Secret groups on VKontakte. Secrets of VKontakte. Block "Personal information"

There are many interesting functions and capabilities that users are not aware of.

With the help of various tricks, you can greatly change the site interface, make the design original, receive votes for free, and much more.

The tricks and secrets of VKontakte that we will talk about in this article can be useful to everyone. Some of them are not so useful, but are intended more to transform the appearance of the site and profile, but this can also be interesting for active users of social networks.

8 secrets of using VKontakte

1. Empty fields.
If you have not completely filled out the information in your profile, then by default, “No information” will be written next to some lines. You can remove these inscriptions if you add a set of special characters to the lines.

2. VKontakte design.
Anyone can change the external design of the VKontakte website by using special themes. To do this, use the service, where you can download a special browser plugin and choose an original design. Everything is free, and after using it, social pages. networks will look unusual:

3. Non-standard menu.
The side menu displays all the items for using VKontakte, and you can change them by changing the language. In the settings you can select the language Soviet or Pre-Revolutionary and you will see the following menu view:

4. Interesting work.
When editing your profile data, on the career tab, you can select any community in which you are a member. This is a great way to ensure that a link to the group always accompanies your name on social media. networks:

5. Hiding ads.
Everyone is tired of advertising on websites, and annoying blocks always appear under the VKontakte menu. It’s not difficult to remove them; to do this, you just need to install a free browser add-on, which we talked about in the article on how to remove ads from websites.

6. Free votes.
From time to time, each VKontakte user can receive free votes using promotions. Go to settings, go to the “Payments” tab, click on the top-up button and select special offers. After that, you will see a list of all options for receiving free votes:

7. Downloading media files.
To listen to music or watch videos, you have to constantly log into the social network. In the standard VKontakte interface there are no buttons to download media files, but this can be done using the extension from . Now the video format has changed, so the add-on does not work with videos, use

Secrets and loopholes are constantly closing, so hurry up and take advantage before the shop is closed. PP No. 10 no longer works in my opinion.

1) View photos/videos/groups 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 settings and in the “ Privacy” only prohibited viewing his page, but not photos and videos.

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

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

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

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

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

The “Enter” key should be pressed only after you have replaced the ID in the links above with the unique number of the person whose photo you would like to see.

2) Tag all friends in the photo

1.It's quite simple - you just need to upload photos to your page. After that, go to the page of the photo in which you want to tag your friends and then click “Tag”.

2. The next step is to paste the code below into the address bar of your browser. You just need to insert it exactly on the page where you clicked the “Mark” button. You need to insert 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 >= 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+”_”+pid+”&id=”+mid+”&oid=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(”Are you sure 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 for all friends to check in. Approximately 100 friends are tagged in one hundred seconds at a speed of 1 Megabit per second.

3) Tag all friends in the video

1. Upload the video to your page, click “Mark” so that a list of friends appears.

2. Paste the code below into the address bar of the browser on the page where you clicked “Mark”. You need to insert 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 last name on a new line

Do you want to stand out in front of your friends with an unusual full name? “VKontakte”? If you follow the instructions, there will be no problems

1) Go to the “My Settings” page and right-click on the 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 search menu that opens, type the word “hash” and press “Enter”, after which the word will be found. To the right of this word there will be a set of characters like name=”hash” value=”b30c18eb04804775accfbbdb2bd53678?. You need to copy the set of characters enclosed in quotes after the word “value” - this is hash. Let's copy it into notepad! The character set for each account is unique.

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

5) Find out a person’s age by birthday

1) We look at the person’s day and month of birth on his VKontakte page – remember or write it down.
2) Open the calendar – “http://vkontakte.ru/events.php?act=calendar”.
3) We look for the desired month, the desired day, find this person in the calendar, hover the cursor over his avatar, after which a tooltip appears at the bottom, showing the name of this person and his age in brackets.

6. Add to bookmarks a person who has hidden his page

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

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

8. How to make a status in a column?

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

1) Open Opera and go to your VKontakte page. Right-click anywhere on the page and select the “Source Code” context menu item. After that, press “Ctrl+F”, and in the search menu that opens, insert the code of the form - .

