Taking facebook quizzes and posting your results for the world (or at least your network of friends) from "What Sex and the City Character Are You?" or "What is Your Vampire Power?" is more just incredibly lame. It's also risky, according to the Northern California chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
"Millions of people on Facebook who use third-party applications on the site, including the popular quizzes, do not realize the extent to which developers of quizzes and other applications have access to personal information. Facebook defaults privacy settings allow nearly unfettered to user's profile information, including religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, photos, events, notes, wall posts and groups," the ACLU warns.
The ACLU thinks Facebook should be doing more to protect its users and suggests that the social networking site upgrade its privacy controls so that quizzes can only see what people want them to see. One way to do this, the ACLU says, is to make the process for apps to access a user's friends data opt-in rather than opt-out.
Beware the Facebook Quiz
Is 32-bit Windows 7 faster?
Question:
I've been told that Window 7 32-bit is faster than Windows Vista 32-bit, because it can see and use all 4GB of RAM that you can have with a 32-bit operating system. I've looked on a Windows 7 box and it does show all 4GB RAM. Is this why it's faster?
Answer:
Windows 7 32-bit can't use all 4GB on a system any more than Windows Vista 32-bit or Windows XP 32-bit. To be able to use 4GB RAM or more, you'll need a 64-bit version of Windows on full 64-bit hardware. Both Windows Vista and Windows 7 are able to see 4 GB RAM, and may report 4GB of RAM as being present, but they can't use all. Windows 7 is faster for a variaty of reasons, but that isn't one of them.
Earn Money With Sharepic
Shareapic is a free image hosting website that pay you for uploading and sharing your images. You can upload unlimited pictures and there is no file size restrictions.
Similar with other image hosting service, Shareapic offer you to upload images, get an embed code and then display those images on your website or any other website such as MySpace, Blogger, Facebook, and etc. But, Shareapic do share their revenue with users. The payment will be made when you reach $20.00 and will pay directly into your PayPal account.
So, how much you earn per image view? Let’s take an example and i will show you the calculation:
- Let say Shareapic want to distribute $1000 between their users and there are 5000,000 images view for that particular month. So, each image view will equal to $0.0002, which means $0.2 per 1000 images view. So, if you have a forum or blog which have lots of readers everyday, you can imagine how much can you earn per month? It is quite a bit of money, right?
Besides earn from image view, you can also place Adsence code in your image gallery pages. When others click on these Ads, you will get money! For those who own a website or blog, you can place a widget to promote your image gallery and invite your readers to join Shareapic. Each time you refer a user, you will earn 10% of their image views forever!
So, there are total 3 ways to earn money from Shareapic: image views, Adsense, and referral program. So, why not register an account and start sharing now!
Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Full Standalone Installer (Latest Version!)
Now you can download Yahoo! Messenger 10 full Installer here...
but if you download Full Installer (16,25 MB), you can install it on any computer... even if it's not online...
Download Yahoo! Messenger 10 Full Installer: (Download)
(it's connected to Yahoo's server so you will always get latest version of Yahoo! Messenger)
OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
Store any file in Google Docs
Google is offering surfers the change to store any file of less than 250MB in the 'cloud' using its Google Docs service.
google Docs already lets you create documents, such as spreadsheets and presentations, and store them in the cloud so that they can be edited by others and accessed from any computer.
"You'll be able to upload and access your files from any computer - all you need is an internet connection," said Vijay Bangaru, product manager for Google Docs. In all, Google is offering 1GB of storage space for free to host any file that isn't in a native Google format. You can buy additional storage for $0.25 (around 15p) per GB per year.
Source from www.google.com/docs
Read PDFs in Firefox
Question:
How can I open PDFs in Mozilla Firefox?
Answer:
There is a plug-in from Adobe, the company behind PDF files, which allows Firefox to display PDF files in an ordinary browser window.
To make sure that the Firefox plug-in is installed, use Firefox to download the software. Start Firefox, enter www.adobe.com in the address bar and press Enter. Click on the Get Adobe Reader icon on the right-hand side of the page. Deselect the option to install the free McAfee Security Scan and click on the yellow download button. Click on the 'Click here to download' link if the download doesn't start. Save and run the file that downloads.
Problem with File Groups
Question:
In the My Documents folder I have files I want listed by Date Modified, just as I did with Windows XP and Vista. Windows 7 does this but splits my files into: Today, Earlier This week, A long time ago. How do i remove these groups?
Answer:
It is possible to disable this grouping but you can't do it in the Document Libraries, only in normal folders. Libraries are quite a clever idea as Windows will display the files from several folders at the same time but you have to view the files in groups.
To get to your documents, click on the Start Menu and then on your login name (it's the top right option). Double-click on the My Documents folder. Right-click on an empty part of the Explorer window, left-click on "Group by" and then left-click on (None).
You can create a shortcut to the My Documents folder in the Favourites section on the left. Click on the back button and then drag and drop the My Documents icon onto the Favourites text. A tooltip should appear under the cursor that says Create Link in Favourites.
