Tech Tips

April 2012

How to Remove Flashback From Your Mac

by Barbara J. Feldman April 24, 2012

A recent malware outbreak on Macs, called Flashback, has infected hundreds of thousands of Mac computers. Apple has recently released a software update that will update Java to fix the flaw, and remove Flashback if it already has infected your machine. Macs normally check for software updates once a week, but you can perform an [...]

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How to Make a Trustworthy Tweet

by Barbara J. Feldman April 17, 2012

According to a recent study by Microsoft and Carnegie-Mellon University, a tweet is deemed as more trustworthy when it is retweet by someone you trust, or it contains a URL that you clicked through to. Some of the things that make a tweet untrustworthy are authors with the default Twitter user image, and poor grammar [...]

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How to Side Step the Facebook Timeline Format

by Barbara J. Feldman April 10, 2012

Haters of the new Facebook timeline format, who happen to use the Chrome browser, have a new best friend: the TimelineRemove Chrome extension. Simply install it into your browser, and you now have the option of switching between the timeline view and the previous format. Of course, this does not stop visitors to your Facebook [...]

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