2) Replace this code with - </textarea>. 9. Block your wall 1) Select “My Settings”, and then enable the “Friends Folders” function. 2) Go to “My Settings” => “Privacy” => Who can leave messages on my wall => Some categories of friends. We choose a category where there are no people at all. 10. Leave marital status blank This can be done, as in tip 8, only in the Opera browser. 1) Open Opera and go to your VKontakte page. Click “edit.” (editing). 2) View/Initial view of the page; 3) We find both lists of marital status, adding another marital status to BOTH lists. As an example, here is what could be entered: <option value=”7?>Looking for</option>. 4) Apply the changes and exit the source text. In the marital status column, put “In search”, save and exit editing. 11. How to delete an anonymous opinion you left for a friend? 1) Select viewing opinions after the opinion is left. 2) In the browser, in the “View” tab, click “Original page view”. 3) Find your message in the code; 4) Next to the message there will be</div> <div id=”opReply1111”></div>. Instead of “1111? there will be other numbers. 5) From another account we send a message to our friend, to whom we left an anonymous opinion - http://vkontakte.ru/opinions.php?act=delete&id=1111. Instead of “1111? We substitute the numbers indicated in paragraph 4 of this advice. 12. Remove a tag about a person from someone else’s photo 1) Select “Tag person”. 2) Select the person we want to remove from the photo. 3) We mark this person, and he appears at the end of the list of marked ones. 4) We delete it and that’s it - it disappeared from the photo. 13. Non-mutual friends on VKontakte A non-mutual friend can be called a person on a social network whose page you can look at, but he cannot see yours. How to correct this annoying omission? It's quite simple: 1. We receive an incoming friend request 2. Go to the contact page 3. Click “Add as friend” 4. Click “Back” in the browser 5. Click on the “Reject application” button 6. You are a friend of a person, but he is not your friend. 14. Leave all VKontakte groups This can be done as in tips 8 and 10, only in the Opera browser. 1) Go to the “My Groups” section. 2) Insert a code like this into the address bar of the browser: javascript:var g=new Array();var links=document.links;for(i=0;i =g.length)(clearInterval(sI))”, 1500). 3) Press “Enter”. 15. How can I find out who has left my friends list? A program was created for this FriendRadar, which monitors your friends list and notifies you if it detects changes. This way, you will always be aware of who has left your friends list without warning you! 16. How to keep abreast of all events on VKontakte? Do you want to immediately learn about new messages, comments on your photos, new statuses of friends and other VKontakte events? Then be sure to install the program “ Agent VKontakte“. With its help, you can easily change your status, add friends, see updates from your friends, and also correspond with them as it happens, for example, in ICQ. The program signals about updates with a special window in the tray. Bonus! Secrets of the “Happy Farmer” “Happy Farmer” is the most popular game among users of the social network “VKontakte”. In a fairly short period of time, this game has attracted the interest of more than six million users. For active users of this game, there is a certain list of tools that together will allow you to achieve the desired results. Secrets of VKontakte (vkontakte.ru): 1. Viewing closed pages (profiles) This is one of the most desired secrets. Well, who hasn’t at least once dreamed of looking at photos of a gorgeous stranger without adding her as a friend? What if access to her page is closed? There is a way out! So, the secret is quite simple. A necessary condition is the openness of the photo album, videos, audio recordings, notes, etc. First you need to find out the user ID. How to find out your VKontakte ID? Very simple! ID is the number that goes in the URL after “http://vkontakte.ru/id”. For example, Pavel Durov has ID 1. If instead of a number there is a nickname, then simply point to the “Add as a friend” link and a hint should appear in the lower left corner of your browser (where this link leads). There you will find the user id. Once you have found out the ID, all that remains is to substitute it in the desired URL. Below is a list of “secret” URLs for accessing various user sections. Instead of “*”, substitute the ID of the user you need. Posts on the wall: http://vkontakte.ru/wall.php?id=* Photo albums: http://vkontakte.ru/photos.php?id=* Videos: http://vkontakte.ru/video.php?id=* Audio recordings: http://vkontakte.ru/audio.php?id=* Notes: http://vkontakte.ru/notes.php?id=* Groups: http://vkontakte.ru/groups.php?id=* Secrets of VKontakte: 2. Special characters for VKontakte You've probably noticed that some users have cool unusual features in their name, status, or simply in their profile. symbols. Naturally, they cannot be entered from the keyboard, but the secret is simple. These characters are called special characters and are entered using HTML code. Find out which code is for which VKontakte symbol needed is possible . At this address you will find almost all codes for VKontakte. Secrets of VKontakte: 3. Losing the name (how to remove the first and last name) Many would like to be incognito both in life and on VKontakte. You see everything, you know everything, but no one knows about you. It's possible! You can easily create an account without a name. A secret with one small drawback - first you will need to register again. <ol><li>We register again on VKontakte. Fill in all fields except “First Name” and “Last Name”.</li> <li>Copy the code into the address bar of the browser: javascript: this.disabled=true; document.regMe.submit();</li> <li>Press “Enter” or the “Go” button in the browser.