When you signed up for Facebook countless years ago, your posts defaulted to public until you changed your privacy settings. In a new commitment to privacy, Facebook will now set the default for new users—if there are any people left in the world without Facebook accounts—to friends-only. Check out this article from PCWorld.com
Social media has a reputation—well deserved, we should note—for being a bit of a waste of time. Case in point: A 2012 survey from Salary.com found that 64 percent of employees visited non-work related websites every day during working hours, and 61 percent of employees said they spent over an hour a week on personal web usage. The number one time waster? Facebook, visited by 41 percent of those users. (LinkedIn was second, at 37 percent, which probably explains a lot about why so many are killing time on Facebook.) Get some tips on this article from PCWorld.com
Travelogues are fun to look at but a pain to create. Especially, if you have carried back tons of vacation photos and videos. Google has launched Google+ Stories as part of Google+ that automatically stitches your photos, videos and the places you visited into an easily viewable travel slideshow. Google+ Stories will get to work when you return from your vacation and also include your location history and the geotags in photos to help you, family, and friends travel through the enjoyable experiences again. Check this article from MakeUseOf.com
If you are an eBay user, then change your passwords immediately. That is the message coming from eBay headquarters, who are facing the embarrassment of having a database hacked and users’ encrypted passwords stolen. Check out why on this article from MakeUseOf.com
Google has warned federal regulators that it could eventually place ads on a number of devices where you might not expect them—such as the Nest thermostats and even self-driving cars. Check this article from PCWorld.com
It looks like Google isn’t abandoning Google+ after all. The social network (and photo sharing) app just received a huge interface makeover, laying credence to the idea that despite Vic Gundotra’s departure, Google won’t leave Google+ on the back burner. Check out this article from Greenbot.com
Twitter is gradually unrolling its new Twitter profile layout, and we have already told you everything you need to know to make the best use of Twitter’s new profiles. Unfortunately, if you’re not a photographer and bored with Twitter’s own offering,you might be hard-pressed to findfree Twitter headers that fit the new dimensions. Here are a few sites that’ll give you that quality header in no time. Check this out from MakeUseOf.com