Removing links on the left of the dashboard

Hi there, when viewing the dashboard and profile pages on easysocial you can see on the left hand side of the page a menu of sorts that shows things like "Recent Albums" and "Applications" just like the attached screenshot here.

On my site I will not need photo albums and therefore want to remove this menu link "Recent Albums" also I do not wish for users to install their own apps - therefore I wish to remove this link also. Can you please let me know how to do this as I am a little confused in the backend of where to hide these elements?

Thanks in advance.