</li> <li>Ready! You are registered without a first and last name!</li> </ol>Secrets of VKontakte: 4. Become invisible Another way to get closer to the invisible man. Thanks to this secret, you will be able to browse the pages of the social network, and other users will think that you are offline. But you cannot visit the “profile.php” page, i.e. your profile and the main profile pages of other users. There are 3 ways, or rather a secret: Secret #1 (only for Firefox) <ol><li>Enter “about:config” into the Firefox address bar. Browser settings will appear.</li> <li>We need to temporarily disable forwarding. To do this, enter “network.http.redirection-limit” in the “Filter” field and change its value to 0. For me, by default it was 20.</li> <li>Open a new tab and go to the page http://vkontakte.ru/login.php and enter your login and password.</li> <li>An error message appears. Don't worry, that's how it should be.</li> <li>Go to any other VKontakte page (except “profile.php”).</li> <li>We return to the settings tab and change the “network.http.redirection-limit” parameter back to what it was by default.</li> </ol>Secret No. 2 (only suitable for Opera) <ol><li>Go to “Tools” > “Settings” > “Advanced” > “Network”.</li> <li>Uncheck the “Enable automatic redirection” checkbox.</li> <li>We repeat the steps for the Firefox browser, starting from point 3.</li> </ol>Secret #3 (simple, but takes time) <ol><li>Go to the “Private Messages” section</li> <li>We wait 15 minutes (timeout for connecting to VKontakte).</li> <li>Everything is ready. You can navigate through social network pages except “profile.php”.</li> </ol>Secret No. 4 The same can be done using the Vk A-Vision program. We will talk about programs for VKontakte in one of the following posts. Definitely not to miss. Secrets of VKontakte: 5. How to marry yourself There is no particular benefit to this secret, but you still want to stand out in front of your friends. Marrying yourself is quite simple. First, I’ll explain how it does this in the Opera browser. Go to your profile editing page (http://vkontakte.ru/profileedit.php) and open the source code of this page. look for the code for the dropdown list and add yourself at the very end <option value = «ваш ID»>I</option>. Click “Apply Changes” and select yourself on the editing page. After that all that remains is to save the profile. The same operation can be done in the Firefiox browser, but for this you need to install the Firebug plugin. <h3>Secrets of VKontakte: 6. Tag all friends in the video</h3> Manually tagging friends in a video is time-consuming and painful. It's easier to do this using the following secret. It contains only 4 steps: <ol><li>We go to the page with the desired video.</li> <li>Click “Mark”.</li> <li>Paste the script into the address bar of the browser: “javascript:for(blabla=0;blabla<5000;blabla++){ var elem = document.getElementById("f"+blabla); if(elem == null) break; elem.onclick(); }».</li> <li>Press "Enter".</li> </ol> In my opinion, it’s an absolutely useless thing, but it might still be useful to someone. First, you need to make sure that at the top of your page it says “The information on this page may not be accurate.” How to do this? Just. Create a page for a star, post a couple of photos of Marilyn Monroe and sign that it’s you. The profile must be filled out 100% - this is a prerequisite. Otherwise the secret won't work. Then unsubscribe in one of the groups that has moderators. As soon as you receive the long-awaited message “The information on this page may not be true.” start removing information from the page. For example, if you delete an avatar the rating will become -30%. I’ll also tell you what the rating is made up of and how to increase it to the maximum level. So, how to increase VKontakte rating and filling out which fields on the social network affects it: Percentage: Photography – 25% Personal information (hobbies) – up to 20%, tricky depending on how filled University – 5% School with all the data…. – 20% Career – 10% About myself: — 10% – gender – 2% – marital status – 2% – date of birth (in full) – 2% – hometown – 2% — political views – 1% – religious views – 1%) Places – 10% (1st place – 1%, if up to 10 pieces) Contact information – 10% mobile phone – 4% ICQ – 4% home phone – 2%) Secrets of VKontakte: 8. Change language With this simple secret you can play a great prank on your friend. The point is this: when you click on the link http://vkontakte.ru/?lang=digit, the language changes from Russian to the one whose number you indicated. Russian language - 0. And then experiment! Don't forget to write a good inviting text. For example: “http://vkontakte.ru/?lang=10 - special New Year's Version of Vkontakte! Come in - you won’t regret it!” Secrets of VKontakte: 9. Canceling a friend request Sometimes this happens: you added a person as a friend, and then changed your mind. It doesn’t matter, the application can be deleted, or rather cancelled. Enter http://vkontakte.ru/friend.php?act=remove&id=* into the address bar of your browser, where * is the ID of the unwanted friend. After this, a message will appear: “Are you sure you want to remove Friend’s First Name, Friend’s Last Name from your list of friends?” Feel free to click “Yes”. Secrets of VKontakte: 10. Status on several lines Like other secrets, this one is quite simple. The only condition is that we need the Opera browser. Open your profile page and go to source code viewing mode. Find the following piece of code: « <input style=”background-position: center center;” class=”inputtext” type=”text” id=”edit_activity_text” name=”edit_activity_text” value=”” maxlength=”160? onblur=”return activity_editor.blur();” onkeypress=”return activity_editor.handle_key_press(event);” />» We replace it with: « <textarea id=”edit_activity_text” name=”edit_activity_text” onblur=”return activity_editor.blur();” >»

