Remove Your Google Search History Before Google's New Privacy Policy Takes Effect

On March 1st, Google will implement its new, unified privacy policy, which will affect data Google has collected on you prior to March 1st as well as data it collects on you in the future. Until now, your Google Web History (your Google searches and sites visited) was cordoned off from Google's other products. This protection was especially important because search data can reveal particularly sensitive information about you, including facts about your location, interests, age, sexual orientation, religion, health concerns, and more. If you want to keep Google from combining your Web History with the data they have gathered about you in their other products, such as YouTube or Google Plus, you may want to remove all items from your Web History and stop your Web History from being recorded in the future.


Here's how you can do that:


1. Sign into your Google account.

2. Go to https://www.google.com/history

3. Click "remove all Web History."

4. Click "ok."

Note that removing your Web History also pauses it. Web History will remain off until you enable it again.


Note that disabling Web History in your Google account will not prevent Google from gathering and storing this information and using it for internal purposes. It also does not change the fact that any information gathered and stored by Google could be sought by law enforcement.

With Web History enabled, Google will keep these records indefinitely; with it disabled, they will be partially anonymized after 18 months, and certain kinds of uses, including sending you customized search results, will be prevented. If you want to do more to reduce the records Google keeps.

If you have several Google accounts, you will need to do this for each of them.

Hide Your Email Address from Third Party Facebook Apps

Many Facebook Apps (like Farmville) need permission to send you email before you use them, but many of you might not want to share your email for privacy reasons. If you'd like to keep your email private, you can actually have Facebook create a temporary forwarding email just for apps.

Skype 5.5 Beta Rolls in Facebook Contacts, Adds Facebook Chat

Windows: Skype's new beta for Windows now allows you to chat directly with Facebook friends and access your Facebook contacts. The app has a new Facebook Contacts tab that will bring up all of your Facebook friends, and allows you to see their online status and start a conversation with them.

Skype's not working right now, here's how to fix it

Popular telephony service Skype currently has some issues working properly and is more likely to crash than a rogue bumper car, but there's a little trick you can use to make it behave long enough for a few chats. Here's what you need to know.

How To Make Your Own Cinemagraphs: A New Take on GIFs

We hate to break it to you, but it doesn't look as if GIFs are disappearing anytime soon. Those ancient animated images — once limited to   gaudy "under construction" signs and chain-mail fodder — are receiving a new lease on life as of late, thanks to a little something called  cinemagraphs.

One of Jamie Beck's animated photographs, otherwise called a cinemagraph.

Lion Skin Pack Turns Windows 7 into Mac OS X Lion

If you like the new look of Lion, you're out of luck on a Mac but oddly in luck if you own a Windows 7 PC. Lion Skin Pack is an easily installable set of GUI customizations for Windows 7 that make Windows look just like the next generation Mac operating system.

Change your Windows 7 Logon Screen Background

How to Change Windows 7 Logon Screen Background using Registry for Screen Wallpaper at Oobe folder.

Windows 7 will soon meet with end user customers. Many Windows XP and Vista users are looking for to upgrade or migrate their operating system (OS) to Windows 7.


No matter how functional and well desinged Windows 7 is, users will demand for customizing Windows 7 as their wish.

For example users will like to change Windows 7 logon screen. For instance, I change Windows 7 logon background from default blue screen to a Star Trek Windows 7 logon wallpaper without using a logon changer.

Enable the Quick Launch Bar on Windows 7

You should note that the new Windows 7 taskbar allows you to dock items to the taskbar, combining the features of both the normal taskbar as well as the Quick Launch. For more on this, be sure to read through our coverage of the Windows 7 beta if you haven’t already.

The above screenshot is the Windows 7 taskbar after changing back to XP/Vista mode, and adding the quick launch bar back. Looks just like Vista doesn’t it?

The 101 most Useful Websites you must see

01. screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube.
02. bounceapp.com – for capturing full length screenshots of web pages.
03. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
04. untiny.me – find the original URLs that’s hiding behind a short URLs.
05. localti.me – know more than just the local time of a city

How To Properly Tweak Msconfig To Speed Up Windows

If you’ve ever had to research a major Windows error, you’ve probably run across msconfig, the handy Windows utility. Msconfig provides insight into what your computer is doing behind the scenes, and lets you take control of processes that you’d normally never encounter directly. If you haven’t used this valuable diagnostic asset yet, it’s time to give it a try. Learn to use msconfig well, and you’ll have a powerful new item in your mental tech toolbox.

Let’s take a look at msconfig, and how you can employ it to get more from your machine.

How to Permanently Delete a Facebook Account

Facebook makes it pretty easy to deactivate your account which will temporarily hide your information. However, if you want to permanently remove your information, the "permanent delete" option is much harder to find. This article will cover two easy ways to erase your Facebook account so you can Quit Facebook forever.

Steps

Before You Start

1. Remove Facebook Connect logins. Many sites, like Digg.com and Meetup.com, allow signup and login using Facebook Connect -- List of Facebook Connect sites (may not be complete or current.) If you have accounts on such sites, go to each of them, and

• Make sure you have a way to login that does not involve Facebook Connect (you will most likely have to create a username and password on the site if you haven't already.)
• Logout of the account, then log back in using the alternate method (not using Facebook Connect), ensuring that you will be able to access the account after your Facebook account is deleted.

2. Remove all Linked Accounts so that you won't accidentally login to Facebook.

Convert Win7 Ultimate to Pro or Home Premium

Here the following method explain u to  Convert Win7 Ultimate to Pro or Home Premium

Here's the crux of the matter: If you put a DVD containing Win7 Ultimate in your PC and run the installer — either by booting from the disc or running the setup program from inside Windows — you end up with Win7 Ultimate. No surprises there.

However, if you first delete a tiny file named ei.cfg before making the installation DVD, the Win7 installer will give you the choices shown in Figure

Must Have Portable Applications For Flash Drives

Do you have a flash drive? Sure you do! In this post, I will give a list of portable applications that you can install in your flash drive/USB. But first let me explain some things.


What is a portable application?
A portable application is an application that you can install on your flash drive or USB stick and use it on other computers without installing the specific application. Thus, there won't be any hassle of configuring and installing everytime you want to use an application on another computer.

Download portable application after the break.

Run Windows 7 for 120 Days Without Activation

There's an easy way to stretch Windows 7's 30-day free-trial period to 120 days so you can determine whether Microsoft's new operating system meets your needs.

How to extend Win7's trial to a full four months
In a nutshell: If you install Windows 7 and don't enter an installation key, the 30-day activation clock starts. To see how many days you have left, click Start, right-click Computer, and choose Properties. At the bottom of the dialog under Windows Activation, you'll see the number of days left in your trial period.

When that number gets perilously close to zero, you can extend the free period another 30 days via the following steps:

How to Run Mac OS X in VirtualBox on Windows

If you're on Windows, need to use OS X, but don't want to buy or build a new computer, reader Bobby Patton shows us how to run Snow Leopard in a virtual machine on Windows with just a few tweaks.

Run Commands

list of runcommands.

 Visit thsi link to get the list of runcommands.


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