Google’s ‘+1′ Lets Users Recommend Ads and Content

Search giant follows Facebook’s lead, allows users to recommend content and ads with “+1″ button.

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Nifty Close-Window Tool

Hey everybody – check out this free tool called Close Window to close windows (all open application windows) at once in windows 7.

Quite often, many of us tend to keep open several applications, browsers, windows explorer, office application files, text documents and more. At the end of the day, when we want to shutdown the PC, we find it a big ordeal to close all these apps one by one. However, here is a free utility for windows 7 that can close any or all the open windows in a single click! Read the rest of this entry »

Ninite.com = amazing!

www.ninite.com

Ninite is a free service site that allows you to immediately install dozens of useful free programs without a subscription to their site, without crapware, with just a single click. It is elegantly simple, infinitely faster than traditional program retrieval sites, and as we speak I am installing about 15 different programs right now, automatically.  Super cool. Read the rest of this entry »

Sneaky email about Adobe Acrobat Reader

Beware of a new email scam.   The subject line says, “Action Required: Download New Acrobat PDF Reader for Your Windows” Read the rest of this entry »

Beware this phishing email – It’s spyware

Well, here’s another one. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Add Your Facebook Page to the Top of Your Profile

If you want to optimize your Facebook Profile for your business, this simple (yet effective) tip can help you do just that! Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook Privacy Settings – Protect Your Personal Info Today

Facebook Privacy Settings

The First Critical Setting: Instant Personalization and Public Search

These two items enable individuals, companies, organizations, and pretty much the world at large to glean information about you from your Facebook account and activity while on Facebook, and also when you visit websites that are partnered with Facebook. This creates an odd level of familiarity, where you may visit a site and it instantly pops up a message welcoming you by name, and even suggesting things based on the information the site has gleaned from your Facebook activity. Intrusive, you say? Read the rest of this entry »

The Virtues of Creating a System-Repair Disk

You never know when a disaster may strike: suddenly your computer just won’t boot. Rather than screaming and pulling your hair out, why not prepare for this all too often occurrence in advance, so that if the problem ever (knock on wood) arises, you can just pop in a disk and get going again. Sounds good, right? Read the rest of this entry »

Default Email Problem Solver

I’ve found a solution for an everyday problem that causes mass frustration for everyone I know.

You know those times when you click on a “mail-to” link on a webpage, only to find that you’re directed by Windows to a desktop email program like Outlook, Windows Live Mail, or any other program you don’t use? Well, now there is a solution! Read the rest of this entry »

Time For a Little Spring Cleaning!

Time for a little spring cleaning!

At some time or another we’ve all tried to clean out our duplicate files and make room on our computers. This can take hours if we try to do it manually- sifting through the document files looking for random copies. You’d better settle in for that task since you’ll be there a while.

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