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There are many sites you use everyday and social sites like Facebook and Gmail collect and have with them a lot of your data. This data can be from the sites you visit, your online shopping habits and a host of other information that you might not be aware about. In addition to this Facebook keeps making a log of changes to their privacy policies. It is therefore important for you to be able to keep a tab and be on top of it all. You might not even be aware where you need to go on these sites to fix your privacy settings. PrivacyFix is an online add-on available for Chrome and FireFox that helps you get the job done. Once you add PrivacyFix to Chrome or FireFox you will need to click on run PrivacyFix setup on the site. One the app is setup it will then run a check on your privacy settings  on Facebook and Google and guide you through all your default settings. If there is anything you want to fix simply click on the fix icon. It is a simple app and even if you have no use for i...

Hurricane Sandy proved without a doubt that cash is still king in an emergency situation. When the power is out it would mean water supply is hit, the fridge stops functioning, no TV and most of All -- no ATMs. No ATMs means you have no access to all your money. What use would it be in an emergency if the power is out and the ATM's are down and you have no access to your money. Emergency situations always prove to us that cash is till king. Cold hard notes that you can feel in your hands is the only thing that will do the talking and help you get around. [caption id="attachment_3112" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Image Credit - Wikipedia [/caption] It is a simply idea but would prove most valuable in an emergency -- keep some money in your home. Hide it up as best you can and don't forget where you hit it. So if there is an emergency you can always scurry to your hiding place and find your cash. There are many ways to hide you money around your...

If you were to search for the most viewed video in the world it is no more Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga -- it is now officially Gangnam Style . Which is steadily heading up to 1 billion views. Which is absolutely impressive for a non-English songs to make it to the charts and eventually take over. The only speculation now would be when is it going to reach a billion views. The video which has now crossed over 800 million views shows in a strange way how the web might be able to overtake TV -- YouTube in particular has had impressive growth over the last couple of years and is now firmly established as the No. 1 destination on the web to watch videos, not to forget the number of content creators it has created. With over 800 million views it is almost 6500 years of Gangnam Style being played. People of all ages like the song and it's not stuck within any particular age group or geographical location. Also considering the date it was published it means that there have been 6 million vi...

Facebook's Activity Log is the place to find all your posts and posts that friends have tagged you in. This is the place to go to when you want to review all the posts you have on your Timeline. From here you can either allow on Timeline , hide from Timeline or limit your posts to be viewable by only certain people. This is the most important place for you to set all your posts privacy settings. When you go to your Activity Log you can filter all your posts to make them easily searchable. This way if you want to find all the photos you've uploaded to Facebook -- use the photos filter to find only photos. You can do this for almost anything, you can search for all the posts made by games or apps on your Timeline. Easy to sort through and you can then either disable or allow on Timeline. Facebook Activity Log how to search 1. login to Facebook 2. Click on your name to land on your Timeline 3. Now choose Activity log found below your cover photo 4. Click the down arrow beside Po...

YouTube is the No 1 destination on the web for video content. Content being uploaded by content is versatile, new and ambitions. The best part about YouTube is that it allows anybody to become a content creator or video maker. There is also the chance to monetize your videos and make some money -- provided your videos get a lot of views and a lot of subscribers. If you have a lot of video views you might get invited by YouTube to join their partner program. There are many YouTube video content creators who are now able to live off their vast earnings from YouTube. If you are one of those people who want to start experimenting with YouTube and have started uploading videos. There is something known as YouTube default settings. Once you choose this option and set all your defaults. Then every-time you upload a video you don't have to make individual changes. Default settings will take care of it and it becomes less cumbersome. Do what you do best, create and upload videos and let th...

