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Facebook Home’s making its official debut on the HTC First and a handful of big-hitting Android handsets this Friday, but MoDaCo has come across a trio of APKs which offer an early taste. The leaked APKs have been stripped from a pre-release HTC First ROM, with MoDaCo noting they’re “rather buggy” and not fully functional — Chat Heads doesn’t work, for example. You’ll need a handset with a max screen res of 1,280 x 768 and must be able to remove the current Android Facebook app, as the newer APKs won’t install otherwise. MoDaCo lists a workaround for phones that have Facebook baked into the ROM, but it’ll still need to be rooted. Hit up the source link if you’ve got the side-loading skills and feel like giving Facebook Home a preliminary poking.

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You know Facebook’s got dirt on you, it’s one of modern life’s unavoidable trade offs. Now though, thanks to Wolfram Alpha, you can data-mine yourself — something its creator has been doing for years — and get a true sense of exactly what the social network knows about you. You’ll first have to head over to the computational knowledge engine, then search “Facebook report.” Follow the prompts to give the app permission etc, and you’ll be rewarded with a detailed breakdown. The data shows information about your interactions, friends, most popular photos, most common demographics and more. For example, you might discover that you know someone in the Philippines, have a clutch of non-connected friends weirdly in the same location, or that you mom is your top post commenter. Though you probably knew that last part already. Paranoid or curious? Jump on the source link to get started.

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Wolfram Alpha lets you stalk yourself on Facebook, reminds you how noisy you are originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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