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Facebook may not erase photographs

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Facebook’s delay in erasing photos deleted by users is ongoing privacy issue

Burning those old Facebook photos (photo Ars Technica)

Users who delete their Facebook accounts have found their photographs still on the internet years later. The proper procedure is to manually delete each photograph or other post to your wall before you delete your account.

Privacy experts and users say Facebook has no timely mechanism to remove photographs and other private material from its servers. Continue reading →

Google Chrome breaks computers again

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Installing Chrome browser with MS Office breaks the hyperlink feature

Sneak attack on MS Office and LiveMail

Google Earth comes automatically with Google Chrome browser. Installing Chrome on a Windows 7 computer which has either MS Office or Windows LiveMail will break the hyperlink feature.

Hyperlink allows to you to click on a link in a document and automatically go to the internet page in the link.

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Samsung’s Transparent Galaxy Tab will kill iPad

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Transparent and shape-able screens from Samsung will define the next technological advance


In 2013 Samsung will upset the tablet market with a transparent and potentially bendable hand held device.  A transparent tablet is right out of Minority Report and Tron Legacy and will have a much higher cool factor than the iPad 3, 4 or 5.

Only a few months ago, pundits were predicting no one could unseat Apple’s near total dominance with the iPad. Those days are over for Apple.
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The future of music is the iPad and HTML5

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Roger McNamee says in the bold new world, Microsoft and Google are on the way out as mobile devices dominate computing’s and music’s future

This is the short version of Roger McNamee’s of Elevation Partners presentation to Paley Media Centre that focuses on where the money is in the music business.

The whole presentation, about 52 minutes, is a concise explanation of the inflection point in computing and creative content. According to McNamee and it seems probable, more people will be accessing the internet from mobile devices than desktops, breaking the monopoly that Microsoft and Google have created.
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Google Chrome breaks Office 2010

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Office 2010 Service Pack may include compatibility but look before you leap

Users of Microsoft Office 2010 are still warned to be careful installing the Google Chrome browser since it disables some of the important features in Outlook and Word.

Among other things, linking an internet address from an email or document stops working in some cases after Chrome is installed.  Continue reading →

How to manage cables on the cheap

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Low cost PVC pipe cable management behind computer recording workstation (starting from top, left to right: near field monitors with LCD monitors (center), power supply, preamp, monitor switch, AD/DA converter, power supply, vocal channel preamp.

 

PVC drainage pipe can make a handy cable management system

After living with a spaghetti jungle of wires behind my computer recording workstation I found a great, low-cost solution using Google. Total cost outlay was less than $20 at Home Depot.

There are hundreds of suggestions for managing those cables but none seemed as sensible or low cost as 4″ drainage pipe cut in half.  Continue reading →

Internet Explorer 9 wins speed race then stumbles

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Actual use of Internet Explorer 9 can be a painful experience while Firefox 4 is smooth

Microsoft Internet Explorer has beaten off its competitors in a series of speed tests but it can be annoyingly slow and clumsy in use.

As the updated chart shows, Internet Explorer 9 is the fastest browser, beating Firefox 4, Safari 5 and the latest Chrome beta. (Thanks to Craig for the Chrome tests since I don’t have the browser).

Tests are not the real world of living on the internet for hours at a time.

Internet Explorer 9 also has some real world improvements such as Pinned Sites which allows you to create Windows 7 Task Bar icons for your favourite sites. I used that for several weeks and loved it.  Continue reading →

Chrome Browser Fast Internet Explorer 9 Faster

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ComputerWorld tests show Chrome has picked up speed but Opera and IE9 are faster

Chart by ComputerWorld, shorter is better

ComputerWorld touts the new Chrome 10 browser as faster Hands-on: Chrome 10 pushes the browser speed barrier

“The new version of Google’s Chrome browser adds speed, password syncing and a new Options tab.”

The comparison to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 is a bit disengenuous since the tests show IE 9 (being released on March 14th) is the fastest browser.

Opera 11 is faster than Chrome 10 as well.

Speed isn’t everything. Ease of use and functionality mean more than raw speed since the browser is waiting for instructions most of the time.

We’ll report more in IE 9′s new features later. How to make your computer 5 times faster without spending a cent

Changes at NJN Network

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Thanks for checking our site – you were one of the 2.2 million impressions we got last month!

Things have changed since we started NJN Network in 2007 and we’ve changed with them.

We try to be where you are, which is a lot of places on the Internet.

We used to print and re-print 10 stories a day, many of them came from other sources.  You could follow us at this site, through RSS and maybe Facebook.

Today the internet is more efficient at distributing content so we rely on Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Google and BuzzFeed to spread the news around. 

NJN Network has been on your iPhone and Blackberry since February 2010,  on the iPad since May and Android since September.  

Twitter is the quickest way to get at our content – that’s why we have a Hot Tweets box at the top of the page. It rotates the latest 20 stories.  Continue reading →

Official Android Honeycomb Feb 2 tablet video

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Full length video of new Honeycomb Android OS for tablets from Google

Honeycomb Android tablets will arrive Q2 2011.

Unlike Apple’s closed iOS, Google’s operating system and tablets are OPEN SYSTEMS which means Adobe Flash videos and an environment similar to the Android smart phone. Video follows the break.   Continue reading →

Firefox to add do-not-track feature

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Firefox will allow users to foil advertisers who track what you read and buy

Firefox 4.0 beta

The ability of advertisers to spy on you will be limited in Firefox and Chrome soon.

As we wrote in Why you don’t always get the best price, your computer is watching you and telling vendors the highest price you will pay.

It’s extremely annoying and an invasion of privacy.

Washington Post – Mozilla announced it will put a do-not-track feature in its Firefox browser to allow users to opt-out of online behavioral advertising.

The company has said it does not know whether the feature, an HTTP header, will ship with Firefox 4.0. Mozilla Technology and Privacy Officer Alex Fowler posted an outline of the feature to his personal blog on Sunday, explaining the background of the feature and how the company thinks it will affect users. “We believe the header-based approach has the potential to be better for the web in the long run because it is a clearer and more universal opt-out mechanism than cookies or blacklists,” Fowler wrote.

Politico is reporting that Google Chrome will implement a similar feature today, in the form of an extension called “Keep My Opt-Outs,” based on the National Advertising Initiative’s existing opt-out tool.