This is a life tip from Reddit that really needs mentioning. Many times people check into hotels and forget their hotel room numbers and start wandering around aimlessly searching. The problem gets compounded when you go out to town for a night of hitting all the possible watering holes. You down one too many and somehow reach your hotel only to forget your room number. Reddit user foundbypat has a simple solution -- take a pic of your hotel room number. This way when you stumble back to your hotel, you can always whip out your phone or gadget that you use and look at a pic of your room number. Other users suggest taking out the notepad that is usually available in your room, writing down the number and stuffing it into your pocket. We have another simple solution -- press your three digit hotel room number and dial on your phone. When you come back just checked your dialed numbers and the three digit one is the room number. Simple tips but helpful. Source: Take a pic of your hotel ro...

We are all familiar with Trending topics whether local to your countyr or on the worldwide trending topics list. A topic erupts stays for a few hours, maybe less than hour and somehow dies down. But every now and then we get a topics that trends on the worldwide trending topics list for more than a few days. The topic #ThingsGirlsSayAlot is now trending for at-least 3 days. It is always on the trending topics worldwide and moves arounf from being in the number 2 spot to somewhere down below but never seems to disappear. Watching this topic is enormous fun as it keeps getting its interest renewed. The current tweets that has been retweeted more than 7000 times is #ThingsGirlsSayAlot I'm ok or dont worry about it, #WhatItReallyMeans is be here for me, fight for me, kiss me & tell me its going be fine. https://twitter.com/damnitstrue/status/270004115373965312 Here are a few more Tweets of interest related to #ThingsGirlsSayAlot https://twitter.com/MikeEpps___/status/270403434224...

Here are the latest video parodies of the President doing the Gangnam Style and the parody of the Mitt Romney making a grade entrance doing the Gangnam Style.The Gangnam Style Obama Romney Face-off  There are many of these parodies on the internet and YouTube. These two videos however are the latest ones. The first one if by Barak Obama impersonator Reggie Brown. The other one where Mitt Romney does the Gangnam Style appears on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The top YouTube comment below the video reads 'It looks photoshopped for some reason. Well, we'll let you decide check the videos out below and leave a comment with what you think and who is the winner. http://youtu.be/LUUGa0vBdTg http://youtu.be/2zPiQgUQt3E

Black Friday is around the corner and if you're a gamer and want to know the deals that can be expected. Sites that are dedicated to gaming have managed to score gaming deals that can be expected. In fact deals from GameStop have already been leaked online by an anonymous GameStop employee. GameStop deals seem to come with the mantra but 2 and get 1 free. In facet there are websites souring for deals and leaking the same online. Deals from Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop, k-Mart, Old Navy, Radio Shack, Target, Wal-mart and Sam's Club to name a few. In fact one of the deals from Microsoft include 4GB Xbox 360 Kinect Holiday Bundle w/ Kinect Adventures and Disneyland Adventures - $199.99. We have found one destination on the web to help you better prepare for your Black Friday spending in a better way. With much of the information leaked online even before the stores have had time to out their Ads out. Courtesy of CheapAssGames comes a page with a whole list of deals for gamers. So if...

Hostess the bakery company has filed for Bankruptcy -- in order to cease business and sell off all their assets. This happened on 16 Novemeber 2012. After more than 6,000 employees joined a uninor workers strike and refused to go back to work. Hostess is famous for such brands as Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Ho Hos. The internet and all its people reacted in the only way they could by creating the Hostess Meme. By taking their opinions to Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Google+ and Facebook. eBay is also in this big time as people are selling Twinkies for amounts you never though would be real, like this one for $1,000,000. Yeah available now for a million bucks.  On Twitter as of this moment of writing #hostess is on the worldwide trending topics list. On Google+ #Twinkies is trending. On Tumblr and Reddit simply search for Hostess or Twinkies and be met with hundreds of updates regarding the same. On Reddit all the funny meme characters are out in full swing to say their bit on Twinkies and...

Facebook has something totally new and it is being called 'Facebook pages for Couples' and this is how the whole thing works. Let's start with 'Friendship Pages'. When you click on the see friendship link on a friend's profile or Timeline . You go to a page that is dedicated to the two of you. Here you can see the 'Likes' you'll share together, Photos you guys have shared. Stories posted to each other's news feed and now with the all new redesign -- it looks like the Timeline people are getting used to. So these shared profile or friendship pages are something that's visible to everyone. Now that we have the background let's dig a little deeper How to view 'Friendship pages' 1. Login to Facebook 2. Go to the Timeline profile of a friend 3. Click on the gear icon beside message, found below the cover photo 4. Click on 'See Friendship'. You now go to a page that has the two of you and all that you'll share together. Thi...

