Category: Internet

Some web sites store data on your computer in form of cookies. While most of these cookies are good, some of them store data on your computer in order to track down your browser behavior. Most of these tracking cookies are third-party cookies. You can easily block these third party cookies in Mozilla Firefox.

If your Firefox is acting sluggish or hanging up, then you may want to create a new profile. When you create a new profile and run Firefox using this new profile, it is like you have installed Firefox afresh. Here is how to create a new Firefox profile.

If you are suspicious if a file or web page is infected with a virus, then you can scan it using VirusTotal. The free VirusScan service can scan a file with a multitude of anti-virus engines and display the results. Now an add-on for scanning files and web pages using VirusTotal, called VTZilla, is available for Firefox.

Web browser cookies can be used to track down your browsing behavior. Most of these tracking cookies are third-party cookies. Fortunately, Internet Explorer provides an easy way to block the third party cookies.

any third party applications like YouTube, TwitPic etc. can directly tweet in your Twitter account. For this, you have to give them permission to access and post messages in your Twitter account. But if later you want to revoke their access, then you can do so following these easy steps.

The popular micro-blogging service

Whatever you post over the Facebook, can be seen by your friends, friends of friends or by everyone depending on how you have chosen your sharing settings. You can choose if you want to share quotes, status, posts, videos, photos, bio and birthday among other things on Facebook.

Facebook can send text messages containing the latest updates on your Facebook account like friend requests, messages, wall posts etc., to your mobile phone. For this, you will have to activate your mobile phone with your Facebook account.

If you access your Facebook account from a computer or a device that you have never used to access Facebook before, then Facebook can notify you. This is a important measure in mitigating hacking attacks on your Facebook account.

Over time we authorize various applications to access Facebook account. For example, I authorized fbquick which displayed new Facebook messages in my Windows system tray. But if later you decide not to use that application anymore, then you can remove that application’s access to your Facebook account.