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PrivacyFix: Fixes your Online Privacy Settings

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...

Always keep some cash for emergencies

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...

PSY with Gangnam Style surpasses all other videos to become the most viewed

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 Activity Log: How to search

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...

Set your default YouTube Upload Settings

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...

Take a pic of your hotel room numbers to avoid wandering after having 1 too Many

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...

How many more days will #ThingsGirlsSayAlot stay on Twitter's Trending Topics

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...