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How to Use Dropbox to Share Family Photos

by Barbara J. Feldman September 20, 2012
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Dropbox is one of my favorite cloud storage platforms because of the variety of tools they offer that make it dead simple. Reasons Why Here’s a rundown of reasons to use Dropbox: 1) They have software for all the major computer platforms (Mac and Windows) that allow you to use Dropbox as a local folder. [...]

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How to Share Your Amazon Prime Account

by Barbara J. Feldman July 24, 2012
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Amazon Prime is an annual membership that provides free two-day shipping on qualifying Amazon purchases for you and four “household members.” What this membership-sharing means is that you can provide Amazon Prime shipping benefits to your parents, siblings and friends. Yes, friends are included. The “household” definition is very loose, and the only check in [...]

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How to Manage Passwords

by Barbara J. Feldman July 17, 2012

The topic of password security has been in the news recently because of several high-profile websites that had their users’ passwords hacked. The advice after these kinds of hacking incidents is always the same: change your passwords at the affected sites, use a long/complicated password that is not comprised of words that can be found [...]

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How to Keep Your Facebook Notifications Private

by Barbara J. Feldman July 10, 2012

Here’s an insider tip on how to mitigate the spew from prolific Facebook apps that want to spam your Facebook wall. You know the ones I’m talking about? So-and-so watched a video, so-and-so read an article, etc. These notifications are annoying at best, and possibly even down-right embarrassing. The next time an app asks you [...]

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How to Remove Spotify Updates From Your Wall

by Barbara J. Feldman July 3, 2012

Is your Facebook wall overrun with music playlists from Spotify? Do you care what songs your friends are listening to on Spotify? If not, heres a tip from The Internet Patrol explaining how to remove all Spotify updates from your wall. Hover your mouse over the down arrow in the right-hand corner of any Spotify [...]

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How to Use Evernote

by Barbara J. Feldman June 26, 2012
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Evernote is a note-taking application that captures ideas, pictures, articles from the Internet, and yet defies classification because of how well it simply works everywhere you are: your smart phone, a mobile browser or your desktop computer. With free apps and versions for dozens of platforms, it’s hard to choose just one amazing feature, but [...]

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