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A very important Facebook security feature you must op-out of

Submitted by Jasen on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 21:01

This feature by default gives all your Facebook information to your friends applications.

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Ubuntu Parallax New Full Screen Interaction

Submitted by Jasen on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 18:02

This new feature will use a web cam to detect the users presence, close, sitting back or not in view. changing various settings like putting a movie in full screen, or using a very large font for notifications.

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Well done, thank you Jason!

Submitted by karen.t on Wed, 11/03/2010 - 15:32

We've known Jason for the past couple of years and he is a pleasure to do business with. More importantly, he considers your emergencies as his problem; he helps people who really need their computers to conduct their business (for some people, it's their "life line" and sole source of income). Jason has helped people out of a jam and got them back on track and back to business! If you need help, Jason at The Austin Geek is your computer guy!

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ScreamRadious Elgin Texas Great Resource Site

Submitted by Jasen on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 15:04
Here is a great resource for Elgin Texas screamradius - Elgin, Texas #elgin #bastrop #austin #texas @theaustingeek

 

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HP Releases the Palm Pre 2 with WebOS 2.0

Submitted by Jasen on Tue, 10/19/2010 - 18:17
When it comes to webOS 2.0 (now actually called HP webOS), it almost felt like we'd never see the version number, let alone get to review it. It's been an intense few months for Palm: after floundering in the early part of the smartphone wars, it was scooped up by HP for a tidy sum of $1.2b.
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BleachBit Cross Platform Free Open Source System Cleanup tool

Submitted by Jasen on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 10:51

BleachBit quickly frees disk space, removes hidden junk, and easily guards your privacy. Erase cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, remove unused localizations, shred logs, and delete temporary files. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean 70 applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Adobe Reader, APT, and more.

 

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Facebook offers Disposable Passwords

Submitted by Jasen on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 10:37

Facebook has another new feature that will allow users to receive a temporary password via sms text message, allowing the user to log in on a public or unfamiliar computer using the temporary password, this hopefully will 

 

Facebook has unveiled new measures to keep members secure when they log into its site.

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Bing and Facebook New Search Feature

Submitted by Jasen on Fri, 10/15/2010 - 10:05

The Most popular Social Networking site "Facebook" and Micro$oft's Search engine "Bing" have teamed up, recently revealing new search features. Micro$oft is adding "input from users" feature, using Facebook data in the results of a search, giving an idea of what your facebook friends think on a particular topic. Both companies stress privacy is a priority, but the advertising opportunities will be tempting

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Facebook Skype Video Chat Internet Telephone Calls

Submitted by Jasen on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 08:19

Facebook & Skype are on the verge of releasing there new partnership, allowing Facebook users to sign in to Skype, send text messages, Video Chat & make Internet telephone calls from their Facebook profile page.

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Mageia A New Linux Distribution

Submitted by Jasen on Mon, 09/20/2010 - 19:15
As you may have heard, the future of the Mandriva Linux distribution is
unclear.

Most employees working on the distribution were laid off when Edge-IT was
liquidated. We do not trust the plans of Mandriva SA anymore and we don't
think the company (or any company) is a safe host for such a project.

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