Here's the deal, if you are an existing Skype customer or have been so for the last 29 days. Here's you chance to get free Skype call for a whole month. This would be unlimited free calls to over 40 countries and includes calls both to landlines and mobile phones. Is there a catch -- not really but this is the process to follow. You will have to signin to your Skype account, claim you month of free calling. Enter your payment details -- credit card etc. You're now free to call anywhere in the world for a whole month. Is there anything to note about this deal. The deal ends on Nov 15 2012, you have less than a day to claim the deal. Also -- to avoid being billed for the next month, you will need to cancel your subscription within 27 days from the start date. Skype is a subscription service and this is expected. If you are fine with the above please click the link below to claim your free worldwide calling. Yes, supports both voice and video calls. If you're wondering ho...

There are two ways to search Gmail for emails, messages and attachments. You could either click on the down arrow available in your search box or you can use Gmail Advanced search using Search Operators. Search Operators in Gmail are words or symbols that perform specific functions. There are many examples and here are a few -- if you want to search for emails with attachments the search operator would be -- has:attachment . You can also specify file type like .Doc or .XL . There are a whole list of search operators available to use. Another example is if you want to search for emails larger than 5MB, you would need to use size:5M -- if you want to search for email that is older than a year the search operator would be older_than:1Y . Advanced search operators are words or symbols to be typed into the search box in Gmail. Please find a few more examples in the video below. Here is the link to get the complete list of advanced search operators for Gmail . http://youtu.be/yzUWkgFTiro

Every now and then you find these cute baby animal videos on YouTube and this is one of them. To see the excitement of the baby elephant as it plays in water and then find a rope and starts to swing it around. What happens next is something you never though you'ed see -- a baby elephant video of it playing jump rope in the sea. This is one of those videos that you just got to see. Elephants are among the cleverest animals on this planet. Here is proof that their intelligence and joy is so close to ours. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IKbT0Jx9Xbg#!

With Gmail becoming the most popular email service and even surpassing Hotmail -- one of the most important things for some people will be the ability to search Gmail for attachments with specific size. There are many search filters you can use to find all your email in Gmail. if you want to search for mails you have received containing only attachment. There is a quick and easy way to do this. All you need to do is to open your Inbox and use the drop-down arrow to quick search your Gmail. How to search Gmail for attachments  1. Click the down arrow in your search bar 2. A list of options will appear 3. From the options choose 'Has Attachemnt' once this box is checked you cna then click the 'enter' button or the create filter with this search. 4. You can then also specify from who and when and has the words or dosen't have the words 5. Click enter and begin your search This is a quick and easy way to find email from that person with only contain an attachment.

When you open Google today you will see the Doodle winner of the Doodle 4 Google Indian winner Arun Kumar Yadav's artwork. The Google Doodle for today has the Indian national bird the peacock, a farmer, a dancer from Kerala, a football (soccer) and some hot spices. Google when launching the competition this year has a theme --unity in diversity. As this is something every Indian knows and if you've been to India. Unity in diversity is something that cannot escape your eye. This creation depicts this in a nice way. http://youtu.be/tZ0AG7QPX3k In India the competition is held for students from class 1-10. The winner gets his or her Doodle on Google's homepage on Nov 14 - which is children's day. So congratulations to the winner and if you are India and want you child to enter you can find more information at Google4Doodle. The competition is held in many countries across the globe. Source: Google 4 Doodle India homepage

There was this interesting tweet from a users who said 'I think there is I think a video game got released tonight because there are an abnormal amount of nerds at walmart right now... Call of duty rules!... https://twitter.com/Wesps/status/268240093771350016 There you have it -- Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 has had its worldwide launch and is now trending on Twitter in the worldwide topics list. You can also watch the world launch event right now go going here. Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 introduces players to an insidious villain named Raul Menendez who hijacks the US military infrastructure to further his own agenda. Call Of Duty: Black Ops is a first person shooter game launched in 2010 - being the seventh installment of the call of duty series. Black Ops II is the ninth game in the call of duty franchise in Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 you can harness the power of near-future technology and advanced robotics to pull the world back from the brink of annihilation. The worldwide launch i...

