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Bits from Bill Pytlovany: Who Gets Your Personal Information on Facebook?

Bill Pytlovany / December 7, 2009

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By Bill Pytlovany

Are you one of the 350 million Facebook users? I’m a big fan of Facebook and like many I connect daily to see what my friends are doing and to share photos. As a security professional I am very careful about what I post and what information I allow to be shared. In that respect I’m unique. It surprises me how many of my friends will refuse to allow companies to share their information but eagerly give away their personal information to application developers on Facebook.

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Technologizer: The State of Windows 7 Satisfaction

Harry McCracken / December 7, 2009

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By Harry McCracken

Windows 7 is scarcely more than a month old. Most of the people who will eventually use it haven’t gotten around to trying it yet; those that have are still settling in. And the Win 7 experience will change rapidly as remaining bugs are squashed, missing drivers arrive, and compatibility glitches are ironed out. Even so, it’s not too early to start gauging what real people think of Windows Vista’s replacement.

So to riff on Ronald Reagan’s famous question from his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, Are Windows users better off today than they were a few weeks ago, back in the Vista era? We decided to ask the Technologizer community, a group of tech enthusiasts with a high propensity to acquire new operating systems quickly and push them to their limits. Starting on November 16th, we surveyed our readers (and Twitter followers) about their experiences with Windows 7. Our goal: to do a reality check on the mostly favorable initial reviews of the new OS (as well as our own survey of largely enthusiastic Windows 7 beta testers back in March).

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Tekzilla Tip: Windows – Choose What Stays in the System Tray

PC Matic Cybersecurity / December 7, 2009

Customize your notification area

Windows 7 features some cool new ways to tweak your system tray. Veronica has all the details on today’s Tekzilla Daily.

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Black Screen of Death or Boatload of Advertising?

S.Hogan / December 4, 2009

“Black Screen woes could affect millions on Windows 7, Vista and XP”, is the title used for a post to Prevx’s website describing what they feel is a very troublesome problem. Prevx offered a download to fix the bug, and within a day fear was blogged far and wide blaming the problem on Microsoft, of course, and their darned security patches. Prevx has since backed off a little from their initial claim but you can get a taste here.

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Ask Leo: Someone has created an account in my name … Now What?

Leo Notenboom / December 4, 2009

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By Leo Notenboom

It’s trivial to set up accounts on the free services in which you can be anonymous – using entirely fake information – or in which you can impersonate someone else.

I’m not sure I’d expect much help from the provider – Yahoo, in your case. To be honest, even if they did bother to reply, they wouldn’t know who to believe. You and I know that you’re not, but how’s Yahoo to know that you’re not the impersonator, or just someone trying to hassle someone else?

Here’s what I would do…

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NEW SSD TWICE AS FAST AS TODAY’S FASTEST

S.Hogan / December 4, 2009

Micron Technology is going AllOut. Double your computing speed. ETA First Quarter 2010.

Check out the amazing benchmarks and videos inside to really get your juices flowing. It’s going to be big and I can’t wait to be one of the first taking advantage of it.

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Tekzilla Tip: Free Windows Apps & More Free Stuff

PC Matic Cybersecurity / December 4, 2009

13 Free Windows Apps

4 Free Cloud Applications You’ll Want!

2 Sites For Finding Free Stuff

1 Free OS: Ubuntu

Finding Free Fax, aka Why Won’t Fax Die!

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Follow Us on Twitter for a Chance to Win $100 Amazon Gift Certificate

PC Matic Cybersecurity / November 27, 2009

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Joining the contest is super easy, just

1) Follow pcoptimize on twitter.

2) Send the following Tweet to your followers:

I’ve entered to win a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate. Just follow @pcoptimize and RT ! http://bit.ly/6Ds8u8

The Winner will be announced in our December newsletter or when we hit 1,000 followers, whichever comes first.

**UPDATE** – Fast approaching our first 1,000 followers. First winner to be announced soon. But don’t let that stop you … We will award a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate everytime we add another 1,000 Twitter followers.