound. Sound quality is perfect, there aren't any background noises due to the noise filtering. Battery life is rather good, you can talk for 5 hours straight or leave it on standby for 10 days without charging.

2.PLANTRONICS BACKBEAT GO

Plantronics Backbeat Go is a stereo Bluetooth headset with unique design. It ii very simple. Generally, this headset consists of 2 earbuds with cable between them. This headset is rather lightweight and small so they are the best for jogging or doing some activity. With them you'll get three different sizes of earbuds, to fit in every ear. The range of Bluetooth connection is very good, around 20 m. The sound quality is very good even for listening to music, not just taking calls. The battery lasts for 4 hours and 30 minutes of talk time and 4 hours of listening to music. 

3.PLANTRONIC VOYAGER LEGEND

Plantronic Voyager Legend is mono Bluetooth headset with three microphones to improve audio quality. Due to that, sound quality is great, you can talk on the street, while driving or at the mall and you won't have any problem. If you take this headset off, it will automatically mute your calls or music. If you wear glasses, this headset is great for you because it won't interfere with your glasses. Voyager Legend can pair with two devices, so you can take calls on your mobile phone and listen to music on your laptop at the same time. The battery can last up to 7 hours of talk time and 11 days on standby. 

4.NOKIA BH-095

Nokia BH-095 is stereo Bluetooth headset with the best audio quality. They are rather big so they are good for listening to music due to great noise filtering. The bass in music is usually a problem with Bluetooth headset, but this one has really great bass quality. So, when it comes to taking calls or listening to music, this headset is perfect. You can increase the volume and shut down the world around you in one second. This headset is, in our opinion, better for listening to music, but that doesn't mean you can take calls with it. Battery life is impressive, it can last up to 24 hours of talk time and 15 hours of listening to music. 

5.MOTOROLA COMMANDONE

Motorola CommandOne is mono Bluetooth headset with good sound quality, performance and many other great features. It has simple design, but not so simple features. It has adjustable ear hook so you can put it on both ears, left or right. This headset is interesting because you can use it without touching it. It has good voice command system, so there are different commands for you. For example, you can say ''Call back'' and call your last number. Also, this headset can read your text and you can dictate the answer to your phone, which is pretty impressive. 

Author's Bio:  Edin is a student in Polytechnicum Zagrabiense in Zagreb and he is a big technology fan. He researches devices and then he makes a website about that device with advises and reviews to help others. His last page is Best Bluetooth Headset.

Download twitter profile background image

Twitter allows you to upload a background image to make your profile look more customized and give it a personal touch. A lot of users try to create their own custom backgrounds and in the process they use a lot of images editing tools to get the perfect one. Or may be close to perfect.

Sometimes you loose your edited image. And you want to edit the uploaded one but how you don't have a copy. Or in some cases you want to retouch the default images or wallpapers.

Background image's URL

Though it is all clear from the image presented above but still,

How to download twitter background image?

1. Open your twitter profile in your browser.
2. Right click on the page (any where on page except links).
3. Select 'View Page Source' in Google Chrome and 'View Source' in Internet Explorer.
4. This will launch a new tab or window (as in Internet Explorer), containing HTML codes.
5. Use Ctrl + F, to find body.user, there will be a single occurrence of the specified code.
6. Just next to these you will find background-image: url (IMAGE LINKING URL).
7. Select the URL  now it is your choice how to download the image using 'Save As' or 'down-loader'.

Now, you can make any necessary edits or re-touch the image and upload again.

Publish post with past dates in Blogger

These are some rare cases, but sometime these too arise when you want to post something that displays past date. For example, if you just caught something on news and want to post it but unfortunately you are a day late. Maximum publishers either mention date in their post content or many times don't publish it.

But there is a simple solution to it. While publishing you need to set the proper date you can also set time. It is kind of faking but still it is a better option as compared to not publishing a post at all.

Also, this feature also stands great for personal life bloggers. Who just want to place a past experience.  

How to do it?

1. While creating any article use 'Schedule' option from 'Post settings' menu.
2. Select 'set date and time'.
3. Select appropriate past date from calender or enter directly and time too.
4. Click 'Done'.
5. Hit 'Publish' button now you have a post published in the past date and time.

So with Scheduling post option which is properly saying is meant to schedule a post to get published in the future can also be use to do the opposite and publish post with past dates and time.

Search Google Images for 'Atari Breakout' and see surprise

Google is celebrating 37 years of 'Atari Breakout'. When Google Image is searched for keyword 'Atari breakout' image result for 'Atari breakout' opens which after few seconds turns into 'Atari' game.

The tile of game are composed of image result. After searching for 'Atari breakout', once the game is initiated you can search for almost any thing with image result. The appropriate search will be done and results will again get modified into the Atari game's tile.

The game concept has infinite number of stages formed by random search results once you have cleared all the tiles of a stage.

Growing Your Small Business? How to Choose the Right VoIP Service for Your needs?

If you run a small business, you should know how important it is to cut costs and increase revenues. Most traditional businesses use their own phone line for their business activities. However, if you want to cut costs on your phone bills, maybe switching to a hosted Business VoIP system is a good choice. Instead of using an on-premise phone system and having to pay a huge monthly fee for the service, plus the initial cost of the equipment, you could use a business VoIP service and save a ton of cash on your monthly phone bills. 

VoIP services for your business

When you use a hosted phone system, you don't have to pay anything for new equipment, You will be able to keep your phone numbers and switch from your current service provider without any hassle. A hosted phone service will replace your traditional analog phone system with a hosted phone system and all your calls will be forwarded across the Internet through Voice over IP (VoIP) technology. You will be able to receive your calls on IP phones that are plugged into your broadband connection. With this new technology, business owners could save as much as 50% on their phone bills. You will also get much cheaper international and national call rates. 

