Category: Internet

More and more digital devices are coming with options for uploading the digital pictures and videos straight to your facebook account. This is a great thing as facebook works like an online backup in this way. Even if you lose your photos on your digital camera, you still have them on your facebook account. But how would you download all the photos from your facebook account ? You can use the free Pick and Zip service to help you download all your facebook photos packed in a single ZIP or PDF file.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and nobody wants to be dull. So why be a dull person at your work? Just turn any web site into an Asteroid like game and have little fun to cut through the boredom of your daily work-load. You can turn any webpage into an Asteroid like video game using the KickAss extension for the Google Chrome web browser.

Often you have tons of emails and contacts in your older email accounts, so making a shift to Gmail is very painful. Situation is even worse for school kids who lose their email address (along with all the emails and contacts) as soon as they graduate from high school. Fortunately, the creators of Gmail have added an import feature using which you can import all the emails and contacts from your older email accounts.

If you have a Google+ profile then just anybody can search for your profile using the Google+ profile search function. The search visibility is turned on by default for all the accounts. This is a good thing for celebrities who want themselves to be easy to look up. But some people do not want to be searched like this for personal and security reasons. If you want not to be searched then you can turn off the search visibility for your Google+ profile.

When you search for something in your favorite search engine, the search engine logs what you are searching for. Over a period of time, that search engine builds your search data profile and uses it to manipulate you search results or display advertisements. Fortunately, there is an add-on called TrackMeNot for Firefox using which you can send randomly generated search queries the search engines so that the search data profile it builds is not accurate and thus protect your privacy.

If you share your computer with your entire family including young children, then you must be worried about protecting your family from all the crap over the internet like adult sites, illegal drug sites, spyware infected sites and other time wasters. If you are a Google Chrome web browser user then you can easily filter such inappropriate sites using a Chrome extension called WebFilter.

Google+ has started to charm the world with its new and unique features. One of the features of Google+ is the +1 button. Clicking on +1 button under a message, comment or shared picture or article means that you like it. By default, Google uses this +1 button likes of your Google+ profile to personalize non-Google sites. This means that you may see advertisements and other content on different sites depending on what items you liked (clicked +1 for) in your Google+ profile.

Google+ is slowly adding all the useful features to fully compete with Facebook. Now you can receive your Google+ huddle conversations and stream messages on your cellphone through SMS (short messaging service). All you have to do is add your cellphone number to your Google+ profile and you would start receiving text messages immediately after verification. At present this SMS service seems to be available only for India and United States but is expected soon to include more countries.

Google+ is out and people have jumped on to this new social networking service to use it. But like it happens with everything else, some people are not going to like Google+. If you think that Google+ is not your thing, then you can disable and delete your Google+ profile in your Google account. By deleting your Google+ profile your Google+ service and linked profile shall be removed. Doing this will not affect your Google account in any other way.

Google+ has arrived, is in full swing and people are loving it. But there are still things that people coming from Facebook desire in Google+. For one, Google+ does not offer vanity URLs like Facebook. A vanity URL is a short URL to your profile which is easy to remember and share, in contrast to a URL with twenty one character long profile ID. But if you want, you can still have a shorter vanity URL using third party website gplus.to.