How to Hide Friends on Facebook

July 19, 2011

Did you know that without unfriending them completely, you can keep certain annoying Facebook friends from cluttering up your wall by hiding them? To hide a friend named Tom (for example), simply move your cursor to the X in the upper right-hand corner of one of his updates, and then click “Hide all by Tom.” [...]

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How to Keep Your Gmail Account Secure

July 12, 2011

To help you keep your Gmail account secure, Gmail lists recent sessions at the bottom of your inbox. There you can view recent account activity, and also see if your Gmail account is still logged in another session. If you do see another open session (maybe its simply your laptop?) there is a link to [...]

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How to Use Google’s Search by Image

July 5, 2011

Identifying a mystery celebrity in a photo, or finding websites that have stolen your copyrighted images has gotten a whole lot easier with Google’s Search by Image. Images can be dragged and dropped, uploaded, specified by URL, or (with a Chrome or Firefox extension) simply right-clicked. To see Dave Taylor ID a mysterious blonde, read [...]

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Does Google Know What You Love?

June 28, 2011

What do you love? Google thinks it knows, and has launched a new search service by the same name. Searching for “cats” for example, will display results in a visual table format from multiple Google services, including YouTube, Google Maps, Blog Search, Calendar, Patent Search, Picasa, Books, Image Search, Translate and SketchUp. Maybe it’s useful. [...]

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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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