The battle was long and hard-fought and to the victor goes the Facebook Likes. This is the power of Social Media and it's open for all to see. Post elections if you go to Mitt Romney's Facebook page and click on refresh you can see his likes count decreasing in real time. The opposite is true for the president. If you go to Obama's Facebook page and refresh the page you will see his likes increasing. The power of Social Media is now most evident and for all to see in real-time. The reports first started surfacing that after the elections Mitt Romney was loosing followers. Going to his page you can see it for yourself. We cannot accurately predict when it will taper off and settle down to a number which might stay steady, as of now it just keeps happening. There is now also a website dedicated to this phenomena called Disappearing Romney . You don't need the website however as you can see it for yourself. Facebook Likes matter and it only proves that in a democracy the p...

The latest feature being tested by Facebook is Notifications sounds, this means each time you get a notification you will hear a small beep on your PC or Mobile device. Whether users will like it or not is left to be seen. The options to have a small sound played whenever you receive a notification is something you can expect very soon. If you do get it and want to turn it off. It is quiet simple and easy to do. Basically with this option you can continue doing your work and whenever a friend updates their Facebook status and the story gets posted to your News feed. You will hear a small sound alerting you to the new story on your news feed. Might be quiet useful and will save you all the time and energy checking for status updates. With sounds you can carry on with whatever your doing and each time there is a status update, you will hear the sound. How to turn off, disable or stop Facebook Sound Notifications 1. Login to Facebook 2. Click on the drop-down next to home 3. From the left...

If you are an Instagram user your profile is now available on the web. Instagram the photo sharing site owned by Facebook have launched the next big thing -- Instagram profiles on the web. You profile and photos you made public are now available online and your pals can now check you out on the web. You can also view your friends Instagram photos and profiles on the web. When you view a profile on the web you can see the number of public photos uploaded by a users, number of followers and following and a follow button for other uses to follow. There is also a random display if pictures that are shown. There is also a help article available to set your privacy settings -- also all mobile settings remain the same on the web. Just like Facebook the profile can have a Timeline cover photo with a profile picture. beside the profile picture users can add a short bio below which is a random list of pictures shared by the user. All looks very familiar to Facebook Timeline . If you want to vi...

Pinterest always had one feature that was lacking. The ability to create private boards that are visible to only people you invite. Up until now all boards created on Pinterest have been public and if there was one feature Pinterest uses wanted it was this -- the ability to create private boards meant only for certain people who you want to share these boards and pins with. Once a private board is switched from off to on it is a one time thing and stays permanent. As of now you can create only three secret boards. Can I convert existing boards to secret boards? This is not possible as pins from these boards might have already been shared on the site. What happens when you add a pin to a secret board? It will not show up on Pinterest and will remain totally secret only visible to people who you have invited to view the board. Where do I find my secret boards and pins? They are found at the bottom of your Pinterest profile What if I have used up my 3 boards? If you want to create a new ...

A new study recommends that you get up and get exercise, which seems to be much more important that loosing weight. Regular physical leisure time activity can increase life expectancy by as much as 4.5 years. Don't be too worried about BMI - body mass index but make sure you're getting regular exercise. The flip side might also be true -- those who are not overweight and sit comfortable without exercise are in danger of loosing as many life expectancy years. Exercise is the key and the best thing to do is to get up and get going for better health . You don't need a gym or exercise equipment to exercise - wherever you are in the world there is always a workout you can get involved with. Any leisure time physical activity will do. It is also recommended that an individual gets at least 2.5 hours of physical activity every week. This post is not going into the actual number of years related to physical activity. Links are provided at the bottom of the post to read the entire s...

