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If you are a Facebook user, you have been labeled by Facebook as either “Liberal”, “Moderate” or “Conservative” in regards to your political leaning.
And guess what? You have been assigned a “political leaning” even if you NEVER make any posts that are political in nature.
How Facebook determines your political leaning is quite interesting… [Read more…]
If you use Twitter, you probably already know that you can post a tweet from virtually anywhere using your smart phone in conjunction with one of the many Twitter apps that are in use today.
But did you know that you can also tweet from virtually any cell phone just by sending Twitter a text message? Well, you can, and it’s a lot faster than loading your Twitter app!
Setting up your Twitter account to accept tweets from any mobile phone via SMS is very easy. Here’s how: [Read more…]
I’ve written several posts in the past explaining how you can recover files that have been accidentally deleted from your storage devices.
It’s actually quite easy to recover deleted files using a free file recovery program such as Recuva.
But did you know that files can even be recovered from drives that have been formatted? Well, it’s true, and it’s just as easy as recovering files that have been “deleted”. [Read more…]
Every day thousands of ebay auctions end without receiving a single bid, and many of these auctions are for valuable items that have a starting bid of $1 or less.
Why so low? Because lots of ebay sellers like to start their auctions off with a ridiculously low price with the hope that a bidding war will ensue and drive the price way above the item’s actual value.
Sometimes this strategy works, and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s a gamble, and the sellers know it. That’s why you shouldn’t feel guilty if you end up snagging a $50 item for 50 cents.
How do you track down these super bargains? Well, as luck would have it there is a very cool website for that: [Read more…]
Yahoo Mail is the second most used email service on the web, and it’s also one of the oldest.
But if you use Yahoo Mail you’re probably painfully aware of all the troubles the service and its users have endured in recent times.
Those issues have prompted a lot of users to switch from Yahoo to a different email service.
I’ve received several emails of late asking me how to forward Yahoo Mail to another email account, so I thought it might be a good idea to just write a how-to post explaining the procedure. [Read more…]