Additional settings VKontakte


Do you want to know about some useful functions of megapopular in our latitudes of the social network VKontakte? Then, read about the seven hidden features of VK and use the knowledge gained now!

Most recently, we wrote about that. Everything was solved there by installing a special plug-in that automatically added the functionality we needed, among which, downloading media files is only a small part of the improvements ...

However, it is not always and not everyone has the opportunity to install something on the computer from which access is made online ... And, it turns out that in most cases it is far from necessary to use third-party software - the main thing is to know some secrets and be able to use;)

Therefore, I offer you a small but useful collection of tips that will allow you to significantly diversify your stay on VKontakte :)

  Language change

And we begin, perhaps, with the most useless, but fun function - changing the interface language of our account. Previously, in the "basement" (the bottom of the page) social network, there were links to quickly changing the language, among which there were two funny versions of Russian: "Pre-Revolutionary" and "Soviet".


Then Contact was redesigned and part of the "chips", among which were the mentioned interface options, disappeared somewhere. But, in fact, everything remained in place, it was just moved :) Soviet and pre-revolutionary Contact can still be included. To do this, go to "My Settings" and below in the drop-down list "Language" the last two items will be our cherished parameters :)


Select the desired design option, click the "Apply" button and get the desired result. The only thing is a pity that friends will not see or appreciate your new interface, since it is visible only to you. However, in a company one can laugh, for example, by changing one of the comrades on his computer to a pre-revolutionary language, and watching the reaction with a deadpan look :).

By the way, on the same first tab of the settings ("General") you can also change the address of your page like "vk.com/id_page_page" to a more readable and memorable option, such as "vk.com/vasya_pupkin". To do this, simply enter the desired name of your account in the "Page address" field, just above the list of languages.

  How to add characters and underscores in messages

If the change of the interface language will be visible only to us, then now I propose to study the question of what can be done in Contact so that it can be seen by everyone :) Specifically, I mean the possibilities of formatting the text in my messages. After the last redesign (around April-May), many of the text formatting functions were abolished, but some things remained ...

The general concept of formatting a text on VKontakte is as follows: before the letter, which needs to be distinguished in a certain way, a special code is put, starting with characters and ending in a certain number with a colon at the end. In practice, it looks like this (for example, enter without quotes): "͠͠͠͠͠͠͠͠͠͠" ":


In addition to the wavy underline, the following code is still working:

  • ́ - stress (placed before the letter on which we want to emphasize and works only once in one word);
  • - non-breaking space (replaced by an empty character and allows, for example, to send an empty message);
  • ¯ - overline with a solid smooth line;
  • ̅ - dashed overline.

At the moment, on formatting everything, however, it is worth mentioning that the VKontakte code partially coincides with the popular ALT codes. If someone does not know, the ALT code is a special set of numbers that are entered from the numeric keypad (block of buttons with the numbers on the right) with the ALT key held down. While the button is pressed, we can enter certain numbers that will not be visible, but if we release the key and a certain character will appear.

So ... Experimenting with numbers after, you can get interesting results. For example, a © code will give us a copyright icon - :)

  Wall posts visible only to friends

Once the conversation turned to the messages, then it is worth mentioning one far unobvious, but useful function, such as hiding information on the wall from all visitors except friends. If you try to do this with the usual editing from My page, then you will not get anything, because there is no necessary option anywhere.

Someone may rightly notice that in Settings in the "Privacy" tab (second) you can configure it so that only friends (or no one at all :)) can view the wall. But it will be a global setting. And what if you want to hide only a single post?

It turns out that this is possible and not at all difficult. You just need to know where to look :) And you need to look in the "All records" section! You can get into it if you click on the caption on your page, where the number of records on the wall is displayed (at the top left above the "What's new?") Field. This will open a page that displays only your wall and an extended news input box:


Under the news entry field, we’ll have just the cherished “friends-only” checkbox. Activate it, publish the news and it will be invisible to anyone who is not on your friends list!

