If you use and share Google Documents – this is a new feature they just started.
In the past one could share individual documents with one or people, but now you can share entire folders.
Select the folder you want to share and click on the “Share this folder” link.
Folders that have been shared with you will show up in “Folders shared with me”.
While vacations are great and thumb drives are great, security goes out the window for many people who haul around their laptop or thumb drive on vacations. If either gets lost or stolen, there’s a good chance the “bad guys” will have access to all your accounts, passwords and banking information.
I’ve found a nice solution by creating an encrypted area on my thumb drive and putting all my sensitive data into that area. How you do it is a bit complicated but not that bad. Here’s a site which explains the process step by step. (click here)
To use the thumb drive, you just plug it into your computer and you will get a popup – choose “Start TrueCrypt Background Task” then OK.
- choose a drive letter – like Z:
- Select File – choose the encrypted file o nthe thrumb drive.
- Select Mount
- Type in your password.
- Exit
I just came across a situation where I wanted to delete one of my Facebook entries. Here’s how to do it.
From the main page click on Profiles.
Then choose Wall.
Now when you hover over an entry, it gives you a “remove” option.
If you’re ever on vacation and are using someone elses computer, it’s always a bit of a pain since you don’t have your computers bookmarks handy. You try to remember all those URL’s, but it’s no use. iKeepBookmarks is one solution. (Thanks to Bev for this tip.)
Your first setup a free account and then import your passwords. While they don’t mention importing Firefox bookmarks, I did it without any problem. Now you’ll have your bookmarks handy no matter where you go or which computer you use.
Cookies are one way advertisers watch you and collect data on which sites you visit. If you’d like to limit their tracking abilities in Firefox 3.5 , here’s what to do.
Tools – Options – Privacy – Use Custom Settings for History – You can accept cookies and third party cookies, BUT check the box which says – Keep Until I close Firefox.
This way any cookies which do make it onto your computer are deleted when Firefox closes.
While we generally know that most of the sites we regularly visit are safe, what about sites which we have never visited before?
Google has a nifty tool to let you check out a site BEFORE you start browsing its pages.
Just enter the URL below, but instead of NBC.com, enter the web page you want a report on.
http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=nbc.com
If you have Firefox on more than one computer, it’s a bit of an aggravation when you work on one computer and fix your Firefox addons, settings, bookmarks and toolbars just so, but when you go to your other computer, of course nothing has changed. Rather than going through and manually changing everything again, here’s a solution.
Firefox keeps all of its settings in one profile folder. In XP you can find it under:
C: – Documents and Settings – Your Account Name – Application Data – Mozilla – Firefox – Profiles.
Then just copy the profile to a thumb drive and paste it into your new computer in the same area.
For more details and information on Vista click here.