We save the result. Now you can write VKontakte status in several lines.

Secrets of VKontakte: 11. Insert music into a VKontakte note

Actually a very useful feature. If you store a huge number of tracks, you can create some kind of playlists using notes. 5 steps await us. Let's get started.

We find the song we need. This can be done at vkontakte.ru/audio.php.

There is an “Add” link next to the song. Let's copy it. You can do this in the following way: open it in a new window and immediately stop the page from loading. I got this link: audio.php?act=add&add=1&gid=0&aid=47083679&oid=-4536434&hash=5ba68fca77ce808a3947297722874e55

Copy from this link the numbers that come after &oid= and &aid=.

We insert these numbers into [“]”, where * is the number after &oid, ** is the number after &aid.

Paste the resulting tag into the note. I got []. Everything works.

Secrets of VKontakte: 12. Secrets of VKontakte graffiti

Have you often wondered how some users get great graffiti? The secrets are as always simple and lie on the surface.

To draw straight horizontal and vertical lines, you need to switch the mouse control to an additional keyboard. This can be done simply by using the combination Shift+Alt+NumLock.

Working with scale will help you draw fine details better. You can zoom in in the browser, or you can use the standard Windows function - “Screen Magnifier”. To enable it, go to: Start > All Programs > Accessories > Accessibility > Screen Magnifier.

Secrets of VKontakte: 13. If you are blocked from VKontakte

This secret will be especially useful to you if you have a VKontakte was blocked. As always, there is a way out. Even if VKontakte is blocked You can still access the social network, and in two different ways. The fastest and easiest way is to log in through an anonymizer. Some anonymizers may also be blocked, but I think from the proposed list in one of the search engines there will definitely be one working one.

Problem with blocked "Vkontakte" solved.

It’s worth mentioning right away that this secret doesn’t always work. But you can try. So to find out the author of an anonymous opinion on VKontakte required:

In the “Offers” section, create a new offer. Try to come up with something interesting.
After that, enable “Suggestions” in the “My Settings” section.
We send the following link to the author of the opinion http://vkontakte.ru/matches.php?act=a_sent&to_id= *** &dec=1, where *** is your VKontakte ID. I already wrote above how to find out the ID. The link must be “complete” with interesting text so that the anonymous person clicks on it.