You could manage the whole system through an online portal. You will not have to pay for any maintenance charges, since your service provider will make sure the whole system stays healthy all the time. Most of the Fortune 500 companies are using this new VoIP technology to lower their costs and boost their proficiency. Some value-added features for this type of service include 3-way calling, music-on-hold, personalized voicemail, auto-responder corporate directory and auto attendant. 

Another very attractive benefit of using a VoIP phone system is the mobility of the service. You could be anywhere and still be able to make and receive calls provided you have an Internet connection. If you want to cut costs and manage your business in an efficient way, switching to a VoIP phone system is very much recommended. Contact us today if you haven't try this new advanced technology. 

Author's Bio: Stella is a blogger and shares interesting articles about advantages of digital telephones and  ip phone system for small business.

Track your visitor flow with Analytics

Tracking your visitors activities on your site/blog helps in learning what user wants, what they like and what they dislike. 

Knowing things like where your visitors came from and where they left your site. Maximum analytic tools help you know the bounce rate, that is, how many visitors consists of only a single page view.

Having a graphical traffic flow, makes a lot of sense and makes study of your traffic flow a lot more easier.

Click to enlarge

How to track Visitor Flow?

1. Log-in into your Google Analytics account.
2. Select your site data from the list that opens up.
3. Navigate to 'Traffic Source' > 'Source' > 'Visitors Flow'.

Visitor flow chart will appear, showing incoming and leaving traffic. Select the appropriate date range. By default it will show only the chart till 1st interaction.

Select the filter. First column will show the filter based category, second column will show the first page that a user landed on after getting redirected. The third column shows the first interaction, this is when a visitor opens some other page after the landing page. After first interaction use '+Step' to see more interactions, more page accessed one after the other.

Highlighting a specific flow

After selecting the filter, if you want to track traffic flow or activity you need to track how visitor flow from one page to next that started from a specific source. Here, highlighting comes in just click on any source or any interaction and then select 'Highlight traffic through here'. Doesn't matter, in which interaction you selected to highlight, the entire path from beginning till end will get highlighted.

Exploring a specific traffic flow

Another great option, especially for high traffic sites. Lets say that you have more than 500 visitors per day then there starts a need to explore the flow in depth. Causes of sudden drops, what visitors like the most. To deal with this right click on any column entry or any interaction and select 'Explore traffic through here'.

An other way to do so is using the magnifier '+' button. But this will only widen up the chart, still lesser insight and details.

Social Network share stats and SEO

In an update in Google's search algorithm, Google started to count or take social stats into consideration for ranking any domain name.

Users or publishers can create pages on Facebook as well as Google Plus. But the SEO functionality or benefits achieved with having pages on these two top platforms differ greatly.

Share on social networks

What likes or +1's are considered?

A simple answer to a simple question. People do know that they are considered but maximum of them still have no idea of how these are counted. Google does not take into consideration all the likes or +1's when it comes to ranking your site/blog.

On both sites, the like or +1's given to your homepage url counts. 

Page Like VS URL Like : Google Plus

A page on Google plus can be connected to your sites URL. After doing this step +1's for URL's and +1's for Page become one. From now on if a user give your page or your link a +1 then it is counted on both platforms.

A single Google Plus page plugin or widget performs both tasks, that too simultaneously. Furthermore, Google Plus page can be connected to your site by using a rel="publisher" tag this will help user see your page on search engine result when they search with exact query. Try searching "Google" on Google you will see the country specific G+ page. There is a rel="author" tag too, to connect your personal profile with your content. (Non of the tags are explained in details here).

Page Like VS URL Like : Facebook

In Facebook you cannot connect your sites URL to your page, though your can mention it on your Facebook Page. Both your page like and URL like walks different paths. Now as mentioned above your URL like counts therefore, Facebook page like have no SEO result for Google's organic search.

Why should I have a Facebook page as it brings no SEO?

Well, having likes on page do brings a fan base and an option that helps you deliver your content or message directly on the wall of your fans. And the higher the number of fans the higher are the chances of getting conversions (user clicking wall links and getting redirected to your site).

Now you are required to put a Like button on your site the helps your user generate URL likes. For this visit Facebook Developers - Like Button, place your URL with http:// and then generate code by using 'Get Code' button.

Similarly, Facebook comments, shares, twitter, etc. work on your domain name. These are something that are achieved over time. You can ask your friends or family member to increase your social stat. It is always to get some extra with your in-house resources.

Give Real gifts via Facebook Gifts

Typing on somebody's wall wishing him/her Happy Birthday is not always enough. Facebook adds more to it by enabling a new feature that lets users order real gifts online. These gifts will get delivered to the address that the recipient provides after accepting the gift.

Give real gifts to your friends via Facebook Gifts

How to send Facebook gifts?

There are three ways to send gifts-

• Birthday reminder shows 'Give him/her a gift'.
• Visit their timeline (Gifts Tab).
• Visit Facebook Gifts. You can access a list of events on that day.

Gifts sending privacy

While gifting you will be asked whether you want a status to be posted telling your friends that you gave a gift to someone. Useful feature especially in case your gift is being sent to your 

Let your friends select their gifts

Sometimes you give your friends the option to select from a list what they want. Facebook gifts have a privilege for that too. You are required to select the gift and choose to pay later. If your friend accepts the gift then you are required to make payment other wise choose something else.

Preview Facebook Gifts

You also have the option to send notification at that very instance or set a future date to do so.