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How to Get Your Facebook Under Control

by Barbara J. Feldman May 22, 2012

Facebook can be a “constant source of annoyance, embarrassment and trouble” according to this article on Lifehacker: The Stupid Things You Do on Facebook. OTOH, the article also explains how to solve these problems, and “get Facebook under control.” For example, Stupid Thing #1 is not regularly auditing the permissions you have granted your approved [...]

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How to Securely Share Passwords

by Barbara J. Feldman May 1, 2012

Sharing passwords via email is risky because email is no more secure than a postcard. The free version of Passpack offers two ways to securely share passwords (in addition to providing secure cloud password storage and one-click login). Way number one is via email using a five-digit PIN for encryption. If you want to share [...]

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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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How to Stop Spam Events on Google Calendar

by Barbara J. Feldman March 20, 2012

Have you ever found a spam event on your Google calendar? In my case it was a court appearance in the state of New York regarding some paperwork from the Department of Social Services! I live in California, and am pretty certain I have no open court cases in New York. It was a bit [...]

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