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Secret commands VK. The most secret functions and loopholes of VKontakte

Switch language

You can change the language. The choice is large: Russian, English, German and others. But there are also more exotic/fun ones. For example, Pre-Revolutionary or Belarusian. Try it yourself. At the top right, click on your profile and select Settings. Language – Change. And there from big list you can choose whatever you want. We recommend trying Pre-Revolutionary.

Leave the field empty

There is an option to fill out your profile in the Career section, but leave most of the fields blank. To do this, go to Edit Profile. Then in all lines (Career section) we insert a set of characters:

Confidentiality

In order to prevent people from finding you by your phone number on VKontakte, you need to go to Settings - Privacy - Contact me. There, in the line: “Who can find me when importing contacts at +37529******,” select “Only me.”

Disabling advertising

You're probably annoyed intrusive adware"In contact with"? It is time to turn it off once and for all. Just download and install the extension Adblock plus for Firefox or Chrome. Activate all filters by default, and advertising will disappear not only on VKontakte, but also on other sites. How nice and calm it is to read the news without advertising. Thank you Adblock.

Listening to music

There is a lot of music on VKontakte. Lots of good music. New items appear here quickly. But we want to listen to it not only on the website, but also on a smartphone, in a car, and without the Internet at all. No problem. We go to a special website, it will ask you for authorization, allow it and start downloading! Enter the song you are interested in into the search and go!

Changing the design

Do you want to freshen up your page design a little? Or classic design Are you a little tired of VKontakte? Nothing could be simpler. You can change the theme of the site at your discretion. Only you will see this design. To do this, you need to go to the site and install the extension for Chrome/Firefox. Then, on the website, select the theme you like and click “Apply”. This is what we end up with:

News updates

In “News” you can sometimes get a lot of necessary and not so necessary information. How about looking at the list of people your friends have added today? Click the News section, then Updates on the side. Voila! Now we can see specifically who your friends have added to their friends list.

Privacy

If you are a very private person and value privacy, you can hide your page completely. Users will only be able to see your main photo. To do this, let's go to Settings - Privacy. Next, select “Who sees the basic information of my page”, check “Only Me”. Ready!

Lock

If you need to completely hide from one person, just block him. Go to his Profile and select – Block. Now he will not be able to write to you, see your photos, friends and information about you.

Hiding friends

By default, all VKontakte users can see all your friends. For some it is convenient, for others it is not. VKontakte stands for openness. We will stand up for confidentiality. It is possible to hide certain (but not all) friends. To do this, go to Settings - Privacy. There, click on the item “Who is visible in the list of my friends and subscriptions”, select “Show all friends except”. Select the friends you want to hide. Ready!

Delayed publication

To post a note or photo on your page in certain time, There is useful feature– Delayed publication. It's easy to launch. Go to the message writing interface, then click “More” - “Timer”. There we select the date and time of publication of the message.

Safety

If you suspect that someone is following you and secretly logging into your account, it won’t be difficult to check. Go to the Settings section – Security – Show activity history. There you will see the IP address, country, time and type of device from which you logged into VKontakte the last few times. Clear and accessible. If you see some strange IP addresses from other countries, but you yourself are in Belarus, this is a reason to think about it and change your passwords.

Free votes

There we will be offered to play various online games, reach a certain level and get our free votes. Why not?

Mention

If you want to mention someone in your wall post, you can do this in a similar way to Twitter, use @. For example, like this: @Petrov

Changing the page address

Would you like to learn about some useful functions of the mega-popular in our latitudes social network In contact with? 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 Internet... 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 them;)

Therefore, I bring to your attention a small, but useful selection 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, there were links in the “footer” (the very bottom of the page) of the social network quick change languages, 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 text on VKontakte is as follows: before the letter that needs to be highlighted in a certain way, put special code, starting with characters and ending with a specific 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 empty message);
  • ¯ - overlining with a solid, straight line;
  • ̅ - dotted line.

On this moment formatting is all, however, it is worth mentioning that VKontakte codes partially coincide with popular ALT codes. If anyone doesn’t know yet, the ALT code is special set numbers that are entered with numeric keypad(block of buttons with numbers on the right) with 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 will no longer be able to 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 quite real way find out who's in Lately most often came to see you, 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 right top 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 :). For this we Any will do a browser that allows you to view the code (usually viewing the code is called by pressing the key combination CTRL+U).