So you've got your new iPad Mini and now wondering how to have Siri . Siri is the voice based personal assistant from Apple. Who can learn all your needs and help you in finding new places. Sharing photos on Facebook and also send out Tweets. Siri is very useful and can be used for a host of things. The iPad 2 did not get Siri but the iPad Mini did -- bringing the voice based assistant with full Facebook and Twitter integration to iPad Mini users. So this is how to activate Siri on the iPad Mini. How to activate Siri on the iPad Mini All you need to do is to go to Settings > General > Siri . Repeat the process to turn Siri on or off. How to ask Siri something? Once Siri has been activated, hold down the home button and you should hear two quick beeps and see -- 'What can I help you with? The microphone icon will light up and you can then ask Siri anything. Whenever you want to talk to it tap the microphone icon and begin talking. With headphones press and hold the cente...

It's just after Halloween and Google have another doodle out to celebrate the birthday of non other that, Bram Stoker the creator of Dracula. Bram Stoker is an Irish novelist best known for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. This after the animated Halloween doodle from Google. Those of you who are fans of the Dracula novels and movies are familiar with the color red -- Google is spelled in red; symbolizing blood , the favorite food of Dracula. There is also the path leading to his castle, the crescent moon and a bat flying in the night-sky. This to complete the Gothic representation of all this is Dracula. We are not too sure where the inspiration for Dracula came from, whether it was Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century Transylvanian-born prince also known as Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia or Irish references to Dracula. Historians believe that it was Irish references to Dracula the Stoker used in his novels. Whatever be the case one thing is certain that he has thrilled generations wi...

Ever since the President won the re-election Twitter has been flooded with TTs like #4moreyears #TeamObama and so on. The latest Trending Topic on Twitter is #VictorySpeech. This is the victory speech delivered by Barak Obama after defeating Mitt Romney in the elections. The speech starts with people chanting 4 more years. As is customary -- Twitter has lit up with the topic #VictorySpeech and here is the video of the speech in case you missed it. http://youtu.be/nv9NwKAjmt0 [caption id="attachment_2906" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Source : Twitter [/caption] Here are some Tweets of people talking about the victory speech. https://twitter.com/tyleroakley/status/266069655905521664 https://twitter.com/PrincessUSA2012/status/266077168214351872 https://twitter.com/msteckling/status/266076539358154752

BoxCryptor is one of those service which is a must use thing especially if you want to encrypt and store your cloud files. If you are a regular user of DropBox, Google Drive or Microsoft's Skydrive. This is one service you need to find useful if you're storing sensitive data in the clouds. By encrypting and storing a file you can be assured your privacy and safety are protected. We have previously written about BoxCryptor and its many benefits --  now that it is ready for Windows 8  and Windows RT. The app is available to download for free and once you download and install the app -- it is quiet easy to setup and run. Giving you an extra level of protections for all your Windows 8 files, you are going to store in SkyDrive. Once you have your files stored securely -- you can then download the same files decrypt and use them as you normally would. Decryption happens locally on your system. BoxCryptor for Windows 8 is available for free and can also be used on Surface and other t...

CircelMe the social networking site for people to discover new places and recommendations from fellow CircleMe users -- has an announcement to make. Through the private API of Songkick, Circleme users will now be able to keep updated of concerts by their favorite musicians happening around them. With this new recommendation service CircelMe gives users the chance to view concerts happening near them also book tickets and add value to the social media site. Stamped the social network that worked on the principle of people stamping things and places they liked -- CircleMe's known competitor, has been acquired by Yahoo and should be Sunsetted by the end of this year. This leaves CircleMe as the only place for people to collect things and be updated about them. So you can find your favorite bands on CircleMe, like them and be updated on all their activity and what other users are also saying about them. This is a definite + for those who like to follow their bands and also interact wi...