Secrets of VKontakte: 15. How to view private photos on VKontakte

This is a fresh secret that became known after the New Year. The algorithm of actions is as follows:

We enable the newly created function - “Accelerated photo viewing mode”.

Go to the “Photos in which the user is tagged” section (it needs to be open). Usually most of the photos there are closed for viewing.

We select a photo that is open and then use the arrows or click on the photo to view the album as usual. All private photos will be visible to you.

This VKontakte secret works thanks to the new “Accelerated Photo Viewing Mode” function, which is implemented a little crookedly.

If you know any other secrets of VKontakte, do not hesitate to write to me in private messages on VKontakte. They will then be added to this post. Secret information about vkontakte.ru will also not hurt.

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There is hardly a VKontakte user who would not want to read a personal message from someone without the sender finding out about it. For example, because you don’t have the time or desire to respond to the person right away. There is an easy way to do this. Paste the link into the address bar http://vk.com/im?q=day:31122014 , where numbers are the date in the format DD:MM:YYYY. Instead of these numbers, you enter another date, until which all messages, including unread ones, will be displayed. You will be able to read them, but they will remain unread status.
Let's return to the conversation
Sometimes we may leave the dialogue in which we were added in our hearts, but over time we will realize how hasty and questionable this decision was. Fortunately, there is always a way to add it back, even if you deleted the correspondence and no longer see it on your account.
But let's start with a simple case - if you just left the conversation. To do this, you need to go into it, click “Actions” and in the drop-down menu find the “Return to conversation” item. That's all.
If you managed to delete the correspondence, then even in this case you can return, but you will have to find it first. To do this, you need to paste the link into the address bar.

Would you like to learn about some useful functions of the mega-popular social network VKontakte in our latitudes? Then, read about the seven hidden features of VK and use the knowledge you gain now!

Just recently we wrote about... There, everything was solved by installing a special plugin, which automatically added the functionality we needed, among which, downloading media files is only a small part of the improvements...

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

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

Changing the language

And we’ll start with perhaps the most useless, but fun function - changing the interface language of our account. Previously, in the “basement” (the very bottom of the page) of the social network there were links to quickly change the language, among which there were two funny variants of Russian: “Pre-Revolutionary” and “Soviet”.

Then Contact underwent a redesign and some 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 turned on. To do this, you need to go to “My Settings” and at the bottom of the “Language” drop-down list, the last two items will be our treasured parameters :)

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

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

How to add symbols and underscores in messages

If the change in 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 everyone can see it :) Specifically, I mean the possibility of formatting text in your messages. After the last redesign (around April-May), many of the text formatting functions were eliminated, but some remained...

The general concept of formatting VKontakte text is as follows: in front of the letter that needs to be highlighted in a certain way, a special code is placed, starting with symbols and ending with a certain number with a colon at the end. In practice, it looks something like this (we enter the example without quotes): "͠п͠р͠и͠в͠е͠т":

In addition to the wavy overline, the following codes also work now:

́ - stress (placed before the letter we want to emphasize and works only once in one word);

- non-breaking space (replaced with an empty character and allows, for example, to send an empty message);

¯ - overlining with a solid, straight line;

̅ - dotted line.

At the moment, everything is formatted, however, it is worth mentioning that VKontakte codes partially coincide with popular ALT codes. If anyone doesn’t know yet, an ALT code is a special set of numbers that are entered using the numeric keypad (a block of buttons with numbers on the right) while holding down the ALT key. While the button is pressed, we can enter certain numbers that will not be visible, but as soon as we release the key, a certain character will appear.

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

Wall posts visible only to friends

Since we are talking about messages, it is worth mentioning one far from obvious, but useful function, such as hiding information on the wall from all visitors except friends. If you try to do this during normal editing from “My Page,” then you will not succeed, since the required option is not available anywhere.

Someone may rightly note that in Settings, in the “Privacy” (second) tab, you can configure it so that only friends (or no one at all :)) can view the wall. But this will be a global setting. But 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 entries” section! You can get into it if you click on the inscription on your page that displays the number of posts on the wall (top left above the “What’s new with you?” field). This will open a page displaying only your wall and an expanded news entry field:

Under the news entry field we will have the treasured “only for friends” checkbox. We activate it, publish the news and it will be invisible to everyone who is not on your friends list!

