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06/26/2012

So...Facebook this morning defaulted everyone's email on their Timeline to your .com address. If this is not the email you want people contacting you through, change it back by doing the following:

Click "About" on your profile and scroll down to your email address. Click "Edit" to change them.
Click on the circle next to your Facebook email address and change its setting to "Hidden From Timeline".
Click on the circle next to your other email addresses and change their settings to "Shown On Timeline".
Click the Save button at the bottom of the Edit popup.

12/02/2011

In case you were wondering...

Yesterday we explained how to check for Carrier IQ if you have a rooted Android handset. But people have been busy: now you can download an app from the Android Market to check if you're clean. While the Carrier IQ crap continues to hit the fan, François Simond () has swiftly developed...

11/07/2011

The new Nook Tablet was officially announced today. 1GHz Dual core processor, running Android Gingerbread, 1 GB RAM, low glare 7" IPS touch screen and 16 GB internal memory upgradable to 32 GB. Price point is $249 and releasing next week.

Also B&N announced upgrades coming to the Nook Color and Simple Touch e-readers, with price drops on both of them. The Nook Color dropping to $199 and the Simple Touch dropping to $99.

10/13/2011

Just a little security warning today:

Malicious app looks like real Netflix app but grabs log-in data, says Symantec. Read this blog post by Elinor Mills on InSecurity Complex.

09/25/2011

Great post from Lifehacker on the 5 best Facebook customizers. This is worth the read if you love or hate the new changes.

Love it or hate it, Facebook has been rolling out a number of new features and changes that have some excited and others irritated enough to complain, loudly.

09/23/2011

The new Timeline feature rolls out next week (the 29th), but if you want to grab it early here's how. Keep in mind though that this was put out early for developers, so only other developers (or people using the developers workaround) will be able to see your Timeline until it goes live for everyone.

We told you how to sign up for Facebook Timeline earlier today, now we are going to show you how to turn it on today! Read this blog post by Jason Cipriani on How To.

09/21/2011

Facebook Tip: So, you hate the new Facebook layout? Try using the new "lists" feature to better organize what you see on your wall and who you share with. Create your own lists and add who you want to them. Try it...it will turn those frowns upside down ;)

09/19/2011

Happy talk like a pirate day mates! Did you know know that in honor of this special day, you can change your Facebook setting to pirate?

All you do is scroll to the very bottom of the page. Where is says "English" click and change your settings to "English(Pirate). Arrrgh...have fun mates!

09/13/2011

A lot going on today! A little Windows 8 taste anyone? What are some thoughts so far?

Microsoft’s been releasing small breaths about its next version of Windows (still codenamed Windows 8 ) little by little for the past few months, but it’s here at Build that it’s exhaling with all its might. As predicted, Redmond is releasing the Windows 8 Developer Preview today and along with it c...

09/13/2011

Should make your friends list at least a bit more interesting.

Earlier this week, we reported that Facebook had quietly activated a nifty new feature: smart friend lists that use algorithms to generate a handful of lists of your friends, coworkers, acquaintances, and people who live near you. Now Facebook is publicly announcing smart friend lists, and it has so...

08/23/2011

Is your browser slowing down to a crawl? Don't give the browser itself all the blame. Look at your extensions and apps that are loaded. Clear out the ones you don't use and also the ones that don't have updates for the latest version of your browser. Most of the time this is what's slowing you down.

08/16/2011

Do you want to use a Facebook app but don't want to agree to all the permissions just to use it? FBSecure lets you do just that. Pick the permissions you want and still be able to use the application. Available as an extension for Chrome and FireFox. (Get the Firefox extension here: http://liisp.uncc.edu/fbs/)

FBSecure lets you customize which private permissions Facebook applications can access at installation time.