The only caveat - the news added earlier, you can not hide. You can hide only new posts that you post directly to your wall, which has an address like "vk.com/wall your ID".

  How to find out who comes to you most often

A lot of different questions are connected with VKontakte friends ... For example, officially we cannot find out which friend came to our page. For this VKontakte there are dozens of applications that, with varying degrees of accuracy, show who allegedly visited you. However, in fact, most often such applications do not work.

It turns out that there is a very real way to find out who recently came to you most often, even without third-party applications of questionable quality. However, it is not known what degree of authenticity is in this method, since you can only check by asking people directly whether they came to you. Although, everything coincided with me, so I will tell you about the method, but it's up to you :)

So, we first need to go to "My Settings" and at the very bottom of the page to find the inscription "You can delete your page." Click on the link in this caption and go to the page to delete your account:


You do not need to delete anything! We are only interested in the item "My page does not comment." We select it and in the field with the standard answer the system will give us the names of two people who have visited your page recently :) If you want to find out who else besides these two came to you, repeat the procedure and get the names of another couple of visitors. So you can repeat until we calculate all! I got 7 people per day - it seems to be true, though, who will understand their developers :).

  How to delete a friend request

The last situation related to friends, which often arises among VC users - applications for adding friends from strangers, of dubious activity :). Previously, there was a button that allowed you to directly remove any request to add. Today we are offered only two options: either add or leave in subscribers ...

Subscribers will not be able to write messages directly to you, but will be able to read and comment on your posts on the wall ... If you do not want information about all your new posts to come to someone, then you can do the following ...


We leave the person in the subscribers, and then go to the section "My Subscribers" (in the menu under the avatar on your page). A pop-up window will open with a list of people subscribing to you. Find the avatar of the person we just added, and in the upper right corner click on the button with the cross "Block". Everything is ready - you will no longer be disturbed :)

  How to download music and video

For downloading music and videos from the Contact there is a whole bunch of services, plug-ins and full. However, there is a way to download media files directly without additional accessories :). To do this, we can use any browser that allows you to view the code (usually the code is called by pressing the CTRL + U key combination).

To download music go to the section "My audio recordings" and look for the track that we want to download. For speed, we copy its name and call the page code using the context menu (in Chrome this is the "View page code" item) or the above-mentioned combination (works in all popular browsers). Call the search by code (CTRL + F) and paste the copied name of the desired song (if there are several, then manually scroll through the code):


For ease of searching you need to know that all the links we need are in the block with id = "audios list". Now we find the name of the desired song, and the link to it will be in the block above in the block with the class class = "play_btn fl_l". Copy the link, starting with "http" and ending with ".mp3", create a new tab, paste this link into the address bar and press Enter.

In some browsers (mostly old ones), after such a manipulation, the download will start immediately, and in some browsers the player will appear. If you started playing, then you need to call the context menu and activate the item "Save as" in it. A standard save dialog will appear, in which you can select the place where the file is downloaded and give it a normal name.

To download a video, we need to add it to My Videos, open it for playback, and quickly press CTRL + U to access the code. Video in contact can be stored in two formats: .mp4 or .flv. We enter both options on the search in turn and see the result. There should be a link of this type:


As you can see, it is not stored in a completely working form. Specifically, her performance is hampered by back slashes, which are three in front of straight lines. We need to copy the link, starting with "http" and ending with ".mp4" or ".flv", and then paste it into the address bar and remove extra groups with slashes. Next, the algorithm is the same as for links to music: either the video will immediately start loading into the default download folder, or the player will appear and we will be able to save the video through the context menu.

The only thing that needs to be said is that we can download the video in this way only if it is uploaded to one of the servers VK.com, VK.me or friendly video hosting sites, but not YouTube or RuTube. And more :) For some videos there are several links - they are preceded by the codes url240, url360, url480 or url720. These numbers indicate the resolution, and hence the quality of the video;).

