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FYIJSYK: Facebook Privacy Update…

Written by The Digitante on April 23, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: FYIJSYK, Facebook, networking, security

Look at this: two FYI-just-so-you-know posts within the span of a week. That is certainly a record. It’s for good reason though. Facebook announced the other day that they are changing some aspects of Facebook – “Share on Facebook” is giving way to “Like on Facebook”, further integration between third party sites like CNN will [...]

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Backupify…

Written by The Digitante on February 25, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: Facebook, Google, email, internet, networking, security

Recently, I’ve been thinking about my Gmail account: I have nearly 15,ooo emails spanning nearly 6 years. If anything were to happen to my account – it gets hacked, Google deletes it on accident, or you get locked out by forgetting your password – I would not have any back up of all those messages. [...]

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Simple Surveys and a Contest!

Written by The Digitante on February 12, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: Google, networking

If you want to make a survey (and who doesn’t) there is no simpler or way than using Google Docs. You’ve used Google Docs to upload and share large files, so why not make a fun or <GASP!> productive survey? To create a survey, go to the ‘Create New’ pull down button and select ‘Form’ [...]

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Find Your Username…

Written by The Digitante on January 29, 2010 - 1 Comment
Categories: internet, networking

The KnowEm does one thing: check the availability of usernames. Let’s find out why this is useful. First though, we need to figure out what username you should select. You want something that is going to be memorable, pertains to you, and is likely not already taken. How about some examples? Memorable – If you [...]

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Posting Tweets to Facebook…

Written by The Digitante on December 23, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: Facebook, Twitter, networking

Twitter and Facebook are easily the two most popular social networks around currently. Up until now, I’ve always posted on one or the other. As a result, Facebook has been more or less ignored since I started using Twitter. However, Twitter has a feature that allows your posts on Twitter to show up as posts [...]

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