Facebook gives users more control of privacy

Facebook is launching new privacy settings, designed to simplify the process for its 350 million users.
It is the latest in a string of changes that have been made to its privacy policy this year.
The site claims that only 15-20% of users have ever adjusted their settings.

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How to Carry Your PC in Your Pocket

Smaller laptops and netbooks have made traveling with a computer more convenient than ever. Still, there are times you don't even want to carry one of those. With a free program called PortableApps, you can carry several computer programs and all of your data, bookmarks, settings, email, and more in your pocket. The applications can be installed on a flash drive for use on any Windows computer. Borrow one at a library, hotel lobby, clients office, coffee shop or anywhere else, you are set to go.

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How Facebook's New Privacy Changes Will Affect You

In a late night post on Facebook's company blog, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a round of upcoming changes that will affect all users of the social network. Specifically, the changes focus on new privacy controls for information sharing. For those who have been following Facebook closely, the announcement doesn't deliver any new information, it only confirms some previously discussed plans. However, for Facebook's user base, now 350 million strong, the updates represent a major overhaul as to how privacy is handled on the site.
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How to Use Google Contacts to Effectively Manage Your Contacts

One of the best ways to manage the many contact records we have in various places and on various electronic devices is to centralize and choose one place which can store all of those contacts and then have our devices sync with that one location. Google Contacts is a very powerful tool that can effectively serve as the one location that drives centralization of our contacts. This works especially well if you use Gmail as your primary email account and/or a Google Voice account.

Below we will explore how to use Google's Contacts web application to setup a centralized location to store our contacts and then how to access instructions to Google's Mobile Sync services.

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World’s Oldest Working Computer On Display

And you thought your computer was a dinosaur. Recently, the world’s oldest working computer was dug out of storage and restored to working order at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. The Harwell Computer, also known as WITCH (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computing from Harwell) is a relay-based computer that was first functional in 1951. From 1952-1957 it was in use at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Oxfordshire. It spent its remaining years, until 1973, as an educational tool at Staffordshire Technical College. After that, it was donated to the Museum of Science and Industry in Birmingham, where it has since been in storage for nearly 30 years.

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How to Create a Mail Merge in Microsoft Word 2007

Mail Merges are great for sending the same message to multiple recipients via fax, email, or U.S. mail. Each can encompass unique information and not take hours to do so. You’ll only be required to create the message once. In addition to the message, a list of intended recipients is needed. If there is already a list on your computer, you may use it. If you need to create a list, no problem, one can be created during the merge. Get started by using the steps below.

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How to Remove Unwanted Items from “Hide Inactive Icons” Customization Box in Windows XP, Vista and 7

In the NOTIFICATION AREA ICONS list located in the taskbar, there are list of programs that you can hide or show. When you uninstall a program, the icon for that program remains. How do I remove icons for uninstalled programs from this list?

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