  Status "Online from Mobile" on PC

For a snack, another simple trick :) Recently, VKontakte, in addition to the status "Online", also began to display the status "Online from a mobile device", displayed if you are online from a phone or tablet. Some comrades immediately "cut the chip" and began to boast that they have cool tablets and smartphones. As a proof, of course, they give their status :)

But the status, if necessary, can be quite easily obtained if your browser - or similar to it (the new one will also work :)).

We need to go to the browser menu and find the item "Tools" - "Developer Tools" (also called up with the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + I). Now in the opened panel, activate the "Emulation" section and in the "Device" tab, select the device that we want to emulate from the list. I chose Google Nexus 10, because this tablet has a rather high screen resolution and with this resolution it will be comfortable to work on a regular monitor.


Now it remains only to press the "Emulate" button and reload the Contact page. You will be automatically transferred to the mobile version of the site, and next to your name you will see the status icon in the form of a mobile phone :) Close the "Developer Tools" panel and switch to the full version of the site by clicking the "Full version" button in the left menu below. Although, if you are satisfied with the mobile version, you can leave it ...

  findings

So our mini-excursion into the hidden possibilities of VKontakte came to an end. In fact, there are much more secrets in VK, but it’s impossible to know them all! Yes, and the obsolescence of certain chips occurs quite rapidly. While this article was being written, for example, in Kontakte, the function of language selection from the basement of the site was returned :) And the article was written only two days ...

In a word, you will not follow everything, so we are using the maximum today that we can still use, and what we will have tomorrow we will see :) Fast surfing and more friends with whom you can talk on any topic!

P.S. Permission is granted to copy and cite this article, provided that the active link to the source is indicated and the authorship of Ruslan Tertyshny is retained.

Secrets and loopholes are constantly closed, so hurry to use while the shop is not covered. PP number 10 is not in my plow.

1) View photo / video / group on a closed page
  You can view photos from closed pages if only the user's page is closed. That is, if he went to the settings and in the tab “ Privacy”Banned only view your page, but not photos and videos.

To view photos / videos / groups on a closed page:

1. To use this advice, first find out the ID of the person whose photos / videos / groups you would like to view. To do this, find it on the resource and hover the cursor over the “Message” link to the right of this person’s avatars. Even if the page is hidden, when you hover the cursor in the status bar of the browser (bottom of the screen) will display a link containing the user ID. The link will be of the following type: “http://vkontakte.ru/mail.php?act=write&to=27026? The last few digits are the desired ID.

2. To view the user's photo albums (provided that he / she hid only the page and not the photos themselves), you need to insert the link “http://vkontakte.ru/photos.php?id=ID” into the browser’s line ( where the site address is) and instead of “ID” enter the user number. Click “Enter” or the button “Transition” in the browser.

3. To view “Photos with me” on a hidden page (assuming that only the page is hidden, and not the photos themselves), we insert the link “http://vkontakte.ru/photos.php?act=user&id=ID…… Further chain The action is described above.

4. To view “Video with me” on a hidden page, paste the link
  “Http://vkontakte.ru/video.php?act=tagview&id=ID” and follow the familiar algorithm.

Press the “Enter” key only after you have replaced the ID in the links above to the unique number of the person whose photos you would like to see.

2) We mark all friends in the photo

1. It is quite simple - you just need to upload photos to your page. After that, go to the page of the photo where you want to mark friends and then click “Mark”.

2. The next step is to insert the code below into the address bar of the browser. Only need to insert it on the page where they clicked the "Mark" button. Paste this code:

javascript: (function () (function getPhotoInfo () (if (res = /(+)_(\\d+)/.exec(location.href))return (“mid”: res, “pid”: res); else return ("mid": 0, "pid": 0);) p_mark = function (i) (if (i\u003e = window.friends.length) (ge ('rotating'). innerHTML = "

  All friends have been marked on this photo!