The only caveat is that you can no longer hide previously added news. You can only hide new posts that you publish directly on your wall, which has an address like “vk.com/wallyourID”.

How to find out who visits you most often

There are generally many different questions associated with VKontakte friends... For example, we officially cannot find out which of our friends visited our page. For this purpose, VKontakte has dozens of applications that, with varying degrees of reliability, show who allegedly visited you. However, in reality, most often such applications do not work.

It turns out that there is a very real way to find out who has recently visited you most often, even without third-party applications of dubious quality. True, it is not known what degree of reliability there is in this method, since you can only check by asking people directly whether they visited you. Although, everything coincided for me, so I’ll tell you about the method, and it’s up to you :)

So, the first thing we need to do is go to “My Settings” and at the very bottom of the page find the inscription “You can delete your page.” Click on the link in this caption and go to the page for deleting your account:

There is no need to delete anything! We are only interested in the item “No one comments on my page.” We select it and in the field with a 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, visited you, repeat the procedure and get the names of another couple of visitors. We can repeat this until we count everyone! I got 7 people in a day - it seems to be true, although who will understand their developers :).

How to delete a friend request

The last situation related to friends, which often arises among VK users, is requests to be added as friends from strangers of dubious activity :). Previously, there was a button that allowed you to directly delete any add request. Today we are offered only two options: either add or remain as subscribers...

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

We leave the person as subscribers, and then go to the “My subscribers” section (in the menu under the avatar on your page). A pop-up window will open with a list of people following you. We find the avatar of the person we just added, and in the upper right corner, click on the “Block” button with a cross. Everything is ready - you won't be disturbed anymore :)

How to download music and videos

There are a whole bunch of services, plugins and full-fledged ones for downloading music and videos from Contact. However, there is a way to download media files directly without additional devices :). To do this, we can use any browser that allows us to view the code (usually viewing the code is caused by pressing the CTRL+U key combination).

To download music, go to the “My audio recordings” section and look for the track that we want to download. For speed, 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 of them, then scroll through the code manually):

To make the search easier, 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 this manipulation the download will start immediately, and in some a player will appear. If you have started playing, then you need to call up the context menu and activate the “Save As” item in it. A standard save dialog will appear, in which you can select the location where the file will be 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. Videos in Contact can be stored in two formats: .mp4 or .flv. We enter both options into the search in turn and look at the result. You should find a link like this:

As you can see, it is not stored in completely working condition. Specifically, its performance is hampered by backslashes, which appear three in front of forward slashes. 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 the extra groups of slashes. Then the algorithm is the same as for links to music: either the video will immediately start downloading to the default downloads folder, or the player will appear and we can save the video through the context menu.

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

Status "Online from a mobile device" on a PC

For a snack, one more simple trick :) Recently, VKontakte, in addition to the “Online” status, also began to display the “Online from a mobile device” status, which is displayed if you are online from a phone or tablet. Some comrades immediately “saw the trick” and began to boast that they had cool tablets and smartphones. Naturally, they cite their status as proof :)

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

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

Now all that remains is to click 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 there will be a status icon in the form of a mobile phone :) Close the “Developer Tools” panel and the last step is to switch to the full version of the site by clicking the “Full version” button in the left menu at the bottom. Although, if you are satisfied with the mobile version, you can leave it...

Conclusions

So our mini-excursion into the hidden capabilities of VKontakte has come to an end. In fact, there are many more secrets in VK, but it is unrealistic to know them all! And the obsolescence of certain features occurs quite rapidly. While this article was being written, for example, VKontakte returned the function for selecting a language from the site’s footer :) And the article was written in only two days...

In a word, you can’t keep track of everything, so we make the most of today what we can still use, and we’ll see what will happen tomorrow :) Happy surfing and more friends with whom you can communicate on any topic!

P.S. Permission is granted to freely copy and quote this article, provided that an open active link to the source is indicated and the authorship of Ruslan Tertyshny is preserved.