Google have begun rolling out their new search results page. This time with more breathing room and focus on the answers your looking for. The various options that you have been used to till now are still available under the search-bar. The current redesign is being rolled out the US uses and will be available to all uses across the world shortly. If you want to see the new redesign in action, click on the Google.com link found at the bottom of your Google page. This will take you to the US search site of Google. Enter your search term and check out the all new Google search layout 2012. The most notable design improvements are that all the options for search are now available on top, below the search box. The options to further your search which used to be on the left-hand side of your screen, is now above the results. The page looks really clean and nice and helps you zero-in on the answers you're looking for. This is something that brings to focus the importance of search resul...

"Whoops, you already said that", if you see this message after you post a tweet, this is what it means. You have already posted a tweet with the exact same words. This is something that is not allowed on Twitter for the simple reason - it could be spam. Since many spammers and bots online tend to post the same message over and over. Twitter in their efforts to protect their uses does not allow the same person to post the same message twice. The same massage can be posted by other people but not the same user. The same message can be posted by different users and a good example would be people tweeting a blog or a website post that they found useful. This is a Twitter error creating status report and can be corrected easily. What to do if you see the "Whoops, you already said that" error on Twitter? Not a big problem all you need to do to continue posting that tweet would be to change the words. Changing even one word will mean that the tweet can be posted. So to av...

The 2012 Presidential elections could not have been more social media  fueled . Each presidential debate created the kind of buzz people are getting used to on Twitter and Facebook. Each debate had it's own trending topics on social media sites. So will social media turn more into a prediction machine instead of simply spreading news and information. Is it possible to watch social media patterns and actually predict the outcome of an election. It comes as no surprise that most adults get most of their election news from social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. With Mitt Romney and Barack Obama going neck to neck in many states -- social media might actually become the fuel that tips the balance in either's favor. The Infographic below does a great job of breaking it down further. Source for the Infographic .  

Social Media and its use within companies have posed quiet a challenge for Human Resources. With some companies outright banning their employees from using social media in the workplace or even tweeting and posting Facebook updates relating to work and the company. While there are others who have a more open view to using social media in the work place. There have been many instances and this is something that is ongoing -- with recruiters asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords. Giving employers Facebook passwords can be dangerous as a lot of what is personal will now become available to a professional environment. Both of which do not mix. This has prompted some college students to create an ideal Facebook profile . Check out the infographic below which goes into much detail as to why HR must embrace Social Media. This Infographic comes courtesy of  Compliance and Safety .

Gmail was first launched in 2004 -- 8 years ago. But it is only in 2012 that Gmail surpassed Hotmail as the most popular email service provider. eMail as such is very sticky and people take a long time to change from one service provider to another. However long it took it is finally time to congratulate the folks over at Google for this tremendous feet. In addition to becoming the largest eMail service provider. Google's Gmail now has an all new compose experience (Compose Gmail in a new window) -- which focuses more on the message you need to send rather than other decorations hanging around. The whole thing looks like an empty box (think notepad) with the ability to quickly compose and send multiple emails all at once. Something that has not been available till now in Gmail. With the old compose you can compose only one message at a time. With the new compose in Gmail -- you can write multiple emails to multiple people all at the same time. If you would like to know how to you ...

Windows 8 is finally here and available to download and install for $39.99 - for the Windows 8 professional edition. If you are currently running Windows 7, Vista or Windows XP on your PC, you can now upgrade to Windows 8. You can either upgrade to Windows 8 online or order the DVD. Your internet connection will need to download the 2.05 GB Windows Installer. Once you're ready with all of this, you can begin your upgrade to Windows 8. You will now be required to go to the Windows 8 Microsoft site and scroll all the way down and click on on the Get Windows 8 link. You can now download Windows 8 pro for $39.99 or get it shipped to you for $69.99. Now that you're ready 1. Download and run the upgrade assistant program by going here or directly from here . This program will run a check on your system and tell you what software programs are not compatible. Once you're satisfied that all is right, you can go ahead and click the upgrade link from right within the installer. 2. Y...