Have You Tried Swype?

June 21, 2011

Swype is a free alternative keyboard for Android phones and tablets. Technically it is still in beta, but it recently re-opened its free beta to the public, so now is the time to give it a try. The primary difference between the Swype keyboard and the standard Android keyboard, is that Swype lets you move [...]

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Facebook’s Facial Recognition Service Causes Privacy Issues

June 14, 2011

Facebook finds itself in the middle of yet another privacy maelstrom, when they opted all their users into their new facial recognition photo-tagging service. For an analysis of why some think this is “super creepy” and big-brother-ish, read this article from PC World by Sarah Jacobsson Purewal.

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Google Announces New Voting Widget

June 7, 2011

In a move designed to make Google more social, the search giant recently added a voting widget to both its search results and third-party websites. Called Google Plus One, it allows those signed into their Google accounts to vote their approval of web pages. Pages you vote for will display in your Google account profile, [...]

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Data Leak at Facebook Compromises Users Information

May 31, 2011

Facebook users learned of a data leak earlier this month, when Symantec released details about how advertisers and other third-parties had inadvertent access to your personal information. The bottom line is that by changing your Facebook password now you can stop any additional private information from being leaked.

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Stream Netflix to your Android

May 24, 2011

Android users now have one more reason to love Netflix. Last week Netflix began roll out of it’s streaming app to select Android phones. This means you can watch movies from your Instant Queue on your phone, with either a 3G or Wifi connection. To find out if your phone is among the first being [...]

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Mac Help for Mom

May 17, 2011

Mac users who are tired of being a one-man tech support team for their moms, or any kind of Mac user that wants to learn more about their Mac computers, will love the easy to digest Mac lessons from Steve Loyola at MacHelpForMom.com. The site started as an easy way for Steve to help his [...]

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Do Complex Passwords Really Ensure Security?

May 11, 2011

Contrary to the commonly offered advice to use complex passwords to ensure security, Baekdal makes a good argument for using a more easily remembered password that is still very hard to guess by using phrases with spaces or dashes between the words. He gives examples by demonstrating how long it would take to crack a [...]

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Google Releases Free Video Conference Call App

May 3, 2011

Just recently released from beta, Fring is Google’s free group video call app for iPhone and Android. The mobile phone app enables group video phone calls with up to four people at once, over Wifi or 3G/4G phone connections. It also allows plain-old audio talk and has a text chat mode. It even allows you [...]

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Google and Facebook Offer Enhanced Security

April 27, 2011

Because our online accounts have become so important, both Google/Gmail and Facebook now offer two-step verification for enhanced security. The basic concept in two-step security is that in addition to your username and password, whenever you login into a new machine/browser you will verify your identity with a single use verification code that is sent [...]

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Google Announces Daily Trivia Game

April 20, 2011

Recently Google announced a daily trivia game called A Google a Day. Unlike other trivia games, where it is considered cheating to “google” the answer, this daily quiz encourages it! But in order to squelch answers from other players appearing in the search results, A Google a Day uses a special version of Google that [...]

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