Today’s extensions will cover notification pop-ups, photo zoom tools, hiding updates you don’t want to see, easy ways to clip and post to Facebook, and a neat way to clean up your Facebook so you only see elements you care about. Once you’re done setting up these extensions, Facebook will be forever changed for you.

When you’re listening to a great song and want to know what it is, which app do you turn to? For many, it’s Shazam. However, there’s another up-and-coming app that’s available universally and seems to work just as well, which is SoundHound. Both apps work slightly differently and have a different set of tools available to you when you’re not looking for a particular tune.

These days, very few people have just one IM account. Most of us have a handful of them, with different contacts for different purposes or just leftover from periods of time when that particular service was the most popular or useful one to use. However if you have multiple IM accounts, it’s generally easier to use some sort of multi-service IM login to control them all these days. Then you can just forget about who you know on whichever service and get on with the chatting.

Instagram is not new on the scene. It’s got a huge number of users, mainly because it is so very good at what it does. What is still relatively new though is the Android version of the Instagram app. Those of us who knew what we were missing felt as if we waited a lifetime for the Instagram Android application. In the meantime, many of us toyed with cool camera alternatives. None of which really held up as they didn’t have the social aspect of Instagram built in.

Picking up new habits can be a difficult task, which is why numerous popular methods exist to help you manage it. If you regularly find yourself realising that your plan to take a daily morning run is actually more like a once-a-month guilt-ridden excursion, then it’s clear you need to try a new method. Perhaps the Jerry Springer chain method will be able to help you along your way.

Facebook Page administrators realise that it takes time and effort to create a vibrant, useful page for fans to enjoy. While some administrators are paid for their efforts, many more are merely volunteering their time for a cause they believe in – their band, a local club or a cause. For these page admins especially, it’s incredibly useful to be able to automate as many of their tasks as possible. Now, when it comes to automating social media tasks, the best place to turn is IFTTT.

You’re probably a busy person, with all sorts of useful things to do with your time. So, what you really need for your Android is the sort of casual game that will suck away several hours at the bat of an eyelid, right? Well, sarcasm aside, casual games are actually a good thing for busy people. It means that when you do have a moment spare, you can get straight into something mindless and fun, letting yourself relax quickly and easily.

The eBuddy application used to be known as e-Messenger and has been around since 2003. These days it’s readily available via the web or as an app for your favourite smartphone. It’s one of the easiest ways to chat with multiple networks of IM (Instant Messenger) friends from wherever you are. Today we’ll check out the Android version of eBuddy properly so you can really see whether it’s the app for you.

Facebook users are continually finding themselves frustrated by settings that cannot be changed within Facebook, or simply finding that Facebook is too integrated (or not integrated enough) into the rest of their lives. The good news is that some of this can be controlled with a few decent browser extensions for Firefox. If you love tweaking your browser so that your favourite websites behave just so, then you’ll love this post.

Did you spend your last Christmas dinner listening to the same old CD you pull out every year, wishing you had a few more Christmas tunes to fill out the rest of the meal? You know there’s a lot of Christmas-related music available, so it shouldn’t really be so hard to have some around when Christmas rolls around. I mean, Christmas only comes once a year and you want it to be special.

Are you frustrated at how huge and bloated most music-playing software is? The iTunes players of the world are really quite hefty, which is quite unnecessary if all you want to do is play a few tunes. Well, if you’re looking for something small, yet sophisticated for your Mac, you should definitely check out Vox. It’s lightweight, good-looking and has just the right amount of features for a regular music-lover to enjoy. Plus, it’s free.

So, the holiday season is well and truly upon us and you’re probably wondering what sorts of presents to get the various people in your life and how to get them delivered in time. While answering the question of “what” to get them is a little difficult, we can certainly help you with the “how” of getting it there. You may or may not already know that Facebook has opened a gift section to their site.

These days, there are a million and one great ways to manage a to-do list online and via mobile apps. That said, there’s often still a few people who are not yet using one of the better ones, so it’s worth letting you all know which they are just in case! If you’re a big user of Google services like Gmail and Google docs, then you might have tried using Google Tasks.

Have you been collecting awesome notes and information in Evernote for a while, but not really experimented with the many Android apps and widgets you can use yet? Well, if this sounds like you then you’ll love today’s line-up of apps. We know there’s a good number of Evernote fans and Android fans lurking on MakeUseOf, so we thought we’d make a list of apps and widgets.

Music lovers of Facebook, now is the time to have your mind blown. I’d guess that many of you have tried one or two music-related applications on Facebook and maybe decided on your favourite one and left it at that. I’d also guess that you don’t really know just how many great music applications are out there and that you have no idea how much you could enjoy yourself by checking them out.