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Posts tagged ‘Privacy’

Apr 18

Keep Track Of Android Apps’ Permissions And Services With aSpotCat

Recently, a number of privacy issues have been raised in regard to the kinds of access third party apps are receiving after being installed on mobile devices. While some level of access to your personal information is required to offer a beneficial service, some developers seem to crossing a line, or, at the very least, not being transparent enough about how their app works.

If you are an Android user and would like to have a better idea as to how your device’s apps operate, you should check out aSpotCat. 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 19

Become Knowledgable About Online Safety With Google’s Good To Know Campaign

In its mission to drive more people online to view their ads, Google sometimes stops to take the time to construct informative, simplified tutorials and reference materials to help everyday Web users understand a core aspect of modern computing. Recently, they launched an excellent campaign focusing on online safety, called “Good to Know.” 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

Sep 28

Easily Delete Your Browser’s Cache, Cookies And History

Whether you are troubleshooting a misbehaving browser or seeking a way to preclude tracking of your web activity, deleting a variety of temporary information stored by your browser is a useful task that should be periodically performed.

Today’s tip will show you how to accomplish this task with minimal fuss. Read more

Sep 21

Create A Permanent Anonymous Email To Help Hide Your Online Identity

Almost every online service requires that you sign up for an account to get started. As a part of the process, you need to provide a valid email address, which is usually confirmed through the receipt and response to a verification email.

While many sites state that they will not sell your address to third parties that are continuously searching for new business opportunities (i.e., spammers), you may often find yourself on the receiving end of unsolicited, irrelevant emails.

If you’d like to be free to use online services without the omnipresent threat of spam, you might want to check out Not Sharing My Info. Read more

Aug 24

How To Selectively Display Your Facebook Information

Although Facebook is a great way to share your thoughts and experiences with friends and family, your number of connections can quickly get out-of-hand, and you may desire a way to selectively display information with certain groups of people. If you are a Facebook neophyte, you may want to learn how to organize your friends into lists. Read more

Apr 25

Back To Basics: Web Browser Settings

This is the first entry in a multi-part series. Part 2

Often, I serve as free tech support for my family. While I’m troubleshooting their issues, I cannot help but notice that although they have been using computers for most of their lives, they are only experiencing a subset of what their PCs can do because they’re using techniques that greatly impede the speed and efficiency of their computing experience.

One reason that many people who are considered technologically literate appear to be so fluent is because they have mastered simple aspects of interacting with their PCs. Once this initial source of friction is removed, you can begin to unleash your computing potential.

So, today I am publishing the first entry in a new series entitled Back To Basics, which focuses on fundamental aspects of computing that, once committed to memory, will greatly increase your ability to utilize your tech. Read more

Feb 21

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The Web Never Forgets: Monitoring Your Second Self

There is no doubt that the ubiquity of technology has engendered a change in how we interact with others. Many now feel comfortable sharing personal information through blogs, social networks and a variety of other online outlets. Whether as a requirement to succeed in modern vocations, to find information about a topic of interest or to discover new (or maintain old) relationships,  society is pressuring us to live increasingly public lives. Read more

Dec 20

Death To The Evercookie

 

Firefox only: The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the protocol which the World Wide Web operates on, is a stateless protocol, i.e., it does not require the server to retain information about each user for the duration of a session. In laymen’s terms, this means the protocol does not have a memory. Imagine going to your favorite website, and having to re-log in every time you jumped to another page on the site or reloaded the page you were on. Read more

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