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Gift Cards that you can't use?
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 Don't let that gift card you can't use expire. Try ABC Gift Cards or Gift Card Rescue and Gift Card Castle. Each reimburses anywhere between 65 and 92 cents on the dollar but something, as we all know, is better than nothing. Plastic Jungle and CardPool offer similar deals and with these guys you can redeem your card right on-line.
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Android sync with ITunes
|  If you've been feeling deprived because your children have been syncing the IPhone with ITunes, enter ISyncr for Android and it's all of 3 bucks. The app installs a windows utility which, after you enable USB storage on your Android, allows you to select the music you want to sync. Want to sync without the USB cable over your home Wi-Fi connection? You can, and it's a huge 99 cents.
Download the Syncr Wi-Fi add-on (same web page) for your desktop and you're good to go. Interested in Syncing your Outlook contacts, calendar and notes? Try Companion Link.
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Has your E-Mail Account Been Hacked?
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 At least once a week I get an email from one of you laced with a clickable web link that leads to a virus laden website. I'm not the only one listed in the To: field of that email, in fact, most of the time, everybody in your address book has received this same email. In all likelihood your email provider is AOL, Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail. Why? Because those are the type of accounts where your address book is stored along with your email right on-line. Once the hacker breaks your email password they have immediate access to your address book. Want to see if your email address has made it to a hackers list? Look here.
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| FaceBook Notes: |
 It turns out that "Six Degrees of Separation" is an overstatement. A study reveals that any individual is only 4.74 steps away from being introduced to any other person, not 6. FaceBook, in conjunction with the University of Milan, to approximate the separation between all pairs of FaceBook users found that 99.6% of all pairs were no more than 5 degrees or steps away. 92% were only 4. Hmm.
Beware of FaceBook games. When you agree to participate in a FaceBook game like FarmVille, you are implicitly allowing the software sponsor to access some of your personal data. Game developer Zynga (FarmVille and Mafia Wars) gave user personal information to advertisers and others, violating FaceBook's own privacy policies.
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| Saint Google? |
I don't think so... Effective the 1st of March Google will "cross-pollinate" information from your Google searches, emails on G-Mail, You-Tube videos, posts on Google+ and applications on that droid enabled phone to create a better "picture" of who you are and supposedly serve you better. Welcome George Orwell and 1984.
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| And, Let's Not Forget Verizon.... |
 Verizon has joined Geo-Ads program. That means that if you access the web through Verizon Wireless and or their FIOS service, they have made your Geo-Location available to advertisers so as to better target their advertising! You can opt out of this type of advertising but it's up to you to do that. In other words you are included by default. |
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| Being Neighborly (Or more to the end of any sort of Privacy) |
Looking to initiate block party this summer? Maybe call the guy down the block about his barking dog? Who are your neighbors?
And for that matter, what are you neighbors saying about you? Try this site to find out what the Internet knows about you. Here. |
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- Remember Window's task manager, that combination CTRL-ALT-DEL? Still alive, to go to task manager directly try CTRL-SHIFT-ESC.
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Did you close that webpage inadvertently and want to get it back? In IE, Firefox and Google Chrome press CTRL-SHIFT-T concurrently to re-open that last page. (Safari? It's CTRL-SHIFT-\).
- Want to tour a city with a long time resident? Well Tripomatic is the next best thing. The site shows small images of must see destinations in Europe and the USA. It's free.
- Borrow books to read on you Kindle. Amazon has announced that 11,000 US Libraries can nowlend ebooks for Amazon Kindle. Amazon did not list the participating libraries but you can check at this URL.
- Looking to print a part of webpage? Maybe you'd like to print the text without the graphics? Use Printliminator! Save paper, ink and be Eco-friendly.
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