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 new tab, paste this link into 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 start playing, you need to call context menu and in it activate the “Save As” item. 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

One more simple trick for a snack :) Recently, VKontakte, in addition to the “Online” status, also began to display the “Online with” status mobile device", displayed if you are online from a phone or tablet. Some comrades immediately "saw the trick" and began to brag about what 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 Google Nexus 10, because this tablet has quite a high resolution screen and with such a resolution it will be comfortable to work 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 last step switch to the full version of the site by clicking the button " Full version" in the left menu below. Although, if you are satisfied mobile version, then you can leave it...

conclusions

Our mini-excursion to hidden possibilities In contact with. 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 granted to freely copy and quote. this article provided that open active link to the source and preservation of the authorship of Ruslan Tertyshny.

How quickly time passes. I have been registered with VKontakte for almost a year now. I don’t use classmates, because they are too commercialized, and another story connects me with them. Today, the monthly audience of social networks numbers tens of millions of people. For example, the number of unique visitors to social Facebook networks and MySpace in January 2009 exceeded 90 million people. This is approximately one third of all US residents. It is interesting that Runet social networks, the leaders of which are VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, have been steadily approaching their Western counterparts over the past few months. The total number of registered users of the social networks “VKontakte” and “Odnoklassniki” today is about 25 million people.
According to analytical companies involved in statistical analysis network trends, in January 2009 the number of unique visitors to VKontakte for the first time exceeded that of Odnoklassniki. During the specified period of time, the attendance of VKontakte was 13.09 million people, and Odnoklassniki - 13 million. Of course, the gap is minimal, but nevertheless it speaks volumes. The report was provided by TNS Web Index.
Currently, the databases of these resources are an extremely tasty morsel - it’s hard to even imagine how many personal information there is. It's no secret that among ordinary users social network comes across movie stars, show business, famous politicians. All these people usually prefer to hide their data - and in their account they also keep their data private prying eyes. However, what is closed by one person may well be open by another - after all, social networks are just a set of code symbols that were created by people. You can find out some of the secrets of social network users, no matter how private they are about their personal information.

If so, then let's begin research into possible approaches to the classified data of users of the social network VKontakte.

So, here is a list of what thousands of thousands of VKontakte users desire:
View closed pages
Replace date of birth with any day, month or year
Download music from the VKontakte database
Download video from VKontakte database
How to find out who left an opinion about you
Invite all friends to the group
How to remove the first and last name on VKontakte
How to marry yourself "VKontakte"
How to create a status on several lines?
How to follow people on VKontakte?

In reality, all this is not so difficult to do, you just need to be able to press the keys and carefully read the instructions.

1) Secrets of VKontakte - How to view closed pages? It's not easy, but very simple:

http://vkontakte.ru/photos.php?act=user&id=0000 - photographs in which a person is tagged
http://vkontakte.ru/video.php?act=tagview&id=0000 - videos in which a person is tagged
http://vkontakte.ru/photos.php?id=0000 - photo albums
http://vkontakte.ru/video.php?id=0000 - video recordings
http://vkontakte.ru/groups.php?id=0000 - groups
http://vkontakte.ru/audio.php?id=0000 - audio recordings
http://vkontakte.ru/apps.php?mid=0000 - applications
http://vkontakte.ru/questions.php?mid=0000 - questions, where 0000 is the user id.

True, there are some limitations here that still cannot be overcome: if photos are available for specific groups of friends, then you won’t be able to view them! Likewise, you won’t be able to view photos of a user who has blocked them from everyone.

2) Secrets of VKontakte - How to change your birthday to an arbitrary one?

This stage is somewhat more complicated than the previous one, but clear instructions will help anyone. Here are the steps to take:

Download and install Opera 9.27 (or better yet, take the Portable version)
In your account, click on “edit.” next to the "My Page" button
Press the key combination “Ctrl+F3”
Scroll the opened code down to a list with lines like 1
In the found piece, change both digits 1 in line 1 to the same desired number
Scroll down a little more to the list of years and in 1996 change both numbers 1996 to the same desired numbers
Look up and click the “Save Changes” button
Click on the contact page edit tab, selecting numbers from previous step;
Save the changes made;
Check the results.

Note that for some users, despite smooth hands and a normally functioning brain, nothing worked out. Perhaps the moon was simply in the wrong phase, or software somehow interacted, preventing a positive result from being achieved.

3) Secrets of VKontakte - How to download music from the VKontakte database?

If you want to download music from specific page, then copy this code into the address bar of your browser (if open page"VKontakte" with the desired melody).

javasc ript: function operate (id, host, user, file, dur, wall) ( var str = “Download
“; mydoc = window.open(); mydoc.document.write(str); ) alert("Patched!");
// don't forget to remove spaces

Now you need to press ENTER.
After this, when you click on the button to play the audio recording, a new (!!) window will open with a “download” link. To download, hover over the link and select “Save As”. If you don’t need to download, but just want to listen, just follow the link. Some Internet browsers enable the “Save As” option in the File menu.