”; ClearTimeout (timerID); return;) request_uri =“ /photos.php?act=put&pid="+mid+ê_tran_pid+t&id=id+mid+ï&&==0&subject="+window.friends[i]. id + ”& name =” + encodeURI (window.friends [i] .name) + ”& add = 1 & x = 0 & y = 0 & x2 = 100 & y2 = 100?; img = new Image (); img.src = request_uri; ge ('commentArea' ) .innerHTML = (i + 1) + ”of” + window.friends.length + “friends have been marked!”; timerID = setTimeout (“p_mark (” + (i + 1) + “)”, 500); ); p_markall = function () (if (! confirm (”you want to mark all friends? \\ r \\ n \\ r \\ n \\ r \\ nBugs & Thanks: http://vkontakte.ru/note8009721?oid= 5500005?)) Return; ge ('rotating'). InnerHTML = “

  Processing
  Please wait ...

"; Ajax = new Ajax (function (a, r) ​​(eval (r); window.friends = fr; p_mark (0);), function (a, r) ​​(alert (" Request problem. Try again "); )); ajax.get ("/ photos.php? act = get");); if (! (location.href.match (/vkontakte.ru/) && location.href.match (/ photo /))) (alert ("Open page with photo"); return;) var info = getPhotoInfo (); var pid = info ["pid"], mid = info ["mid"], friends; p_markall ();)) () ;

3. Press “Enter” and wait until all friends are checked. Approximately 100 friends are noted for a hundred seconds at a speed of 1 megabit per second.

3) We mark all friends on video

1. Upload the video to your page, click “Mark” to display the list of friends.

2. Insert the code below into the address bar of the browser on the page where you clicked “Mark”. Paste this code:

javascript: for (blabla = 0; blabla<5000;blabla++){ var elem = document.getElementById(’f’+blabla); if(elem == null) break; elem.onclick(); }

3) Press “Enter” and wait, as in the previous paragraph.

4. We write the name of the new line

Want to stand out in front of your friends with an unusual location. "In contact with"? If you follow the instructions, then there will be no problems.

1) Go to the “My Settings” page and right-click on a white background, and in the menu that appears, click “View HTML-code” (for Interet Explorer) or “View source code” (for Mozila Firefox and Opera).

2) On the code page that opens, look for the word “hash”. To do this, press "Ctrl + F", and in the opened search menu, type the word "hash" and press "Enter", after which the word will be found. To the right of this word there will be a character set name = "hash" value = "?. It is necessary to copy the set of characters enclosed in quotes after the word “value” - this is hash. Copy it to notebook! The character set for each account is unique.

3) On the page “VKontakte” “My Settings” we insert into the address bar of the browser a link “http://vkontakte.ru/settings.php?m=15&hash=HASH&act=change_nickname&subm=1&nickname=NIK”. In the above link, we change the word “hash” to the same character set that was copied, and then replace the word “NICK” at the end of the link to any desired nickname (name, middle name, etc.), then press the “Enter ".

5) Find out the person's age by birthday

1) We look at the day and month of birth of a person on his “VKontakte” page - remember or write down.
  2) Open the calendar - “http://vkontakte.ru/events.php?act=calendar”.
  3) We are looking for the right month, the right day, we find this person in the calendar, we hover the cursor on his avatar, and then a tooltip appears at the bottom, showing the name of this person and in brackets his age.

6. Add to bookmarks the person who hid his page

1) We learn the ID of this person.
  2) Insert the link “http://vkontakte.ru/fave.php?act=addPerson&mid=ID” into the address bar of the browser.
  3) Replace the “ID” with a unique user number.
  4) Press the “Enter” key, after which strange characters will appear. Click “Back”, and after that the person is already in the tabs.

7. We look at the history of statuses, if a person does not have a status

8. How to make status bar?

This is best done through the Opera browser or by using the VKStatus program.

1) Open Opera and go to your page “VKontakte”. Click the right mouse button anywhere on the page and select the “Source Code” context menu item. After that, press “Ctrl + F”, and in the opened search menu, insert the view code - .

2) Replace this code with -