Tag: SHARING

With the fourth version of Firefox on its way, Mozilla has just offered a teaser: the F1 service. A simple add-on button in the upper right-hand corner of Firefox is now allowing users to quickly share webpages via any number of social networking and e-mail platforms. If you're interested, you can begin installing the extension by clicking here (it works on versions 3.6 and above). ...

Lauren Leto, co-founder of 'Texts From Last Night,' regularly receives submissions from users looking to share their most hilariously embarrassing texts with the rest of the world. Unfortunately, though, many of them never make the cut. "A lot of the texts go unused because they're not funny and don't fit into our set of guidelines because the jokes are too personal," Leto tells the New York ...

Share In 2009, Ars Technica discovered that an alarmingly high number of deleted Facebook photos were never actually deleted. Now, more than a year later, it appears that the social network has yet to fix the problem. When Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng first contacted Facebook representatives about the issue, they told her that any deleted photos were inaccessible to other users, even if they ...

Expect sharing links on Twitter to become a lot easier this week, with the launch of a new, "official" tweet button. The Twitter-approved button allows users to easily retweet articles, and also features a counter that keeps track of how many other users have tweeted a given URL. The button, which comes in three different versions (110×20, 55×20, 55×63), consists of a single ...

Today, videos are about as synonymous with the Internet as apple pie is with America. It should come as no surprise that a major slice of the online populous flocks to the Web to consume video media -- we all knew it had officially entered the mainstream when our moms began compulsively sharing YouTube dancing weddings with our grandmas. But a new study from the Pew Internet and American Life ...

Share It's three o'clock in the morning. You're seeing double, your mouth is parched, and you're prowling Facebook. For reasons that will only become apparent tomorrow, you're suddenly overcome with the urge to post a scandalous video on your co-worker's Wall. It seems like a great idea now, but come tomorrow morning, you're guaranteed to find yourself stricken with not only a pounding headache, ...

About a month ago, we told you how Facebook would let users 'like' everything on the Web. Now, a new website called Likebutton.me compiles and streams on a single page everything your friends 'like,' whether it be a breaking news story or a tech review. It's sort of like Digg, but for Facebook activity. Using a drop-down box, you can filter the activities you see via categories like tech, news, ...

An Ivy League education will cost you a handsome 50 grand a year, but -- thanks to a growing trend in online resource sharing -- you can now access the exact same course materials as Harvard students, without spending a dime. The trend began back in 2000, when MIT established the first OpenCourseWare (OCW) site, where average users could access class syllabi and lectures within a mouse's click. ...

If you have more than one computer or a Wi-Fi phone at home, but no Wi-Fi router, you can still share your Internet connection wirelessly from the PC that's hooked to your modem. The gist is that the main PC broadcasts its Internet connection over its Wi-Fi card and thus acts like a router itself, allowing other devices to connect. For step-by-step instructions, click here for Windows Vista PCs, ...

One of the first things you should do if you think you have a virus is to quarantine your PC and disconnect from your home network to prevent the infection from spreading to other computers in your home. You don't want to disconnect from the Internet entirely however or you won't be able to download updates for your anti-virus software. Doing this on a Mac (in Preferences: Sharing) or in Vista ...

We've seen countries institute some pretty weird regulations when it comes to wireless handsets, but this one is apt to seem patently absurd to anyone outside of (and possibly within) Sri Lanka. Government officials are reportedly gearing up to implement legislation that would require handset owners to "to carry a certificate of ownership at all times when carrying their phone around." The new ...