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Continuing from our last chat about When the curtain comes down on your digital life my ole mucka Jim Hillier drew my attention to the fact Facebook now offers a “legacy contact” in which you can nominate someone to look after your Facebook page once you’re […]
Watching The Social Network the other night was a timely glimpse into the birth of Facebook and the dramatic twists and turns of its early days, which got me thinking of why I use it and still enjoy using it. I first signed up for
You’ve probably heard all kinds of things about online dating, Internet dating, Social dating, Facebook dating, or the old-fashioned way of meeting offline at work, or with a little help from your friends or your grandma. There are so many more options available to singles dating in
If you want to become a Facebook Power user, we at Dave’s Computer Tips are here to help you get there. In our magic hat of Facebook tricks we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook. If you have
I am a Facebook user and often hear that one of the biggest complaints among Facebook users is the lack of a Dislike button. Facebook users ask the “Like” button to do a whole lot. Sometimes, that can be a real problem, since “like” is
If Facebook had a Dislike button would you like it even more? Read More »
Why join a group? There are any number of reasons why you would want to. You could have a group of friends that love crochet or cricket, you could be a biker, a trapeze artist or you simply want to share things with others, without
It’s been 10 years since Facebook presented the world with a mechanism for sharing everything with everyone, and it’s taken all those 10 long years for Facebook to finally realize that, as far as privacy goes, it’s better to err on the side of caution.
Twitter recently introduced several new features designed “to make photos on Twitter more social”, including the ability to ‘tag’ people in photos. This means your name can be ‘tagged’ (or associated) with any photo, regardless of whether you actually appear in it or not.
Facebook Getting Into Virtual Reality After recently purchasing Whatsapp, Facebook bought a virtual reality company, Oculus VR, this week for $2 billion in stock and cash. Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for Oculus include having it provide “completely new kinds of experiences”, of which gaming will obviously be
What Was Your First Tweet? Twitter celebrated the eighth anniversary of the first Twitter message this week by providing a tool to look up your first tweet. If you are on Twitter, you can look up your first tweet (or anyone else’s) with this
If you see an ad offering a ‘private video’ or ‘naked video’ of one of your Facebook friends, by all means, ignore it. (Who would want to see that anyways? Ewww. But I digress.) This is the latest scam that will result in malware
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Samsung Rolls Out Milk Music Samsung is now offering a free radio-streaming service in the U.S. The service, Milk Music, combines content from Slacker Radio with exclusive music deals from artists. Milk Music joins the somewhat crowded music streaming field along with Pandora, Spotify
Apple Ends Snow Leopard Support When Apple released its latest updates to OS X operating systems, it failed to release a version for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.x). This is not surprising since Apple tends to support the last three versions of OS X. This
Target Breach – The News Keeps Getting Worse Target announced this week that 70 million customers have had their personal information hacked. These customers had their name, address, phone number and email address stolen. These victims are not limited to those who have recently shopped
