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Apr 20

Help Secure Your Online Communications With HTTPS Everywhere

Any online transaction (e.g., loading a web page) is not inherently secure. This means that any personal information that is transferred to and from your computing device is susceptible to being captured and read by a third party.

As many users know, one way to add a layer of security is to ensure that the site you are visiting has a secure (i.e., encrypted) connection, denoted by the https:// at the beginning of the site’s URL. Many popular sites now offer such a type of connection, but may not have it enabled, by default, putting an unnecessary burden on the user to check off the appropriate account setting.

A Chrome/Firefox extension, called HTTPS Everywhere, aims to remove this barrier to security. Read more

Mar 26

Export Your Facebook Photos As A PDF Album

Despite the fact that there are almost 1 billion people on Facebook, many of us may have friends or family members that are not computer savvy, or that have reservations about the privacy issues that revolve around using social media. If you use the service to keep online backups of your photos that can be easily accessed and distributed, it may be frustrating to share such content with these individuals.

Usually, getting photos out of Facebook entails downloading the photos, compressing them into an archive, and emailing them. If you’d like an easier option to explore, give Albums to PDF a try. Read more

Mar 21

Keep Track Of Your Job Applications’ Status With StartWire

At present, the job market sucks. There is a good chance that you are an over-educated, under-employed individual that might be having trouble keeping track of the hundreds of applications you’ve sent out. Today’s tip focuses on an innovative, new service that may help you get a handle on this often frustrating process. Read more

Mar 12

Use Facebook To Listen To Music And Chat With Your Friends In Real Time

Most people have a deep-seated appreciation for music, and how we consume and think about our favorite tunes is changing. Instead of exclusively buying/ripping CDs or purchasing tracks online through marketplaces like iTunes or Amazon MP3, many of us now supplement, or flat out replace, traditional sources of music with online, streaming services (e.g., Pandora, Rdio, Spotify, MOG).

With so many options to choose from, it can be difficult to utilize all these services have to offer, especially since millions of Internet users put a significant amount of their online time into social networks, like Facebook.

Good old Zucks feels your pain and now gives you an excellent way to get the best of all worlds with minimal compromise. Read more

Feb 24

Sync Online Media To Your Desktop With Social Folders

Cloud services, such as Facebook, Flickr and Google Docs, are great for their convenience and rapid development cycles, but many of us are uncomfortable with leaving the master copies of our data on someone else’s computers.

If you’d like an easy way to keep local copies of your online pictures and documents, you should try Social Folders. Read more

Feb 20

Create A 3-D Panorama With Microsoft’s Photosynth

Windows only: While Apple, Google and Facebook often get the lion’s share of the tech industry’s attention, one would be unwise to dismiss Redmond’s sleeping giant. Regardless of its lack of mind share, Microsoft is still home to thousands of intelligent, talented engineers that are working on innovative technologies.

Today, we are going to cover one such example. Let’s learn about Microsoft Photosynth. Read more

Jan 30

Become Conversant With Facebook’s Timeline Feature

Officially released over a month ago, Facebook’s new Timeline feature brings a new, attractive look to your profile, as well as the ability to see all your posts since you first began using Facebook. Getting a better understanding of what this feature can do for you and how you can use it is the focus of today’s post. Read more

Jan 9

Share Songs With Friends And Discover New Artists With SoundShare

iOS: If you are an iOS user that loves music and wants additional ways to share and discover your favorite tunes/artists, you may be interested in a new app called SoundShare. Read more

Sep 23

Add Facebook Events To Google Calendar With Chrome Extension

Many of our friends and family members love Facebook, and are continually taking advantage of its many functions, e.g., Events. If you feel like a Google fanboy in a Facebook world, and decide that a consolidation of your scheduled events is in order, you may want to install this Chrome extension. Read more

Sep 5

Search Old Facebook And Twitter Posts With Social Searching

Although our social media posts may sometimes seem banal, and the idea of searching them months or years into the future appears gratuitous, there may be an unexpected utility to mining this aspect of your digital lifestyle. Perhaps you are trying to find a useful link you shared, but can’t remember the full name of the site/service, or are attempting to reconnect with a user, but can’t recall their handle.

Instead of wasting time scrolling through (possibly) many pages of posts or tweets, wouldn’t it be better to run a search of a database that contains all your social media information? Read more

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