4) Secrets of VKontakte - How to download videos from the VKontakte database? We work according to the following algorithm:

Open the page with the video;
Paste this code into the address bar of the browser (with the page with the video open):
java script:(function())(var s=document.createElement('script'); s.src='http://xantorohara.jino-net.ru/videovkontakte/videovkontakte.js'; s.type='text /javascript'; document.getElementsByTagName('head').appendChild(s ))();
Remove all spaces (without this it will not work). Press Enter.

5) Secrets of VKontakte - How to find out who left an anonymous opinion?

If you really can’t wait to find out who left the opinion, we send back a link like this: http://vkontakte.ru/matches.php?act=a_sent&to_id=0000&dec=1, where (0000 is the user id, that is, yours) .
As soon as this person clicks on the link, it will become clear to you who this anonymous person is. Please note: you must have applications enabled!

6) Secrets of VKontakte - How to invite all friends to the group?

IN in this case The actions that need to be taken are a little more complicated than in the previous case, but not much, do not be alarmed:
Go to “Invite to group”
Copy the following code into the address bar of the browser, remembering to remove spaces:
java script:function addall())(var butt_all=’[>>>Welcome! “Settings” > “Advanced” > “Network”.
Remove the checkbox from “Enable automatic redirection».
We repeat the steps we performed for Firefox browser, you just need to start from the third point.

Method No. 3 (considerable investment of time)
You need to go to " Private messages»
Then we wait (timeout for connecting to VKontakte).
Ready! We visit all pages except “profile.php”.

9) Secrets of VKontakte - How to draw highly artistic graffiti?

Most users can hardly boast of artistic skills. A small series of tricks that will help you create a masterpiece on someone's wall:
In order to draw perfectly straight horizontal and vertical lines you need to switch the mouse control to additional keyboard. This is done with the key combination Shift+Alt+NumLock.
Work with small details will become much easier as you scale up. Will help with this " Magnifier": Start > All Programs > Accessories > Special abilities> Screen magnifier.

10) Secrets of VKontakte - How to insert audio into notes?

Quite a useful feature if you store great amount tracks on VKontakte, then you can create some semblance of playlists:
Find the track at http://vkontakte.ru/audio.php;
Find the “Add” link next to it and copy it by opening the page and stopping its loading;
The result was a link like this: http://vkontakte.ru/audio.php?act=add&add=0&gid=0&aid=48008192&oid=14904316&hash=af1e2261c6ba61d7487e66c2ca741f61;
Copy from this link the numbers after the variables &oid= and &aid=;
We insert these numbers into “[]”, where * is the number after &oid, ** is the number after &aid. Insert the resulting tag ([]) into the notes.

11) Secrets of VKontakte - How to marry yourself on VKontakte?

Sometimes you want to please yourself and your friends with something unusual - and VKontakte offers us many opportunities to personalize your account. For example, you can marry yourself - we explain how this can be done, using the example of working in Opera browser.
Go to the page for editing your profile;
Opening source page, look for the code for the drop-down list and add at the very end of yourself: I;
Click “Apply changes” and select yourself on the editing page;
We save the profile.

By the way, Firefox can also help us with this issue, however, to marry yourself you will need to install the Firebug plugin.

12) Secrets of VKontakte - How to use Special symbols in name or status?

There are users whose name or status contains unusual characters. In order to keep up with progressive humanity, you need to select the symbol you like and insert its HTML code wherever required - in a name, status, or simply in a sentence.

13) Secrets of VKontakte - How to follow people on VKontakte?

If you need to know how much your acquaintances, friends or subordinates spend on the VKontakte social network, use the SocialWatch.ru service. Everything is simple here: register, add links to the profiles of those you want to follow. After this, you can easily track how much time the tracked users spend on the social network.

14) Secrets of VKontakte - How to watch closed photos"In contact with"?
Turn on the “Accelerated photo viewing mode” function.
Go to the “Photos in which the user is tagged” section.
We select a photo that is open and then look through all the “closed” photos.

15) Secrets of VKontakte - How to prank a friend?

With this little trick coupled with the gullibility of friends can be a good way to observe vocabulary victims of the prank. And all because of one link - http://vkontakte.ru/?lang=digit. When you click on the link, the language changes from Russian to the one whose number was indicated. For example, the Russian language is 0, and then everything is in your hands and the courage of your friends.

Of course, over time this will all be corrected by the developers! But there are no ideals...
All the best! Best regards, Eric Newman aka rxn