A new Facebook feature is putting your account’s security in the hands of your most trusted friends. Working as a password recovery tool, Trusted Contacts allows you to set up additional security for situations where you find yourself locked out of your account. It started off as a test feature in 2011, but is now ...
Yesterday, Facebook announced that it was taking over your phone. The company unveiled a set of apps called “Facebook Home” for Android smartphones that will transform your device into a social hub of Facebook photos, status updates, and notifications. So no, Home will not run on your iPhone or Windows Phone. Facebook Home will function ...
Silicon Valley tech giants are building and expanding massive campuses and adding one extravagant perk after another in order to appeal to the world’s best available talent. “Cash is king” no longer applies to some of the world’s largest companies. They’re investing in a new generation of talented young business minds and engineers who they ...
With two-thirds of America’s internet-enabled adults on Facebook, there’s no shortage of friends to be found. However, it appears the growth of the country’s most popular social network has proven to be daunting for its users, according to a new study. The Pew’s Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that 61 percent of ...
Michigan has joined a growing number of privacy-conscious states by passing a bill that “prohibit[s] employers and educational institutions from requiring certain individuals to grant access to, allow observation of, or disclose information that allows access to or observation of personal internet accounts.” To put it simply, employers and schools cannot require you to give up your Facebook, ...
Who actually likes Facebook apps? For me, few things are more bothersome when browsing Facebook than clicking on an article to discover that a social reader will now take the liberty of broadcasting that I just read an article about the president’s dog to everyone I know. Or, even worse, websites or apps that will ...
In an interview at Y Combinator’s Startup School yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Paul Graham his expectations on sharing in the future. “We expect this rate [of sharing] will double every 10 years. So in 10 years from now, people will be sharing about 1,000 times as many things as they do today,” Zuckerberg ...
With the third season of AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead on the horizon tonight, I figured it was a good of a day as any to spend obsessing over all things zombies. Over the past decade, we’ve seen a real surge in zombie-related entertainment. From movies like 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, ...
If the internet is the wild west, Facebook is your homestead. And while everything can (and, for better or worse, does) go on the internet proper, Facebook is your little corner of the prairie to call your own. So are you doing it right? Let’s find out. You do not have 1,500 friends No matter ...
Facebook has started testing their new “Groups for Schools” feature with a handful of universities in the US. The new feature lets a school create a community that’s limited to just people with an active email address for that school. Once students and faculty become members, they can create or join groups within the community for ...
#8220;Now, News Feed will act more like your own personal newspaper,” says Facebook engineer Mark Tonkelowitz in a blog post.If you’ve been on Facebook in the last couple of weeks, you’ve probably noticed some dramatic changes in your newsfeed’s layout. What with the ticker, revamped friends lists, subscribe button, and more, Facebook has been rolling ...
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Now if my computer were to explode, my high resolution photos of Luke holding keyboards would be safe on Facebook.
Earlier this week, we all got to endure irate status updates and Tweets about Facebook's new photo viewer, which ineviteably faded away after a few hours. Now that the dust has settled, it's clear that Facebook has emerged as a tremendous last-ditch backup utility for your cherished photos.
For a few weeks before the new lightbox viewer went live, Facebook has been giving users the option of uploading their photos in high resolution, which compresses them to 2048 pixels wide, rather than the paltry 720 pixels that we've been used to. Though the difference isn't evident in the viewer itself, you can download the high resolution via a link on the bottom left of the photo. This is great for archiving pictures of yourself that friends took, or saving albums from parties without risking your own camera. The images aren't full resolution, but they're big enough to look good on your computer screen.
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