I love LinkedIn. At the time of this post, I am nearing 1,000 connections there. Unlike generic social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn has managed to maintain its niche of being a business connections site. And, as a business connections site, many of you might have uploaded your CVs and most probably your detailed information is available to everyone on the internet, including showing up in search results. LinkedIn gives you the power to easily customise which you this information is available for public viewing, while your contacts will be able to view all your details. I’ll show you how…

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A few weeks back, we posted about the reawakening of an age old chain message that concerned Facebook users posted in an attempt to protect their privacy. I don’t think it is in response to this, but Facebook released a new feature that aims to put privacy controls more into the hands of the users instead of tucking them away into screens they won’t get through. You’ll find the new settings in the top right of your Facebook just next to your photo. You have 3 main sections as above with sub-sections. Who can see my stuff? This gives you…

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It is a hoax! Over the past 24 or so hours, I’ve seen quite a few people posting this message: In response to the new Facebook guidelines I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial use of the above my written consent is needed at all times! (Anyone reading this can copy this text and paste it on their Facebook Wall. This will place them under protection of copyright laws. By the present communiqué, I notify Facebook…

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Almost every site on the web today has some kind of tracking inbuilt, be it the simple ads that you see or the pieces of code to track site visits or even the social networking buttons. Some may retain this information as you browse from site to site, while others don’t. The power to choose who to stop tracking is present, but is limited with most browsers requiring some kind of an addon / plugin. The new Internet Explorer 9 brings this feature to you inbuilt into the browser. But, the new IE’s features do not stop just there. Internet…

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Ever register on a site and then find out that your inbox is clogged with emails from there? Hence, it is usually recommended that you signup at sites with a secondary email address. Or, you can create a disposable email address at temporaryinbox.com A temporary inbox is a disposable email address, which doesn’t require registration and can be used to avoid spam. Use this email address in forums, lotteries, erotic sites or wherever. The spammers will never find out your private email address. Why use temporaryinbox.com You want to stay anonymous You hate spam in your own private inbox Every…

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Google Adsense Team announced the launch of interest-based advertising. This will be offered to a limited number of advertisers over the next few months as part of the beta before a full fledged launch in late 2009. So, what is interest-based advertising To develop interest categories, we’ll recognize the types of webpages users visit across the AdSense network. As an example, if they visit a number of sports pages, we’ll add them to the "sports enthusiast" interest category. This will ensure that your visitor will see more relevant ads based on their past browsing habits. Isn’t this spyware? I’m no…

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This is a paid review of Proxybonanza paid proxy service. If you’re browsing the web from an office or school, you’re most likely on a highly restricted network. Many public networks block video sites like Youtube and Metacafe due to the high bandwidth that these consume. Additionally, several other social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut etc. also end up being blocked. Honestly, I never understand the purpose of the latter, but then network admins do not want you spending all your time “networking” when you should be working. One good method to bypass this is to setup tor. However, you’ll…

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Jennifer of JenSense.com has written a detailed article explaining some of the common mistakes that website owners commit when integrating Google Adsense in their sites. She’s covered the following problems: Clicking on your own ads Creative attractions around your ads Asking users to click on your ads Using code to modify the size of the ads Drop down navigation covering your ads? Pre-filling the search box Adsense for Search Not putting a privacy policy. Check out the privacy policy at Techtites. Buying traffic for your site Mentioning your Google Adsense stats, payments etc. Using illegal content and content that goes…

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When Google Chrome launched, everyone jumped to embrace the new browser. Unfortunately, each Google Chrome installation contains a unique ID that allowing identifying its user. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like anyone or anything tracking my usage, especially not a company as powerful as Google. Well, you can stop that with a tiny software from Abelssoft titled UnChrome. It replaces your unique ID with Null values so that your browser cannot be identified any longer. Simply download UnChrome and hit “Remove unique ID now” and your Chrome is anonymous now. Download UnChrome

I use Pidgin as my primary chat client. Pidgin allows me to login to MSN, Yahoo!, Google as well Google Hosted accounts all at once, thus ensuring I don’t have too many clients running at the same time to fulfil my chatting needs. Off late I’ve been hit by a steady and constant amount of chat spam on my Hotmail ID. This has been rather irritating. Windows Live Messenger allows me to easily prevent this by blocking all non-friends. Here’s how you do it in Pidgin: Access the Privacy dialog in Pidgin by navigating to Tools >  Privacy. Select your…

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